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Amanda Holden holds back tears as she recalls moment doctors told her they couldn’t hear baby’s heartbeat
Amanda Holden choked up with emotion as she recalled the heartbreaking stillbirth of her baby son.The Britain’s Got Talent star, 49, was seven months pregnant with her second child, a son named Theo, in 2011 when she learned that the baby did not have a heartbeat.She bravely opened up about the stillbirth in the BBC’s Dear NHS Superstars programme, which paid tribute to health workers.The presenter remembered “screaming” with “no control over [her]self” when doctors broke the news.She had been visiting Middlesex hospital when her close friend Jackie, a midwife, first told her that she could not hear a heartbeat and alerted doctors.Holden spoke out about the heartbreaking ordeal in a new BBC programme (BBC)"Luckily for us, an obstetrician