Pop star and talent show judge Dannii Minogue is expecting her first child, her spokesman said on Wednesday.
Minogue’s London spokesman Simon Jones told Reuters in an emailed statement that the singer and her boyfriend Kris Smith, a former rugby player, were “delighted.”
“Dannii and Kris are very excited and can’t wait to start their family in 2010,” Jones said in the statement.
A posting on Minogue’s Twitter site also announced the singer’s pregnancy on Wednesday.
“Woo hoo I’m gonna be a mummy! 
,” a tweet from the Australian singer said on her Twitter site twitter.com/danniiMinogue.
British newspapers had reported earlier that the 38-year-old was expecting a baby with Smith.
