Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn announces she is pregnant with her first child as she shares adorable video with husband

Countryfile presenter and Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn has announced she is pregnant with her first child with her husband Callum Aitken.

Sammi, 30, who is a Paralympic wheelchair racer as well as a presenter on BBC's Countryfile, shared an adorable video announcing the happy news on Monday.

Taking to Instagram, Sammi and Callum, who tied the knot in January 2025, were seen hugging as she draped a pair of knitted baby socks and a sonogram over his shoulders. 

The video then showed Callum putting on a 'Dad' cap before Sammi appeared from behind him wearing her own 'Mum' hat, before her husband picked her up and the pair shared a passionate kiss. 

'Half of me and half of you! We can’t wait to meet you in July,' Sammi captioned the clip. 

The next day, Sammi shared a video of herself in the mirror as she showed off her baby bump for the first time. 

She captioned the clip: 'Rocking the Winnie the Pooh look in my training kit.' 

Sammi was 14 years old when she was paralysed from the waist down after an accident on her family's farm in the Scottish Borders in 2010.

The accident saw Sammi crushed by a forklift while helping to clear snow.

Not realising his daughter had climbed onto the lower part of the forklift, and unable to see her from the cab, Sammi's father Neill lowered the bucket - which he'd been using to shovel snow - down on top of her.

'I remember feeling this pressure on my neck,' Sammi told the Daily Mail in 2023. 'I started to laugh; I thought Dad was joking, that he'd gone a bit too far.

'Then I started screaming. I felt my back popping and before I knew it my head was in my crotch. I was crushed right down into a tiny ball.'

She added: 'My heart was thumping in my chest. Everything felt really slow and all I could hear was my breath. I remember closing my eyes and thinking, "You're going to die, and your Dad's going to think it's his fault".'

'When I opened my eyes again, I shuffled forward. I couldn't feel my legs but I could still move them. I slipped and fell on to a big pile of compacted snow.

'I remember feeling all the muscles in my legs pulsing. They were twitching and then all of a sudden they stopped. That was the last time I ever felt my legs.'

Sammi turned a devastating tragedy into a triumph, becoming a world champion wheelchair racer and double Paralympic medallist. 

She has set a 100m record at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, was awarded an MBE for services to disability sport and secured a presenting job on BBC's Countryfile, bringing her back to her rural roots.

For years, because she feared opening old wounds for her father, she hid the truth about how she got her injuries.

Indeed, when Neill carried her into the kitchen after the accident, Sammi lied to her parents, too, telling them she'd tripped and fallen on some snow.

Blue-lighted to hospital, Neill and Elaine arrived to find their daughter hooked up to machines, wires and breathing tubes.

'Dad wouldn't even look at me,' said Sammi. 'He kept staring at the ground. Mum was screaming and screaming: "My baby, my baby, we're so sorry." They were both a mess. I was trying to keep them calm, saying, "It's fine. I've got a plan. We'll get through this".'

'It wasn't until the doctor came and spoke to me later that night that I knew I had to tell the truth. The fractures in my vertebrae couldn't have been caused by slipping over.'

A six-month hospital stay ensued, during which Neill and Elaine took it in turns to do the three-hour round trip to Glasgow twice a week, and Sammi's brother Christopher took leave from the Army to be by her side.

In 2011, Sammi's physio took her to watch the Inter Spinal Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, a national event for patients with spinal cord injuries, Sammi had her eyes opened to a completely new life goal. 

In her very first event, the London Mini Marathon in 2012, Sammi came second. 

It was the first of many accolades. She got herself a coach, started training twice a day, six days a week - and qualified for the Rio Paralympics in 2016, coming fifth in the T53 100m.

Sammi has since won two golds at the World Championships in 2017 and a gold and two silvers in July this year. She also made it on to that Paralympic podium, with bronze and silver medals for ParalympicsGB in Tokyo in 2021 - and has her sights set on gold in Paris next summer.