On August 21st, Nippon TV's "Gyouretsu no Dekiru Houritsu Soudansho"� revealed that announcer Matsumoto Shinobu (42) is pregnant!

According to Matsumoto's official blog, she is currently six months pregnant, and is expected to give birth at the end of the year. After her pregnancy was confirmed in May, she was immediately hospitalized due to signs of a possible miscarriage. Fortunately, her condition� stabilized in August and she decided to make the announcement.

Matsumoto joined Nippon TV in 1992 and married music producer Iwashiro Taro in 2003. She resigned from Nippon TV in March 2009, and now works as a free announcer.

Source: Sanspo