BBC News presenter Tina Daheley welcomes a ‘beautiful baby girl’ with fiancé Kane William-Smith

Tina Deheley has welcomed a baby girl with her fiancé Kane William-Smith.  

The BBC News presenter, 39, announced the news on Monday, posting a sweet snap of her newborn daughter’s feet to Instagram.

Sharing the happy update with her followers, Tina penned: ‘Head over heels in love with our beautiful baby girl.’ 

Tina’s adorable image showed her newborn’s toes poking out while she cradled the tot while wearing a soft flannel dressing gown.  

The new mum was soon flooded with well-wishes and congratulations from her pals, with Susanna Reid writing: ‘Oh wonderful news’ 

While Clara Amfo added: ‘Yaaaaay! Congrats!!’ and Ore Oduba penned: ‘Awwww there she is congratulations you guys’ 

Pregnant Alex Jones also commented, writing: ‘Delicious!! Congratulations.’ 

Sara Cox wrote: ‘Ahhhhh yeyyyyyyyyy sending all the love to you 3’ while Davina McCall shared her well wishes as she wrote: ‘Oh Tina so happy for you’ 

The baby’s arrival also comes just weeks after Tina revealed that she and Kane had moved home and started a ‘delayed refurb project’. 

Sharing a bump snap to Instagram on April 6, Tina explained: ‘All settled into our temporary newborn retreat in month 9 of pregnancy! 

‘Can’t quite believe we’ve started a delayed refurb project and moved home just days before our little one is born, but thanks to the amazing support of friends and family (and an extremely lux roof over our heads) we’ve somehow managed it.’ 

Tina announced she was expecting her first child back in December when she shared a photo of her baby bump and revealed she was over five months pregnant.  

Captioning the post, she wrote: ‘Some exciting news to share! Beyond thrilled to be welcoming a new addition to our family in Spring 2021. Thank you @bbcradio2 family for all your lovely messages this morning.’

While the presenter typically keeps her private life away from social media, her fiancé Kane occasionally features in sporadic posts – including Tina confirming the couple’s engagement via Instagram in January 2018.   

Tina confirmed her engagement to long-term partner Kane in January 2018, sharing a photo of her sparkling ring on Instagram

She wrote alongside the image: ‘07.01.18 Making plans for the rest of our lives.’ 

After reading the news on the Radio 1 breakfast show for several years, Tina covered events such as the pre-election debate and fronted her first Panorama programme – about the Manchester bombing. 

She has since become a regular fixture on the BBC Breakfast sofa alongside the likes of Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty,  Louise Minchin and Jon Kay.    

Speaking in 2018, the presenter told Harper’s Bazaar she ‘worked ridiculously hard’ to get where she is after her parents told her she’d have to try even harder than her white contemporaries.  

‘I was doing the news on BBC Three, finishing at midnight and then coming in to do breakfast, which comes back to what my parents said about having to work two or three times as hard,’ she explained.

Tina is the daughter of first-generation immigrant parents of Indian heritage, who themselves grew up in Nairobi and Tanzania.

She added that gender and class also play a part in the lack of diversity in the media, saying: ‘There’s no point having – I’m saying it as I’m saying to my friends – loads of brown privileged people in prominent roles.

‘That isn’t really representative. The further up I get in my career I realise there aren’t many people like me. I’m from a very working class background.’