Tre Lowe is expecting his first child with his wife Enas Daeki!
The Apprentice star, 49, and his partner, 34, who is an author and refugee advocate, opened up on the ‘absolute blessing’ in an exclusive interview with MailOnline.
The entrepreneur also lifted the lid on his feelings towards becoming a father later in life, including his worries and how he plans to overcome them.
He explained: ‘I think it’s quite typical for us men, I don’t think we ever feel ready when it comes to having kids.
‘We’ve got a sense of ‘No, no, but we’ve got to build the nest and build the business and have this amount of money,’ and almost every man I know thinks that way.
‘But you’re never really ready, because you might be financially ready, but emotionally you’re not, but whatever you think, you’re ready for the actual reality of being parents is always going to be different.’
Tre Lowe is expecting his first child with his wife Enas Daeki!
The Apprentice star, 50, and his partner, 34, who is an author and refugee advocate, opened up on the ‘absolute blessing’ in an exclusive interview with MailOnline
He admitted: ‘So I think for me. It’s like ready or not. Here I come. I have no idea what it’s going to like to be a parent but it’s going to be an absolute blessing to me.’
Enas and Tre, who now live in London’s affluent Notting Hill, tied the knot last July.
Opening up on his concerns about his age, the TV star continued: ‘I’m going to turn 50 in January and even my family make jokes about, “Oh, you’re going to be an old dad, and you’re not going to be able to play football”
‘And I must admit every now and then, in my weaker moments, I say, “oh, my God, have I left it too late?” because people tend to think it’s women who think about that biological clock but I’ll tell you that men think of it too.
‘I do think about it, because when my child is going to university, I’m going to be like 70 or 71! And by the time it graduates I’m going to be like 75.’
Tre elaborated: ‘I do worry and think about whether ‘I’m still going to be healthy and well. I’m very fit for my age, and even though I look much younger than what I am, biologically, I am still what I am.
‘But like, I say, I think if you’re not going to live life in your discomfort zone, there’s no point living, and I always live by that motto.
‘I’m really big on taking chances. Hence. Why, I went on to The Apprentice, and I love really the competition that life is, and I think the harder it is, the harder you become.
‘Would I have loved to have been a dad at 30, sure. But at the same time, I think there’s a lot of wisdom and things that you can give to a child at 50 that you couldn’t have done at a younger age.
The entrepreneur also lifted the lid on his feelings towards becoming a father later in life, including his worries and how he plans to overcome them
He explained: ‘I think it’s quite typical for us men, I don’t think we ever feel ready when it comes to having kids’
He admitted: ‘So I think for me. It’s like ready or not. Here I come. I have no idea what it’s going to like to be a parent but it’s going to be an absolute blessing to me’
Enas and Tre, who now live in London’s affluent Notting Hill, tied the knot last July
‘So there’s always benefits, I think, no matter what. I think we’re in that age now where age doesn’t matter anymore. In that way I think you can do what you want and be what you want at any age, and I certainly believe I can be a great father at 50, and beyond.’
Enas agreed: ‘I did feel that pressure women go through about their biological clock. I always wanted to have kids in my thirties because I want them to be more of my friends.
‘And I want a closer age gap to them because my parents, when they had me, I’m adopted, they were old, like Dad had me when he was 50, and my mum probably was 40, something so.
‘There’s been a lot of times when my dad wasn’t well and my mum is not well, so I literally didn’t get to enjoy them as much as I want to. So there’s always that concern.’
She added: ‘But if I look at the whole picture, I’m so blessed to have a dad like my dad, and I’m so blessed to have a mum like my mum.
‘What they gave me unlike my friends with the younger parents wasn’t been able to get the same love, the same childhood, the same memories. So, there’s wisdom with age, there is beauty with age, and you can’t guarantee anything in life literally.’
The couple were also quizzed on whether they are considering Lord Sugar as a godparent, following his good relationship with Tre on the show.
Tre, who just missed out on the final when he was fired in the penultimate episode of this year’s series, gushed that the TV boss would be a ‘great godparent’.
Gushing about the gender of the baby, Tre revealed that they have decided they’re not going to find out the sex in advance
Enas said: ‘I did feel that pressure women go through about their biological clock. I always wanted to have kids in my thirties because I want them to be more of my friends’
The couple were also quizzed on whether they are considering Lord Sugar as a godparent, following his good relationship with Tre on the show
Tre, who just missed out on the final when he was fired in the penultimate episode of this year’s series, gushed that the TV boss would be a ‘great godparent’
He said: ‘God, if anything happened to me. I know my kid is going to be all right. If Lord Sugar was the godparent, can you imagine the wisdom that kid would have.
‘I was lucky in many ways, because you know my dad’s an entrepreneur as well. He came to this country penniless and made a small fortune for himself.
‘So, we’re lucky in that regard, and in Enas’s side of the family the have a property portfolio from Libya to here. But God!
‘If I could add Lord Sugar to the mix of that, my kid would be sorted. I mean, it would have the creativity of me, so that side would be sorted, and it would have the entrepreneurial side from Lord Sugar.’
At the age of 15, Tre was given an overdose of a drug following a routine appendectomy operation, which left him paralysed.
He regained his movement but was left with years of debilitating conditions, including severe tinnitus.
However, remaining positive, Tre said his hospital woes have given him ‘good grounding to make really good choices’.
The Apprentice star said: ‘We do a lot of extra scans, probably more than what normal parents, just because we want to be forearmed with as much knowledge as possible in order to make decisions.
He said: ‘God, if anything happened to me. I know my kid is going to be all right. If Lord Sugar was the godparent, can you imagine the wisdom that kid would have’
He explained: ‘We’ll get the envelope and not find out. We just had a scan today, and it seems like it’s a boy’
Enas added: ‘I want a closer age gap to them because my parents, when they had me, I’m adopted, they were old, like Dad had me when he was 50, and my mum probably was 40’
Tre said his hospital woes have given him ‘good grounding to make really good choices’ (pictured on This Morning in April)
‘Like I said, I think the bad things that happen to you in life actually make you stronger.
‘And because of what happened to me medically, it’s made me stronger and much more knowledgeable probably compared to most dads, certainly to my brothers who’ve been parents. They’re quite shocked at how much I actually do know, and how involved I am.
‘I’ve been very, very involved, very hands on, just because I love all things medical and wellness. What happened to me was actually a very good thing in hindsight.’
Discussing their cultures, Enas added: ‘It’s so rare for Libyans to marry like English or Nigerians, or something different from their culture.’
Despite being friends for six years before getting engaged in 2022, Enas previously said some of her family also disapproved of their relationship – because of their different, cultural backgrounds.
‘I don’t know any Libyans that did that before, but it’s exciting,’ she said, ‘because we both come from very rich cultures and a lot of traditions and beauty.’
Enas continued: ‘I would love the baby to learn from both cultures and definitely the restrictions, because we do also have restrictions. I try to filter that out as much as I can, because the beauty of it being English is that it’s free to be and do whatever it wants to do. ‘
Gushing about the gender of the baby, Tre revealed that they have decided they’re not going to find out the sex in advance.
He explained: ‘We’ll get the envelope and not find out. We just had a scan today, and it seems like it’s a boy.
‘For some reason it’s moving around a lot. It’s very boisterous, too naughty, it’s full of energy and only boys seem to be like that. Girls seem to be a bit more well behaved. I’ve always wanted a girl, but I just want a healthy, beautiful baby, whatever it is.’
