BBC Breakfast star Steph McGovern has confirmed the news that she is expecting her first baby with her TV exec girlfriend.
The news was reported in The Sun, with a source claiming the presenter had told family and friends she is due in November.
Steph, 37, has now taken to Twitter to confirm the news with an excited tweet.
She wrote, “I see my news is out. Yep I am no longer with pot belly…… I am now with child. #babyonboard.”
Steph referenced a tweet she sent out in 2018 in which she shot down rumours she was pregnant by writing, “For those who are congratulating me on my ‘pregnancy’. I am not ‘with child’. I am with ‘pot belly.’”
She later said: ‘I’d definitely be in the wrong job if I got offended by comments like that.
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“Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly — that’s just life on camera.”
But now it’s happy news for the star, with The Sun quoting a source saying that Steph had been dealing with morning sickness in her first trimester. They also added that she will not be doing any magazine shoots to announce the pregnancy as she “values her privacy.”
Steph is known for her reporting on BBC show Shop Well For Less with costar Alex Jones and the pair are due to film another series. And now it has been reported that Steph has started work on a new show with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, titled Easy Ways to Live Well, in which she will explore different ways expectant mothers can stay healthy during each stage of their pregnancy.