Emmerdale star Jay Kontzle has welcomed his third child with his wife Mimi.
The actor, who plays Billy Fletcher on the soap, revealed Mimi gave birth on Friday, adding both his wife and baby were doing well after the labour.
The actor, originally from Crewe, Cheshire, already shares KaiBo, six and Zian, four, with his artist wife Mimi, who he married in 2017.
Sharing the exciting news, Jay said as he shared a sweet photo of his child's feet: "We're excited to announce that on Friday 18th November we were blessed with our third child. Mummy did amazing and both her and the baby are healthy and well.
"Here's hoping it's our last!", he told OK! Magazine.
Jay previously spoke to OK! about the surprise pregnancy, telling how he was left in shock and "sweating" after Mimi delivered the news while he was on his lunch break at the ITV soap.
“Mimi called me during my lunch break on set and told me,” he told the publication.
“I was sitting eating lunch in the sun and all of a sudden I went hot and started dripping with sweat. I was a bit shocked!” he laughed.
“Before that, Mimi had said she wanted to get a pregnancy test and I said, ‘A pregnancy test? That’s a lot of money that, especially with the cost of living going up.’
"Then I was in work and she decided to throw a spanner in the works over lunch!”
The baby was so much of a surprise that Mimi had given away all their baby stuff a week before they found out as she was so sure she "didn’t think it would happen".
The couple want to keep up their family tradition of giving their children Chinese names, in honour of Mimi's heritage.
Jay met Mimi when she attended a gig he was playing in Nantwich, Cheshire alongside his former bandmates in The Mend.
Mimi went along with her sister, who was a big fan. They tied the knot in 2017 and welcomed their daughter to the world a few weeks later.
Britain’s Got Talent lovers will remember Jay as one quarter of boyband who made it through to the live finals in 2012.
