{"id":207822,"date":"2025-12-30T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:03:10","slug":"former-all-black-liam-messam-announces-baby-due-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207822\/","title":{"rendered":"Former All Black Liam Messam announces baby due in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5faeef66-473a-4289-9ce4-23c23f90cc7e.png\" alt=\"Natasha Gordon\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/natasha-gordon\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live News Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>30 Dec, 2025 01:48 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Former All Black Liam Messam has announced some exciting baby news. Composite photo \/ Getty Images \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former All Black Liam Messam has announced some exciting baby news, saying he is \u201cbeyond grateful\u201d after a recent heartache. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In an Instagram post sharing the news, Messam, 41, said he was set to welcome his new baby in June next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         He shared an ultrasound image of<br \/>\n         his and his partner Monique Corbett\u2019s baby-to-be, along with a photo of his mother.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">He appears in the image with his mother, Wanda Messam, and the pair can be seen smiling alongside each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAlthough God has called a life home, he has sent a new life to soften the heartache and remind us that love doesn\u2019t end, the circle continues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natasha Gordon Live News Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 30 Dec, 2025 01:48 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,5263,696,694,6794,27245,7022,5910,30949,2740,38626,126806,78,13419,20409,126805,111,43,139,69,8244,2687,544,213],"class_list":["post-207822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-all","tag-announced","tag-announces","tag-baby","tag-beyond","tag-black","tag-due","tag-exciting","tag-former","tag-grateful","tag-heartache","tag-in","tag-june","tag-liam","tag-messam","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recent","tag-saying","tag-some","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}