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Marco Pierre White's son Luciano has announced he's expecting a baby with his fashion designer fiancée Stephanie Beard.
The restaurateur, 33, took to his Instagram on Monday with a series of sweet black-and-white snaps announcing the news.
In one sweet photo, Luciano and Stephanie, 35, looked loved-up at a restaurant as they held a sonogram of their baby in the womb.
The son of the celebrity chef announced his engagement to the fashion designer, who is the founder of clothing brand Silked London, earlier this year.
Luciano and Stephanie, whose designs have been worn by stars including Eva Longoria and Cat Deeley, beamed for an Instagram photo while watching the sunset at a restaurant overlooking the ocean.
The couple were congratulated by a number of friends and family including Luciano's TV chef father Marco.
Marco Pierre White's son Luciano has announced he's expecting a baby with his fashion designer fiancée Stephanie Beard
They wrote: 'Congratulations L&S; What exciting news! Congratulations to you both; Such lovely news congratulations;
'Yay congrats Stephy. Love to you both; Oh my goodness, congratulations darling! So happy for you; So over the moon for you beauties !!! Such Happy news'.
The happy news comes after Luciano's Surrey restaurant was shut down in September after he had been plagued with bad reviews and criticism of his 'aggressive' nature.
The nepo-baby, whose brother Marco Jr has suffered a slew of legal issues, opened his Italian restaurant, Luciano’s, in Woking in early 2022, but the establishment failed, and was formally dissolved on 5 September with just £31.94 in the bank.
When the troubled chef's latest restaurant collapsed, Luciano's owed £100k to HM Revenue and Customs, while Companies House documents show he also owes more than £150k to 26 creditors.
Luciano had already opened two restaurants - one in Dorchester, Dorset, which opened in 2020 before folding, and another in Exeter which opened in 2021 and went under in May. He has been hit with repeated criticism by online reviewers.
Away from his three restaurants, Luciano runs the Rudloe Arms, a hotel and restaurant in Wiltshire near Bath, renovated and opened by his father.
It was revealed in May, Luciano, whose father was the youngest Briton to be awarded three Michelin stars aged just 33, was accused of being rude, arrogant and 'bordering on aggressive' in reviews of the restaurant his father helped him launch.
The son of the celebrity chef announced his engagement to the fashion designer, who is the founder of clothing brand Silked London, earlier this year
Luciano pictured with Marco
The happy news comes after Luciano's Surrey restaurant (pictured) was shut down in September after he had been plagued with bad reviews and criticism of his 'aggressive' nature
Marco's eldest son faced claims of giving 'terrible customer service' as well as making strict demands on what his guests eat at the Rudloe Arms venue.
He has also been accused of occasionally giving a fake name to bemused customers at the restaurant which was refurbished by Marco ahead of its 2012 opening.
Luciano has been running Rudloe Arms, a hotel and restaurant in Wiltshire near Bath in recent years - amid the collapse of three restaurants he set up post-pandemic.
A continuing spate of negative feedback on consumer review website TripAdvisor comes as questions are posed over the future of his registered businesses.
Luciano declined to comment - and staff at his flagship Rudloe Arms insisted to the Daily Mail he was 'away on a trip' and there would be no response to the criticisms made against him nor questions about his firm's finances.
Marco's namesake son and Big Brother star Marco Pierre White Jr (pictured in 2016) has suffered a slew of legal woes over the years
Far from just his eldest child being in trouble, Marco Pierre White's namesake son and Big Brother star Marco Pierre White Jr has suffered a slew of legal woes.
Earlier in September, the troubled son of the chef was remanded in custody as he awaits his sentencing for stealing £1,500 worth of Jellycat toys.
The 31-year-old faced jail after he admitted carrying out a number of burglaries in a crime spree across west London.
He broke into an Italian Deli store in Kensington called La Piccola, stealing a laptop, a tablet, an iPod and a till tray on June 12.
Then three days later he smashed his way into Venusrox, a store in Notting Hill, and stole two natural rock crystal formations.
On July 21, he broke into another store on Barnes High Street to steal £1,500 worth of Jellycat toys.
He also admitted taking two green fluorite crystal lamp towers from Dale Rogers Ammonite on Pimlico Road on June 19.
He disputes, however, causing an alleged £43,000 worth of damage to the store by wrecking 'four mounted crystals' and the front door.
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