Neighbours actress Madeleine West looks tense as she heads to work on the Gold Coast  

Madeleine West appeared unusually downcast when she stepped out on the Gold Coast on Wednesday.

The 39-year-old Neighbours star was spotted walking through an underground car park, as she made her way to work at Triple M radio station.

Madeleine has been co-hosting The Rush Hour from 3pm-6pm, in addition to juggling her role on Neighbours and being a mum to six kids.

Carrying a heavy-looking bag in one hand, Madeleine also wore a black backpack slung across one of her shoulders.

She stepped out in a pair of black leggings, which she teamed with a fitted plain black T-shirt.

An olive green jumper was knotted around her waist, and she wore black ankle boots with a block heel.

Her long dark hair was worn straight and loose, and she seemed tense as she made her way from her car into the radio studio.

In an editorial for 9Honey last week, Madeleine revealed school holidays combined with lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic had been stressful. 

‘When the kids are trapped indoors for 48 hours in a row, there are only two undeniable eventualities: WWIII will break in your lounge room, or you manage to find some way to get them out of the house,’ she wrote.

Madeleine joked that her kids were usually out of bed for just ‘47.6 minutes’ before they started to complain about being ‘bored’.  

‘Painting, playdough and DVDs have all been exhausted, and my tribe are still climbing the walls,’ she continued.

She confessed there had been a lot of ‘tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth’, and claimed that was just her.