Emmerdale star Jay Kontzle has announced a new and exciting project away from his role as Billy Fletcher on the long running ITV soap.
The 31-year-old actor and former musician took to social media to share the news that he will be featuring in a short film which is "doing the festival run".
Jay posted a snap of the film's poster to his 44.1k Instagram followers, he captioned the post: "Proud to announce my second short film is currently doing the festival run and already picked up a few laurels!
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"Huge thanks to all involved as everyone brought something special to make this film!" The poster gave fans a sneak peak to some of the other actors involved in the project, which is titled "Bring back my Bonnie", including EastEnders star Timothy West.
Jay's fans and fellow co-stars were quick to comment congratulating him on his achievement. Emmerdale star Amy Walsh, who plays his on-screen partner, Tracy Metcalfe, responded with clapping emojis, while commenting on the "excellent cast".
It comes just a month after Jay announced that he is expecting his third child with wife Mimi, with the news coming as a bit of a shock to the couple who were not trying.
The soap star said he was "sweating" when he found out about the surprise new addition to the family. Jay and his artist wife, Mimi, already share two children KaiBo, six and Zian, four. Mimi broke the news that she was expecting whilst Jay was on his lunch break between filming on set.
In an exclusive interview with our colleagues at OK! Magazine, Jay said: “Mimi called me during my lunch break on set and told me, 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! 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!”
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