GB News presenter Renee Hoenderkamp, 59, announces she is pregnant live on air - eight years after welcoming her second child

GB News presenter Dr Renee Hoenderkamp has stunned her colleagues after announcing her 'miracle' pregnancy live on air at the age of 59. The panelist revealed she was expecting her third child, a baby girl, on Saturday – almost 40 years after she gave birth to her son at the age of 21. Dr Hoenderkamp welcomed her second child 30 years later at 51. Her daughter, Alice, is now seven years old while her adult son, Calum, is 37 and a father himself. The presenter revealed her third baby had been conceived using frozen eggs following three rounds of IVF treatment at a clinic in Poland.She shared the news during a discussion of the fears of women and girls living in Piddington, where the government plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers in a converted military base about half a mile from the Oxfordshire village.Dr Hoenderkamp said: 'I'm going to talk tonight about Piddington, but before I talk about Piddington, I'm going to tell you why. When I heard Angela Rayner's announcement in the week, I was viscerally angry with it. I couldn't believe it.'The reason for that is because obviously I am a woman, but I am also a mother, and I'm a mother of a grown-up boy and a very young girl.'And I have some news to break to the panel today that they're not aware of, or anybody else of that matter, is that I'm actually going to be a mother of three shortly, and I am currently 12 weeks pregnant with my next child.' GB News presenter Dr Renee Hoenderkamp (pictured) has stunned her colleagues after announcing her 'miracle' pregnancy live on air at the age of 59 The rest of the panel were visibly stunned at the news, with one saying it was 'the most shocked I've been on air since [Al] Khamenei was assassinated' The host revealed she was expecting her third child, a baby girl - almost 40 years after she gave birth to her son at age 21 (she is pictured here pregnant with her second child Alice) Dr Hoenderkamp delivered her second child (pictured) 30 years later at 51. Her daughter, Alice, is now seven years old while her adult son, Calum, is 37 and now a father himself Pictured with Alice at five weeks, Renee says she has more time, patience, self-belief than she did 30 years ago when she had her son, Calum, who is now 37 and has his own daughterHer fellow panelists were visibly stunned at the news, with one saying it was 'the most shocked I've been on air since [Al] Khamenei was assassinated'. Later in the show, the panel brought out a gender reveal cake, decorated in baby pink and baby blue icing for Dr Hoenderkamp. She recalled how she had travelled to Poland to undergo IVF after being rejected by UK clinics, which refuse to treat mothers around the age of 55 and over. 'I'm not going to pretend it's been an easy journey, because it hasn't,' she said. 'It took three attempts. I've sat on this show knowing that the journey I've just done didn't work.'Dr Hoenderkamp said she had received criticism over her advanced maternal age. She said: 'I had criticism that I was selfish. "What if I died in five years?". Well I keep myself very fit as you know so hopefully that won't happen, but it might. 'And my point in this. Alice has a wonderful life. 'She adores her life and I hope this child will be the same. What would be better? That they would never be given the chance of life?'The presenter's second child, Alice, was born just two months before her grandchild Isabella. She said the two girls are incredibly close. In a piece for the Daily Mail in 2023, Dr Hoenderkamp wrote that it had been easier for her to have a child at age 51 than 21. She wrote: 'The truth, as I discovered, is that pregnancy - at any age - can either be wonderfully easy, or hard, problematic and complex. 'It's a very individual thing and age is just one small factor.'Yes, older mothers are at risk of genetic complications and potential problems, but the monitoring and testing process is very sophisticated now and that is hugely reassuring.'