NHS nurse was surrogate for BBC sitcom actor’s baby
A BBC sitcom actor and his wife, who were told they would never be parents, have had a baby after one of their NHS nurses offered to act as a surrogate.
Tom Davis, who starred in King Gary, and his wife Kathryn tried to get pregnant for seven years before going for fertility tests and trying IVF.
After one of the tests caused medical complications for Kathryn, the couple were told they would not be able to have a child. But a few months after the treatment one of the nurses contacted them to offer to be their surrogate. Their baby daughter Grace is now 12 weeks old.
“It’s been like a long journey to get here,” said Davis, 42. “It was an incredible journey from not ever thinking you’re going to have [a baby].”
Speaking about the surrogacy on the Parenting Hell podcast, Davis said: “We’re both quite family orientated, and all we really wanted was kids.”
Davis has kept confidential the name of the NHS nurse, but described her as “amazing”.
Davis’s BBC series Murder in Successville won a Bafta for Comedy and Comedy Entertaintment Programme and he also appeared in the film