Sinead Kennedy revealed she had hoped to keep her pregnancy secret to the end, but admitted she was afraid co-host Daithi O’Se would accidentally announce it live on air.
The Cork born presenter announced she is expecting her first child with husband Conor Kirwan In March this week.
But following months of camera tricks and carefully staged angles whilst presenting RTE Today Show to keep her bump under wraps, the star, who is now seven months pregnant, lifted the lid on why she wanted to keep her baby news a secret for so long.
“The crew has been very kind, strategically placing tables and having me stand behind things for segments and it’s been really helpful.
“I was more worried that Daithi was going to come out with it,” she told Irish Country Magazine.
“Conor called me last week and was like, ‘did anyone get on to you after the show’, and I was thinking what clanger did I come out with today?
“Because it is live TV you could say anything.
“And he was like, ‘no you just look so pregnant today!”
The Winning Streak presenter, 36, is well known in the public eye also for her work on the Lotto and various other shows and documentaries over her two decades within the broadcaster.
But on why she wanted to keep her news private, she added: “I suppose you choose a time where you’re comfortable to have the word out there for whatever reason, and I had a myriad of reasons for wanting to keep it personal and private for as long as possible, so the whole crew has been really kind to ensure we get there.
“The way I look at it is that women are pregnant every day of the week, everywhere in the world, so it’s not special to anybody else, only me and Conor and our family and friends.”
She told that her co-host Daithi O’Se was one of the reasons she decided to announce her good news to the world this week.
“At one point I said, “I wonder can I just not say anything?’ And Daithi was like, ‘we’re going to need to have at least one conversation about this Sinead it’s going to be pretty obvious soon!”
Sinead’s hubby Conor is in the Navy and currently based in Belgium, where she plans to do her maternity leave.
“It’s interesting to see how it will all work when baby arrives,” she said.
“Conor is going to be there for the next few years with work, so part of me is now going, ‘wouldn’t it be great if the baby could speak french.
“It all depends on how Covid and everything pans out and how that’s going to affect us as a family.
“There’s no point thinking too far ahead, i’ll spend my mat leave with Conor and we’ll just have to see the lay of the land after that.
“We just don’t know how things are going to go.
“If I can travel, do I travel over and back with the baby?
“Do I leave it with him two days a week? With restrictions and how things are at the moment, there’s no point overthinking it because I can’t control it.
“Conor will have to come home in time to do the restricting movement ahead of the birth, so hopefully baby cooperates but I don’t think that’s how it works.
“One it’s healthy and happy that’s all I care about.”
