Following an emergency trip to the hospital at the weekend, Holly Willoughby has returned to work.

The This Morning presenter - who is expecting her second child in May - told co-host Phillip Schofield that she is feeling "better" after she was diagnosed as an anaemic.

The 30-year-old added: "It's lovely to be back, it feels like I've been away forever."

Phoning into the show on Tuesday morning Holly explained her reasons for going to hospital.

She said: "I just felt really unwell on Saturday so I went to the hospital to have some checks done and I'd managed to make myself quite anaemic I think… and I think the headaches were because of that."

"They gave me things to take which have eased the pain a bit but also made me quite sleepy, so it was just one of those things really and another thing that comes with being pregnant."

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