Boyzone star Ronan Keating and his wife Storm posted some sad family news on Instagram today just days after they announced they’re having their second baby together.
The couple’s little dog Paddy sadly passed away and Storm shared the news with an adorable photo on her Instagram account.
Little Paddy is pictured with the Keatings’ first child, Cooper, two.
It’s the cutest thing.
Alongside the photo, Australian-born Storm wrote: ‘With a heavy heart we say goodbye to our little Paddy (Leon). Born with a cleft pallet. What a fighter what a trooper. First of the litter to open his eyes, first to walk, and first to be properly house trained.
‘This world wasn’t for him. But he’s in doggy heaven with blondie & CC and the other beautiful pets that we have called family over the years.
‘Thank you Anne for the way you took care of him and to @profnoelfitzpatrick and the team @fitzpatrick_referrals who have shown him love and care in our mutual fight to give him a long and good life.
‘We may not have succeeded at making it a long one, but boy it was a good one – he was never short of affection and care. He was the most special animal we have ever known.
‘God bless you Pads.’
So it’s a bittersweet time for the couple as they announced just four days ago that they were having another baby.
Ronan went on Magic FM on Tuesday 26 November and, amidst joking around with presenter Harriet Scott and Tom Price, he said: ‘We have a story that actually matters.
‘Storm and I are having a baby!’
Later that day Storm, 38, posted an Instagram photo of Cooper kissing her baby bump.
She added: ‘Another little Keating is on the way.’
This family is just too wonderful.
Ronan, 42, met Storm, a designer and producer, on the Australian version of the X Factor in 2011 and they started dating.
The loved-up couple got married four years later and welcomed Cooper into the world in April 2017.
Ronan also had three children, Jack, 20, Missy, 18, and Ali, 14, with his ex-wife Yvonne Connolly but they split after Ronan had an affair with backup dancer Francine Cornell.
Storm was also married once before to Tim Ivers and they split after three years of marriage.
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