The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton has revealed Conor Maynard is the father of her unborn baby.
Back in April, the recruitment manager, 32, announced she was pregnant with a ‘miracle’ baby after having seven heartbreaking miscarriages but did not reveal who the father was.
A month later Charlotte revealed she is preparing to become a single mother after splitting from her wife Laura.
In a U-turn, Charlotte has decided to go public with Conor’s identity as she told fans she ‘won’t be silenced’.
Conor and Charlotte were seemingly introduced by her Traitor’s co-star Harry Clarke, who is dating the singer’s sister Anna at the Traitors wrap party.
Taking to Instagram, Charlotte said: ‘I’ve really toyed with whether this is the right thing to do or not. I’ve sort of hidden a lot of things in the protection of somebody else through this process.
‘I decided that the best thing is to always be open and honest. Essentially I have not named the father in protection of him.
‘I’m prepared to do this alone, but I’m not prepared to have my daughter have to grow up and not be able to say who her father is, or should I say, birth father, or hide it from her.
‘She deserves to know where she comes from. I’m not a secret, she’s not a dirty secret. I won’t be silenced.’
She added of Conor: ‘I met him after The Traitors wrap party and we started seeing each other and Penelope arrived in my tummy!’
has contacted Conor and Charlotte’s representatives for comment.
The BBC star who starred on the second series on the hit show, shared a gallery of sweet snaps revealing the happy news by showcasing her bump.
Charlotte revealed ‘IVF had failed’ for her and she was previously told by medics she ‘probably’ wouldn’t ever become a mother in an Instagram post.
Proving doctors wrong, Charlotte wrote: ‘So I have been keeping a secret in a few of my pics!! The true glory is in my final pic!!!
‘After 7 miscarriages over my 20s, failed Insemination, failed IVF I was told ‘it probably won’t happen for you’.
‘These words for a lot of women are the words you never want to hear!
‘Yet someone decided I deserved a wish answering and I am now going to have my own little miracle.’
Charlotte added: ‘It was a rough start (never knew sickness could be so bad) but I’m starting to feel normal again!!
‘I wanted to share this with all my family, friends and #thetraitors fan base!! It’s been a shock to say the least but the most welcomed surprise ever!!!’
In a mirror selfie, Charlotte beamed as she cradled her growing bump while wearing a figure hugging black and white striped dress.
In a second picture, the star looked glowing while wearing a black unitard before sharing a snap of her ultrasound.
Charlotte’s co-stars were quick to take to the comments to congratulate the star on her exciting news.
Brian Davidson, who appeared on series two of The Traitors with Charlotte, penned: ‘Yaaaaaas! Traitors baby!’
Co-star Ash Bibi added: ‘Your Traitors fam is here for you my darling ❤️❤️❤️❤️.’
And series one contestant Kieran Tompsett penned: ‘❤️❤️❤️ Amazing congratulations darling xx.’
It was revealed that Charlotte had split from her wife Laura in May.
Charlotte uploaded a sweet gender reveal video with her family, in which she watched her baby scan before it lit up with pink lights, indicating she is expecting a girl.
She captioned the sweet clip: ‘GENDER REVEAL!! I would have been happy either way but I did want a little mini me!!’
She continued: ‘I have already leaked her perfect little name! Did you catch her name?? She is already so loved !! So many changes going in my life and I can’t wait to tell you all about it !! Watch this space!!!’
Charlotte’s wife Laura did not appear in the video and the reality star tellingly added the hashtags: ‘#singlemoms #singlemum #singlemumsuk #independent #femaleempowerment’ to confirm her single status.
During her time on The Traitors last year, Charlotte, who was working as a recruitment manager in the education sector when she signed up to the show, was a faithful.
However, the mum-to-be later admitted she would have ‘sold her mum’ to be one of the Traitors.
Charlotte was given the boot after she was wrongly accused by her co-stars as being a traitor.
She told BBC CWR at the time: ‘I really wanted to be a Traitor. I wanted it and I’ve said a few times I would have sold my mum to do it.’
Charlotte added: ‘Don’t tell my mum.’
Conor is an English singer born and raised in Brighton. He signed a recording contract with Warner Music Group in 2011.
Maynard rose to fame in 2012 when he was nominated for, and subsequently won, MTV’s Brand New for 2012 award.
In terms of girlfriends he has previously been linked to Love Island’s Layla Al-Momani.
Layla revealed before heading into the villa that she dated the famous pop star, revealing: ‘My ex is a famous singer. He wrote a few songs about me since we broke up.’
It’s unclear how long the pair dated for exactly, but Layla first shared a snap with Conor in July 2021 of her and the star donning fancy dress as she captioned the post: ‘Date night out of the mansion.’
She then shared another cosy photo with the singer a month later in August 2021, but there are no posts of them after that date.
However, in a heartbreak track shared on TikTok in January, Conor candidly revealed that he went through a breakup at the end of 2022, which some fans have linked to Layla, meaning they may have dated for around 18 months.
He said: ‘So, the last few months I took a bit of a break from social media because at the end of 2022, I had my heart ripped out.
‘But anyway I took that time to write some music about it, and this is a little bit of one of the songs. It’s called ‘If I Ever’.’