The Heart Radio presenter took the opportunity to say congratulations to a close friend on Heart Breakfast today, revealing they had some joyful baby news. “I just wanted to I’ve a massive congratulations and shout out to a very close friend of mine,” Amanda Holden, 48, announced. “I might actually start crying,” she added, a tremble in her voice. “My lovely friend Mary and Stuart, her husband, have a lovely family, three kids, but Caroline, their eldest, who is 27, was born with cystic fibrosis.
I might actually start crying
Amanda Holden
“For her whole life, Mary and Stuart — and Caroline — have been a huge credit because they have never, ever let it hold her back,” Amanda continued, choking up.
She went on to say Caroline is often in and out of hospital due to her condition — where mucus builds up in the lungs an digestive system, causing trouble breathing and digesting food — married the love of her life a couple of years ago.
“On Friday she safely, thank goodness, gave birth to a little boy — sorry, it just really wells me up — called Henry John Darcy.”
Sounding overwhelmed with pride, the Heart Breakfast host praised: “And the fact that she’s got on with cystic fibrosis her whole life and now had a baby who, I’m sure we’ll find out today, is going to be clear of that illness.
“I just wanted to say, there is hope out there for anybody suffering from anything,” she told listeners, as her co-star Jamie Theakston, 48, sat quietly, taking in her story.
“If you’re told you can’t do something, don’t listen. Keep going on. If you’ve got amazing parents like Mary and Stuart then you’re always going to be fine.
“It’s just
