Fleur East has begun the new year in the most thrilling manner possible, confirming that she is expecting her first child.
The Strictly Come Dancing judge announced her pregnancy with a lovely Instagram snapshot of herself cuddling her baby belly and writing in the caption: ‘2024 is going be different….’
In her tweet, the singer tagged her husband, Marcel Robin, whom she has been married to since 2019.
Fleur, 36, got congratulations comments from previous and present Strictly contestants such as Oti Mabuse, Neil Jones, and Kevin Clifton.
‘Congratulations ! you’re going to be an amazing mummy xxx,’ wrote Zara McDermott, while Layton Williams commented: ‘Oh my goshhhhhh. Congrats gorge.’
‘Yessssssssss! Congratulations,’ said Oti, who recently gave birth to her first child, while Kym Marsh penned: ‘Ahhh babe!!!! I’m so happy for you! Congrats .’
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Fleur and French fashion designer Marcel Robin have been dating since 2010, and they married in a Moroccan wedding ceremony in 2019.
The former X Factor judge previously said that members in her family wanted her and her husband to have children, but she explained at the time that she had a lot of other things she wanted to achieve first.
‘Everyone in my life is begging me to have kids. It’s got to that stage,’ she told The Sun in 2021.
‘Me and my husband are really driven and doing a lot with our own careers. He’s into fashion and I’m doing 10,000 things at once.
‘We definitely want to have a family for sure but we’re not putting pressure on it. Our mums would say different, they’re itching now. They want grandchildren.’
Fleur rose to prominence in 2005 after appearing on The X Factor with the group Addictiv Ladies, who were ousted in week one after being mentored by Simon Cowell.
She returned as a solo artist nine years later, finishing as the competition’s runner-up after earning enormous popularity with her rendition of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk.
Fleur’s career has continued to soar since then, with the release of her hit song Sax, a fourth-place result on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, and a runner-up finish on Strictly in 2022 with her partner Vito Coppola.
It was reported last year that she will replace Rylan Clark on the Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two, which she would co-host with former pro Janette Manrara.
Source My Celebrity Life.