'Soap Queen' Sharon Marshall is pregnant.
Sharon Marshall
The 'This Morning' presenter - who fronts the television segment on the brunch time show - has announced that she and her partner Paul Fletcher are expecting a baby.
The 46-year-old script writer broke down in tears as she shared the news with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield during today's (16.01.18) soap segment.
After Phillip told her she looked "blossoming", she said as she wept in a tissue: "I'm pregnant. I am probably going to say everything wrong. I am a little bit emotional."
The presenter replied: "Who knew? Because we didn't know!"
Sharon explained that she had let someone in on the secret "a long time ago."
She said: "Well I told Dr Chris very early so he's been keeping the secret. Myself and my partner Paul Fletcher, we're 14 weeks along, and we let Dr Chris into the secret a long time ago because he's the king of the corridor consultation."
Sharon then started weeping again and added: "Why am I so hormonal?"
Holly - who has three children; Harry, eight, Belle, six, and Chester, three, with her husband Daniel Baldwin - assured her that the tears are normal for pregnant women.
She said: "Get used to this, it doesn't stop, let me tell you!"
Sharon didn't say whether she was planning to find out the sex of the baby but she confirmed that the little one is due in July - and she has decided she won't be discussing babies during her soap segments from now on because of her emotions.
She added: "It'll be about July. I deliberately took out anything relating to babies at all because I'll cry and then I cry. The first thing I said this morning is: 'Do not cry!' "
After announcing the news, Sharon took to her Twitter account to thank her fans for their kind messages and share a photograph of her three-month scan.
She wrote: "Thankyou so much for your lovely messages, Paul and I are beyond happy, (sic)" followed by a red heart emoji.
Tagged in Phillip Schofield