Jenna Coleman shows off blossoming bump after revealing she's expecting first child with boyfriend Jamie Childs

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-Credit: (Image: Dave Benett/Getty)


Jenna Coleman is expecting her first baby with partner Jamie Childs. Usually very secretive about her private life, Jenna revealed the happy news when she was pictured cradling her bump while attending an exhibition opening at Chatsworth House on Wednesday 19 June.

The actress, famous for her roles on Emmerdale, Doctor Who and The Sandman has again showed off her baby bump during a press event for her upcoming series, The Jetty.

Jenna looked radiant wearing a flowing floor length white and pink striped dress and posed during the photocall in aid of the new BBC drama at Soho Hotel on Thursday 20 June.

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Jenna is glowing as she poses at a BBC event -Credit:Dave Benett/Getty

In the upcoming drama, Jenna will play rookie detective Ember Manning who in the four-part series, must work out how a fire that tears through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.

As Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she’s always called home.

Also starring in the series are Archie Renaux, Bo Bragason, Amelia Bullmore and Ruby Stokes.

Jenna is expecting with her partner Jamie, who she met in 2020 on the set of Netflix hit, The Sandman. Jenna played one of the lead roles, and Jamie was director.

Aside from these snaps, Jenna is yet to speak about her pregnancy, and has never spoken publicly of her relationship with Jamie.

Prior to meeting Jamie, Jenna was in a relationship with actor Tom Hughes, who played her on-screen husband Prince Albert in ITV's period drama Victoria. She also dated Richard Madden, who starred in Bodyguard with Keeley Hawes and played Robb Stark in Game of Thrones.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 20: Jenna Coleman poses at a photocall for new BBC One Drama "The Jetty" at Soho Hotel on June 20, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images)

One of Jenna’s most recent hit series was Wilderness where she played Liv Taylor - a woman who has it all, until she discovers a shocking secret.

Jenna revealed: “Wilderness is a very big story. It’s about a woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her, and she begins to plot ways and means in which to kill him.

“But what ensues is a very different chain of events, almost like a roller-coaster or an acid trip. It’s a hallucinogenic, mad, trippy, wonky, unexpected journey for a character or any person to go on. It’s like a domino effect that’s uncontrollable and unstoppable.”