Barry Hall and Lauren Brant expecting a baby

A YEAR after meeting in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Barry Hall and Lauren Brant have announced they’re expecting.

The happy couple: Barry Hall with Lauren Brant.

BARRY Hall and Lauren Brant have announced they’re expecting a baby.

Hall, a former AFL star, and Brant, a former Hi-5 member, revealed the exciting news in New Idea.

The two first met when they were cast members on last year’s season of I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! but it took a while for love to blossom.

“The way she was portrayed on the show is just not how she is,” 39-year-old Hall said to the magazine.

“Barry thought I was cast as an entertainer,” Brant said, “and he had a preconceived idea about entertainers.”

“She is quite the opposite,” Hall said.

The two parted ways when the reality show finished and didn’t meet up again until June this year.

Brant posted this ultrasound photo on Instagram.

Barry Hall and Lauren Brant at the 2016 Melbourne Cup. Picture: Christian Gilles

“We fell madly in love and it happened quite quickly,” 27-year-old Brant said.

The couple, who now live together in Hall’s Melbourne house, found out that Brant was pregnant in August. And the former children’s entertainer couldn’t wait to FaceTime Hall to let him know.

“He asked me if I’d been crying and I said, ‘Yeah, but happy tears’,” Brant said.

“I just looked at him and I said, ‘I’m pregnant,’ and his face just lit up.”

Now 18 weeks pregnant, Brant and Hall are hoping that this is just the beginning for their family.

“I’m happy for my body to be a baby maker for the next decade,” Brant said.

The exciting news is a welcome change for Hall and Brant who both had a rather miserable time in 2015.

Hall split from his wife of three-and-a-half years and Brant’s engagement to personal trainer Warren Riley was called off when she confessed to him that she had an affair with Footy Show star, Beau Ryan.

Barry in the jungle.

Lauren Brant in I'm A Celebrity. Picture: Network 10

Originally published as Barry Hall and Lauren Brant expecting a baby