Chris's Emmerdale pregnancy mirrors his own life

Chris's Emmerdale pregnancy mirrors his own life
Chris's Emmerdale pregnancy mirrors his own life

Emmerdale star Chris Bisson is excited about being an expectant father both on and off screen. His character, Jai Sharma, is secretly expecting a baby with cleaner Rachel Breckle following a drunken one night stand, after wife Charity said she didn't want children with him. Meanwhile, in real life Chris's partner Rowena Finn is pregnant with their first child, due in January. Chris told Inside Soap magazine: "It's more fun in real life than it is on screen. Jai's got all these problems that I don't have, thank goodness! "It's very, very exciting, and also interesting as the two pregnancies are happening at exactly the same time. "I was desperate to tell everyone when we found out. But we were waiting to have our 12-week scan. "Meanwhile, Jai wants to keep it quiet. I'm doing the opposite in real life to what I'm doing on television!" Chris revealed Jai is set for more trouble when Charity starts to find out who has got Rachel pregnant. Chris said: "I have scenes with Gemma Oaten [Rachel] and Emma Atkins [Charity] and sometimes they kind of meet in the middle. "Inevitably that happens in the Woolpack with poor old Jai stood in the middle of the pair of them, his knees knocking together! So it's all really good fun!"

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.