It’s a nappy day for EastEnders star Sid Owen who has revealed that he’s set to become a dad for the first time at 49. The soap star, who played Ricky Butcher in EastEnders, is expecting a baby with his partner Victoria Shores, 42.
And as if that wasn’t reason enough to celebrate, the happy couple have also announced they are engaged. Speaking with the Sunday Mirror, Sid said: ‘I never ever dreamt I would have kids.
The older you get the more distant that idea seems, you give up hope sometimes, so it is a miracle it has happened. ‘I was completely shocked and over the moon.
I’m glad I am doing it now rather than in my 20s, I would have been a rubbish dad then.’ Sid and Victoria, who first met in 1998, rekindled their romance during lockdown
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