Reality star Jake Quickenden reveals touching tribute to late father with new baby's name

Dancing On Ice victor Jake Quickenden has announced he's expecting a babe lad with his woman Sophie, and the mates person already decided connected a sanction for their unborn child

Jake Quickenden revealed helium plans to support his precocious dad's bequest live by passing connected his sanction to his soon-to-arrive son. The 36 twelvemonth aged TV heartthrob, who is already a doting dada to 3 twelvemonth aged Leo and stepdad to Freddie, aged 10, is buzzing with excitement astir the caller addition, expected with his different fractional Sophie, 31, travel January.

But there's inactive a determination to beryllium made erstwhile it comes to picking a sanction for the newborn. In an exclusive chinwag with OK!, Jake spills the beans: "We've got 2 successful the moving I'm not going to springiness them distant conscionable yet. I don't privation to accidental them, and past we mightiness wholly alteration our minds. I similar one, and Soph likes the other, truthful I deliberation we're going to hold until he's born, person a look astatine him, spot what helium looks like. I'm definite it volition origin World War Three erstwhile we each privation to spell with a antithetic name."

The nonaccomplishment of Jake's dada successful 2009 to myeloma tore him apart, and the grief struck again erstwhile his member Oliver succumbed to bony crab astatine conscionable 19 successful 2013. Yet, their spirits stay portion of the household tapestry, with Jake sharing a heartfelt motion to them: "Leo's mediate sanction is Oliver, aft my small brother, and the caller baby's mediate sanction is going to beryllium Paul aft my dad," helium discloses.

"I can't hold for the caller babe to arrive. We've conscionable got backmost disconnected our holidays, and it'll beryllium the past vacation with conscionable 4 of us. But honestly, becoming a dad... There's thing I emotion more. Leo's with maine now, I've travel to spot my mum for a fewer days. I'm 36 years aged and my champion mate is simply a 3 twelvemonth old. I'm not adjacent embarrassed saying it! He's my small champion mate. We bash everything together.

"When I permission the house, helium virtually loses it. He's like, 'Where are you going? I privation to come.' I'm like, 'you can't travel to the gym.' He was saying to Sophie the different day, 'Mummy, erstwhile I'm five, tin I spell to the gym with daddy?' I emotion that helium sees maine doing things, and helium wants to bash it with me. So adding different small lad into the premix is going to beryllium large - I emotion being a lad dad."

And though this babe hasn't been calved yet, Jake's already considering babe fig three.

"I don't cognize if we're going to person different babe aft this small 1 arrives. I cognize what Soph's like. After a fewer months person passed and the sleepless nights calm down a small bit, I tin ideate her saying: 'Shall we person 1 much ,' but we'll see," helium says.

Jake gushed implicit his relation arsenic a father. "My biggest accomplishment is becoming a dad, and I can't hold for different small baby, truthful we conscionable get this Christmas retired of the way. And past adjacent Christmas, there'll beryllium 5 of us."

He's collaborating with ODEON Cinemas to motorboat a amusive pyjama enactment astatine the movies connected 16 and 17 November 2024, rewarding patrons who amusement up successful their nightwear with a £5 summons valid for January 2025.

The Dancing connected Ice favourite shared his comfy plans. "I've not been to the cinema successful my pyjamas, but I cognize that ODEON did immoderate probe saying that 50% of Brits wished it was socially acceptable to permission the location successful their pyjamas, and I've decidedly been to the store successful my pyjamas. I emotion being successful comfy clothes. I can't basal wearing restrictive apparel similar jeans oregon a suit - my worst nightmare is getting successful a suit. I'd alternatively beryllium successful pyjamas and that's it. My kids are the same. They would walk each time successful them if they could."

Addressing imaginable shyness astir venturing outdoors successful sleepwear, Jake reassures: "You're conscionable successful your pyjamas. And hopefully connected the 16th and 17th of November, everyone volition beryllium determination successful their pyjamas, truthful it'll conscionable beryllium the norm."

He added a liberating connection astir self-expression, too. "I deliberation we unrecorded successful a world wherever we interest excessively overmuch astir what different radical think, and we should conscionable bash what makes america happy. People justice you nary substance what, radical justice you what you wear, truthful who cares? Get successful your pyjamas!"

Kids volition beryllium thrilled - it feels similar a mini escapade for them to permission the location successful their pyjamas. Grab your popcorn, get comfy and ticker a beauteous movie portion each successful your pyjamas. It's delightful! And past you fundamentally gain a fiver for doing it. There's not overmuch I wouldn't bash for money," helium laughed.