Strictly’s Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec welcome first little one
The married couple introduced the joyful news with a photograph which confirmed Manrara, 39, in a hospital mattress cradling the new child child whereas Skorjanec, 33, leaned over them with a beaming smile.
They mentioned the child was born on Friday and had been named Lyra Rose Skorjanec within the joint Instagram put up on Saturday.
Friends and well-known faces congratulated the couple, together with Strictly Come Dancing skilled Gorka Marquez who wrote “so gorgeous!!!”
His fiancee, actress Gemma Atkinson, who gave beginning to their second little one this week, mentioned “just wonderful”.
Strictly star Oti Mabuse added “CONGRATULATIONS best news ever” and Amy Dowden described the child as “utter perfection”.
The couple introduced in February they have been anticipating after they discovered Manrara was pregnant in early December, simply as they have been about to start out IVF remedy.
Manrara, who stop her function as an expert dancer two years in the past so they may attempt for a child, instructed Hello! journal that they’d begun pursuing the concept of IVF after they’d been attempting for a kid for the previous couple of years however “nothing was happening”.
The dancer-turned-presenter mentioned she was about to start out the injections when she found she was pregnant.
The skilled dancers met in 2010 when performing within the stay dance present Burn The Floor, they usually tied the knot in 2017.
They starred alongside one another on Strictly Come Dancing for a few years earlier than Manrara stepped down in 2021 to grow to be a co-host of the spin-off present It Takes Two.
Last 12 months Skorjanec introduced he was additionally leaving the BBC dance competitors after 9 years.