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Steph McGovern: ‘Had to deny it’ BBC Breakfast host apologises after fan queries pregnancy


BBC Breakfast presenter Steph McGovern, 37, announced she is expecting her first child with her girlfriend, a television executive, earlier this month.

Earlier this week, Steph responded to a Twitter user who shared a picture of her father and Steph at a wedding.

In the snap alongside the Twitter user’s dad, Steph was seen sporting a figure-hugging black top accompanied with a stripy blazer and a hat.

In response to Steph congratulating a friend on her wedding news, the Twitter user shared the snap with the caption: “Dad sends congratulations too! He wasn’t wrong,” followed by multiple blowing a kiss emojis.

Steph then responded to the post, insisting her news was too early to reveal at the time of the picture.

In view of her 364,000 followers, she replied: “Ah! Bless him. Yes, it was a bit early to be saying anything so I had to deny it. Sorry.”

The Twitter user replied: “Heh you made his day by just being so lovely thank you it meant a lot xxxxxxxxx.”(sic)

Steph recently revealed her baby is due in November.

She took to Twitter to address the news after a source told The Sun she was pregnant and had suffered morning sickness backstage in her first trimester.

In view of her social media fans, she wrote: “I see my news is out! Yep, I am no longer with pot belly……I am now with child #babyonboard.”

In a chat with her co-stars the next day, she joked she was almost sick on her co-star Charlie Stayt, 51, in her early stages of pregnancy.

Elsewhere, last week on the show, Steph McGovern spoke of her sleeping pattern during the recent heatwave.

In a chat with Louise Minchin, 50, Dan Walker, 42, and their guest sleep practitioner, James Wilson, Steph said: “It’s getting it right for both you and your partner isn’t it, because we are all so different.

“And that’s really hard to manage.”

When quizzed on how she was coping in the heat at five-months pregnant, she added: “Do you know, I have had a fan on for about two months.

“It’s making such a difference. Do you know what? To begin with the noise was annoying me, but now I find I get to sleep much more easily, so I’m alright at the minute so I’ve been prepared for some time.”

Louise, who is a mother to two daughters, then dished out her own tips for keeping cool in the heat whilst pregnant.

She reminisced: “I remember when I was very heavily pregnant during a heatwave like this and I just had a bucket of water by the bed and every now and then I would just put my feet in in a bucket of water.”

“Our sleep expert was saying, get your feet cold and it regulates your temperature,” Dan added.

But seemingly not convinced by the idea, Steph added: “I don’t like to have my feet out though!

“I always think someone is going to come and get them! I totally do,” she added.

“I know that’s bad but I have mad nightmares and things and think someone is going to have a nibble of them or…”

BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.



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