Anna Nightingale has welcomed a second child.
The Emmerdale actress gave birth on Wednesday, December 1 and shared the happy news with OK! magazine.
Anna - famed for playing Andrea Tate on the ITV soap - also revealed that she and fiancé Daren Dixon named their newborn Ava Noëlle.
Soap star Anna and doting dad Daren - who are already parents to their four-year-old daughter Autumn - are enjoying their new addition and are glad she arrived ahead of Christmas.
The couple told the outlet: "Just in time for Christmas our little pudding has arrived safe and well. The four of us are home and in our cosy bubble of sleepless nights and endless cuddles."
In September, Anna revealed the exciting news that she was expecting.
She typed on Instagram alongside a snap of her growing bump: "Surprise. It’s been the hardest secret to keep but we @darendixon, Autumn and I are SO excited to finally announce our little family is about to get bigger Out tomorrow in @ok_mag #wemustbemad #itwasntjustfood #familyof4 #bigsisterpending.
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Before giving birth, Anna told the glossy magazine how she shared the news to daughter Autumn that she was to become a big sister.
Anna broke the news of her pregnancy to her young daughter by creating a ‘movie trailer’ which told a fairytale of a little girl who was soon to become an older sister.
In the same interview, the star also dished on the daily cravings she had including watermelon and kebab shop pickles.
Last October Anna took part in filming stunt-packed episodes for Emmerdale as her character Andrea Tate run for her life.
After shooting the scenes, Anna told the Mirror how it was "tough" to do whilst pregnant by that she was proud of herself.
She said: "There were really tough days. Then there were days I felt really empowered and thought, ‘Wow, I’m going to show these episodes to my little one on their 18th birthday’. I’m going to say, ‘Look what mummy did when she was pregnant’!"
Telling on how she prepared, she added: "I knew the filming was going to be demanding so I prepared myself. I started swimming daily.
"I had a consultation with the doctor before we did these scenes and I had an incredible stunt and production team around me who said, ‘We’ll take your lead on this’.
"I had a body double, a woman called Belinda. She would do the main action parts – like Andrea falling or being pushed. But she also went above and beyond. She’d look out for hazards wherever we filmed. If we were climbing, she’d make sure I got up safely."
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