Matthew Wolfenden doesn’t mind whether his next child is a girl or a boy.
The ‘Emmerdale’ actor – whose wife and co-star Charley Webb is pregnant with their third child – admitted although his family is very male dominated, he doesn’t mind if they welcome another son into the world instead of their first daughter.
Matthew – who has sons Buster, nine, and Bowie, three, with his partner – was asked about having a baby girl, and told ITV’s ‘Loose Women’: "As long as they’re healthy [I don’t mind].
"I come from a long line of boys, and there’s four Wolfenden cousins and we’ve got seven grandchildren, they’re all boys. It’s not looking likely, but who knows?"
The soap star’s alter ego David Metcalfe recently discovered his girlfriend Maya Stepney (Louisa Clein) has been grooming his son Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) for months.
While the show’s difficult storyline has had critics regarding its more "disturbing" elements, the 39-year-old actor insisted that was the tone the show needed to go for.
He explained: "There was a lot of people that hated the storyline and they couldn’t watch it, but that’s kind of what we wanted to do. We didn’t want it to be in any way a schoolboy fantasy of a young boy and an older teacher. We had to make it gross, we had to make it disturbing."
Matthew admitted the storyline has made him "more aware" as a parent of certain safety issues with young children, and he hopes it has done the same for other people.
He said: "I think with young children, you’re always aware but that has completely made me more aware. My oldest boy’s nine now and they’re working from iPads at school, they’re getting to bring iPads home. The school sent out a memo, we all went in and talked about online safety.
"I’m not saying that’s come from the ‘Emmerdale’ storyline but if it’s made people more aware of what can happen, then it’s done a really good job."
Matthew Wolfenden doesn’t mind if he has another son instead of a daughter
