ITV Sports presenter Laura Woods expecting baby with Love Island star Adam Collard

ITV sports activities pundit Laura Woods has introduced that she and Love Island star Adam Collard might be welcoming their first child.

Woods, 37, and Collard, 28, shared the information with their followers over the weekend on social media.

The sports activities presenter posted a photograph of her being pregnant scan, accompanied by the caption: “Hey, child”

The couple’s French bulldog may be seen within the background of the photograph.

Though Woods has disabled feedback for the publish, it attracted a whole lot of 1000’s of likes after Collard shared it to his personal account, the place he has over 1 million followers.

Woods and Collard went public with their romance final 12 months in October. The pair, nevertheless, largely stored their relationship non-public up till current months throughout which they’ve shared photographs collectively and interacted with each other’s social media posts.

Earlier this month, Collard celebrated Woods’ birthday on Instagram, sharing photographs of them collectively.

The fact TV star beforehand stated that he needs to get married and have youngsters. “I’m protecting, whether or not it’s Laura, or my household, my mates. I need to get married. I need to have children as nicely. I’ve at all times thought, what sort of individual will I be? How can I shield my children?” he stated.

Talking about what sort of father he might be, he stated: “Clearly, I’ve by no means had a child, however I don’t suppose I’ll be plastering it throughout [social media]. I would like them to have a good battle and an opportunity to not be judged immediately.

“So long as my actually shut circle is aware of precisely who I’m, I don’t care. I feel you need to take all the things with a pinch of salt.”

The couple met after Collard had seen Woods on TV commentating on a Lionesses match. Woods had been the lead presenter of ITV’s protection of the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup.

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“I’d adopted her on Instagram as a result of I’d seen a Lionesses sport or one thing like that after which I DMed her as a result of she put, like, a humorous meme on her Story,” he stated on the Getting Lippy Gossip Present final 12 months.

“The humorous a part of the story is, for a soccer fan as nicely, I truly didn’t know who she was.”

Collard rose to fame as a contestant on season 4 of Love Island in 2018, throughout which he earned a popularity as a “participant”. His behaviour on the sequence was additionally criticised by viewers and led to Ladies’s Help, a home abuse charity, to problem a warning about recognizing indicators of abuse.

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The choice to deliver Collard again to Love Island for a second outing in 2022 was vastly criticised.

He has beforehand been romantically linked with fellow Love Island star Zara McDermott and Kate Moss’s youthful sister, Lottie.

Along with her function as a pundit for ITV, Woods has beforehand labored for Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports activities. She began her presenting job doing behind-the-scenes interviews on darts protection for Sky Sports activities’ YouTube channel.