Charlotte Dawson gives birth to her first child and shares ‘beautiful’ picture

Congratulations to the new parents 🎉

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by Lucy Smith |
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Charlotte Dawson has taken to social media to announce the birth of her first child with Matthew Sarsfield.

Sharing the news on her Instagram Stories, the former Ex On The Beach star reposted her fiancé's photo, where she can be seen holding their new little bundle, and wrote, "Crying 😢. I love you so much @matt_sarsfield. Sorry I'm in a bit of a baby bubble/exhausted.

"I can't wait to show you all our beautiful baby boy and share my labour story with you all soon xxxx."

CHECK OUT: Celebs Go Dating's most outrageous moments

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The fall of Stephen Bear

After a few episodes of Stephen Bear acting as Stephen Bear-ish as it's possible to act, Nadia and Eden decided they'd had enough and chucked him out the agency. Good riddance.

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Stephen Bear asks for threesome

Speaking of Stephen Bear, remember when he asked those twins for a threesome? Good lord.

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Stephen Bear

Now we think about it, everything Stephen Bear did was outrageous. Poor blue lips...

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Joey Essex's burpy date

Some poor old girl who managed to score a date with Joey Essex ended up burping on his face throughout the entire thing. What a nightmare.

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Jonathan Cheban dates Kimmy K lookalike

This just couldn't have been more classic, could it? Things (obviously) didn't work out, and Kim Kardashian lookalike Chanelle Sadie Paul ended up having an alleged sordid affair with dating agent Eden Blackman. But that's a whole other story...

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Gemma Collins stands up poor old Laurence :(

Gemma Collins successfully managed to anger the entire nation after failing to turn up to the Eurostar for her Parisian date with Laurence.

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Joey Essex dates a cougar...

She wanted to dress him as a pony, for some reason.

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... and Calum Best dates a cougar

He looks like he had a wonderful time.

Frankie Cocozza and Charlotte Dawson break the rules and date each other9 of 35

Frankie Cocozza and Charlotte Dawson break the rules and date each other

They were the first celebrity couple to hook up with each other on the show. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. And Frankie is now happily married to someone else.

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Their double date ends in awks

Both Frankie and Charlotte's dates ended up walking out of the double date set up by the agents after they couldn't stop gushing about the other.

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And then MARRIED EACH OTHER

Yes, this is a real thing that actually happened and the snubbed dates, Kieran Patel and Katie Champ are still together.

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Charlotte Dawson bum massage

Charlotte Dawson made an impression (of sorts) on one oh her first dates by giving a bum massage in a busy pub. Not sure where that lotion came from.

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Calum Best stands his date up

Calum got in hot water with the dating agents after failing to show up to one of his dates.

Gemma Collins storms out of date after he called her 'a diva'14 of 35
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Gemma Collins storms out of date after he called her 'a diva'

She got up an left like a diva after he called her, er, 'a diva'. Well, she did show up about an hour late...

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Charlotte Crosby spits milk during her date

Playing hot sauce roulette on a first date was never going to end well...

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Jorgie Porter's date wants to see her on the loo

After telling her that he'd Googled her before the date, Jorgie's date casually mentioned he'd like to watch her on the toilet. Wow.

Courtney Stodden's date gets x-rated17 of 35
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Courtney Stodden's date gets x-rated

Courtney Stodden shocked viewers after getting her date to rub sun cream on her chest.

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Charlotte Crosby dates a massive sexist

When Charlotte told Jeavon (who also dated Love Island's Malin Andersson) that she'd slept with 20 men, he said: "that is bad, for a lad it's not that bad." Despite the fact he claimed to have slept with 50.

Joey Essex and Stephanie Pratt find love with each other19 of 35
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Joey Essex and Stephanie Pratt find love with each other

They broke the rules, but was it worth it? Erm. Probably not, no. Because it lasted about two minutes.

Ferne McCann refuses to split the bill20 of 35
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Ferne McCann refuses to split the bill

After ordering a frankly humungous amount of food, Ferne didn't offer to help pay the bill at the end of the date. She later burst into tears in the dating agency after the guy gave her a bad review for not doing so.

Tom Read WIlson admits he doesn't know who Kim Kardashian is21 of 35
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Tom Read WIlson admits he doesn't know who Kim Kardashian is

But... how?

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Megan McKenna and Pete Wicks reunion

Megan and Pete had a notoriously rocky relationship on TOWIE, so putting them on the same series was a stroke of TV GENIUS.

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Kerry Katona's rude date

When Kerry Katona's date implied her children had been a "mistake", she handled it like a pro – but the nation watched from between their fingers.

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Jack Fincham and the Waitress

Jack Fincham was set up with a lovely girl called Carol by the agents, but admitted by the end he wasn't feeling it. Instead he got the barmaid's number, and ended up taking her to the final in Tenerife.

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Jack Fincham's second date

Jack Fincham abruptly ended the date he wasn't feeling by telling his date he was "tired" and had "had enough", before demanding she finish her glass of wine en route to the door.

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Jack Fincham's second date

He then got set up with an Italian called Chiara, but quickly took offense when she made a joke about one of the bartenders, calling them over and insisting she'd rather be on a date with them, instead.

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Lee Ryan gets pied

Ha! Ha, ha ha.

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Lady C's sexual innuendos

Just like narrator Rob Beckett said, the woman is an absolute SAUCE POT - just check out her traffic light analogy. Blimey.

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Malique Thompson-Dwyer's 'predatory' flirting

After getting slammed by viewers for his 'predatory' flirting at the first mixer, Malique offended one of his dates when he was forced to date two women at the same time, and made his preference for Jakeeme clear - with Danica storming off as a result. awks.

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Tom's birth affirmations

Anna Williamson is heavily pregnant in series eight and so lovable receptionist Tom devises some birth affirmations in case her waters break at work - "which could happen", points out Anna. Nuggets from Tom include "I am lactating generously" and "my vagina has retained its' elasticity".

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Amy Childs showed her deep and intellectual side...

When she asked her date, "If you were a sandwich, what would you be?"

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Malique ACTUALLY fell in love!

And then immediately fell out of it the following morning, after he "had sex all night" with his date, Jakeeme. He was - quite rightfully - told off by Anna and Paul.

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Liv Bentley walked out on her date

He was "late, stand-offish and entirely humourless" (fair), but his incessant talk of "pumping" was the final straw for Liv, who left halfway through (also fair).

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But he was totally convinced she was into him

Despite Liv doing a runner in the middle of their drinks, self-confident Otto was still convinced Liv fancied him and accused her of making "f-ck me eyes" across the table. CRINGE.

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Amy Childs' toilet 'romp' with Jamie

Does this take the biscuit for CGD's most outrageous moment? During a double date with Olivia Bentley, Amy STRADDLED her date in the restaurant before scuttling off to the toilets, returning later looking dishevelled. They claimed to have only kissed... but we weren't born yesterday, hun.

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Charlotte gave birth on 26.01.21. ©Instagram @charlottedawsy

In rugby player Matt's original photo, the 29 year old shared an intimate moment between new-mum Charlotte and their newborn.

Alongside the snap, Matt wrote, "Our boy in his mummy’s arms where he belongs! So proud of my girl @charlottedawsy She was an inspiration today."

Awww.

Matt racked up an impressive 1,000 comments in less than 24 hours, all from friends and fans wishing the couple all the best in their new life as parents.

"The most enormous congratulations to you both 💕," wrote presenter Anna Williamson, while one fan added, " So beautiful, congratulations guys 🖤."

"Congratulations to you both! A chuffing 9 POUNDER! 💙🙌xx," mimicked Kate Lawler, who's heavily pregnant herself.

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Charlotte claimed that a "spicy Nandos" meal had induced the labour... ©Instagram @charlottedawsy

In the hours after the birth, Matt told fans that he was already doing a "maccies run" for Charlotte. During her pregnancy, Charlotte had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and had to watch what she ate.

Responding to her partner's jokey post, Charlotte told fans on her Stories, "Do you know how amazing this feels after I've not had one for so long!!!!! Well deserved 😂🙏🏻❤️."

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Matt showed fans a snap of Charlotte as she was about to start pushing. ©Instagram @charlottedawsy

Bless her 😂.

While Matt showed fans a, err, rather invasive photo of Charlotte in her stirrups ready for labour, hours later, Charlotte reposted the snap, telling fans that "there's a drama story behind it [the birth]."

So we'll be keeping our eyes peeled for that, folks.

In her latest update, while Matt had to go home (according to his Instagram) the former Celebs Go Dating star shared a little sneak peak into her new life as a mum, with baby on her chest alongside the caption "Us for the night 🥰😂💙."

Big congrats, guys 🎉.

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