Soap star Stephanie Davis reveals she is expecting a baby boy

Soap star Stephanie Davis has revealed she is expecting a baby boy with her partner Joe Mckalroy in the new year.

The former Hollyoaks and Coronation Street actress, 31, already has seven-year-old son Caben with ex-partner Jeremy McConnell, who she met in the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2016.

Announcing the pregnancy in an interview with OK! magazine, she revealed she had been on a “roller coaster” after she experienced a miscarriage in 2022.

She told the outlet: “After my previous miscarriage, I thought, ‘God’s going to be good to us, it’ll be plain sailing.’

“But that’s not how life works. It’s been… a roller coaster.”

After the actress became pregnant, she said there were fears the baby would not survive due to her having low levels of a type of pregnancy hormone.

“The doctor said he believed I was having another miscarriage – or an ectopic pregnancy,” she recalled.

“But I wasn’t having it, I had this strong gut feeling that it was all going to be OK.”

Davis said that a few days later she received a call from one of the nurses to tell her the hormone levels had tripled, describing it as a “miracle”.

She later discovered she had a haematoma, which is when a collection of blood is located outside the blood vessels, according to the NHS.

After a period of bed rest, she was told the haematoma had disappeared and the baby was fine, the magazine said.

Davis is known for starring as Sinead O’Connor in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks and as Courtney Vance in ITV’s Coronation Street.

Mckalroy also shared a baby reveal video to his Instagram which featured black-and-white clips of the pair posing on a pier together.

It also included sonogram photos and pictures of the couple with Caben.

“Half of me & Half of you. I love you @stephaniedavis88,” he wrote alongside the post.

She returned the sentiment in the comments, writing: “My world. My Soul mate. And now we have half of each other, the greatest gift in life our miracle.

“I couldn’t love you more.”