Holly Willoughby announces This Morning absence after painful diagnosis

Holly Willoughby has announced that she won't be back on This Morning tomorrow after being taken ill. The 42-year-old presenter has been away from the ITV chat show since Thursday, March 30 for her two week Easter break and was expected to be back on screen on Monday, April 17 with her co-host Phillip Schofield.

However, the mum of three took to Instragram to inform that she may be away for the rest of the week after coming down with shingles. She wrote on the distinctive green This Morning logo backdrop: "Hi ...just to let you know I may be away for the rest of the week as I have Shingles," she said with frustrated-face emoji. Holly added: "I'll be back as soon as I'm better. Huge Love."

According to the NHS, shingles is an infection caused by the chickenpox virus that causes a painful rash. People should get advice from 111 as soon as possible if they think they have it.

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The first signs of shingles can be a tingling or painful feeling in an area of skin, a headache or feeling generally unwell and a rash will appear a few days later. Usually the shingles rash appears on the chest and tummy, but can appear anywhere on the body including the face, eyes and genitals. The rash appears as blotches on the skin, on one side of the body only. A rash on both the left and right of the body is unlikely to be shingles.

Sufferers cannot spread shingles to others. But people who have not had chickenpox before could catch chickenpox, this is because shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus.

Sufferers should try to avoid, pregnant people who have not had chickenpox before, people with a weakened immune system such as someone having chemotherapy and babies less