Coronation Street star Samia Ghadie, who plays Maria Connor in the soap, has given birth to a bouncing baby boy.
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They chose the first name as a tribute to the skater’s brother and the middle name after Samia’s later father.
It is the first baby for Ghadie and her fiance, Dancing On Ice’s Sylvain Longchambon.
The newborn entered the world at a healthy weight of 8lb 9oz.
Yves is the first child for ice skater Sylvain but is Samia’s second.
Sharing the news on Twitter she wrote: “slongchambon and I are so happy and in love beyond words with our handsome boy”.
The 33-year-old is also mum to daughter Freya from her previous marriage to property developer Matthew Smith.
The news of little Yves’s arrival comes just a couple of weeks after Samia shared a few other exciting future plans regarding her wedding to Sylvain. Online blog, Samia admitted she will miss being pregnant despite the back pain she’s suffered.
She then met Sylvain in 2013 when she appeared on Dancing on Ice. We are having a baby!! “We can’t wait to meet our little man in the flesh now!”
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The wedding planning will probably be on the back burner for now given that Yves is here though – congratulations, Samia and Sylvain!
