Sian Welby has confessed that she kept her pregnancy a secret from her bosses at This Morning due to fears of job loss. The presenter, who is also a radio DJ, is engaged to Jake Beckett, her radio producer fiancé who works for Heart Breakfast.

The couple welcomed their daughter Ruby in June 2024, with Sian regularly updating her social media followers on her motherhood journey. The 38-year-old didn't reveal her pregnancy until just four months before Ruby's birth.

The news came just a month after she started co-presenting ITV's This Morning with Dermot O'Leary. Speaking on Giovanna Fletcher's Happy mum Happy Baby podcast, Sian explained why she chose to keep her personal news under wraps.

She said: "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."

Sian continued: "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, I knew I was pregnant but I didn't tell anyone."

The This Morning star further added: "'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?'"

She concluded by saying: "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."