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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Reality star gives birth to first baby and tells fans she's ‘in the newborn trenches'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MADE In Chelsea star Caggie Dunlop has given birth to her first baby telling fans she is in "the newborn trenches". Caggie and her boyfriend, whose name she is yet to share, learned she was expecting in September. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Caggie Dunlop has given birth to her first baby Credit: Instagram 4 Caggie and her boyfriend, whose name she is yet to share, learned she was expecting in September Credit: Instagram 4 The former reality TV star posted photos from her pregnancy earlier this year Credit: Instagram The 35-year-old former reality star announced the arrival of their bundle of joy in a post on Instagram. Caggie also revealed her baby's sex, after waiting to give birth to find out. In an honest post, the star said the first few days of taking care of their newborn has been a "brutal awakening," and she promised to share more photos of the baby when she felt up to it. Caggie penned: "These were the last pictures taken of me pregnant. "I gave birth to our baby girl on Wednesday morning, our hearts are exploding with love. And I'm completely overwhelmed by the tiredness. "The initiation into motherhood has been unlike anything I could have imagined. "I'm just trying to keep my head above water. I'll share more in the coming days, but for now, we're deep in the 'newborn trenches,' as they say. "Everyone told me to take photos while pregnant because I'd regret it if I didn't. "At the time, I really didn't feel like being in front of a camera… but I'm so glad we captured these, the day before she arrived." She continued: "I already miss her being in my belly—the safety, the unity. It's been replaced with a constant undercurrent of worry and anxiety. Made In Chelsea star gives birth to baby boy as she reveals son's adorable name "I remember someone once described this part as 'your heart now living outside your chest'—and I'm learning what that really means. "Every cry pierces deeply. Every feed touches a part of you you didn't know existed. "It's a brutal awakening, a maddening kind of magic. "I can't believe I'm a mum." Caggie's followers empathised, with one writing: "Congratulations give yourself alot of grace during these next few weeks and months, & continue taking pictures. Newborn stage flies by." Caggie was an original Made In Chelsea cast member whose time on the show was entwined with her relationship with Spencer Matthews. She quit after three series to concentrate on her music career. Using her full name Catherine Dunlop, the West Londoner released a single, Neverland, and has launched a clothing range, ISWAI (It Started With An Idea). She has now rebranded as Caggie, and her latest music release was the 2024 track, Breakfast. It came five years after her previous single, I Wish I Knew. In total she's achieved nearly 4million streams and describes her sound as 'soft, nostalgic, ethereal and feminine'. The multi-talented star also has a keen interest in astrology and in 2023 released her first book, Saturn Returns: Your Cosmic Coming of Age. She told Hello! of her career change: "A lot has changed in the last 10 years, when I was in my early twenties. I think I was just trying to be someone that I wasn't, someone that didn't really feel authentic. "I think for a long time I was sort of looking backwards and feeling that because I've done a reality show that would forever pigeonhole me. "I was not going to be able to be taken seriously in other industries, but now I'm like, that's just my own stuff, you know, that's just my own limitation… I think for a lot of my 20s I was in quite a victimhood mentality."
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Reality star gives birth to first baby and tells fans she's ‘in the newborn trenches'
MADE In Chelsea star Caggie Dunlop has given birth to her first baby telling fans she is in "the newborn trenches". Caggie and her boyfriend, whose name she is yet to share, learned she was expecting in September. 4 Caggie Dunlop has given birth to her first baby Credit: Instagram 4 Caggie and her boyfriend, whose name she is yet to share, learned she was expecting in September Credit: Instagram 4 The former reality TV star posted photos from her pregnancy earlier this year Credit: Instagram The 35-year-old former reality star announced the arrival of their bundle of joy in a post on Instagram. Caggie also revealed her baby's sex, after waiting to give birth to find out. In an honest post, the star said the first few days of taking care of their newborn has been a "brutal awakening," and she promised to share more photos of the baby when she felt up to it. Caggie penned: "These were the last pictures taken of me pregnant. "I gave birth to our baby girl on Wednesday morning, our hearts are exploding with love. And I'm completely overwhelmed by the tiredness. "The initiation into motherhood has been unlike anything I could have imagined. "I'm just trying to keep my head above water. I'll share more in the coming days, but for now, we're deep in the 'newborn trenches,' as they say. "Everyone told me to take photos while pregnant because I'd regret it if I didn't. Most read in Reality "At the time, I really didn't feel like being in front of a camera… but I'm so glad we captured these, the day before she arrived." She continued: "I already miss her being in my belly—the safety, the unity. It's been replaced with a constant undercurrent of worry and anxiety. Made In Chelsea star gives birth to baby boy as she reveals son's adorable name "I remember someone once described this part as 'your heart now living outside your chest'—and I'm learning what that really means. "Every cry pierces deeply. Every feed touches a part of you you didn't know existed. "It's a brutal awakening, a maddening kind of magic. "I can't believe I'm a mum." Caggie's followers empathised, with one writing: "Congratulations give yourself alot of grace during these next few weeks and months, & continue taking pictures. Newborn stage flies by." Caggie was an original Made In Chelsea cast member whose time on the show was entwined with her relationship with Spencer Matthews. She quit after three series to concentrate on her music career. Using her full name Catherine Dunlop, the West Londoner released a single, Neverland, and has launched a clothing range, ISWAI (It Started With An Idea). She has now rebranded as Caggie, and her latest music release was the 2024 track, Breakfast. It came five years after her previous single, I Wish I Knew. In total she's achieved nearly 4million streams and describes her sound as 'soft, nostalgic, ethereal and feminine'. The multi-talented star also has a keen interest in astrology and in 2023 released her first book, Saturn Returns: Your Cosmic Coming of Age. She told Hello! of her career change: "A lot has changed in the last 10 years, when I was in my early twenties. I think I was just trying to be someone that I wasn't, someone that didn't really feel authentic. Read more on the Irish Sun "I think for a long time I was sort of looking backwards and feeling that because I've done a reality show that would forever pigeonhole me. "I was not going to be able to be taken seriously in other industries, but now I'm like, that's just my own stuff, you know, that's just my own limitation… I think for a lot of my 20s I was in quite a victimhood mentality." 4 Caggie dated Spencer Matthews in the early Made In Chelsea days Credit: Getty Images - Getty
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Angela Rayner is right: Grenfell must fall
Just for once, let's applaud Angela Rayner. She has just announced that Grenfell Tower is to be demolished. As Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister might have said: a courageous decision, Secretary of State. Pulling down the tower's burnt-out shell was long overdue, endlessly postponed by Tory governments paralysed by class guilt. This is a nettle that perhaps only a proudly working-class Labour politician could have grasped. No West Londoner who lives within a mile or two of Grenfell Tower will ever forget waking up on June 14, 2017, to witness the pall of smoke and smell the acrid fumes of this hideous human catastrophe, in which 72 people died a terrible death. Yet nobody could then have imagined that the structurally unsound, tottering wreck of Grenfell would still be standing eight years later and that its proposed demolition would ignite furious protests. Grenfell United, the most vociferous of the bereaved families' pressure groups, has denounced the Deputy Prime Minister's decision as 'disgraceful and unforgivable'. The outrage was predictable, but how representative is it? Keeping the tower standing since the fire in 2017 has come at an exorbitant price: cumulatively, more than £300 million. The Grenfell families could all have been rehoused in luxury for far less than that. Many might have liked to be given the choice. The objectors appear to think that unless the tower remains as a standing rebuke to the authorities, nobody will ever be held to account for the failures that led to the disaster. But the investigation grinds on regardless of gesture politics, with decisions about criminal prosecutions due next year. Meanwhile, the area around Grenfell remains blighted, while those who live and work there are left in limbo. For example: after the fire Kensington Aldridge Academy, a school in the vicinity of the tower, was moved into temporary huts on the parade ground of Wormwood Scrubs. The school was later allowed to move back, but has been obliged to rent the huts indefinitely. The truth, which nobody in authority has had the courage to say out loud, is that the burnt-out tower is a dangerous eyesore and wholly inappropriate as a memorial. There is no comparison with the bombed-out City churches, such as St Dunstan-in-the-East, whose ruins were preserved as a reminder of the Blitz – Britain's 'finest hour'. A much closer analogy is with the King's Cross fire of 1987, when 31 people died in the Underground station. Thousands of passengers walk past the memorial, with its clock, every day. In the aftermath of that fire, major safety improvements were made (not least the smoking ban on the Tube) that have prevented any repetition. Yet nobody thought keeping a charred, empty station platform was the proper way to commemorate the King's Cross victims, who are certainly not forgotten. The Grenfell families have every right to be consulted about any memorial to their loved ones. There are plans for a garden of remembrance and a 'sacred space', with a winning design due to be unveiled this summer. But the main obstacle to any memorial is the tower. The sooner it is demolished, the sooner work can begin on a permanent monument. As a compassionate society, our hearts go out to the victims. But we cannot allow those who claim to speak for them to obstruct healing and renewal. Even after the Great Fire of London of 1666, rebuilding began immediately. The entire capital rose again in less time than has elapsed since Grenfell. The same happened after 1945, though it took a little longer. Now, our dysfunctional state overcompensates for failures. The families of victims are entitled to justice, but not to a veto over remedial action. We must learn the lessons of Grenfell, certainly, but London is a metropolis for the living, not a graveyard for the dead. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
