{"id":306719,"date":"2025-07-31T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306719\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:49:13","slug":"top-tv-comedian-secretly-fathers-love-child-and-another-baby-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306719\/","title":{"rendered":"Top TV comedian secretly fathers love child \u2013 and another baby is on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">31 July 2025, 09:05 | Updated: 31 July 2025, 11:37<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mo Gilligan bei der Verleihung der GQ Men of the Year Awards 2024 in den Kensington Roof Gardens.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"744036\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/744036\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    The Masked Singer judge, 37, is reported to have had a son named Rudy.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-mo-gilliga-631879588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Comedian Mo Gilligan has fathered a secret love child and has another baby on the way, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The Masked Singer judge, 37, is reported to have had a son named Rudy after a short relationship with model Selina Christoforou, 35, in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He is now in a relationship with another model, 28-year-old Taia Tulher, and the pair are expecting their first child together soon, having been together for two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A source told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/36087564\/mo-gilligan-love-child-baby-tv-masked-singer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a>: &#8220;Mo met Selina after messaging her on social media and they hung out casually for a few months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;She found out she was pregnant in May 2023 and it was quite a shock for them both because they\u2019d been fairly careful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;But she wanted to have the baby, despite the fact they weren\u2019t actually a couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment\/couples-hide-coldplay-camera-truck-festival\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Couples hide from &#8216;Coldplay Cam&#8217; at music festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment\/paul-mario-day-death-iron-maiden\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tributes pour in as Iron Maiden&#8217;s original singer dies aged 69<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gilligan is now in a relationship with model Taia Tulher, and the pair are expecting their first child together soon\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"744027\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/744027\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Gilligan is now in a relationship with model Taia Tulher, and the pair are expecting their first child together soon.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nAlamy<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Mo is said to see his son &#8220;semi-regularly&#8221; and is &#8220;over the moon&#8221; about becoming a father for the second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The funny man, who recently completed a stand-up tour, &#8220;feels ready to settle down&#8221; with Taia now, the source added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Mo rose to national fame as the host of his own Channel 4 show, The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, which ran from 2019 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/lbc-app\/download-new-lbc-app\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Download the LBC app\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"742613\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/742613\"  \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Download the LBC app.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nLBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He also joined Davina McCall, Maya Jama, and Jonathan Ross on the panel of The Masked Singer in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Mo\u2019s team declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"31 July 2025, 09:05 | Updated: 31 July 2025, 11:37 The Masked Singer judge, 37, is reported to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948170764093276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}