MasterChef Aldo reveals: ‘I'M GOING TO BE A DAD!'

The lovable reality star is cooking up some ideas for a family

- Olivia O'Brien

Not only did the pandemic prevent bubbly MasterChef star Aldo Ortado from sticking to his plan of jumping on a plane once a year to visit his beloved family in his native Italy, but he tells Woman’s Day it also railroaded his dreams of starting a family with husband Mark Spencer.

“We went down all the surrogacy processes and everything, but then COVID kicked in and we had to drop it,” Aldo, 35, tells Woman’s Day, revealing that the hold-up was “devastating”.

But the couple – who wed in October 2019 in picturesque Cape Miseno in the Gulf of Naples – are now back on track with their baby plans, thanks to a generous offer from Aldo’s sister Lucia, 26.

“[She] has offered to be our surrogate mother and she will eventually move to Australia,” Aldo tells Woman’s Day. “She knows how important family is for me and how important family is for us. I think that I’m destined to be a dad, so that’s in my not-far-away future – to have babies!”

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