Oti Mabuse Announces Second Child With Marius Iepure
oti mabuse has announced she is expecting her second child with husband Marius Iepure, adding a new baby to the family they started in 2023. She shared the news in an Instagram post featuring photos with their daughter and the words baby number 2 in the background.
Baby No. 2
“Plot twist… We thought we had our hands full already, but life had even bigger plans.” She followed that with, “Baby No. 2 is joining the dance party, and our hearts (and house) are about to get a whole lot fuller. #babynumber2.”
Those words land because the couple already marked a major family milestone on Christmas Day in 2023, when they shared the birth of their daughter. The new post makes this a bigger household change than a routine celebrity update: one child is becoming two, and Mabuse framed it as a shift in the rhythm of home life as much as in public life.
Motsi and Oti
“We love you congratulations the bigger the better,” Motsi wrote under the post, while Jowita Przystał added, “Aaaaaaaaaa congratulations,” and Karen Hauer wrote, “Congratulations guys.” Gorka Márquez replied, “AMAZING NEWS GUYS,” and Joanne Clifton wrote, “Omg the best news ! Congratulations!!!!!”
That reaction shows how quickly the news traveled through the dance circle around Mabuse, whose profile stretches from Strictly Come Dancing between 2015 and 2021 to a judging run on Dancing on Ice between 2022 and 2025. She won Strictly back-to-back in 2019 with Kelvin Fletcher and in 2020 with Bill Bailey, which helps explain why a personal announcement from her still lands as a notable entertainment beat rather than a private aside.
2024 and the hospital stay
In 2024, Mabuse spoke on I’m a Celebrity about her daughter’s premature birth, saying, “My daughter was really tiny when she was born” and adding, “She’s been through hell. It’s hell to be in the hospital, to hear those sounds, to not see your baby’s eyes for a week, to constantly look for advice from the doctors. The worst thing was, that every night, you needed to leave your baby in somebody else’s hands.”
She later said, “Talking about it with Richard made me very emotional, but it also made me very grateful because I’m so lucky.” Reverend Richard Coles called her a “remarkable and strong woman,” and that history gives the second pregnancy more weight than a simple caption post: this family has already lived through a difficult first birth, and Mabuse is now moving into the next chapter with that experience in view.
