Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans appeared on Loose Women on Thursday alongside his wife Kerry Taylor after their pregnancy announcement, and spoke to hosts Charlene White, Frankie Bridge, Kelle Bryan and Jane Moore.
Kerry, who suffered a miscarriage in 2019, said: “I actually had to do three tests to convince Lee that it was positive. The first one it was a faint line.”
Lee, 46, cut in: “I couldn’t see it, I said there was no line and I couldn’t see it!”
Kerry continued: “His eyesight isn’t the best, bless him, and I said I think I am pregnant, and he said, ‘No, no, no. I woke up the next morning at 4am and I did another one.”
Lee said: “The first one was a very faint blue line. For whatever reason I still didn’t believe it so the next day Kerry did the third test and it was a digital one that said ‘pregnant’ and I couldn’t argue with that one.”
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Charlene remarked that they had friends who had also had IVF treatment, and asked if they felt they could enjoy the moment while their other friends struggled.
Kerry replied: “I think it’s quite hard to enjoy it. We want to be sensitive to friends who are going through a hard time, and we have been through it as well, but we are starting to embrace it, especially since the scans have turned out really well.
Lee added: “So far, finger’s crossed, it’s all going well.”
Lee also joked: “There is a bit of a connection with Loose Women, when I was going to propose to Kerry, Steps were performing on Loose Women, doing ‘Deeper Shade of Blue’ I believe.
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“Nobody knew what was going on in my head, thinking, if I forget a move or any lyrics it’s probably because I was about to propose, which is pretty mental.
“Then last year we were in a hotel announcing the album and the tour was put back, and I knew then that Kerry was pregnant and nobody else knew.
“So we were on Loose Women as a band and talking about everyone’s families and the band’s kids, and I was burning up, just wanted to shout out what was happening, but I couldn’t.”
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Asked how Lee’s fellow bandmates Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Lisa Scott-Lee and Ian H Watkins reacted to his news, Lee said: “Telling the bandmates was wonderful.
“We were just like this on Zoom planning the year ahead and our upcoming tour and I just held up the scan picture and said ‘I’m going to be really really busy guys, and you better meet somebody’.
“They all broke down and were crying tears of joy, there was so much going on, I actually filmed it. They were very happy for us.”
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Kerry added: “The past few years have been really tough. In 2018 Lee lost his dad, then I lost my mum, we lost a pet and a week before my mum passed away I found out I was pregnant, and then I lost my mum.
“My dad has been so happy for us, but it’s been heartbreaking,” she said.
Lee said: “We had four months of hell, for all that to happen, two parents, a pet and a baby all within four months, it was a horrific time, and since then we have been trying and trying.
“It brought us closer together,” he added.
* Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12:30pm
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/lee-latchford-evans-steps-bandmates-23919833