Former Home and Away star Rebecca Breeds expecting first child with husband Luke Mitchell

Former Home and Away star Rebecca Breeds is expecting her first child.

The Australian actress and her co-star turned husband Luke Mitchell confirmed the news on Instagram.

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The 37-year-old actress posted a picture of herself wearing a tight pink dress and debuting her baby bump on the red carpet for the Adelaide Film Festival.

Breeds was at the festival for the premiere of her new film Kangaroo Island on the festival’s closing night, in which she plays a struggling Hollywood actress who heads home to deal with the love triangle that tore her family apart years earlier.

The mum-to-be rested one of her hands on top of the bump as she smiled for the cameras.

“VERY excited to share baby Mitchell and @kangarooislandmovie coming sooooooooon! Thanks @adlfilmfest for having us and everyone who came to support us🙏🤍,” she wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.

Former Home and Away star Rebecca Breeds is expecting her first child.  Credit: rebeccaebreeds/Instagram

Mitchell also commented on the post with a series of heart-eyed emojis.

Breeds’ co-stars and fellow actors jumped into the comments to congratulate the couple.

“Congratulations Bec and Luke! Very exciting news,” Home and Away star Lynne McGranger said.

“Congrats!!!!!” Sex/Life and A Perfect Pairing actor Adam Demos said.

“Ahhhhh amazing you guys! This is the best news!” former Home and Away actress Jessica McNamee said.

The parents to be met on the set of Channel 7’s Home and Away in 2009 and quickly became a fan-favourite off-screen relationship.

Rebecca Breeds and Luke Mitchell on set of Home and Away. Credit: Seven

They wed in January 2013 and went to live and work in the US for years before returning to Australia.

“It’s been really, really nice just to ground ourselves and be back home. I finally have a garden — I’ve been wanting to have a vegetable garden for so long,” Breeds told TV WEEK in September 2023.

“So we’re literally putting down roots back home and that has been very soothing for the soul.”

Breeds played Ruby Buckton on the soap between 2008 and 2012, while Mitchell played the character of Romeo Smith between 2009 and 2013.

Mitchell won the Most Popular New Male Talent Logie Award for his role in 2010.