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Coronation Street star announces pregnancy just weeks after returning to the show

A Coronation Street star has revealed she is pregnant with her second child.

Verity Henry, who plays Rachel Healy, shared the happy news with her Instagram followers - as Mirror Online reports.

Verity is best known for her performance in the long-running soap's dark human trafficking story that unfolded in 2019 - which introduced show favourite Alina Pop.

READ MORE: Coronation Street character's drastic personality change shocks fans in tonight's show

Rachel Healy recently returned to the cobbles when Alina blamed the salon boss for starting the dramatic fire that broke out earlier this month.

And Verity made her joyous announcement that she is expecting a new addition to the family to coincide with her shock return to the ITV show.

Her post read: "Preggers. It hasn’t been an easy journey; so aware it isn’t for so many people New humans, worra thing eh? Photo taken by the v talented @lovetocraftmcr!"

The Coronation Street actress and her partner Adam Lawson are already parents to a three-year-old son named Cassius.

The soap's star's celebrity friends reached out to delighted at her happy news.

Former Hollyoaks star Rachel Adedeji said: "Beautiful! Congratulations hun"

TV actress Lisa McGrillis commented: "What an absolute BABE."

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on ITV and ITVHub.

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