This Morning star Siân Welby has admitted she feared being "dropped" by the show following a big announcement.
The presenter announced in February 2024 that she was expecting a child with fiancé Jake Beckett, with the pair welcoming a baby girl, Ruby, in June.
Nearly a year on, Welby shared on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast that she initially kept her pregnancy a secret for the fear of losing her job, recalling: "When you first start a job, you think: 'nobody knows what I’m actually like, that I’m trustworthy' and you have to prove yourself.
"I felt like I had proven myself [on This Morning], that I can do this and that – when I got that first cover with Dermot [O’Leary], I knew I was pregnant but I didn’t tell anyone.
"In the back of my mind I was thinking, 'If I tell them I’m pregnant, will this put them off getting me in again? And will they think I’m gonna be off for ages?'
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"So many women must feel [the same way] in any job, especially if they’re starting a new one. It’s the fear that you’re going to be immediately judged or dropped or they’ll ask why you didn’t tell them."
While Welby is still on This Morning, Vanessa Feltz recently explained her own departure from the show, sharing: "I love This Morning, I would never leave it, I couldn’t love it more.
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"I would happily have stayed and gone on the back of a motorbike from the This Morning studio straight to Channel 5 and done both.
"I almost believed I’d be able to do that, but I think apparently, it’s not the way it’s done… but I’d have done it, and I think they would have been happy for me to do it too."
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