Brittany Higgins announces surprise family news

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Brittany Higgins and her husband David Sharaz have revealed they're expecting their first child, just a month after tying the knot.

The exciting news was captioned on a photo showing knitted booties and a pair of baby overalls.

'Can't wait to meet you,' the thrilled couple announced on Instagram on Sunday.

'Beyond excited to welcome a new member to our little family.

'Your parents are already obsessed with you and you aren't even here yet.'

The post was quickly inundated with messages from wellwishers. 

'What a beautiful time ahead for you and David. Congratulations,' The Block judge Shayna Blaze commented.

The happy couple were recently married at one of Australia's most exclusive and elegant wedding venues, The Valley Estate on the Gold Coast in June.

The happy couple celebrated their nuptials with a small group of close friends and family only in Queensland.

The pair first met in 2020, when Mr Sharaz was working as a producer for Karl Stefanovic's brother Pete on his Sky News breakfast program.

Mr Sharaz was instantly smitten, having previously described watching the 'beautiful' Ms Higgins walk through the door of a Parliament House television studio.

On the day of their wedding, Mr Sharaz had shared the funny exchange between him and his future bride long before they started dating.

He revealed he had accidentally sent a photo of Ms Higgins by the famous 'budget tree' in a Parliament House courtyard from her Instagram account back to her, when he was trying to send it to a friend.

Commenting on a photo of Ms Higgins, Mr Sharaz wrote: 'Love this photo. But mainly the tree.'

In the caption in June, Mr Sharaz wrote: 'Accidentally sent a girl I had a crush on … photo of herself.'

'Few years later we're getting married! Romcoms do exist.'

Mr Sharaz popped to Ms Higgins in a romantic proposal at the top of Byron Bay lighthouse on News Year's Eve 2022.

The happy news comes just two days after Ms Higgins wished her beloved grandfather a 'speedy recovery' in an emotional post.

'Sending love to my amazing grandpa - who insists on surfing with a helmet, watching sports with the sound on mute and who shared his love of politics with me. Thinking of you + praying for a speedy recovery,' she captioned a collage of family photos.

The couple have set up a new life in for the sprawling countryside in Lunas, near Bordeaux in southern France, which they've called home since last December.

Their move came five years after Ms Higgins claimed she was raped by former parliamentary staffer Bruce Lehrmann at Parliament House in 2019.

Mr Lehrmann has always denied the allegations and had pleaded not guilty to a single charge of engaging in sexual intercourse without consent before the trial was aborted due to juror misconduct.

In the Federal Court earlier this year, Justice Michael Lee ruled Mr Lehrmann was convinced to a civil standard - which is different to a criminal standard - on the balance of probabilities Ms Higgins was raped.

The finding came following legal action Mr Lehrmann brought against Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over a report about the alleged rape on The Project program in 2021.

Mr Lehrmann is appealing the decision.