This Morning star Sian Welby's wedding bombshell as she 'feels bad' for fiancé

Sian Welby is taking daytime telly by storm – fronting This Morning and recently jumping in the hot seat on Lorraine while the host recovered from an operation. She’s also part of the much-loved Capital Breakfast show alongside Jordan North and Chris Stark. And she does all this while being a first-time mum to little Ruby, 11 months.

Sian’s taking it all in her stride. “I’m so lucky, and I have the most incredible time,” she beams. “I really feel like I’m just in this amazing momentum at the minute. A lot of hard work has finally come together. Like the stars have aligned. It is a relief because sometimes you think you’re never gonna quite get there and no one’s gonna give you a chance

"My life is such a whirlwind – but it's the best thing I ever did" – Sian Welby on becoming a mum

“All these shows that I’m on now are bucket list, dream jobs that I could only have imagined a few years ago. Now they’re a reality.”

Sian, 38, is sunshine personified, so it’s no surprise she’s been such a hit on daytime telly. Her boundless energy transfers through the screen – even with so much on her plate.

It may feel like Nottingham-born Sian popped up from nowhere when she landed the This Morning job last January on the back of starting on Capital FM five years ago – but she has been working hard since 19.

She’s gone from reporting on cycling, golf, gaming, Formula E and the weather to interviewing some of the biggest names in showbiz and becoming the hottest property in telly.

“I was always in the wrong job,” admits Sian. “The subjects were never something I was interested in. I was either talking about golf or quad biking or whatever. I was trying my best to get to where I am now. I just wanted to be in entertainment. Funny, light-hearted stuff, and it’s taken this long to get there.”

When she did finally get her big break with ITV, Sian was keeping a secret. Through fear of losing her job, she hid her pregnancy from bosses.

She was 20 weeks pregnant when she started co-hosting alongside Dermot O’Leary and kept it quiet because she felt she had “something to prove”.

But Sian has shown everyone that she deserves all the opportunity and success that’s coming her way, including recently when she say in for Lorraine Kelly on her show while she underwent an operation.

“It has been a whirlwind and I wish I’d kept a diary because I’ve done so many things this last year that feel like a fever dream, they don’t feel real,” she admits.

“I’ve met Robert De Niro, I’ve been to Elton John’s house, I’ve had a baby. I’ve hosted This Morning. I can’t even remember it all, but it’s amazing.”

Sian doesn’t regret putting in the hard yards to get her where she is today, she says it’s stood her in good stead.

“When we interviewed Elton John on Capital, he said overnight success isn’t really good for anybody because you’re not ready,” she recalled. “I feel the same. I’ve made my mistakes on shows that didn’t have as many viewers and I’ve learned my craft.”

Sian may make it look easy but she is spinning a lot of plates. As she runs through a standard day in her life, it’s exhausting just to listen to, never mind experience it.

The alarm goes off at 4.15am on the days she’s working – and sees her go to bed at 8.30pm. Getting to Capital FM at 5.15am, her show runs from 6am until 10am. “That’s four hours non-stop,” she says. “Even in between the songs and the adverts, we are working.”

Then she’ll hotfoot it across London to get to the This Morning studios in White City for 11.30am.

“I put a video on TikTok showing a moment when I had arrived two minutes before I was on air,” she remembered. “I was being mic’d up, with an eyelash being put on at the same time my hair was being done.”

She’ll finish at 12.30pm – but the day’s not over there. Some days she’s whisked off in the cab to a hotel to do a movie junket and interview an A-lister like Harrison Ford.

“It’s just mad,” Sian says. “And while I’m prepping for Harrison, I might be getting a message from my other half saying, ‘Oh God, Sian. It’s a poonami here. Help.’ So all the worlds collide at once.”

Sian welcomed Ruby with her fiancé, Heart Breakfast producer Jake Beckett, in June. They have been together for four years.

She heaps praise on him, saying their “modern situation” really works for their family.

“He’s done a lot of the parenting as well as me, we feel so even,” she smiles. “He knows as much about Ruby as I do, and she equally loves being with either of us.”

The couple make sure they carve out time for dates, adds Sian. “It’s nice to have a bit of us time again,” she says. “It’s important. I like a day date in Clapham or Balham.”

Sian’s busy schedule has meant their wedding is on the back burner for now – which she admits she feels “a bit bad” about.

She explains, “You sort of get in a weird loophole of going, ‘So when will we do it?’ A bit like anything in life, the more you overthink it, there’s no good time to do any of this.

“Once I maybe get into a new rhythm, then I will have the brain capacity for wedding planning. But at the minute, my brain is at full capacity. So something has to sort of go out before I can think of something new. I have to just take it one day at a time.”

Sian’s scheduling is another level – to the point she has to schedule toilet breaks.

“I have to schedule in a wee, I’m not joking,” she laughs, as she tells how she had to put one in her diary before this interview.

“The songs on Capital are very short. Sometimes, there is not time to go to the loo. And then the same with This Morning . When I’m hosting, I never go to the loo. None of my clothes are ever easy to get off. We got mic packs, sound packs. It’s not worth the effort. So I just have to hold it the whole time!”

Always striving for the next goal, Sian has big hopes for the future. “Getting the job is day one, proving yourself is the rest of it,” she explains. “So you have to keep that standard up, and I hold myself to account. I really do want to impress people.

“I love comedy,” she says. “I don’t take myself too seriously. So I take any opportunity to make fun of myself. I’d love to be in a comedy sketch when I can play a part, that’s so up my street.

“The dream would be Saturday night telly. A glossy, big, fun show. My career is so hard to predict. You never know what doors are going to open,” she smiles.

*Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard takes place Sunday June 15 at Wembley Stadium

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