Sian Welby has opened up about the emotional pressure she felt to keep her pregnancy a secret from ITV bosses—despite being well into her role on This Morning.
The popular presenter, who also hosts Capital Breakfast alongside Jordan North and Chris Stark, gave birth to her daughter Ruby in June 2024 with fiancé Jake Beckett, her radio producer partner. But Sian, now 38, has revealed she waited until she was nearly six months along before telling anyone at ITV—just four months before little Ruby arrived, reported the Express.
Speaking candidly on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Sian admitted she was terrified her pregnancy news might jeopardise her new role. She had only just started covering on This Morning with Dermot O’Leary when she discovered she was expecting.
“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,” she said. “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.”
With striking honesty, she 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?’”
Her words echo what so many women feel, particularly when starting a new role. “It’s the fear that you’re going to be immediately judged or dropped or they’ll ask why you didn’t tell them,” she added.
Sian also shared a moment when her carefully guarded secret nearly slipped out—at 20 weeks pregnant, a pair of trousers she ordered arrived “a bit small,” nearly giving the game away.
Although Alison Hammond remains the regular Friday co-host alongside Dermot, Sian continues to step in when other presenters are away, and she’s become a familiar and much-loved face on the sofa.
She announced Ruby’s arrival with a sweet Instagram post featuring the newborn in a brown cardigan with her name stitched on the back, melting the hearts of fans and fellow celebs alike.
Between juggling early morning radio, telly appearances, and now motherhood, Sian’s journey is one many working mums will relate to—and her honesty about the fear of losing work for being pregnant is a reminder of the silent pressure so many women still carry.
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