Laura Whitmore confirms she is having a GIRL after Lorraine Kelly ‘dropped a clanger’ by letting slip the gender of pregnant Love Island host’s baby

• Laura, 35, and husband Iain Stirling, 33, have yet to announce the gender of the baby, who is due over the coming weeks
• The Love Island host, 35, appeared on Lorraine to promote her new book, with Lorraine, 61, noting she will likely want to pass advice on to her ‘baby girl’  
• ‘Did Lorraine just drop a clanger about the sex of Laura Whitmore’s baby #itsagirl?’ one viewer tweeted, followed by a slew of others
• Late last year, it was revealed Laura and Iain had secretly tied the knot in a Humanist ceremony at Dublin’s City Hall on November 11
• Taking to Instagram to celebrate the start of 2021, Laura finally confirmed the nuptials while sharing a beautiful snap from the pair’s big day
• The couple have been together since the summer of 2017 and Iain is believed to have proposed in South Africa in early 2020

Laura Whitmore has confirmed she is having a baby girl, after Lorraine Kelly ‘dropped a clanger’ by letting slip the gender on Thursday.

The Love Island presenter, 35, confirmed her baby’s gender in an excerpt from her new self-help book, No One Can Change Your Life Except for You. 

She said: ‘As I finish this book, it doesn’t end at chapter nine, there’s a new chapter coming into my life – in the form of a baby girl currently growing inside me and that scares the s**t out of me.

Special moment: Laura Whitmore has confirmed she is having a baby girl, after Lorraine Kelly ‘dropped a clanger’ by letting slip the gender on Thursday

‘I once swallowed a bug and freaked out there was a live bug inside me. A live human is a whole new level of freaking out but I am excited because there’s a lot of good in the world, there’s a lot of potential.

Reflecting on impending motherhood, Laura said: ‘I want to bring up my child knowing that she has her own story to write.’

‘She will be supported and loved. But she is the heroine of her own life, no-one else.’

This comes after Lorraine let slip that Laura was set to welcome a daughter,noting that the mother-to-be will likely want to pass advice on to her ‘baby girl’.

Candid: The Love Island presenter, 35, confirmed her baby’s gender in an excerpt from her new self-help book, No One Can Change Your Life Except for You 

To which Laura, slightly taken aback, replied: ‘Well, my baby… yes.’

Laura and husband Iain Stirling, 33, have yet to announce the gender of the baby, who is due in the coming weeks.

The faux pas didn’t go unnoticed on Twitter, with viewers flocking to the social media site to comment on it.

‘Has Lorraine just announced Laura Whitmore’s baby gender live in national tv?!’ one asked.

‘Did Lorraine just drop a clanger about the sex of Laura Whitmore’s baby #itsagirl?’ followed another, as a third penned: ‘Oops!! Baby girl for Laura!’

Clanger: This comes after Lorraine let slip that Laura was set to welcome a daughter,noting that the mother-to-be will likely want to pass advice on to her ‘baby girl’

A fourth typed: ‘Did Lorraine just tell everyone what Laura Whitmores baby is gonna be?’

As someone else penned: ‘Has Lorraine just ruined Laura’s magazine deal by telling us she’s having a girl?’

Earlier this month, the TV personality revealed she has no plans to give up working when she becomes a mother. 

The model told how her mother Carmel having a child ‘out of wedlock’ in 1980s Ireland taught her ‘there’s nothing you can’t do’. 

Moving on: The topic was swiftly shifted to the new book Laura has written after Laura looked visibly shocked by the reveal 

 

Slip of the tongue: The faux pas didn’t go unnoticed on Twitter, with viewers flocking to the social media site to comment on it

Speaking to The Telegraph, Laura said: ‘All my friends from school are doctors or teachers. 

‘The fact that I even thought it was possible to go off and work at MTV came from my mum because her attitude was: “If you want to, then why not?”

‘When people ask if I’m going to give up work this year because of the baby, I’m like, “Why? Mum did it in ’80s Ireland!”‘

Laura has documented her pregnancy on social media and previously said she is due in ‘early 2021’.

Exciting times: The media personality is set to welcome her first child with her comedian husband Iain Stirling in the coming weeks, after tying the knot in November 2020

The star is hoping to be back at work this summer for the next series of Love Island which was pulled off air last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.  

Late last year, it was revealed Laura and Iain had secretly tied the knot in a Humanist ceremony at Dublin’s City Hall on November 11.

Taking to Instagram to celebrate the start of 2021, Laura finally confirmed the nuptials while sharing a beautiful snap from the pair’s big day.

The couple have been together since the summer of 2017 and Iain is believed to have proposed in South Africa in early 2020 when they were filming the winter series of Love Island.  

Laura recently discussed her road to motherhood and her pregnancy journey so far in an interview with Hunger magazine, where she said she believed things had fallen into place for her.  

Speaking in December 2020, she said: ‘As a timing thing, it probably wasn’t something that we thought about, it was a nice surprise. So I’m due at the beginning of next year and I think things just fall into place.’

Back to it: The star is hoping to be back at work this summer for the next series of Love Island which was pulled off air last year due to the coronavirus pandemic 

The star also revealed the couple had found out the sex of their baby very early on via a Harmony blood test, with Laura saying the check had given her peace of mind that her baby was healthy after suffering a tragic miscarriage in 2018.

She said: ‘For me it wasn’t about the sex, it was just about whether the baby was OK. You constantly have that fear. I think there are a lot of things that are important to keep to yourself.’

After the slip of the tongue on Lorraine, Laura chatted about her book, No One Can Change Your Life Except For You.

The former MTV star said of her advice-giving: ‘There’s lots of things that I picked up over the years, it’s been an interesting rollercoaster over 13 years, I’m still protective over my life.

‘Everybody would think that everything is perfect, got to keep picking yourself up all the time. I’m quite an optimistic person, people find that annoying, sometimes I feel like, who am I to give advice to people?

New book: After the slip of the tongue on Lorraine, Laura chatted about her book, No One Can Change Your Life Except For You

‘I just go from my own experiences…. I have a great platform but I found it important to talk about the struggle as well.’

She went on: ‘I think for any success you fail a lot, I think I have impostor syndrome and over the years when I interview people, huge stars, they also have impostor syndrome, they have it, it makes you realise you’re all human!’

Speaking of her marriage, she said: ‘We’re very lucky that we had it to ourselves on the day, afterwards we were getting congratulations from people we didn’t know, so that’s why we put that picture out.’

And on Love Island’s future, she added: ‘It’s not Love Island without the rumour mill. We all need a little Love Island. To be honest, I can’t really say any more than that. Lorraine you probably know more than I do!’ 

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