The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow will be in the spotlight once again as the hit show Emma Willis: Delivering Babies, returns.

The six-part series in which the Brummie TV personality was thrown in at the deep end, working 10-hour shifts at the hospital was a huge success, becoming W’s most-watched series of 2018.

Now, the former Big Brother presenter, 43, is reprising the role for a second series. Putting everything she learned last year to the test, we see her working on the same ward, but as a fully-qualified maternity care assistant (MCA).

The first series saw the presenter train for three months at Harlow Hospital as a maternity care assistant, working four shifts a week alongside the midwifery team helping to deliver babies.

Willis said the show is “a nice little reality check” for her, in her “very fluffy world of telly”.

She added: “It’s nice because it gives you a brilliant sense of perspective, but it was very odd to go from putting a feeding tube in a baby to having a meeting about designing clothes at Next.”

The broadcaster, who has three children with husband Matt Willis of Busted, said she would never be able to share her own births on camera.

However, she said her husband had his phone out during labour and she watches the footage of her babies being born “frequently”.

She added: “It’s the most special thing in the world, so I do think it’s a great memory to have, and to show them one day.”

On her favourite moments during filming, she said: “I got to see a water birth, which was amazing! And there was an amazing family who have struggled to conceive - I think it’s eight or nine years they have been trying for, failed IVF a few times - and she came in to have her twins.

"I got to do all the post-op stuff with her; take her to the ward, get them ready and have the whole process. So having that full circle of seeing everything was amazing.”

Emma Willis: Delivering Babies returns to W on Monday, August 5.

Willis also hosts The Voice UK on ITV, which will return in 2020.