Sports broadcaster Laura Woods has admitted she kept her pregnancy a secret from her ITV colleagues during Euro 2024. Woods joined the likes of Mark Pougatch, Ange Postecoglou, Roy Keane , Ian Wright and Gary Neville on broadcast duties for this summer's tournament in Berlin. However, unbeknownst to her fellow presenters, the 37-year-old was pregnant with her first child.
The star, who anchored ITV’s coverage of the 2023 Women’s World Cup, described Euro 2024 as a "nightmare" before finally being able to announce her pregnancy on Instagram after the tournament had finished. She told The Times: "It was constant, the morning sickness was quite difficult to battle and I was exhausted all the time. "It didn't matter how much sleep you actually got, you'd still be knackered.
At least there were rest days when I was able to just chill out in my [hotel] room. I would have liked to keep it quiet for a little bit longer but I really felt like I couldn't any more and now I've done it it's a relief." Woods and her partner, former Love Island star Adam Collard , have been dating for ten months with the sports presenter splitting her time between her house in southwest London and the 28-year-old's home in Newcastle.
The ITV sports host is currently in Paris presenting the Olympics round-up show Discovery+ and said she is feeling "much better" than in Berlin. She said: "A lot of people were speculating [if I was pregnant] online while I was in Germany, and I didn't enjoy that. I couldn.