LAURA Norton is best known for playing Kerry Wyatt in the ITV soap Emmerdale.
On August 21, 2022, Norton and her partner, Mark Jordon announced that they are expecting their second child together.
Who is Laura Norton?
Laura Norton is an English actress from Newcastle upon Tyne born June 19, 1983.
She began her career as an extra on Byker Grove.
Laura is best known for her role in Emmerdale as Kerry Wyatt having joined the soap in 2012.
She is also known for her theatre work and has acted with The Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre Newcastle.
In 2014, she won the Inside Soap Award for Funniest Female.
Is Laura dating her Emmerdale co-star Mark Jordon?
Mark and Laura first met when the former Heartbeat actor joined the programme in 2014 as Daz Spencer, a role he reprised in 2017.
They announced their engagement on social media on New Years Day 2019.
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However, Norton revealed she was secretly engaged to her co-star for seven months before going public.
The actress let slip that Mark had popped the question over the summer as she replied to a congratulatory tweet.
She wrote: "I mean …. it was 7 months ago … but … you’re very cute. Thank you."
On August 24, 2020, the couple announced that they are expecting their first child, who was born on January 29, 2021.
Mark said the news initially came as a shock to the couple.
He said: "In my heart I knew before looking at the test.
"We both looked at the result and there was so much joy, but for a weird moment, we were both deadly silent."
Then on August 21, 2022, Laura shared a photo of her baby bump as she sat on a wall with Mark and the pair looked into each other's eyes while holding hands.
She captioned the sweet photo: "Round 2…" with emojis of a pregnant woman, a baby and a love heart.
Mark shares children Joseph, and Poppy, with former wife Siobhan Finneran.