Soap actor Jack P Shepherd and his wife have revealed that they are expecting their first baby together, just over six months after tying the knot.

The happy couple shared the news on Instagram on Saturday with a reel of a photo shoot organised to mark the exciting announcement.

‘We’ve been keeping a secret…June 2026 🤍,’ the caption read, alongside a montage of Jack, 38, in smart black trousers and a white shirt and wife Hanni, 36,

in a cream lace dress walking hand-in-hand and posing together, cradling her baby bump. They also both carried a pair of knitted cream baby booties and shared a kiss.

Jack, who also took part in Celebrity Big Brother and won in 2025, married Hanni in a lavish Manchester Cathedral ceremony on July 26 last year.

Plenty of his Corrie pals and colleagues shared their well wishes over the news in the comments, with Catherine Tyldesley, who played Eva Price on the soap, writing: ‘Congratulations beautiful people.’

Jack P Shepherd and wife Hanni are expecting a baby in Jun

‘Congratulations darling 💖,’ added Jack’s former co-star Helen Flanagan, while Samia Longchambon, who plays Maria, wrote: ‘Congratulations guys!!! So happy for you both ❤️❤️❤️🫶🏼🥰’

Claire Sweeney, and Jack’s fellow Corrie mainstays Andy Whyment and Alan Halsall also left celebratory messages.

Jack has played David Platt on the famous ITV soap’s cobbles since he was a youngster in 2000, meeting scriptwriter-turned-fashion influencer Hanni through work.

They’ve been in a relationship since 2017 and announced their engagement in June 2024.

Jack’s soap family also played a special role in his big day with Hanni last year, including Helen Worth, who portrayed David’s mum Gail Platt for over five decades until her emotional exit from the soap on Christmas Day in 2024, and Ben Price, who plays David’s older brother Nick.

Appearing alongside Hanni for their first joint TV interview as a married couple on Loose Women, Jack explained: ‘Helen gave a Bible reading, Ben gave a Bible reading. So we thought we’d get the actors up.

‘I was 12 when I started, 25 years, it’s mad because I’ve done 25 and when I started, Helen had done 25!’

Jack was previously in a 15-year relationship with former fiancée and childhood sweetheart Lauren Shippey, with whom he shares two children: daughter Nyla, 17, and son Reuben, 12, who has followed in his father’s footsteps by appearing on Hollyoaks.

During his relationship with Lauren, Shepherd also fathered a son, Greyson, with Sammy Milewski following a one-night stand.

Hanni was keen to check early on with Jack that he was open to having more children.

‘When kids are involved you need to have those serious conversations quite quickly, but we knew early on we wanted to have children together and we were serious about each other,’ she told OK! Magazine in 2020.

Speaking about how they met, Jack told the publication: ‘We met at Corrie but we only really knew each other to say hello to at work.’

‘Then our mutual friends got married and we were both guests at the wedding. We got chatting, I made Hanni laugh, we had a couple of drinks and we flirted. That was it.’