Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Lance Black have welcomed their second child together.
The couple announced the surprise baby news on Wednesday, much to the surprise of their adoring fans.
Olympic diver Tom, 28, and his husband, 48, never previously revealed they were expecting another child.
Their joyful news was shared in The Times with an announcement revealing that the couple had welcomed a second son on March 28.
Tom and Dustin, who are already proud parents to Robert Ray, 5, have named their second son Phoenix Rose.
The smitten couple, who tied the knot in 2017, welcomed their first child - Robert - together via surrogacy in 2018.
Tom and his American screenwriter husband previously explained why they decided to go through the surrogacy process in America instead of the UK.
At the time, Tom previously revealed that in the UK, both surrogates and parents are not afforded the same legal rights - something which turned him off trying to go ahead with the process in his own country.
"We looked into it in the UK and in the US. In the UK it's a lot more complicated because surrogates aren't as well protected legally, intended parents aren't protected legally, it's just not safe, there's a lot of hurdles to have to jump over," Tom said after the pair welcomed their first child.
"In the US, everything is regulated in a way that keeps everyone safe and in the US the surrogacy process is a lot more streamlined."
Tom and Dustin's adorable baby news comes after the Olympic diver recently opened up about his journey to fatherhood, his experience with surrogates, and the difficulties same sex couples face when it comes to starting a family of their own.
The much-loved star revealed that losing his own father, Robert, who passed away in 2011 aged 40 following a cancer battle, cemented his desire to become a father himself.
He also said that husband Dustin’s own personal losses – his brother died of cancer in 2012 – also left them wanting to have a child.
Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast last year, Tom revealed: “For as long as I could remember, I have wanted to be a parent.
"I think because of the relationship with my mum and dad, we were so close and then, when I lost my dad, it was like, I want to be everything that he was to me to someone else because every child deserves to have what I had with my dad because it was such a special relationship, we were so close.”
The diver explained: “Once I started to realise that I was gay, it was like, how am I going to have children in the future? What does this look like for me? What are the options?
“And having to figure out exactly how that was going to work, looking down the routes of adoption, surrogacy and all of those different things.”
He continued: “It is a lot more complicated for same sex parents to have children and you have to really think about it and like really, really want to have kids in order to be able to make it work and it’s extremely complex for same sex couples in a number of different ways.
“Lance and I had lost so many people in our families and there was something about surrogacy that we were drawn to that just meant that we could pass on the people that we’d lost, their genes and their thoughts, their feelings, their personalities and being able to bring someone into the world, that felt so extremely special.”
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