Laura Whitmore has set the record straight as viewers assumed her colleague Keith Lemon accidentally announced the name of her newborn daughter.
The Bray native and her husband Iain Stirling welcomed their first child to the world at the end of March, and the couple want to keep a lot of their daughter’s life private.
They’ve yet to confirm her name – but fans thought Keith Lemon might have let it slip.
While appearing on This Morning, chatting about Celebrity Juice, he said, “We’ve got Laura Whitmore as well, who’s at home watching this with her child. So hello to Emily and Laura, hello.”
Almost immediately people because to question if that was her daughter’s name, but Laura quickly put an end to the speculation.
Taking to social media she said, “Ha ha. Emily and I are team captains. It’s a gorgeous name, but would get confusing x.”
Earlier this week Laura returned to Elstree Studio to film Celebrity Juice with Keith and Emily, and brought her daughter along too.
Sharing an adorable snap in the beauty room, Laura snuggled the youngster before stepping out on set.
Followers and famous friends were quick to share their adoration with Laura.
Fellow Irish presenter Dermot O’Leary simply labelled the new mum a ‘marine’, while actress Sarah Greene called her a ‘marvel’.
Denise Van Outen said, “Working mummies rock! You legend. You look so beautiful.”
Actress and comedian Felicity Ward added, “You are back working? Incredible.”
Before the birth of her first child, Laura made it very clear she had no intention of giving up the career she worked so hard to build.
Speaking to The Telegraph she said; “When people ask if I’m going to give up work this year because of the baby, I’m like, ‘Why? Mum did it in ’80s Ireland!’
“My mum grew up the youngest of 13 children in Catholic Ireland. She had a child out of wedlock and worked full-time, which taught me that there’s nothing you can’t do.
“All my friends from school are doctors or teachers. The fact that I even thought it was possible to go off and work at MTV came from my mum because her attitude was: ‘If you want to, then why not?’”