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This Morning star admits she feels ‘bad’ for delaying wedding as she doesn’t have the ‘brain capacity’ to plan the day amid her busy schedule

This Morning star admits she feels ‘bad’ for delaying wedding as she doesn’t have the ‘brain capacity’ to plan the day amid her busy schedule

Sian Welby has revealed she’s had to delay her wedding due to her busy schedule.

The presenter, 38, is currently at the height of her career, with presenting stints on This Morning and Lorraine, as well as her regular Capital Radio show alongside Jordan North and Chris Stark.

However, with her hectic TV and radio work, as well as juggling being a mum to 11-month-old daughter Ruby, Sian admitted that she currently doesn’t have the ‘brain capacity’ to plan her nuptials.

The beauty has been engaged to radio producer beau Jake Beckett since August 2023, after he popped the question during a romantic holiday.

Speaking to The Mirror about her current lack of wedding plans, Sian admitted that she feels ‘a bit bad’ about putting the big day on the back burner for now.

She explained: ‘You sort of get in a weird loophole of going, “So when will we do it?” A bit like anything in life, the more you overthink it, there’s no good time to do any of this.

Sian Welby has revealed she's had to delay her wedding due to her busy schedule

Sian Welby has revealed she’s had to delay her wedding due to her busy schedule

The beauty has been engaged to radio producer beau Jake Beckett since August 2023, after he popped the question during a romantic holiday

The beauty has been engaged to radio producer beau Jake Beckett since August 2023, after he popped the question during a romantic holiday

‘Once I maybe get into a new rhythm, then I will have the brain capacity for wedding planning. But at the minute, my brain is at full capacity. So something has to sort of go out before I can think of something new. I have to just take it one day at a time.’

Sian went on to praise Jake amid their ‘modern situation’, noting how the pair evenly split the parenting of their daughter while managing their busy jobs. 

While Sian’s career takes up a large chunk of her time, it’s something she’s so grateful for after years of trying to get her big break, with the star admitting she was ‘always in the wrong job’.

Sian has been working hard since she was 19 and before bagging her Capital Radio job five years ago, she’d been a reporter covering everything from golfing and cycling, to the weather.

She shared: ‘The subjects were never something I was interested in. I was either talking about golf or quad biking or whatever. I was trying my best to get to where I am now. I just wanted to be in entertainment. Funny, light-hearted stuff, and it’s taken this long to get there.’

Sian went on to say how incredibly ‘lucky’ she feels amid this ‘amazing momentum’ in her career, stating how she feels like she’s in a ‘fever dream’ following a successful year which has seen her land ‘bucket list, dream jobs’. 

It comes after Sian admitted she was scared she would lose her job at This Morning if she told them she was pregnant before she started. 

The mother of one welcomed her daughter Ruby with her fiancé Jake last June, at a point where her career was also taking off. 

The presenter, 38, is currently at the height of her career, with presenting stints on This Morning and Lorraine [pictured], as well as her regular Capital Radio show alongside Jordan North and Chris Stark

The presenter, 38, is currently at the height of her career, with presenting stints on This Morning and Lorraine [pictured], as well as her regular Capital Radio show alongside Jordan North and Chris Stark

However, with her hectic TV and radio work, as well as juggling being a mum to 11-month-old daughter Ruby, Sian admitted that she currently doesn't have the 'brain capacity' to plan her nuptials [pictured with Capital Radio co-stars Jordan North and Chris Stark]

However, with her hectic TV and radio work, as well as juggling being a mum to 11-month-old daughter Ruby, Sian admitted that she currently doesn’t have the ‘brain capacity’ to plan her nuptials [pictured with Capital Radio co-stars Jordan North and Chris Stark]

'You sort of get in a weird loophole of going,

‘You sort of get in a weird loophole of going, “So when will we do it?” A bit like anything in life, the more you overthink it, there’s no good time to do any of this’ [pictured with fiance Jake] 

'Once I maybe get into a new rhythm, then I will have the brain capacity for wedding planning. But at the minute, my brain is at full capacity'

‘Once I maybe get into a new rhythm, then I will have the brain capacity for wedding planning. But at the minute, my brain is at full capacity’ 

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And now Sian has confessed she was in fact already 20 weeks pregnant when she began covering as a co-host on This Morning but kept her pregnancy a secret as she felt she had ‘something to prove’. 

Opening up on a recent episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, Sian explained: ‘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.

‘I felt like I had proven myself, that I can do this and that. When I got that first This Morning cover with Dermot, I knew I was pregnant but I didn’t tell anyone.’ 

The presenter explained that her co-host Dermot O’Leary didn’t know and neither did any of the team as at that point she had only told friends and family and was waiting on her 20 week scan. 

She continued: ‘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 “Oh she’s gonna be off for ages?”‘ 

‘I am sure so many women in any job, especially if they are starting a new one they must think “I have just got this new job and I can’t tell them that I’m pregnant”. 

‘It’s the fear that you’re going to be immediately judged or dropped or they’ll go “Oh why you didn’t tell us because that is really inconvenient for us now.”

Sian Welby has admitted she was scared she would lose her job at This Morning if she told them she was pregnant (pictured pregnant in January 2024 with Dermot O'Leary)

Sian Welby has admitted she was scared she would lose her job at This Morning if she told them she was pregnant (pictured pregnant in January 2024 with Dermot O’Leary) 

The mother of one welcomed her daughter Ruby with her fiancé Jake Beckett last June, at a point where her career was also taking off

The mother of one welcomed her daughter Ruby with her fiancé Jake Beckett last June, at a point where her career was also taking off

‘You feel like that, you’re like this is so natural and normal why and I feeling so bad of it and so bad about it.’

Sian added that while she did struggle to get some trousers on during fittings for the show she managed to conceal her bump with ‘quite forgiving’ outfits. 

Yet a week later it proved more tricky when she was on a pH๏τoshoot as she admitted: ‘It was stressful because I still hadn’t publicly said anything.’

She joked: ‘You can’t breath in a baby bump! But I tried.’ 

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