Brittany Higgins makes huge announcement

Brittany Higgins and her husband David Sharaz have revealed they’re expecting their first child.

“Can’t wait to meet you,” the happy 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 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.

They celebrated their nuptials with a small group of close friends and family in Queensland.

After sharing the exciting life update on social media, hundreds of people expressed their joy by sending their best wishes to the future parents.

“I just got as close as I can to jumping for joy oh my goodness,” one person wrote.

“What a beautiful lucky glorious thing for this little one to have you as its mama.”

Another said: “this is ridiculously exciting”.

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 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 shared a 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, instead of sending it to a friend as he had intended.

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! Rom-coms do exist.”

The couple now live in France’s Haute Languedoc region.

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.

Meanwhile, the former Liberal staffer and her new husband are set to face a hearing in a defamation case, brought by Senator Linda Reynolds, on Monday.

The pair are not required to attend the hearing in Perth.

The senator is suing over claims her reputation was damaged in multiple social media posts by Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz.

She claims the posts by Ms Higgins and her husband David Sharaz, suggested she had engaged in a political cover-up about Ms Higgins’ alleged rape at Parliament House.