This Morning legend Judy Finnigan has admitted that she was blissfully unaware that she was pregnant with her first daughter, Chloe, during her wedding to Richard Madely back in 1986.
Richard and Judy married in 1986, when their son Jack was just six-months-old, having met four years prior while they were both working on programmes for Granada TV in the North West.
Present at their wedding was baby Jack and Judy’s twin sons Dan and Tom from her first marriage to journalist David Henshaw.
However, the happy couple were unaware that their daughter was also there – but in Judy’s womb.
Richard and Judy married in 1986, four years after the pair first met (Image: PA)
Judy admitted that television personality Chloe, now 33, was a “mistake” and hadn’t been planned.
Speaking on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, Richard, 64 said: “The morning after the wedding day we were having breakfast in this hotel, married now, rings on fingers and all the rest of it. And I always remember saying to Judy, we both remember this, do you feel any different?
The showbiz couple confessed that Chloe hadn’t been planned (Image: PA)
“We had been living together for two years by then, so I said do you actually feel any different now that we have both put a ring on it? Does it make in here you feel any different?”
He went on to say: “And Judy said ‘I actually woke up this morning feeling physically different umm, I actually felt like I had gone some kind of physical change, almost like when I was pregnant with Jack.”
Chloe admitted that she didn’t think her parent’s marriage was “normal” (Image: Getty Images)
“And we would later discover that Judy was in fact already pregnant with Chloe so actually all four of them were at the wedding which was great.”
Interjecting, Judy, 72, added: “I look at Chloe as she was a sort of accident and she was conceived when Jack was only a few months old.”
During her frank confession, Judy spoke about suffering from a miscarriage while in the fourth month of her pregnancy, before she conceived son Jack.
“I went for a scan and they just showed the baby heart had stopped beating, that was terrible, just really awful, and I had to go into labour anyway and it was just awful,” she painfully recalled.
If you have been affected by this story, advice and support can be found at Sands (stillbirth and neonatal death charity). You can call them on 0808 164 3332 or email helpline@sands.org.uk.
Giovanna’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast is available to download from acast.com every Tuesday at 6am.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
