Love Is Blind UK stars Catherine Richards and Jake Singleton-Hill have announced that they are expecting their first child together.
The couple took to Instagram over the weekend to share the happy news with their followers.
Catherine – a dental nurse from Jersey – appeared on the debut season of Love Is Blind UK, which premiered on Netflix in 2024.
She never ended up getting married to partner Freddie Powell who she met on the show but is now happy with Jake who was another member of the famous pods.
As the TV star shared the pregnancy news on Instagram she wrote: ‘Our greatest adventure begins.’
She was seen hugging Jake as she held their baby scan before sharing a sweet embrace with him in a clip.
Love Is Blind UK stars Catherine Richards and Jake Singleton-Hill have announced that they are expecting their first child together
The couple took to Instagram over the weekend to share the happy news with their many followers
Jake wasn’t seen much on the series as Catherine has previously explained: ‘Jake, he was in the pods, but he wasn’t chosen.
‘He got engaged, but he wasn’t chosen to go on the retreat.
‘So not everyone is picked. Netflix only choose five couples, I was lucky enough, but sadly, he wasn’t.
‘But his journey was very rough in there, like he had a rollercoaster of emotions, like the way he was treated.
‘So I reached out to him. I hadn’t seen him. I only saw Freddie and the couples on the retreat, so I saw him on socials, and I was like, ‘I wonder if he’s the one from the show’. So I messaged him.
‘We were on FaceTime for about five hours that evening and then we spoke every day for five weeks.’
Catherine and Freddie built a connection so deeply in the pods during the show’s first season that they got engaged without ever meeting.
But, after just two weeks after their almost-wedding, Cat started dating Jake.
Catherine – a dental nurse from Jersey – appeared on the debut season of Love Is Blind: UK, which premiered on Netflix in 2024
She never ended up getting married to partner Freddie Powell (seen) who she met on the show but is now happy with Jake who was another member of the famous pod
Cat went public with Jake in 2024, sharing romantic TikTok videos of their secret year-long relationship, revealing they had since moved in together and share a dog.
Freddie revealed his true feelings after he discovered Cat moved on by dating another member of the Netflix cast just days following their wedding.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Freddie said: ‘I found out about it quite early on, to be honest, so not long after we broke up, maybe a couple weeks after, I found out she had been on dates with him.
‘If she’s happy, you know, I’ve not really got anything to say, to be honest. I think as long as she’s happy and he’s happy, then I hope it works for them.’
Freddie admitted at the time that dating someone else from the Netflix show certainly wouldn’t be his style.
He added: ‘I wouldn’t choose to, personally. I pursued Cat, and that was my journey. I think you can meet anyone anywhere. You can go to Morrisons and meet someone. You don’t have to meet someone from the pods.’
The couple’s short-lived romance saw them form a connection without ever meeting face to face, instead getting to know each other through a wall.
Cat opened up about being adopted as a baby, which she admitted impacted her dating life and relationships over the years.
Meanwhile, viewers of the series admired Freddie for the close relationship he shares with his family including brother, Jack, who was born with Downs Syndrome.
After Freddie proposed, she broke down in tears as they started to plan their lives together, before heading to Corfu on a couples’ retreat.
Despite initially starting well, with Cat boasting they’d had sex twice on the first night, things turned sour when Freddie admitted he had cheated before in previous relationships.
Cat later declared ‘once a cheat, always a cheat’, and their efforts to make things work once they got home only made things more difficult.
Freddie said: ‘Obviously, I’m not proud of it, but I’d rather go into a relationship being transparent about things. I wish more than anything that conversation would have been off camera. It’s just the way it is. I’d rather have had her ask me that question in private.
‘But it was on camera, and I knew at the time I’m gonna have to say it, and like I say, I just want to be honest and open about everything, and I’m glad. I’m proud of myself, and that’s what I’ve always been like in relationships. I’ve always been open and honest about that situation, and I think it’s always the best thing to be.’
‘I feel as if I was a little bit misunderstood at times by Cat,’ he said. ‘But I just think at the end of the day, you’ve got to be open and honest about the situation.’
‘Cat’s got her vulnerabilities. She’s got things that she may be concerned about or worried about in a relationship, and she has every right to do that, because we’re all individuals,’ he added.
‘In my opinion, that’s not right, I don’t think that is the way to look at things. Once a cheat, always a cheat, obviously I don’t think that is right. But she has every, every right to sort of be concerned if that’s one of her vulnerabilities, and I guess it was down to me to sort of prove to her that there was nothing to worry about.’
Awkward meetings with his friends and family, ultimately led Freddie to the clarity that there were too many differences between them, and eventually he said no to her at the altar.
Cat went public with Jake in 2024, sharing romantic TikTok videos of their secret year-long relationship, revealing they had since moved in together and share a dog
At the time, Cat was devastated with her family members hearing that it was her ‘worst nightmare’ to be turned down but Freddie believes it was for the best.
‘I think there were lots of indications throughout for me that made me feel like I didn’t know whether this relationship’s right thing,’ he said.
‘Towards the end, I couldn’t really be myself at times. I don’t want to disrespect Cat at all, but I do feel as if I couldn’t be myself.
‘I was always pretty transparent with her about my feelings, and I explained to her about the wedding, and how I saw it, and explained that I see it as a celebration of our journey together, and regardless of what happens, I still want to be with you. It just might not be marriage. So she was very clear on that. It was difficult.’
