Celebrity Big Brother housemate Ben Jardine announced he was to become a father just two days before entering the house.
The Married At First Sight star told The Sun he was over the moon to be welcoming his first child, less than a year after splitting from wife Stephanie.
Ben found fame on the Channel 4 television experiment, Married At First Sight, which challenged total strangers to tie the knot.
He married Stephanie in front of the cameras last year – and insisted he genuinely wanted to find love – but they announced their split shortly afterwards, following claims he cheated.
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Now, Ben is expecting a child with another woman, whom he has declined to identify in public, at the end of this year.
He told the newspaper: “I never thought it would happen to me. Everything happens for a reason.
“It’s going to make a man out of me and I’ll be a great dad.”
Ben entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Thursday night.
The theme of this year’s show is Eye of the Storm, with all the housemates having weathered a media storm at some stage.
For Ben, it was (obviously) the fact he married a stranger and was then caught up in a cheating storm.
He said in his intro VT: “Someone showed me a bit of compassion, I showed them a bit of compassion and then she went round every paper and kiss and telled on me.
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“Life has totally changed and it’s drama every day. It’s exhausting.
“I’ve been portrayed as a love rat but I don’t want to be portrayed as a love rat. I’m not a love rat. I’m a love mouse.”
CBB airs nightly at 9pm on Channel 5.
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