Lisa Armstrong ‘heartbroken’ by Ant McPartlin’s baby news after they tried for years & ‘she had to read it in the paper’
LISA Armstrong is heartbroken over ex-husband Ant McPartlin’s baby news – and only found out about it though the papers, according to reports.
Makeup artist Lisa, 47, was allegedly blindsided when it was revealed Ant, 48, and wife Anne-Marie Corbett, 46, are expecting their first child together.
Lisa, who works on some of TV’s biggest shows, was married to Ant for 12 years and remained by his side as he battled a serious alcohol and painkiller addiction that threatened to derail his career.
Back in 2013 Ant himself revealed the couple were desperate to start a family, before candidly saying: “It’s tougher than you think when you get a bit older.”
Now a close friend of Lisa’s has told how Ant’s baby joy has hit Lisa like a bolt out of the blue.
They told the Mail: “Ant didn’t even have the decency to let Lisa know. Like the rest of the world, she had to read about it in the news and you can only imagine what a shock that must have been for her.
“For someone you’d shared so much with not to tell you something that they knew full well was going to become a huge, huge story in the press is pretty hard to get your head around.
“It is a horrible shame that Lisa had to find out like this. You can just imagine how hard that would hit her. It is heartbreaking.”
The former couple concluded that they weren’t going to become parents when their efforts had proved fruitless at the age of 40.
So instead, they adopted their beloved chocolate Labrador Hurley, who was at the heart of a custody dispute early last year.
Hours after Ant’s baby news came to light, Lisa took to social media to heap praise on Hurley.
In her post, Lisa shared a drawing which read: “Thank you for being my dog, someone to do life with, and above all, thank you for being my best friend.”
Ant and Lisa married in 2006 after first meeting at a pop concert at Newcastle City Hall in 1994. They finalised their divorce in October 2018, having split the previous year.
I’m A Celeb star Ant began dating his and Lisa’s former PA Anne-Marie, who has two children from a previous marriage, in March 2018 and they got married in a Hampshire church in 2021.
They are expecting their baby in June and are “beyond delighted” at the news.
Anne-Marie is understood to have had her five-month scan, with a source revealing: “This is the news everyone wanted. Ant and Anne- Marie are beyond delighted.
“It’s no secret that Ant has always wanted children, but that it may never happen for him was so
“He’s already a wonderful, doting father to Anne-Marie’s kids, and together they’re going to be brilliant parents to this latest addition to the family.”
Ant’s best friend and TV co-host Declan Donnelly, has two children with his wife Ali; daughter Isla, five, and son Jack, one.
Ant was pictured doting on them in Australia as the families enjoyed downtime between filming I’m A Celebrity episodes.