EASTENDERS actress Lacey Turner has opened up on the embarrassing way she was forced to tell her co-stars she was pregnant with her third child.
The Stacey Slater actress welcomed a new bundle of joy, Gipsy, at the start of the year and returned to the BBC soap less than a month later in order to play a pivotal role in the soap's live episode.
But before heading off on maternity leave, Lacey has told how her fellow The Six members were the first to discover that she was expecting another baby.
Lacey opened up on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast in which she admitted that she was forced to come clean about her after falling asleep on set from tiredness during the filming for Dean Wicks' court scenes.
Speaking to host on the podcast, Lacey revealed: “But I was literally falling asleep filming the court scenes for Dean.
“My head was on the table. The director must have thought, what has got into her?
“Because I'm not like someone who relaxes, I'm always up and about and I didn't help.”
The soap star continued: “But I was in a room full of like, men who had no idea what was going on.
“I could tell like I was filming with the six women, you know, the six and all…. We was in the Winnebago, and they were like, ‘oh, how are you feeling?'.
“And I was like, ‘well, I'm actually pregnant'. And they all literally fell to their knees. And I was like, ‘you're the first people I've told!'.
“Because I thought they must be thinking like, ‘What is she doing? Why do you keep falling asleep everywhere?'. I wasn't going to get away with it.
“Normally you can pop up to your dressing room, but I didn't have a dressing room to hide.
“I had nowhere to hide. I'm just stuck in the Winnebago with everyone looking at me.”
Lacey in January of this year.
She posted a picture of the little one wearing a cardigan, with the name ‘Gipsy’ written on the back.
She told her followers the unique name she had gone for by simply writing: “Gipsy Olive.”;
People rushed to comment on it, with one person writing: “So lovely, beautiful name.”;
A second said: “Oh what a lovely name.”;
While a third added: “Beautiful name for a beautiful little girl.”;
Lacey, who plays Stacey Slater in the BBC soap, is already mum to who she shares with her husband Matt Kay.
Lacey and Matt are childhood sweethearts and tied the knot in Ibiza back in 2017.
