CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers and Wife Marian Wang Are Expecting Their First Baby

Vladimir Duthiers

Vladimir Duthiers is going to be a dad!

The CBS News National Correspondent and anchor and wife Marian Wang, an award-winning senior news producer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, are expecting their first child, a rep for the couple confirms to PEOPLE.

The couple shares that they will welcome a baby girl early next year.

"Marian and I are truly blessed and beyond thrilled to meet our daughter early next year," Duthiers shares in a statement to PEOPLE. "I for one am especially excited to be a girl dad."

The baby girl will be the first child for both Duthiers and Wang. The couple first shared the exciting news on air during the 8:00 a.m. hour of CBS Mornings on Wednesday.

"I have a personal milestone. I got married during the pandemic, which was incredible, which was a milestone itself because I never thought it would happen. And now we are having a baby, and it's a baby girl," he told co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nathaniel Burleson.

"January 2023, we're welcoming our little girl and we are very, very happy," he added. "I'm going to be a girl dad, which is amazing. We're blessed. It's so challenging for people to have children and we don't take it lightly. It's not easy, but we're very blessed."

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Duthiers and Wang first met eleven years ago when Duthiers was a producer on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° while Wang was an investigative reporter at ProPublica. They tied the knot in Fire Island, New York in September 2020.

Their nuptials came as a huge surprise to his co-workers, who were informed of the news on when Duthiers returned to the studio for the first time since March.

"They got married?!" King, 65, said in a video shared to Twitter as images of Duthiers and Wang from their wedding day appeared on the screen.

"I didn't know this was happening!" said Dokoupil, 39.

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As the trio continued to admire photos from Duthiers' wedding, former co-host Anthony Mason, 64, said, "I'm so glad they made this happen. This is so great."

"That is a very good secret," King added, her fellow anchors confirmed they were unaware of the news as well.