Fox Sports NRL presenter Yvonne Sampson has welcomed a new baby boy with\u00a0her former Channel Nine star husband Chris O’Keefe.<\/p>\n
Sampson revealed the happy news on Instagram over the weekend, posting a heartwarming photo of the family with her newborn son.<\/p>\n
‘Welcome Darby Morris O\u2019Keefe,’ she captioned the photo.<\/p>\n
Friends, family and fans\u00a0were quick to congratulate them on the new arrival.<\/p>\n
‘Beautiful – huge congrats!’ posted Nine star Deb Knight<\/a>.<\/p>\n ‘Congrats, Vonnie and Chris x’ replied announcer Glen Hawke.<\/p>\n Yvonne Sampson has welcomed her new baby boy with her husband Chris O’Keefe (pictured together with their eldest son Henry)<\/p>\n The couple named the adorable new arrival\u00a0Darby Morris O\u2019Keefe<\/p>\n ‘Congratulations guys! He’s adorable!’ commented Nine presenter Kate Creedon.<\/p>\n The couple, who are proud parents to two-year-old son Henry, revealed they were expecting in June after trying to keep the news under wraps.<\/p>\n ‘Vonny, Henry and I are expecting another little addition,’ O’Keefe told News Corp.<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Henry’s about to be promoted to big brother and we’re absolutely thrilled.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Chaos incoming.’<\/p>\n O’Keefe explained that some of Sampson’s colleagues suspected something was going on during NRL<\/a>‘s season-opening matches in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n ‘Let’s just say when Vonny locked herself in her hotel room in Vegas for round one, a few of her colleagues started to suspect something was up,’ he said.<\/p>\n ‘But we managed to keep it quiet, it’s important to us to keep our private life, private.<\/p>\n The couple, who got married in 2018, are proud parents to two-year-old son Henry<\/p>\n ‘She’s an extraordinary mum. She is not just the heart of our home, but the brains, legs, arms and everything else too.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I’m honestly just trying to keep up. Henry absolutely adores Vonny, watching them together fills me with so much happiness.’<\/p>\n O’Keefe is a Dragons diehard and confirmed that the new arrival will follow suit.<\/p>\n ‘Henry had his Red V membership before he had a Medicare card, this will be no different,’ he said.<\/p>\n ‘It\u2019s important they build some character through long stretches of extreme disappointment.’<\/p>\n The couple announced their engagement in 2017 and got married in 2018.<\/p>\n The couple had been dating for more than three years after first meeting in the Channel Nine Brisbane newsroom (where the pair were both working at the time).<\/p>\n Share or comment on this article:![\"Yvonne](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101306543-15009095-Yvonne_Sampson_has_welcomed_a_new_baby_boy_with_her_husband_Chri-a-2_175547510661.jpeg\")
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