Sam Quek reveals she’s six months pregnant with a baby girl months after a heartbreaking miscarriage

I’m A Celebrity star Sam Quek is expecting a baby girl with her husband Tom Mair.

The former England hockey player announced the happy news in an interview with OK! Magazine, revealing the couple will welcome their daughter in February.

Sam, 32, explained she finally felt ready to reveal the pregnancy after suffering a miscarriage at the beginning of the year.  

Talking alongside her husband of two years, Sam said: ‘It’s been quite surreal because we’ve kept it private. Being able to talk about it, it now feels real. I’m really, really excited.’ 

At the beginning of 2020, Sam and Tom discovered they were five weeks pregnant after a year of trying to conceive. But five weeks later Sam miscarried.  

 ‘I didn’t want to speak to anyone. I had guilt and shame that it was my fault,’ Sam explained of the devastating time.

‘I was looking back at everything I did during pregnancy and replaying every single minute. I put it all on me and my body. But I never said that to Tom at the time.’ 

Sam and Tom ended up having a big row three months after their loss which cleared the air between them. Meanwhile lockdown meant the busy pair had their schedules freed up to allow them to reconnect.   

Sam and Tom married at Chester Racecourse in 2018 after getting engaged in June 2017 when Tom proposed during a holiday in Tenerife.

Having shared her 2016 experience in the I’m A Celeb jungle with the likes of Carol Vorderman and Scarlett Moffatt, Sam had her co-stars firmly on the wedding guest list.

‘We did karaoke roulette and stuck everybody’s name in a bucket. Carol Vorderman’s was the fourth name out of the bucket so I did a nice duet with her,’ she said at the time.

Before turning her hand to TV,  Sam was an English former field hockey player, playing as a defender for both the England and Great Britain teams.

She won gold as part of the British team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.