Former Love Island stars Jessica Shears and Dom Lever have confirmed that they are expecting their first child.
The couple, who met on the ITV dating show in 2017, announced the happy news with matching Instagram posts.
Both reality stars shared a photo collage featuring an ultrasound scan placed underneath Polaroid photos of the parents-to-be, showing Shears clutching her baby bump and Lever grinning as he recreates her pose.
Shears captioned her post with “The best is yet to come,” while Lever wrote that he is “living the dream.”
The pair’s former Love Island co-stars rushed to congratulate them on their impending arrival, with Camilla Thurlow writing: “Congratulations to you both, such lovely news!”
Gabby Allen added “OMG CONGRATULATIONS,” while her ex-boyfriend Marcel Somerville commented: “Congratulations bro & @jessica_rose_uk massive news.”
Love Island’s Alexandra Cane and Charlie Brake, who appeared on the show last year, also sent congratulatory messages to the couple, while former TOWIE fixture Mario Falcone said: “Congratulations mate. Best thing in the world. Here if you need dad help.”
Shears and Lever got engaged three months after meeting on Love Island, and were ‘married’ in a televised ceremony overseen by Jeremy Kyle on Good Morning Britain in February last year.
They went on to tie the knot for real on the Greek island of Mykonos in October.
“People said we wouldn’t last but now we’re husband and wife. We’re proof that when you meet the right person, there’s no need to hang around,” Lever told OK! magazine after the ceremony.
Shears said that she had known that she and Lever would be “together forever from very early on” and said that she was “so excited” to “spend the rest of [her] life waking up next to Dom.”
“We really wanted an intimate wedding and we knew we couldn’t have had that in the UK,” she said of the couple’s decision not to invite former Love Island stars to the ceremony.
“Going abroad meant we didn’t have any pressure to invite every Tom, Dick and Harry. As we were limited on numbers, we only invited people we see all the time.”
