Michelle Keegan welcomes first child with Mark Wright and shares unique name

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Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright have welcomed their first child together.

The couple are now parents to a beautiful baby girl, who was born on the 6th of March.

Taking to Instagram, Michelle and Mark shared a joint post to announce the arrival of their little one, as well as her unique name.

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They wrote: "Together we have a new love to share… Our little girl. Palma Elizabeth Wright, 06.03.25."

Michelle and Mark announced they were expecting back in December.

"2025 is going to be a special one for us... [baby emoji. love heart emoji]," read the caption. The photo showed a glowing Michelle cradling her baby bump on the beach, with a proud Mark by her side.

The couple got married in 2015, and after initially discussing how they would like children, they became silent on the matter for the last ten years before announcing their pregnancy in December.

Michelle previously admitted it was the intense scrutiny on their lack of children that led her to becoming so private.

“Around the time we got married, I was open about the fact that I wanted to have a family but then, because we didn't choose to have children within a certain time, there was lots of speculation,” she told Grazia.

She added: “I made the decision to not talk publicly about that side of my life. I’m going to be 38 this year and, as I’ve got older, I feel more confident about my boundaries.”

Michelle rose to fame as Tina McIntyre on ITV's Coronation Street from 2008 until her departure in 2014. Since then she has starred in military drama Our Girl as Corporal Georgie Lane, hit comedy-drama Brassic playing Erin Croft and Maya Stern in Netflix hit Fool Me Once. She’s gearing up to reprise her role as Kate Thorne in another series of Ten Pound Poms, a storytelling of Brits emigrating from post-war Britain.

Mark, who first captured public attention on The Only Way Is Essex, rocketed to further stardom with his runner-up spot on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2011 and reaching the finals of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2014. Nowadays, listeners can tune into him every Saturday afternoon on Heart radio.