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Scarlet Howes & Katie Fitzpatrick

Former Corrie star Chris Quinten, 61, and his 21-year-old fiancee say they have plans to start a family

Former Coronation Street star Chris Quinten and his fiancee Robyn Delabarre have revealed they plan to start a family.

Smitten Chris, 61, recently popped the question at 21-year-old Robyn's surprise birthday party - and now they're busy looking forward to the future together.

The pair want to get married abroad next summer and children are definitely in their future plans.

Speaking with the Sunday Mirror Chris said: “She found out my mum was called Thelma and she loves that name so we are thinking of that for our first daughter.”

Robyn added: “He only has daughters so I would like to give him a boy. I put our age gap aside when it comes to thinking of  children.

"It’s never going to work if I think about it, so I’m just going to try to have a baby.”

The happy couple got engaged on Robyn's 21st birthday (Sunday Mirror)

“When I’m 90 I will be running around playing football with my future son,” said Chris.

Robyn, whose nan used to fancy Chris when he played Gail Rodwell's late husband Brian Tilsley in Corrie , met her husband-to-be at Secrets strip club in Hammersmith, where Robyn worked as a dancer and Chris is the manager.

The pair, who had been dating for seven months, kept their relationship under wraps until they were caught out after a holiday together in Turkey.

Chris went down on one knee (Robyn Delabarre/Facebook)

Club manager Chris, who left Corrie in 1989, claimed he was travelling up north to see his daughter, but returned with a tan.

Robyn has since moved to Secrets in Holborn.

Chris was married to American talk show host Leeza Gibbons from 1989 to 1991 and he has a daughter Sydney Kristina with ex partner Alison Slater.

Speaking on the ITV chat show This Morning Robyn said her mum, who is 38, and her dad, who is 40, had found the age gap between them "difficult at first."

And Chris said: "I could be her grandad."

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