Jeremy Kyle has become a father again at 58 to his sixth child after his wife Vicky gave birth on Friday.
The television presenter shared a picture of himself proudly holding the newborn in the delivery room on Instagram.
He revealed her name as Iris Rose Victoria Kyle and said mother Vicky was doing well.
Jeremy wrote: ‘She’s finally here… Iris Rose Victoria Kyle arrived today at 12.31pm weighing 7lb 6oz.
‘Mummy was absolutely incredible and we are just so blessed to have our beautiful new daughter.’
Jeremy Kyle has become a father again at 58 to his sixth child after his wife Vicky, 40, gave birth on Friday
Jeremy revealed in September last year that he was to become a father for the sixth time as his wife Victoria was pregnant with their second child.
The broadcaster shared the news that he was set to welcome a daughter in the coming months, after he and Victoria welcomed their son Oliver, in 2020.
Speaking to The Sun in September last year, Jeremy said he and Victoria, who he married in 2021, were ‘over the moon’ to be welcoming another child early in 2024, adding his family would be ‘complete’.
As well as son Oliver, Jeremy is father to daughters Harriet, 33, Alice, 20, Ava, 18, and son Henry, 13, who he shares with ex-wife Carla Germaine.
Jeremy revealed Vicky suffered a devastating miscarriage last year soon after announcing they were expecting their baby.
He said he and wife Victoria were on an ’emotional rollercoaster’ after she had the miscarriage in March.
The couple endured another miscarriage in 2019 before they went on to welcome their son Oliver.
Victoria opened up about the first loss, when she was eight weeks pregnant, saying doctors had to sadly inform her that they couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat in the early scan.
Jeremy revealed in September last year that he was to become a father for the sixth time as his wife Victoria was pregnant with their second child (Jeremy and Vicky pictured in 2018)
She told the Mirror: ‘It was devastating. People say, “It’s so early, it’s just a bunch of cells”, but as a woman you can’t help but get attached to what’s going on in your body.’
They were given false hope when Victoria went for a procedure to remove the foetus and were told there was a heartbeat after all.
But a week later the couple was told it would not be possible to go on with the pregnancy.
Jeremy said: ‘The second miscarriage was the hardest for Vic. Because we’d had one before, we tried not to get excited. It was an emotional rollercoaster.’
Victoria said that during a reiki healing session she got a message from Jeremy’s late mother Nanette, who died six years ago, insisting the couple would have a baby girl.
She explained: ‘The lady kept saying she could see pink and we were going to have a girl. She said, “I can see you holding a little girl’s hand with Oliver. The little girl has got a dress on that has bright red roses all over it”.
‘Jez’s mum’s favourite flower was a red rose – she had red roses everywhere in her garden. It felt like that was his mum saying there’s going to be a little girl coming along.’
Jeremy added that once they’d moved home, Victoria placed an order for some duvet sets and pillows and in the middle of the package was a pair of pink dungarees which they had not ordered.
Victoria was at this point already pregnant with their baby girl.
The broadcaster shared the news that he was set to welcome a daughter in the coming months, after he and Victoria welcomed their son Oliver, in 2020
The TV star made his television comeback with a brand new live show on TalkTV in 2022 – three years after his daytime programme was axed following the death of guest Steve Dymond.
When asked what he would miss about returning to work, he said of his loved ones: ‘Not being there at bathtime! No, I’m kidding. I would love to be there every night. Oliver and Victoria have changed my life.
‘Oliver’s two and a half and completely rules the roost, to be perfectly honest. He’s changed me completely. He shouts, “Daddy!” when he sees me on screen now.
‘My kids, my grandkids, my family, my wife saved me. Harriet is an amazing mum with two toddlers. Alice is about to go to university; Henry is about to go to boarding school; Ava has just got eight GCSEs. It’s amazing, she’s severely dyslexic. It’s incredible what she’s done, amazing. I’m so proud.
‘But I’ve always wanted to go back to live television. It’s the best of what I’ve always loved doing.’
The presenter’s eponymous Jeremy Kyle Show was suspended indefinitely in May 2019 following the death of Steve Dymond, one week after a programme featuring him was filmed.
He returned to television screens in April 2022 for the first time in three years, as he helped launch new channel TalkTV along with Sharon Osbourne.
In October 2022, Jeremy said he would miss Vicky and Oliver as he threw himself into work for his live show on TalkTV
Dymond is suspected to have died from suicide seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Show.
He had taken a lie detector test after being accused of cheating on his ex-fiancee Jane Callaghan, of Gosport, Hampshire.
The confrontational talk show, which was hugely popular and had been a regular fixture since 2005 in the daytime TV schedule, was axed for good following calls for it to be cancelled from MPs and members of the public.
After the show was pulled, MPs launched an inquiry into reality TV – and ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said the broadcaster had been ‘looking at’ cancelling it prior to it being removed from the schedules.