Gregg Wallace has welcomed a baby boy with wife Anna Sterpini after years of struggling to conceive.
The MasterChef star introduced his baby son Sid to the world in a shoot with OK! magazine, and got seriously emotional as he spoke about his birth – saying it was much scarier than when he had his children Tom and Libby from his second marriage.
The 54-year-old said: ‘I don’t know if it’s because it took us so long to conceive or perhaps it’s because I’m older, but I was scared for their health. I could have hugged the doctors.’
Gregg was ‘down the business end’ as his 33-year-old wife gave birth, and said: ‘I saw him take his first breath, it was just beautiful. I looked at him and thought he was perfect.’
However, as Anna recovered from childbirth, former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Gregg went on the lash when Sid was just a day old – racking up a £2,000 bill in a private dining room in a session lasting for 10 hours.
Luckily, Anna didn’t mind too much as she was being looked after by her parents in the hospital, with Gregg saying: ‘If she hadn’t been happy about it, I wouldn’t have gone.’
Anna and Gregg had been trying to start a family for two years and were considering turning to IVF to make their dreams come true.
However, just as they were due to start treatment, Anna fell pregnant naturally, with doctors calling it a ‘miracle’.
Sid’s birth date hasn’t been revealed, although the tot was due on 9 May.
Read the full interview in OK! magazine, out on Tuesday.
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