Pregnant Laura Whitmore lifted the lid on her plans to juggle her career with bringing up her newborn.
This year will be her first stint presenting as a new mum while her husband Iain Stirling will also be filming the voiceover for the same show.
They really are a power couple in the showbiz world as Laura revealed how the pair plan to split the caring duties for their child between them.
Luckily for them, the duo never have the same working schedule which means they don't have to worry about child care.
During an appearance on Steph's Packed Lunch, she said: “I’ll slow mo with the baby under my arm… I don’t think that would work.
"We’re very lucky that we never even work the same days and times on that show, we never actually work together.
"We have different schedules, and I’m really happy to live in 2021 where, I think, women can work and have a family and have that support and I feel quite supported that way.”
Laura said Love Island is exactly what the UK needs right now, given we are in the midst of the third national lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
She said: “I think with the year that it’s been, it’s been nice for people who worked on the show [ Love Island ] to have a break from the show but I think we’re ready for it to come back now, because you turn on the news and it can be quite negative, and we need to have the light and the shade in life.
"And I think there is lots of light and fun on Love Island.”
Laura has stayed true to her word after previously divulging her plans to keep up her high-profile TV work while having a baby.
She has recently been filming the latest series of Celebrity Juice.
Inspired by her mum Carmel, she's driven to work while raising a baby.
She told The Telegraph : "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!'"
It was her mum who encouraged her to have faith in herself which spurred her onto enter Pick Me MTV.
This gig led her to front the MTV News in MTV Europe in 2008 and kickstarted her career in the showbiz industry.
She added: "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?'"
Elsewhere during the Steph's Packed Lunch appearance, Laura admitted she didn't feel she fitted the "mould" of a TV presenter after winning a competition to be the face of MTV.
The Irish bombshell confessed she was human, just like the rest of us, and has suffered from imposter syndrome.
She said: “I think everyone, it doesn’t matter what position you are in, we’ve all felt that at some stage. I come from a small town in Ireland, and I went to a convent, and then I won a competition to be the face of MTV and I did not fit that mould at all…
"I moved to London went to LA, interviewing all these big stars and I’d be getting ready in the loo, putting my make up on and stuff, and I’d be sitting there with Katy Perry who has this glam squad and the whole time I was waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and say, ‘ok you need to leave now you are not supposed to be here.’
"And then I realised loads of people feel like that. Everyone has those insecurities, it’s what makes us human…
"I do find a lot of comfort knowing other people feel that way too, by exposing your vulnerabilities, by saying ‘I don’t know’ it’s ok.”
* Steph’s Packed Lunch airs weekdays at 12.30pm on Channel 4.
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