Shayne Ward has spoken of the moment his baby son arrived after doctors told him for months he was having a daughter.
The singer and his fiancee Sophie Austin were preparing for a girl after scans confirmed their child's sex - and even had 'her' nursery all set up.
They welcomed their second child Reign on June 11 and couldn't believe it when a little boy popped out.
He said: “For nine months you believe you having a girl. But a healthy baby is a healthy baby.
"Your initial reaction is ‘Excuse me?!’ but more than anything I just wanted the baby to be okay. And he absolutely was,” he said, speaking to Hello! magazine about the birth.
Shayne, 37, rose to fame after winning the second season of singing competition The X Factor and later went on to star in ITV soap Coronation Street.
The couple also share a five-year-old daughter, Willow.
Speaking about Willow’s reaction to her new brother, he said: “We’ve let her come around him in her own time.
“It’s been really heart-warming to see how she’s built her own little friendship with him already.
“Every morning she says ‘Can I see him, can I see him?’ She was reading stories to him last night and is always wanting to be near him.”
Sophie, 38, who starred in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks for almost three years, revealed how she and her husband-to-be decided on their son’s name after being unprepared for naming a boy.
She said: “There was one name I had heard that I had liked, which was Reign, and Shayne loves anything medieval."
He added: "As soon as she suggested it, I thought it was nice.
“My middle name is Thomas and Austin is after Sophie’s father.
“I thought that Reign Thomas Austin Ward sounded really good and it just fitted him.”
After conceiving Reign naturally following failed attempts at IVF, Sophie also spoke of his delight at now having a family of four.
“I can’t believe we have got one of each,” he said.
“We are so blessed with this journey that we’ve been on – after we did IVF, this all happened naturally.
“I wasn’t fussed if it was a boy or girl, I just knew I had to have another child.
“I was over the moon that I was a dad again.”
The full interview with Shayne Ward is available in Hello! magazine, on newsstands now.
