Melissa Johns is pregnant along with her first child.
The 35-year-old actress – who’s finest identified for having performed Imogen Pascoe on the ITV cleaning soap opera Coronation Avenue – has been married to Dan Hampton since November 2024, and took to social media on Monday (30.06.25) night to disclose that she is anticipating.
Alongside a picture of a child scan picture and a few booties on a sandy seaside, she wrote on Instagram: “Oh Child [shooting star emoji]
“We made a want and it got here true…
“Child H-J – we will’t wait to satisfy you [purple heart emoji]
“Without end grateful.”
Melissa debuted on ITV’s flagship cleaning soap opera in September 2017, and continued to seem on a recurring foundation for just below two years.
She was first seen with then-couple Kate Connor (Faye Brookes) and Rana Nazir (Bhavna Limbachia), and later had a quick relationship with Kate herself, however they known as it quits after a matter of months.
Rana was killed off when the Underworld manufacturing unit roof collapsed on her on what ought to have been her wedding ceremony day to Kate, and Imogen made her remaining look just a few months later.
Following her time on the cleaning soap, Melissa – who was born lacking half of her proper arm – went on to seem in Grantchester and had a task within the Netflix hit Adolescence, however lately admitted that her incapacity has usually introduced her love life into query from others.
She advised OK!: “Individuals do touch upon it and query whether or not you may discover love or get married.
“Merely due to the way in which you look or since you’re disabled. So, due to the way in which I grew up, our big day meant 1,000,000 occasions extra to me .
“I obtained every week off from filming, after which I am again.
“However I completely adore it. Grantchester is likely one of the most great interval dramas to be part of. I am additionally persevering with to develop my one-woman present, Snatched, which toured the UK a few years in the past. We’re now adapting that for tv, which is thrilling. Attending to do the job I do is simply an absolute dream.”