Coronation Street star Julia Goulding is pregnant with her second child after she was pictured cradling her baby bump on the red carpet of the British Soap Awards on Saturday.
The actress, best known for playing Shona Ramsay in the show, she smiled for cameras and proudly displayed her bump in a black gown for the glitzy event.
Julia is already mum to Franklin Wolf, who was born in November 2019 with husband Ben Silver, who she married in 2019.
Announcing the happy news of her pregnancy back in May that year she said: "Ben and I are delighted to announce that we are expecting our first baby at the end of this year!
"We are absolutely overjoyed and can’t wait to meet our little one!"
The Soap Awards returned on Sunday night on ITV for an evening of continuing drama glitz and glamour after a two year absence due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The event will see the biggest soaps go head to head, as host Phillip Schofield returns to roll out the red carpet at The Hackney Empire in London.
Soap actors from the likes of Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Doctors will vie for Soap Award gongs as this year saw the awards become gender-neutral for the first time, with actors including Mark Charnock and Paige Sandhu battling it out for Best Leading Performer.
The ceremony is usually hosted in London or Manchester in recognition of where the soaps are set, with this year falling to London as the Hackney Empire welcomed stars of the small screen to celebrate.
The show is in safe hands with This Morning ’s Phillip, who has been at the helm since 2006 and hosted solo since 2009, having co-hosted from 2006 to 2008 with his former This Morning colleague Fern Britton.
Previous hosts have included Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, Matthew Kelly, Melanie Sykes and Des O'Connor, and Paul O'Grady.
The awards are split into viewer voted categories and panel voted categories decided by industry experts.
The annual British Soap Awards returns on ITV with a brand new public-voted gong for Best Family awarded at the event.
While the majority of the award nominations were announced prior to the event, the recipients of two other awards – the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Tony Warren Award – will be announced on the night.
