{"id":327145,"date":"2026-03-03T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:23:11","slug":"countryfile-presenter-and-paralympian-sammi-kinghorn-announces-she-is-pregnant-with-her-first-child-as-she-shares-adorable-video-with-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327145\/","title":{"rendered":"Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn announces she is pregnant with her first child as she shares adorable video with husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn has announced she is pregnant with her first child with her husband Callum Aitken.<\/p>\n

Sammi, 30, who is a Paralympic wheelchair racer as well as a presenter on BBC<\/a>‘s Countryfile, shared an adorable video announcing the happy news on Monday.<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, Sammi and Callum, who tied the knot in January 2025, were seen hugging as she draped a pair of knitted baby socks and a sonogram over his shoulders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video then showed Callum putting on a ‘Dad’ cap before Sammi appeared from behind him wearing her own ‘Mum’ hat, before her husband picked her up and the pair shared a passionate kiss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Half of me and half of you! We can\u2019t wait to meet you in July,’ Sammi captioned the clip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next day, Sammi shared a video of herself in the mirror as she showed off her baby bump for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Countryfile <\/p>\n

Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn announced on Instagram on Monday that she is pregnant with her first child with her husband Callum Aitken<\/p>\n

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The next day, Sammi shared a video of herself in the mirror as she showed off her baby bump for the first time<\/p>\n

She captioned the clip: ‘Rocking the Winnie the Pooh look in my training kit.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sammi\u00a0was 14 years old when she was paralysed from the waist down after an accident on her family’s farm in the Scottish Borders in 2010.<\/p>\n

The accident saw Sammi crushed by a forklift while helping to clear snow.<\/p>\n

Not realising his daughter had climbed onto the lower part of the forklift, and unable to see her from the cab, Sammi’s father Neill lowered the bucket – which he’d been using to shovel snow – down on top of her.<\/p>\n

‘I remember feeling this pressure on my neck,’ Sammi told the Daily Mail in 2023. ‘I started to laugh; I thought Dad was joking, that he’d gone a bit too far.<\/p>\n

‘Then I started screaming. I felt my back popping and before I knew it my head was in my crotch. I was crushed right down into a tiny ball.’<\/p>\n

She added: ‘My heart was thumping in my chest. Everything felt really slow and all I could hear was my breath. I remember closing my eyes and thinking, “You’re going to die, and your Dad’s going to think it’s his fault”.’<\/p>\n

‘When I opened my eyes again, I shuffled forward. I couldn’t feel my legs but I could still move them. I slipped and fell on to a big pile of compacted snow.<\/p>\n

‘I remember feeling all the muscles in my legs pulsing. They were twitching and then all of a sudden they stopped. That was the last time I ever felt my legs.’<\/p>\n

Sammi turned a devastating tragedy into a triumph, becoming a world champion wheelchair racer and double Paralympic medallist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has set a 100m record at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, was awarded an MBE for services to disability sport and secured a presenting job on BBC’s Countryfile, bringing her back to her rural roots.<\/p>\n

\"Sammi, <\/p>\n

Sammi, 30, who is a Paralympic wheelchair racer as well as a presenter on BBC’s Countryfile, shared an adorable video announcing the happy news on Monday (Pictured in 2024)<\/p>\n

\"Taking <\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, Sammi and Callum were seen hugging as she draped a pair of knitted baby socks and a sonogram over his shoulders<\/p>\n

\"'Half <\/p>\n

‘Half of me and half of you! We can\u2019t wait to meet you in July,’ Sammi captioned the clip<\/p>\n

\"The \"Her <\/p>\n

The video then showed Callum putting on a ‘Dad’ cap before Sammi appeared from behind him wearing her own ‘Mum’ hat, before her husband picked her up and the pair shared a passionate kiss<\/p>\n

For years, because she feared opening old wounds for her father, she hid the truth about how she got her injuries.<\/p>\n

Indeed, when Neill carried her into the kitchen after the accident, Sammi lied to her parents, too, telling them she’d tripped and fallen on some snow.<\/p>\n

Blue-lighted to hospital, Neill and Elaine arrived to find their daughter hooked up to machines, wires and breathing tubes.<\/p>\n

‘Dad wouldn’t even look at me,’ said Sammi. ‘He kept staring at the ground. Mum was screaming and screaming: “My baby, my baby, we’re so sorry.” They were both a mess. I was trying to keep them calm, saying, “It’s fine. I’ve got a plan. We’ll get through this”.’<\/p>\n

‘It wasn’t until the doctor came and spoke to me later that night that I knew I had to tell the truth. The fractures in my vertebrae couldn’t have been caused by slipping over.’<\/p>\n

A six-month hospital stay ensued, during which Neill and Elaine took it in turns to do the three-hour round trip to Glasgow twice a week, and Sammi’s brother Christopher took leave from the Army to be by her side.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Sammi’s physio took her to watch the Inter Spinal Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, a national event for patients with spinal cord injuries, Sammi had her eyes opened to a completely new life goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her very first event, the London Mini Marathon in 2012, Sammi came second.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was the first of many accolades. She got herself a coach, started training twice a day, six days a week – and qualified for the Rio Paralympics in 2016, coming fifth in the T53 100m.<\/p>\n

Sammi has since won two golds at the World Championships in 2017 and a gold and two silvers in July this year. She also made it on to that Paralympic podium, with bronze and silver medals for ParalympicsGB in Tokyo in 2021 – and has her sights set on gold in Paris next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn has announced she is pregnant with her first child with her husband…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1578,321,146767,539,93,61,60,1489],"class_list":{"0":"post-327145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-countryfile","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327145","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=327145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}