MasterChef star, footballer have some big news to share

A member of the MasterChef royal family has taken to Instagram to reveal she and her star partner’s lives are about to change.

MasterChef favourite Justine Schofield has revealed she and football-star partner Brent Staker are pregnant.

The TV cook announced the news with an Instagram post on Sunday that showed her bump in all its glory.

“We’re having a bubba. So excited, so grateful,” she wrote.

Staker, the former Brisbane Lions defender, also wrote on Instagram: “Very exciting times ahead…soon to be ‘all hands on deck’ welcoming our new bub”.

Their exciting posts were flooded with comments from celebrity friends, including former MasterChef judge Matt Preston, Sunrise presenter Sam Mack and former Miss World Australia Laura Dundovic.

Staker’s AFL playing career comprised 160 games, ended in 2015, and was marred by a 2008 punch to the face from Barry Hall for which the Sydney forward copped a seven-match suspension.

He moved into an assistant coaching position for Brisbane’s AFLW side and also appeared on Australian Ninja Warrior in 2019.

Justine Schofield shows off the big news. Photo: Brent Staker Instagram, Network 10.

He left the Lions last year to be closer to Schofield in Sydney.

The pair started dating in 2020 and were first seen in social media photos together in March, 2020.

Schofield returned to reality TV in 2019 for an earlier season of Network 10’s ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’.

A member of MasterChef royalty, Schofield has published two cookbooks, Dinner With Justine and Simple Every Day as well as fronting her popular daytime cooking show, Everyday Gourmet.

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