‘Baby Brown is coming’: TV and radio host reveals ‘big secret’
Source: Instagram
Bondi Vet star and new KIIS FM radio host Chris Brown has revealed that he and partner Lorraine Monforte are expecting their first child together.
Brown shared the happy news on Instagram on Friday with a series of photos of the parents-to-be, including one of Monforte holding up an ultrasound image.
“Baby Brown is coming in 2027,” he wrote.
“It turns out we came back from Italy with more than just pasta bellies and an unbroken Duolingo streak.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled. And grateful. And I couldn’t be less qualified to give medical advice on this one.”
Brown, 48, became a favourite of television audiences during his time on Channel 10’s Bondi Vet and later as co-host of lifestyle program The Living Room and reality-TV show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.
He has hosted several other lifestyle shows, including the new My Reno Rules, since moving to Channel Seven three years ago, and was announced in September as one of a three-person team picked to host a new KIIS FM breakfast show following the axing of the Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Brown revealed his “big secret” live on air on the new radio show on Friday morning.
“It is the greatest joy,” the clearly emotional father-to-be said, as his excited co-hosts congratulated him.
“This has been a really long time coming. For a long period of time I wasn’t sure if this would ever happen.
“The timing, it just feels right. I am clearly lost for words.”
The couple have reportedly been dating since at least early last year and were photographed together at the Australian Grand Prix in March.
They made their relationship “Instagram-official” two months later when Monforte – a television publicist who has two children from a previous relationship – shared a picture of them on social media.
“Yeah, I’m in a relationship and really happy,” Brown told Stellar magazine earlier this year, explaining that the pair were friends before they began dating.
Amanda Keller, Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre, Brown’s co-hosts on The Living Room, are among the numerous TV personalities and entertainment industry figures who have shared their congratulations on his Instagram post.
“Barry Dubois and I are thrilled to be grandparents. Sooooooo exciting,” Keller wrote.
