Soap star announces she is pregnant with 'step-brother's' baby
Scarlet Vas has announced she's pregnant and that along with husband and 'step-brother' Tayo Ricci, they're ready to welcome their second child.
The former Neighbours star married Ricci in 2023, and the new baby will have an older sibling in the form of sister Silva, who was born in December 2024.
Taking to Instagram, they said 'We couldn’t keep this a secret any longer...' as they held up ultrasound photos of baby number two and cradled Silva.
Tayo also rubbed his wife's belly, the universally recognised sign for a pregnancy, as people wished them congratulations in the comments.
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The 31-year-old Scarlet had been dating Tayo for some time before announcing in June 2021 she had 'fallen in love' with him, and their families are close since their parents have also dated each other - making them technically step-siblings.
They met through their families and after introductions were made their parents started dating each other, leading Scarlet to refer to Tayo as her 'step-brother' from time to time.
Appearing on the Uncensored Podcast a few years ago to discuss her switching to OnlyFans for a career, she said Tayo had been popular with her subscribers and referred to him in a familial sense.
'It doesn't affect us because we have each other'
She said: "I mean the fans love us as like a thing or not a thing. He's my step-brother and Australian and we've known each other for a very long time."
The couple have received comments over their parents being close but Scarlet previously told News24 ' it doesn’t affect us because we have each other', though they will sometimes read through the comments of their posts to have a laugh as they say they've found the 'trolls very entertaining'.
“If something's really negative, we might comment back, we find it is quite a good disarming tactic," she said.
Back in 2021 Vas released a video saying she 'fell in love with my bf's best friend… who happens to be my step-bro', though she has stressed they aren't blood related.
She said: "We were about 13 years old when we first met through mutual friends, our families knew each other and they introduced us I guess you could say. So we’ve known each other for a very long time."
After announcing baby number two Scarlet said she was 'jumping', presumably with joy, as various people congratulated them on the upcoming addition to their family.
In the same year she announced her love with Tayo, Scarlet also announced an OnlyFans where her husband gets involved, with her saying that at first business wasn't exactly booming before she got 'in the 0.01%' of content creators who get paid.
She explained that on a good month of business she was making around $200k, so the new baby probably won't have to worry about money unless their parents are the sort who want their kids to earn their own fortune independently.
Australian audiences might know her better as police officer Mishti Sharma in Neighbours, with her spending a year on the popular soap before she left the role in October 2018.
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