Coronation Street star Calum Lill is set to become a dad for the first time after revealing his fiancee is pregnant.
The soap star 30, took to Instagram to share the happy news – posting a festive snap showing wife-to- be Roberta’s bump painted like a snowman as she held up a scan photo and the actor held a carrot to her belly.
“New character dropping April ‘26,” Calum wrote alongside the announcement. The couple have been together since 2021 and got engaged last year.
“About time I made an honest woman of her,” Calum joked at the time. The star told The Mirror he kept the engagement ring hidden in his dressing room at Corrie as he waited for the perfect moment. “I’m so glad for the ring to finally be on her finger!”
Calum Lill played Coronation Street villain Joel Deering, and was involved in the soap’s biggest whodunnit in years. Calum’s alter ego, lawyer Deering, was recently revealed to have battered missing Lauren Bolton with a chair leg.
And nobody was less impressed with the storyline than Calum’s own grandmother. Calum was sitting next to her on the sofa when she first watched the episode – and his video of her priceless reaction has now gone viral on social media. “You mean to tell me my grandson’s a killer? You battered her!,” she asks. “I can’t believe that. Honest to goodness!”
The TikTok clip has now been watched over 8 million times.
Following the unlikely hit, Calum said he believes he owes his career to his gran’s sacrifices. Soap fan Sue who used her hard-earned money to pay for her grandson’s acting classes from the age of 14 – and she even ferried him backwards and forwards to his lessons.
“My grandma is so funny and I knew she wouldn’t be able to believe it. She’s a working class woman from Manchester; she’s so proud of me, but I knew her reaction would be priceless. We’d [always] watch Coronation Street together with a cup of tea and she used to drive me to my acting classes – from the age of 14.
“So to be able to watch this with her and share that moment was really nice and so special.”
Calum’s success did not come easy. His mum initially paid for acting lessons but found it too hard to make ends meet. So his gran and grandfather decided to do whatever they could to find the funds instead.
“We weren’t a family with money,” Calum recalls. “And the classes weren’t cheap, so I’m glad that I can now make all that expense worth it for her.”
Source: Mirror
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