APPRENTICE winner Michelle Dewberry has revealed she’s pregnant with her first child.
The businesswoman, 40, who first appeared on our screens as a contestant on the business-styled reality show back in 2006, took to Facebook to announce her happy news.
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She shared an adorable copy of her baby scan and decided to make a light-hearted joke about the current coronavirus pandemic.
The TV personality captioned the post: “Never being one to follow the easy route in life, trust me to be pregnant during a global pandemic!
“We’re halfway through now…Bubba is happy, healthy, well and I’m pleased to report – totally oblivious to the toilet roll shortage going on in the outside world.”
It’s not known how the star has become pregnant but earlier this year she admitted that she was looking at going to a sperm donation clinic to help her conceive.
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She opened up about her plans whilst hosting The Pledge, a debate programme on Sky News.
She said: “I don’t have a partner and I want to be a mum. So I’m going through the process of looking at sperm donor and in this country there is a law where when the children get to 18 they have the legal right to access various identifying information about the father.”
The TV personality also went on to explain that she wouldn’t regard the donor as her child’s father.
She added: “So in this country when you do a donor you have to log identifying information and non-identifying information and when the child reaches 16 and 18, depending on the differences of the information, your child has a right to find out essentially who their father is.
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“And for me personally I’m in this really complex situation. I wouldn’t regard the donor as my children’s father.”
While filming The Apprentice, Michelle developed a relationship with fellow contestant Syed Ahmed and suffered a miscarriage just three months after the show aired.
The couple split weeks later and following the heartbreaking episode she decided to leave her job working for Lord Sugar at Xenon Green.
“I am so grateful for the experience I have gathered from Sir Alan and others within his organisation,” Michelle said.
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Since her departure, Michelle has launched a number of online deal sites, and released an autobiography, Anything is Possible, in 2007.
She has also carved out a career as a current affairs TV presenter, and is one of the hosts of The Pledge on Sky News.
Michelle also appears on news review shows Question Time and This Week, and is a contributor on Sky Sunrise.
In 2017, she stood as an independent candidate in the General Election for her home constituency, Hull West and Hessle.
Beyond her TV and business work, she has spoken out about sensitive issues such as mental health, depression and suicide.
She spoke bravely to The Sun about how her mum saved her from the brink of killing herself after “years and years of unhappiness”.
After splitting from her broker boyfriend Anthony in 2016, it was revealed that she was looking for love on the dating app Tinder.
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