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Broadcaster Hayley Holt welcomes second baby

13:55 pm on 31 May 2024

Broadcaster Hayley Holt shared a picture of Kingston Kawenata Tito-Holt on social media. Photo: Instagram, @theholtbolt

TVNZ broadcaster Hayley Holt has given birth to her second son, Kingston.

The sports presenter shared pictures of Kingston Kawenata Tito-Holt being held by big brother Raven James on social media on Friday morning.

"Our latest blessing," she wrote, tagging partner Josh Tito.

Holt announced she and Tito were expecting their second child back in February. First born, Raven, turns two in July.

In 2020, she and Tito lost their son, Frankie Tai, who was stillborn when the former Breakfast host was six months pregnant.

Photo: Supplied, TVNZ

In October the following year Holt host spoke to Capsule about the heartbreaking loss.

During that interview she revealed she had also miscarried at the start of 2021: "That was hard. It triggered a lot of those feelings about Frankie but, in a weird way, it also got me past that stage of grief that I was stuck in."

"It gave me another experience that was separate from Frankie; it made me realise that things do continue, they do go on. It gave me a slight separation from that experience with Frankie. It kick-started some more healing. But it was very hard at the time."

Holt wrote about her experience with losing Frankie in her memoir Second Chances: Facing my demons and finding a better me, released in April 2023.

The memoir also unpacked the star's off-air reliance on alcohol and journey to sobriety, revealing she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous at one point.