Vicky Pattison has surprised her adoring fans by announcing she in now a family of four following a late arrival this Christmas.
The former Geordie Shore favourite had teased the latest addition to her family with fiancé Ercan Ramadan when she shared a photo of a Max name tag to her 5.2 million Instagram followers on Christmas Eve.
Vicky and Ercan are already the proud owners of Labrador Milo but the couple "fell in love" with chocolate brown Labrador Max during a recent visit to Many Tears Animal Rescue in Llanelli.
The I'm A Celeb star had been working with the dog shelter during the year and documented the adoption process of their latest family member with a lengthy video on her Instagram account of her visiting the site.
But it was on her Instagram Stories where she opened up further about helping Many Tears Animal Rescue on Christmas Eve morning to "spoil all the precious babies" who were spending Christmas at the shelter before collecting Max to take home for the first time.
Among the videos where Vicky gave piles of donations to the shelter, she posted her first photo of her "babies" before they made the journey back to her Essex home.
Vicky wrote:"The first ever photo of my babies together... Look at how proud Max looks to come home man. "I just wanted to say a huge thank you to @manytearsrescue for trusting us with this special responsibility..."
Vicky then snapped the two dogs lying down near the dining table, with the caption: "Greedy boys trying to work out how to get mammy's dinner," followed by a crying laughing emoji.
She finished her Stories with a Boomerang video of the two pups chewing on a bone, adding: "My house is trashed, we're exhausted... but at least they're happy #mybabies."
Vicky had recently revealed her and Ercan have visited a clinic to undergo fertility testing and will be fertilising eggs - with the resulting embryos due to be frozen so they can begin their family at a later date.
Opening up about her story, Vicky wrote via Instagram: "We each had a series of scans and tests - I've got to be honest, it was a sight to behold watching erc toddle off clutching his little cup for his 'sample'. And luckily we're all healthy and in a good position to prepare for the egg retrieval process in the new year!
"Then if everything goes to plan we'll make our gorgeous little embryos and our frozen family will be there waiting for us. When we do decide to start that next chapter of lives."
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