DENISE Van Outen is on course to be one helluva yummy mummy.

Beauty Denise Van Outen, 35, who is expecting her first child with husband Lee Mead, couldn't stop grinning as she showed off her growing baby bump at last night's World's Children's Champions awards in London. Dressed in a flattering plum-coloured bodycon dress, the bubbly TV presenter giggled at snappers as she placed her hands protectively around her belly. Denise is due to give birth to a daughter in May, but has - like the good mum-to-be she is - vowed to concentrate on her sprog before trying to get back into shape. The former Big Breakfast host met hubby Lee, 28, on Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent search programme Any Dream Will Do? on the BBC when she appeared as a judge. But just last month bosses at the BBC ditched her in favour of Charlotte Church, who is 12 years her junior. Sources close to her revealed: “Denise loved being part of Andrew’s shows and was so excited to return.