Amanda Holden has reportedly admitted herself into hospital today and will there fore be missing the Britain’s Got Talent auditions in Blackpool.

The heavily pregnant actress was scheduled to join Simon Cowell, David Walliams and Alesha Dixon in the seaside town this afternoon, for another round of tryouts for the ITV show.

However, sources have claimed that she began to suffer from pains yesterday and was so concerned that she visited her local hospital, where she remains under observation.

Amanda was due to meet her fellow judges at a plush hotel in Lytham St Annes this morning, but her spokesperson has confirmed that instead she traveled to her obstetrics unit, where she was met by doctors and midwives.

It has been claimed that reporters who turned up for today’s tryouts were told that Holden is in early labour. When she announced her pregnancy last year, a fan asked if Amanda was expecting her baby near her birthday in February, Holden replied: ‘Much before.’

Show bosses have since revealed that today’s auditions will go ahead as planned but with the three judges instead of four.

It must be a fraught time for Holden, as just last year, she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy, seven months into her pregnancy. She has previously endured a miscarriage and when she discivered she was pregnant once more late last year, she left her role as Princess Fiona in Shrek, so that she could rest more and be careful while expecting her second child.

This time Holden is pregnant with a baby girl, who will be sister to her six year old daughter Lexi with husband Chris Hughes.

We send her all our best wishes at this exciting but worrying time. Leave your messages for Amanda below.