Former Towie star Maddie Hooper is pregnant with her first child – just a month after being dropped from the show
FORMER Towie star Maddie Hooper is pregnant with her first child.
Her best friend Ruby Lacey revealed the exciting news as she shared a picture of the baby scan – writing alongside it: “My bestest is having a bubba.”
She also revealed she had received a card with the words ‘Mummy’s told me you’re going to be the best auntie’ on it and a box of doughnuts with a post-it note that read ‘I don’t want to be the only fat one!’.
The news comes just a month after The Sun revealed that both Ruby and Maddie had been dropped from the ITVbe show after just one series.
The girls were billed as the series’ “sexy new singletons” during the their debut in Marbella this summer , but they were keeping a big secret from producers – they had boyfriends.
A TV insider told The Sun: “Bosses had high hopes for Ruby and Maddie and thought they would bring some drama to the show.
“It was understood that they were both single when filming started but producers soon realised they that they had boyfriends.
“Ruby kissed Jordan one night – but she wouldn’t let the storyline come to screen because her romance.
“Their roles have now be so severely reduced that they will just play the part as extras in nightclub and party scenes."
The pals joined the line-up this summer in replacement of show favourites Kate Wright and Lydia Bright – but have since barely spoken on camera.
They came in as close friends of Georgia Kousoulou, who films most her scenes with boyfriend Tommy Mallet.
Maddie follows Amy Childs, Sam and Billie Faiers and Ferne McCann in becoming a Towie mum.
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