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Kin star Emmett J Scanlan and Hollyoaks actress wife Claire Cooper expecting new baby

Kin star Emmett J Scanlan and his wife Claire Cooper have announced they are expecting another child, with the Dublin actor also back on home soil to film season two of the hit crime show.

Scanlon, who married his former Hollyoaks co-star in 2015, shared their happy news on social media this week.

Posting a photo of their son touching her baby bump, Emmett, who is best known on screen these days for playing gangster Jimmy Kinsella in RTE’s Kin, said: “Incoming…#ScanClan”.

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The couple also share son Ocean-Torin Scanlan, who is nearly two. Scanlan also has a daughter, Kayla, from a previous relationship.

Cooper also shared the same sweet snap as her husband, and wrote: "Our family is growing."

Fans and famous friends rushed to congratulate the couple, with Hollyoaks favourite Gemma Atkinson writing: “Beautiful. such lovely news! Congratulations x”

Irish presenter Maia Dunphy penned: “Oh such lovely news!”

Read more: Kin season 2: RTE announce hit Dublin crime series will get second series

The announcement comes as the UK based Irish star confirmed he is back on home soil to film the second series of Kin.

He posted snaps from behind the scenes, to the backdrop of Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back in Town.

RTE green-lit season 2 of the popular crime show back in February. Each week viewers were enthralled by the unravelling of the Kinsella family which starred Clare Dunne (Herself), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Charlie Cox (Daredevil), and Ciaran Hinds (Belfast).

The eight-part drama charted the lives of the Kinsellas, a small but tight-knit crime family embroiled in a war against a powerful drug kingpin, Eamon Cunningham (played by Hinds).

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