Simon and Bronagh Laverty from Craigavon were inspired to send in the footage after seeing Ring on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway show. In the clip captured on their Ring video doorbell, the father-to-be is seen walking out of the home with their gender reveal balloon before it suddenly bursts, revealing blue confetti. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Simon told Ring he was initially worried about knowing the gender before his wife when the balloon popped in front of him, but hadn’t realised their device had allowed her to immediately discover the gender in real time. After being notified of the motion outside via Ring’s advanced motion detection, Bronagh saw the reveal and called Simon asking: "What just happened?! Have we literally just found out what we’re having?” Simon recalls feeling a lot of different emotions in the moment but was both relieved and happy to hear his wife had seen the reveal as well. He explained how he rushed into town after the balloon popped to get a new one.
Advertisement Advertisement “To be honest we had to play along with the whole thing and make sure no one else knew that we found out before the new balloon had popped, as we didn’t want to ruin the surprise for everyone else.” The couple’s friends and family also found the clip incredibly funny. "We look back at the video all the time, it gives us .
