Aisling Bea has revealed she’s pregnant with her first child.
The comedian, 40, shared the news in a hilarious post after debuting her bump at the Big Slick ’24 event over the weekend.
Showing off her tummy, Aisling shared funny videos and snaps of a cartoon face painted onto her bare tummy after performing a back-up dance with comic Seth Herzog.
In the caption of her post, Aisling also shared that she was expecting her baby with her boyfriend, producer Jack Freeman.
She wrote: ‘Dignity Intact. Got pregnant so I could try & put something beside Paul Rudd‘s face to make him look older.
Aisling Bea has revealed she’s pregnant with her first child, as she debuted her bump for the first time in a hilarious Instagram post on Monday
The comedian shared the news in a fun Instagram post after debuting her bump at the Big Slick ’24 event over the weekend
Showing off her tummy, Aisling shared funny videos and snaps of a cartoon face painted onto her bare tummy after performing a back-up dance with comic Seth Herzog
‘Thanks to the @bigslickkc , Paul, @sethherzog super boy @travisKelce & mostly our angel @sherylcrow for helping me show off my bump in the most dignified & classy way possible.
‘Sheryl said myself & Seth could be her very professional back up dancers with our ridiculous idea, how on brand!She really does just wanna have some fun, yawl.
And thanks to @jackoby.freeman & @elsie for doing full bump glam & to one of them in particular for getting me pregaroo in the first place.
‘Just to note if you use sharpie pen on your skin, it will be there for about two days. Just if you are weighing up what a commitment to a joke is worth. Gentle dermatitis is the answer.’
Aisling’s post showed a slew of snaps of the moment she unveiled her bump while dancing on-stage at the charity event.
The star previously dated actor Michael Sheen in 2018 for less than a year, before his ex Sarah Silverman confirmed their romance was over.
The following year she then sparked dating rumours with Spiderman star Andrew Garfield, after they were pictured together during a night out at the theatre.
Aisling is thought to have been dating Jack for two years, and he marked their first anniversary on Instagram last year, writing: ‘To 1 whole year with m’lady @weemissbea.’
In the caption of her post, Aisling also shared that she was expecting her baby with her boyfriend Jack Freeman, and one clip showed the producer drawing a face on her bump
One image, Aisling and Seth danced around the stage with their tummies on display while Sheryl performed
Aisling’s stage surname ‘Bea’ is in memory of her father Brian who died by suicide when she was three years old. Her real surname is O’Sullivan.
She has starred in comedies Trollied and The Delivery Man in before acting in a serious role in The Fall.
In 2023, Aisling had a starring role in Take That jukebox musical film Greatest Days.
Back in April, Aisling opened up about her horrifying accident that left her arm ‘hanging off’.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show this week the comedian, 40, revealed she got ‘knocked down off her bike in the pandemic’ which left her needing surgery to have her shoulder ‘totally reconstructed’.
She said: ‘I was supposed to have keyhole surgery on my shoulder from an accident two days beforehand but when I went in, they found out my arm was hanging off.
‘They had to go in and totally reconstruct my shoulder while I was asleep. I got knocked down off my bike in the pandemic.’
She has starred in comedies Trollied and The Delivery Man in before acting in a serious role in The Fall
Aisling shared on social media that she was expecting her first child with Jack, who she has been dating for two years (pictured in July 2023)
Aisling was due to start filming the second series of fellow comedian Romesh Ranganathan comedy-series Avoidance but the script had to be adapted to include her sling.
She admitted she was ‘out of her head on painkillers’ while on set and due to the sling was not able to ‘move very much’.
The actress, who played Megan, added: ‘We were scheduled to film for a week and a half. Out of my head on painkillers. I just remember it as one long day.
‘We had to make my sling part of the character but I really couldn’t move very much.’
