Tess Daly admits she kept pregnancy secret from Strictly bosses

Tess Daly admits she kept pregnancy secret from Strictly bossesHappy Mum Happy Baby

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00:00It was funny because I remember when I first got the job on Strictly and I remember I was pregnant,

00:08I was newly pregnant with Phoebe, 2004, and I didn't tell them that I was pregnant because I

00:16thought, well, there were two reasons why I didn't tell them. One, I thought they might not give me

00:20the job. Two, I thought, well, actually, it's really early on before you tell anyone. I've not

00:26even told my own mother yet. It was eight, nine weeks, I think it was. That phase before you

00:31tell anyone because you want to be sure and you tell them at 12 weeks. So I didn't tell them. I

00:35thought, well, I'm not going to tell them before I tell my own mother. It doesn't affect my ability

00:40to do my job. And at the back of my mind, I did think, what if they didn't want me because they

00:45don't want a visibly pregnant woman on a primetime show on Saturday night, of which, by the way,

00:49in 2004, you didn't see many pregnant women on Saturday night shows. I hadn't remembered my

00:56self at that time seen anybody. So I said, yes, please, to the job. I'd love to work at Bruce

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