{"id":914145,"date":"2026-10-03T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914145\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:14:13","slug":"casey-donovan-baby-news-star-announces-they-are-expecting-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914145\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Donovan baby news: Star announces they are expecting a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey Donovan<\/a> and her partner Renee Sharples have announced they are expecting a baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taking the happy news to Instagram, the Aussie singer<\/a> and former Australian Idol star revealed they will become parents early next year.<\/p>\n

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Casey Donovan and Renee Sharples are expecting their first child together. \u00a0Instagram\/@caseydonovan88<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter extensive research, clinical assessment and absolutely no musical rehearsal\u2026 Baby arriving February 2027 \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83d\udc30\u200d\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc76\ud83c\udffd\u2728\ufe0f,\u201d Donovan, 38, wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friends, fellow stars and fans quickly flooded the comments section with congratulations for the couple.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did it!! Congrats my babes \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d comedian Em Rusciano<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n

Singer Ricki-Lee Coulter<\/a> added: \u201cAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f Congratulations to you both xxxxxxxxx.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo happy for you all @caseydonovan88 \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f,\u201d television star Shelly Horton<\/a> commented.<\/p>\n

Actress Penny McNamee called it \u201csuch beautiful happy news,\u201d adding, \u201cCongratulations lovely. \ud83d\udc95.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement comes after Donovan and Sharples have openly shared their IVF journey<\/a> with fans.<\/p>\n

In April, Donovan revealed the couple had undergone their first embryo transfer at a fertility clinic.<\/p>\n

\"Casey<\/p>\n

The couple announced their baby is due in February 2027. \u00a0Instagram\/@caseydonovan88<\/p>\n

\u201cToday @renee.sharples and I did our first embryo transfer,” she wrote in her post.<\/p>\n

“I got the 6am flight back from Sydney to Melbourne and after a massive weekend of amazing shows in NSW it was great to be home into the loving arms of my love and put my legs up\u2026Literally \ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffe”<\/p>\n

She added in part of her post, after thanking doctors: “Now we wait\u2026What will be will be. Sending all of the love, light and baby dust to all who are on an IVF journey.”<\/p>\n

Donovan first rose to fame as a teenager when she won Australian Idol in 2004, beating Anthony Callea in the grand final.<\/p>\n

\"Casey<\/p>\n

The pair got engaged during a romantic trip to Tasmania in June 2024. \u00a0Instagram\/@caseydonovan88<\/p>\n

She and Sharples got engaged and announced the happy news in June<\/a> 2024.<\/p>\n

In her announcement post, showing off her ring, Donovan wrote: “21.06.24 on the strawberry moon of the winter solstice the love of my life asked me if I wanted to do this life together forever.”<\/p>\n

“The day I met you, home was no longer a place it became a person and yes, you are a gypsy but there’s nobody else I would rather attach my wagon to on this beautiful road trip called life’ and with that, I said yes! \ud83e\udd70.”<\/p>\n