{"id":4100,"date":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/barnaby-joyce-reveals-hes-expecting-baby-former-staff-member\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:06:37","slug":"barnaby-joyce-reveals-hes-expecting-baby-former-staff-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/barnaby-joyce-reveals-hes-expecting-baby-former-staff-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnaby Joyce reveals he\u2019s expecting a baby with former staff member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is reportedly expecting his fifth child with a former staff member, Vikki Campion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Campion is a former journo and deputy chief of staff at&nbsp;<em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>&nbsp;stopped working with Joyce in April 2017. The pair is apparently living together and will welcome their baby in April according to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/deputy-pm-barnaby-joyce-and-exstaffer-and-journalist-vikki-campion-expecting-a-baby\/news-story\/affccfbe8df768e5b9ddc9920154be6b\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barnaby Joyce Vikki Campion\" title=\"NEWS\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/barnaby_joyce_vikki_campion_facebook.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Mr Joyce, who is 27 years older than Ms Campion, revealed late last year he&#8217;d split with his wife of 24 years, Natalie Joyce. Friends of the politician have told the publication that he is &#8220;<em>madly in love&#8221;,&nbsp;<\/em>however, the pair is yet to speak publicly about their relationship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/life\/weekend-australian-magazine\/being-barney-the-world-of-deputy-pm-barnaby-joyce\/news-story\/a3430520a309c33e214ff6a371fa9f2e\"><em>The Weekend Australian Magazine<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;with his wife last year, Mr Joyce revealed how he barely spent any time at home with his family since getting into politics. In February and March last year, he only had two nights where he slept in his own bed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He described the &#8220;<em>guilt<\/em>&#8221; he felt for never being there for his daughters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI hate it&#8230; In the&nbsp;<\/em><em>end<\/em><em>&nbsp;they give up on you. They just don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to be there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Joyce&#8217;s family was noticeably absent during events last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Images: Stefan Postles\/Getty Images and Facebook<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s apparently &#8220;<em>madly in love<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barnaby Joyce reveals he\u2019s expecting a baby with former staff member - 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