James Burrows has become a father for the first time.
The ‘Coronation Street’ actor – who plays Michelle Connor’s (Kym Marsh) biological son Ali Neeson on the cobbles – revealed the exciting news this week as he shared a snap of himself and girlfriend Sophie Coates as they enjoyed some time to themselves after the arrival of their daughter.
Taking to Instagram, he captioned the sweet photo: "Out with my beautiful girlfriend @sophie_coates baby free for a few hours while nana and grandad look after her #happyness (sic)"
James and his significant other discovered they are to become parents for the first time last year, and in March the soap star said he was "so excited" to meet his baby girl.
He said: "I’m so excited to be having a daughter; I can’t wait to meet her now."
The pair seem unlikely to have any issues choosing a name for their little one as Sophie admits they discussed baby monikers on their first date, and it only took the pair a month to get pregnant.
She said: "We’d only recently said we’d properly start trying. And a month later we fell pregnant."
But James admits he would’ve loved to have popped the question by now.
He said: "I’d liked to have got engaged before now. I was going to ask Sophie in Australia when we were visiting my family last November but then we found out we were expecting."
James took to Instagram last October to confirm he and Sophie were expecting, and admitted they are "over the moon" to find out she is pregnant.
He wrote: "Me and my beautiful girlfriend @sophie_coates are over the moon to announce that we’re having a baby. We can not contain our excitement we are so so happy x (sic)"
Corrie’s James Burrows has become a dad
