Laura Whitmore shares sweet breastfeeding selfie as she returns to Love Island

LAURA Whitmore has shared a sweet selfie of her breastfeeding her baby daughter behind-the-scenes on the set of Love Island.

The TV presenter made her return to the ITV2 show for the first time last night months after welcoming a baby girl with husband Iain Stirling.

Laura, 36, made her first appearance on the show on Thursday evening during a tense recoupling, a month after the seventh series began in June.

While the star has been hosting the Aftersun programme on Sunday nights, she is now set for a full return as she stood by in last night's recoupling.

But not before Laura could get her glam on in her make-up trailer, where she breast fed her baby daughter as she had some "glam time".

The telly host posted a sweet snap of the intimate mother-baby moment to her Instagram stories as she got ready for the episode in her dressing room.

Cropping her face out the snap apart from her bright pink lipstick, Laura could be seen cradling her little girl, who is thought to be called Stevie Re.

Shielding her chest from view, the baby could be seen clutching at her t-shirt, with an arm revealing the youngster was wearing a striped babygrow.

'AFTER FOUR WEEKS THEY FOUND LAURA!'

Last night, Laura returned to the Love Island set in a fuschia and black mini-dress to oversee the tense recoupling as the boys returned from Casa Amor.

She will also be seen in tonight's instalment after the show was cut short with two minutes to spare, leaving viewers on the edge of their seats.

Nonetheless, fans were delighted to see Laura at the villa, and took to social media in their droves to celebrate her return to Love Island.

"Omg finally Laura Whitmore is back, thought she had abandoned the series!" one woman kicked off the comments.

"After four weeks they found Laura Whitmore!" a second joked after fans said they would be reporting her missing after four weeks of no-shows.

"Nice of Laura Whitmore to come back and present the show for the first time in a month," a third chimed in.

It comes after we reported that Laura has raked in more than £600,000 for less than 12 minutes screen time so far across the series.

Laura confirmed her return earlier this week, sharing a text that read: "Laura, it's time to head to the island for Casa Amor… Let the fun begin!"

Taking to her Instagram Story, the star explained that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic had made it tricky for her to jet to Majorca.

She said: "Logistically it's tougher than when I went out for the coupling up. The Balearic Islands were in amber so when I did that I had to isolate for five days, I'm not sure everyone knew that.

"I had to isolate five days on my return. Then [rules] went green, and now it's amber again, but I'm double vaxxed."

She went on to explain that presenting spin-off show Aftersun live from London each Sunday was also tricky, sharing: "That's another logistical nightmare, that we need to make sure that I'm always back in time for that.

“If I could, I'd probably just move into the villa, I mean who wouldn't?”

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