Emmerdale actor Jay Kontzle has announced the safe arrival of his third child with wife Mimi as she shares an adorable first picture.
The soap star, who plays Billy Fletcher on the ITV soap, and his artist wife already two children - KaiBo, six, and Zian, four, and said the news of the third came as a bit of a shock.
And now in an exclusive interview with our colleagues at OK! Magazine, Jay shared the happy news, he said: “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!"
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Jay went on to explain that his wife was due at the end of November, however, she was induced last Wednesday and the new addition to the Kontzle family arrived on Friday. Jay shared a sweet snap of the baby, whose name and gender they have not yet revealed, on his Instagram stories.
The baby was pictured in a grey mosses basket alongside Jay and Mimi's two children, who looked proud as punch as they smiled for the camera with their new sibling.
It comes after the 30-year-old actor said he was "sweating" when he found out about the surprise new addition. Mimi broke the news while Jay was on his lunch break between filming on set.
In an interview back in July, 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.”
Mimi had given away all of their baby stuff the week previous, convinced they wouldn't be having any more. Jay explained that they "didn’t think it would happen".
Mimi, 32, laughed as she told of Jay's reaction, she said: “I rang him and said, ‘You’re never going to guess what? I’m pregnant!’ He replied, ‘You’re not!’ And I said, ‘I am!’”, “She was so casual – and there I was sweating!” Jay added.
The couple, who have been married six years, met when Mimi attended one of Jay's gigs in Cheshire alongside his former band mates in The Mend, prior to landing his Emmerdale role Jay was one quarter of the boyband who made it through to the live finals in 2012.
Mimi attended the gig with her sister, who was a big fan, the pairs paths collided and the rest they say was history. Jay and Mimi married in 2017 and welcomed their daughter to the world a few weeks later.
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