Former EastEnders star Kellie Shirley has exclusively shared her exciting baby news, revealing she’s pregnant with a boy.
The actress, who played Carly Wicks in the BBC soap, admitted the pregnancy came as a “shock” at the age of 41, especially as she “barely sees her husband”, writer Phil Davis.
The new addition, who is due in March, will join siblings, Louie and Pearl, the couple’s seven-year-old twins.
Kellie told how finding out the gender had helped her to connect to her baby following the big surprise.
Speaking to OK!, she said: “We found out we’re having another boy. As the pregnancy was a shock, I felt like I wanted to be able to connect with the baby more. I didn’t have a preference – I just want the baby to be healthy.”
Kellie shared the news with her twins when she reached 18 weeks and was starting to show and detailed how they both had very different reactions. The couple are yet to decide on a name.
She said: “Pearl was so excited and has been drawing lovely little cards and a welcome pack,” says Kellie.
“But Louie cried and said, ‘Oh, you will love the baby more than me!’ But he’s coming round to the idea.”
Kellie discovered she was pregnant while filming CBeebies show Biff & Chip in Manchester when she suddenly started to feel unwell.
She thought her sickness was down to it being the height of summer, until an on-show medic suggested she might be pregnant.
She said: “I was literally on my hands and knees feeling horrendous and the on set medic called John, said, ‘Are you sure you’re not pregnant?’. I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m hardly seeing my husband! It’s just this heat.’
“Then I was being sick for a couple of weeks and he said, ‘Go and get a pregnancy test’, so I did.
"It came back positive straightaway. I was like, ‘Oh my God, John was right!’ It was a really lovely surprise. I feel very lucky.”
Kellie has been with her husband, Phil, since 2004, when they met on a night out in a Manchester nightclub.
The actress, who married Phil in 2010,first found fame playing Carly Wicks – Shirley Carter’s daughter – in EastEndersfrom 2006 to 2008 and briefly in 2012.
Since then, she had had more than 50 screen roles under her belt, including the recent ITV police drama Ridley, featuringLine Of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar , and Sky One’s In The Long Run, which was created by and starredIdris Elba.
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