Amber Dowding has been rushed to hospital.

Amber Dowding

Amber Dowding

The 'Only Way is Essex' star was in Marbella, Spain, filming for the summer special of the ITVBe show, which will air this month, when she fell violently ill after catching a sickness bug following her romantic holiday in Antigua with her boyfriend Chris Clark.

A source told The Sun Online: "Amber and Chris recently came back from Antigua but Amber had been really suffering and struggling to keep anything down.

"Production rushed her to hospital after seeing the state she was in during filming in Marbella and she was hospitalised for a few days, which was really worrying for Chris.

"Thankfully she's on the mend now but is having to take tablets everyday to keep the sickness at bay."

The blonde beauty hasn't had much luck recently as she was left "shaking" last month after £900 was "stolen from her handbag" at her birthday party.

The alleged incident took place at the Café De Paris nightclub in London at the beginning of July where the 24-year-old star was seeing in her latest milestone.

A source close to the star said previously: "Amber is in floods of tears and is devastated that someone would have taken that money from her. Last night was supposed to be a fun night out with friends and it's ended in an awful way.

"Amber can't stop shaking and it's worse because her boyfriend Chris Clark is away at the moment."

Amber took to her Twitter account shortly afterwards to admit she was feeling "so emotional" following the unsavoury incident.

In a series of tweets, she wrote: "Feeling so emotional today "Don't know how people sleep at night with such a guilty conscience.. (sic)"

The cash was said to have been given to Amber by a Café De Paris promoter and one pal claimed nothing else was taken from her bag except for an envelope with the money inside.