‘Everyone is well’: Studio 10 star Joe Hildebrand announces birth of baby girl

The Studio 10 hosts were in full celebration mode on Tuesday morning with an exciting announcement from Joe Hildebrand, who has extended his family by one with the arrival of his third child.

The channel 10 program took to social media to share the news, explaining the father and his wife Tara had welcomed a beautiful baby girl to their growing clan. In a post on Twitter it was confirmed both mum and baby were in good health, with their daughter “in the gifted range”.

And they have chosen a very unique name for the little girl – choosing Maybellene, with a series of nicknames already laid out. “Exciting news – @Joe_Hildebrand and wife Tara have welcomed baby no.3! Congratulations!” the joyous message read. “‘Maybellene’ ‘Maybel ‘May’ ‘Bella’ ‘Leeny’ Jill Hildebrand was born at 9.04am weighing 3.854kg. All vital signs in the gifted range. Everyone is very well and happy.”

Moments before his bub was born, @Joe_Hildebrand took the time to record this special message for her… #JustDadThings pic.twitter.com/144yizBQRi

— Studio 10 (@Studio10au) September 17, 2019

Fans were also treated to a beautiful photo of the newborn who looked adorable and chubby wrapped in a striped blanket. Just as the Studio 10 team were, fans young and old quickly showed their excitement at hearing the news by filling the post with messages of congratulations for the happy couple and their family.

“Hurray. Studio 10 growing its own audience one baby at a time,” one person joked. “The pressure is now on Sarah and Tarsh and @jonocoleman.” Another added: “Fantastic news, congratulations Joe and Tara with the arrival of your beautiful baby girl.” While a third said: “Congratulations to you and your family!”

Meanwhile, Joe also shared a recording a special message for his daughter before her birth that morning. Dressed in his hospital scrubs waiting to welcome the bub into the world the TV host spoke directly towards the camera and said: “Hi beautiful Maybel, these are the moments before your very first day on earth and to celebrate I’ve written this very special song.” Joe then broke into dance, showing off his unique moves while singing the famous song No Scrubs by TLC.

Joe initially broke the news that he and Tara were expecting another child in an incredible announcement online, earlier this year, before pulling off a dramatic gender reveal on Studio 10. The 42-year-old TV star wrote an exclusive first-person piece for Kidspot just hours before announcing his news on the Channel 10 show, sharing his hilarious thoughts on the news he’d be having another baby girl.

Describing the endorphin that’s released in many women after birth, Hildebrand began by saying it “makes her temporarily forget that she has just pushed an object the size of a papaya through a hole the size of the change pocket on a pair of Levi jeans”. He went on to say life starts to settle down over a year in, as the baby begins walking and talking, but insisted that this time is actually “God’s Great Trick”.

“The mother is so deranged by constant squealing and sleep deprivation that she forgets how horrendous the birth was and how hideous the first 12 months have been that she eventually gives in to the father’s constant insistence that they have another, even though he’s only really saying it because he hasn’t had a shag for a year,” he wrote.

From there, he went on to say the decision to have a third baby is simply man trying to “achieve the supernatural”. For he and his wife Tara, he said that moment came when they enjoyed a brief (and rare) moment where they sat watching their kids happily playing, while they watched and laughed together. But, after deciding to try for a third baby and subsequently falling pregnant, he joked: “It only goes to prove, as I have always said, that laughter never leads to anything good.”

“And so yes, we are having a third child and it is going to be another girl,” he concluded. “This fills me with both great relief and great fear. The relief is that I will not be head-butted in the nuts for the first ten years of her life and the fear is that for the second ten I will have absolutely no idea what she is talking about.”

After the piece went live online, the Studio 10 panel took time to announce the news themselves on the program with Hildebrand stopping to enjoy huge applause from the audience. “That is right, I’m having a baby girl!” he began.

“We got the results back last night and Tara’s told me it’s mine! I’m very, very excited.” The show then went on to set up an official gender reveal, with Hildebrand’s wife and two kids stood by a race track as a ute revved and screeched its tyres to reveal pink smoke.