Rate My Takeaway star Danny Malin and his vegan health guru girlfriend, Sophie Mei Lan, recently announced they are expecting their first child together.
The 43-year-old, who is already a dad-of-two, is set to become a father once again after receiving some unexpected news. Incredibly, it comes a decade on from Danny having had a vasectomy.
Both Danny and Sophie are already parents and the pair met when Sophie interviewed the fast food star for her own YouTube channel.
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The 34-year-old who has a big following of her own, said yes to Danny's proposal just a month after they first met in November and now the pair have been delivered a surprise as Sophie is expecting, with the baby due in September.
Danny and Sophie have four children altogether from previous relationships. Danny's are Summer, 13, and George, 11, while Sophie has Jasmine, 11, and Arianna, eight.
Danny has been caring for them himself after tragedy struck two years ago when his fiancée Carrie Taylor died aged 40 following a heart attack. He previously spoke of his worry that he'd never find love again and of spiralling weight gain due to comfort eating, his full schedule with four kids to take care of and work on top.
And now Sophie has opened up about finding each others and their journey to their 'miracle baby' over on her blog.
She penned: "I didn’t think my dream would ever come true. Yes, we don’t have the material ‘ideal situation’ whatever that is to have a baby but actually, together we are in the perfect situation.
"But after talking about IVF, and assuming we would need a miracle to conceive, despite for once being in the safest and most perfect relationship we could ask for, I tried to accept that we may not conceive. Well, this is how I felt but Danny seemed confident that we would.
"We were both gutted on Chinese New year however, when we were sure we were pregnant and the test showed a negative result. Worst still my periods had stopped again and I had only had two in the past 18 months.
"I felt a weird grief but knowing I had Danny was enough to keep me going and smiling. Even my IBS began making me look swollen and pregnant. Women I taught bellydance to kept asking if I was pregnant. So I kept going home to Danny crying."
Sophie continued: "Then one evening I warned Danny I definitely wasn’t pregnant but I’d bought a test from Poundland just in case. It showed on both tests two faint lines – meaning I was pregnant.
"But I’d bought cheap pregnancy tests so I assumed it was a false positive even though they say you only get false negatives.
"Danny and I were chuffed but concerned, so off to late night Asda we went for a Clear Blue test. He kept getting recognised as we sheepishly went to buy a few tests so I scuttled off to the loos once we had bought them, promising Danny we wouldn’t look until we were back in his van.
"I couldn’t look, I asked Danny to do it as I felt sick. But it confirmed that a miracle had happened, we were 3+ weeks pregnant."
"For both of us, we had never expected to eventually find our soul mate, especially after all the trauma we had both been through but finally, we had discovered an unconditionally loving relationship with another human.
"We are both absolutely ecstatic, it is better than our dreams coming true. We are already blessed with four children at home between us who we love more than anything and now we have another beautiful baby to add to our growing family."
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