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Baby joy as Potter star announces pregnancy
EXCLUSIVE DANIEL Radcliffe and his partner Erin Darke are expecting to hear the pitter-potter of tiny feet.
The Harry Potter star, 33, and American actress Erin, 38, have announced they are due to become parents later this year.
A spokesman for the actor, who has been with Erin for a decade, confirmed the news last night.
And a source close to the couple revealed: “Daniel and Erin could not be happier to be expecting. They are absolutely thrilled and can’t wait to become a family of three.
“They told their families and friends recently. It’s an incredibly exciting time.”
Daniel shot to fame at the age of 12 as wizard Harry in the multibillion pound film franchise.
DREAM
But as a young adult, he struggled to cope with being in the public eye.
He told Newsweek magazine last year: “I want my kids – if and when they exist – to be around film sets.
“A dream would be for them to come on to a film set and be, like, ‘God, you know… I’d love to be in the art department, I’d love to be something in the crew’.
“I wouldn’t want fame for my kid. Film sets are wonderful places, but it’s really the fame side of it that should be avoided at all costs.”
Daniel and Erin first met in 2012 when they started working on the movie, Kill Your Darlings.
He played Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg in the movie, which also starred Jack Huston and Michael C. Hall.
In a 2015 interview, Daniel admitted that he was instantly attracted to Erin, who has appeared in The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.
He said: “She was incredibly funny and smart. I knew I was in trouble.”
Five years later, Daniel said of their first encounter on the set of Kill Your Darlings: “It’ll be a hell of a story to tell our kids one day…
“Our characters are meeting and flirting with each other so there is this kind of sweet record of us just meeting for the first time.”