Margrit, who manages her daughter's double act with twin sister Monica, said: "I would have preferred it if such a personal matter had not been disclosed publicly."

The Cheeky Girls live in Rye and have made appearances at Thomas Peacocke College events and a Christmas Fair for children ar Rye Harbour.

Gabriela, 25, discovered she was pregnant, by the Lib Dem MP in June.
The couple originally met at a charity event in London two years ago and announced their engagement in April.

Opik, 43, proposed to Gabriela in Rome beside the Trevi fountain.
She had told OK magazine she was looking forward to a lavish white wedding in a castle, but it was recently announced the engagement was off.

In a recent interview tearful Gabriela told of the moment her pregnancy went wrong, as she returned home to Rye, Sussex, after a charity run in London with fellow Cheeky star and twin sister Monica.

"I felt the most awful cramps in my stomach. I never experienced that much pain in my life. It was agony and I didn't know what to do.

"I wanted to call my mum Margit because she used to be a midwife back in Romania—but I'd kept the baby secret from her too.

"By the time we got back home it had turned into a chronic pain and I couldn't sit down. I dragged myself upstairs and ran a bath hoping it would go away.

"But it was like a knife stabbing me and I thought I was dying. I totally panicked and started screaming for my mum. She came rushing in, saw the blood and said, 'Oh my God!'

"I was in shock and knew something really bad was happening. But Mum didn't get hysterical she just coped with everything and got me to bed. I didn't have to tell her I was pregnant, she knew. She thinks I must have been five or six weeks gone."

Gabriela said her first thoughts on learning she was pregnant were for Monica and their career together.
She said: "The Cheeky Girls are a duo. But I knew I couldn't go through an abortion.

See Friday's Rye Observer for full story