Some of you might have suspected that Lleyton and Bec (sorry, Rebecca) Hewitt's 'baby joy' news of yesterday was conveniently timed to coincide with, say, a mortgage repayment, or perhaps a very expensive piece of furniture that Rebecca just had to have.

Well, o' ye of little faith, who's laughing... oh, what? Right, looks like they did get a lump sum.

Despite earlier denying widespread rumours the former Home and Away star was pregnant with their second child, the Hewitts confirmed the happy news to a women's magazine yesterday - for an estimated six-figure sum.

The baby, due in January, will be a sibling for the couple's two-year-old daughter Mia, whose birth, conception and early milestones were sold in a reported $1 million magazine deal.

The latest tell-all, posed at the Hewitts' luxury Wimbledon rental home, is rumoured in management circles to have netted the celebrity parents $100,000.

The phrase "luxury rental home" sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, doesn't it? Sort of like "delicious cardboard souffle", or "Lara 'Intellegent' Bingle".

Anyway, gee whiz, what a surprise, who knew they were only in it for the money, etc and so forth.

 

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