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Love Island host Laura Whitmore announces she's expecting a baby with Iain Stirling
16 December 2020, 12:32 | Updated: 16 December 2020, 12:33
Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling have announced that they're expecting a baby next year.
Love Island host Laura Whitmore has announced that she is expecting a baby with rumoured-husband Iain Stirling.
Taking to Instagram to share the wonderful news, the presenter, 35, wrote: "So I’ve always tried to be protective over the personal side of my life.
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"A lot of things are just for me and my loved ones and we’ve chosen not to share publicly. However I want to now share good news as it’s our news to share - and I’m gonna be honest it’s starting to look like my lock down beer belly is out of control. Iain and I are expecting a baby early 2021.
"It’s been hard to keep such happy news quiet. Especially the times when I’ve had to run out of live radio to get sick in a bin or my penchant for a bowl of mashed potato in the morning. I wasn’t hungover like everyone thought. In fact I was completely sober filming the entire series of Celeb Juice, which is quite the accolade!
"We’d appreciate our privacy respected but just wanted to spread some love and a reminder of the beauty of life ❤️".
The happy news comes after it was reported that the pair had got secretly married in Dublin last month.
According to a report by The Sun, they had 25 guests, in line with Ireland's Covid rules, and Laura's brother Adam and Iain's sister Kirsten acted as witnesses.
An insider said: “Iain and Laura are so in love, they really wanted to get married as soon as possible.
“Despite circumstances not being being ideal, it was such a romantic day.”
The couple got together in 2016 after meeting at an ITV party, and they moved in together a year later.
Laura previously said of their getting together: “When we first met he didn't even hit on me, he was too nervous to hit on me!
“I think he was intimidated by me. I remember Iain was too scared to ask me out so in the end I had to ask him out.
“He used to send me random messages, DM me and ask me about my dog. It took nine months but we got there! I was like 'let's just go for a drink'. I think I had to make the moves on him.”
