Sunday night's Britain's Got Talent: The Ultimate Magician provided an unexpected surprise for show judge Amanda Holden after she was reunited on stage with the midwife who saved her life during childbirth. An emotional exchange followed as fellow judges were left shocked at the surprise encounter.
The segment began when magician Richard Jones took to the stage during the ITV show. Winner of Britain's Got Talent in 2016, he asked Amanda to join him on stage and to think of one person in her life who had gone "above and beyond..." when she needed it most. He then produced the name of the person she had identified - Pippa Nightingale - written on a playing card.
Amanda, who shares daughters Lexi and Hollie with husband Chris Hughes, was reported by Mail Online to have "died for 40 seconds during the birth of her daughter Hollie in 2012 before slipping into a four-day coma". Prior to this pregnancy, the Mirror wrote that the TV star had suffered a miscarriage when she was seven months pregnant.
