{"id":225651,"date":"2026-01-03T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225651\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:31:12","slug":"love-island-winner-welcomes-perfect-baby-with-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225651\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island winner welcomes &#8216;perfect&#8217; baby with partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Love Island winner is on cloud nine after welcoming his first child with his &#8216;incredible partner.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Finlay Tapp, who won the show&#8217;s first winter series in South Africa in 2020, recently became a dad when his &#8216;perfect baby boy&#8217; was born.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing snaps of the little one, and revealing the newborn&#8217;s name, Finlay said: &#8216;For nine months, you were an image in our heads. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fin.jpg\" alt=\"Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2091764\"  \/>Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We imagined a world with you in it, and now you\u2019re here. Our hearts have never been fuller. The most perfect baby boy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Finlay also praised his partner, saying: &#8216;Jess, you were incredible. My admiration for you continues to grow each and every day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/finlay.jpg\" alt=\"Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2091765\"  \/>Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The new mum and dad have picked the name Austin for their son, a strong name which is of Latin origin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebump.com\/b\/austin-baby-name\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thebump.com\/b\/austin-baby-name\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">and means<\/a> &#8216;great&#8217; and &#8216;magnificent.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Several fellow Love Island stars sent their congratulations to Finlay and Jess, with Shaughna Phillips, who recently also welcomed a baby, said: \u2018Congratulations to you both, he is perfect.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Finlay and Jess revealed they were expecting in May and announced they were going to have a little boy in August at their gender reveal party, where they asked their loved ones to guess the baby&#8217;s sex. <\/p>\n<p>They then confirmed they were expecting a boy by sharing a snap with a bouquet of purple and blue blooms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fin1.jpg\" alt=\"Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2091763\"  \/>Finlay Tapp and his partner Jess have welcomed their first child. Pic: Finlay Tapp \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Finlay and Jess were revealed to be a couple last summer, and it wasn\u2019t until June 2024 that Finlay revealed his love\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now six years since Finlay won Love Island with <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2020\/08\/14\/entertainment\/finley-tapp-spoils-paige-on-her-birthday\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2020\/08\/14\/entertainment\/finley-tapp-spoils-paige-on-her-birthday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his ex Paige Turley<\/a>. They called it quits in 2023, but gave things another go after appearing on Celebrity Ex On The Beach. They split soon after the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Love Island winner is on cloud nine after welcoming his first child with his &#8216;incredible partner.&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-225651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}