Nicola Thorp has announced that she is pregnant in an Instagram post. The photoshoot showed her with Nikesh Patel and their daughter, and the caption leaned into the news with a line that suggested the timing was already being read closely.
Thorp wrote, “Sparking pregnancy rumours…” and then followed it with a sharper clue in response to a comment: “I'm barely mat leave.” That puts the post in a different lane from a simple family update; it reads like a public reveal that also signals she is not stepping away for long.
By 2024, Thorp and Patel had already married and welcomed their daughter, after starting to date in 2021 and getting engaged in 2023. That timeline gives the Instagram post extra weight because it adds another child to a family that has been building in public across several years.
Instagram comments from ITV names
The post also drew replies from Nathalie Emmanuel, Carol Vorderman, Sue Cleaver, Varada Sethu, Melvin Odoom, Dermot O'Leary, Paul Gorton, Oti Mabuse, Kym Marsh and Clara Amfo. Carol Vorderman wrote, “Mahoosive congratulations missus xxx,” while Sue Cleaver added, “V exciting. I know my god daughter will make the best big sister,” and Varada Sethu replied, “Omg you look beautiful!!!! Congrats.” Nathalie Emmanuel kept it brief with, “Awwww.”
Thorp’s public profile makes the post land beyond personal news. She played Nicola Rubinstein on Coronation Street between 2017 and 2019, and since 2019 she has been a regular contributor on This Morning. A pregnancy reveal from someone working in that spotlight tends to travel quickly, but the more practical detail here is the pace she signalled herself: she says she is barely taking mat leave.
For readers following Thorp as a working broadcaster as much as a former soap actor, that line is the real update. She is not presenting this as a long break from view; she is framing the pregnancy alongside work, family and a return to the feed that keeps the story moving without waiting for a formal rollout.
Thorp and Nikesh Patel
How far along Nicola Thorp is has not been set out in the post, and neither has any due date. What the Instagram reveal does establish is the next stage of a family story already in motion: a second child for Thorp and Patel, plus a maternity break she is describing as minimal rather than open-ended.
