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30th Aug 2016

It’s A Girl For EastEnders’ Natalie Cassidy (And We LOVE The Name)

Katie Mythen-Lynch

Eastenders’ star Natalie Cassidy has welcomed a baby girl with her fiancé Marc Humphreys.

Cassidy, who plays Sonya Fowler in the BBC soap, announced the happy news on Twitter, sharing a family photograph featuring the couple together with Sonya’s five-year-old daughter Eliza with the caption:

‘@cameramarc and I introduce Joanie Elizabeth Cassidy-Humphreys… We are all so in love!’

The actress had also used social media to reveal she was expecting back in October, posting:

‘Evening all… Time to let everybody know that @cameramarc and I are having a baby in the summer. The three musketeers become four.’

Joanie is a French name meaning ‘God is gracious’.