{"id":2783,"date":"2025-07-18T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2783\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:42:13","slug":"today-reporter-farewelled-as-she-prepares-for-babys-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2783\/","title":{"rendered":"Today reporter farewelled as she prepares for baby&#8217;s arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s always got her finger on the pulse of Melbourne&#8217;s latest breaking news, but Iza Staskowski is gearing up for an exciting new chapter in her life.<\/p>\n<p>The Today reporter and her fiance, Drew Jones, are expecting their first child \ufefftogether and after an already eventful year on the job front, Iza&#8217;s maternity leave officially starts now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling really good, guys, really lucky and really, really excited for this next chapter with my partner Drew and our little bubba,&#8221; a glowing Iza told the team back in the studio.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/sign-up-for-the-today-show-newsletter\/57b05181-ffe6-4143-9ddf-54d56d42db7f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7ce16070-63aa-42bd-a3ee-448b73a4dc54.png\"   alt=\"TODAY 2023\"\/>Subscribe to the Today newsletter here. (Nine)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4e7bfb4a-4ed7-4978-bbb7-b13ec6672991.png\"   alt=\"Iza Staskowski maternity leave Today Show July 18, 2025\"\/>Iza Staskowski&#8217;s maternity leave starts now. (Today)<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/connie-francis-pop-legend-dead-at-87-and-other-entertaiment-news-on-july-18\/688a8e40-c9a6-4208-a34c-94cb6a093f5f\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Music industry mourning after pop icon dies, aged 87\">Music industry mourning after pop icon dies, aged 87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Karl, Sarah and Jayne were beaming as they surprised Iza with a beautiful bunch of flowers and an adorable Today onesie for when bub arrives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so exciting, we are so pumped for you &#8211; you look absolutely beautiful and are going to be such an incredible mum, the pair of you will be great parents,&#8221; Karl said.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Send Iza your well wishes on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/16CDSZqC7Y\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"socials\">socials<\/a>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s always got her finger on the pulse of Melbourne&#8217;s latest breaking news, but Iza Staskowski is gearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}