Glowing Laura Woods has returned to TV for the first time since announcing she is going to become a mum. Laura, 37, and boyfriend Adam Collard took to Instagram last weekend to share a scan as she announced her pregnancy. The cute photo included her pet dog staring up at the smitten couple while the mum and dad to-be each held onto the scan photo. The sports presenter captioned the adorable post: “Hey, baby,” alongside two pink hearts.
But the planning for the nursery is on hold – Laura has a job to do and is proudly fronting Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics in Paris. She wore a black dress as she made her screen comeback having last been seen in Germany presenting coverage of the Euro 2024 final in Berlin almost a fortnight ago.
The couple went public with their romance in October and have gone from strength-to-strength, posting loved-up updates on social media. Earlier this month, Adam took to Instagram to share some black and white photographs of their time together to celebrate Laura’s 37th birthday. Adam told The Mirror that his relationship with Laura has left him feeling as though he’s “living the dream”. He said: “It’s going great, you know. She’s amazing and we are having a lot of fun. It feels like I’m living the dream.”
Adam, who starred on Love Island in 2018 and 2022, and also appeared on Celebs Go Dating last year, previously revealed how their relationship began months after the pair first met. He shared on the Getting Lippy Gossip Show last year that he walked past her whilst heading to an interview, but admitted the pair didn’t interact for months. He explained: “I’d followed her on Instagram because I’d seen a Lionesses game or something like that and then I DMd her because she put like a funny meme on her story.”
Adam opened up on his intention to “marry and have kids” with the TNT sports host. He said: “I’m protective, whether it’s Laura, or my family, my friends. I want to get married. I want to have kids as well. I’ve always thought, what type of person will I be? How can I protect my kids? Ahead of this evening’s opening ceremony which gets underway at 6.30pm, BBC presenter Paula Radcliffe described herself as “mortified” after wishing luck to a convicted rapist who is competing at the Olympics. Dutch beach volleyball player Steven Van de Velde served time in prison for the rape of a 12-year-old girl in 2014 and has controversially been selected for the Games.
In an interview with LBC, former marathon runner turned pundit Radcliffe said that it was a “tough thing to punish him twice” and that she “wished him the best of luck”, drawing parallels with drugs cheats who are given second chances in sport. However, writing on Twitter (X) on Thursday, Radcliffe said: “I am mortified that I expressed it so badly and didn’t condemn the rape out loud. I do believe in second chances after serving punishment but think the Olympics should be for those who uphold the ideals (that’s why I poorly brought the doping comparison in).”
In other posts, Radcliffe, who is still the British marathon record holder, said: “I myself am shocked and disappointed at how I expressed this so badly” and “I really apologise for the way I phrased this. The utter condemnation of the crime in my head went without saying but I should have clarified that. Instead I poorly jumped to explaining why It would be great to exclude all who betray ideals but legally not possible.” Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.
