NEW BEGINNINGS - ‘I FEEL MY DAD AROUND ME EVERY DAY – HE SENT US AN ANGEL'

ELLIOTT AND SADIE WRIGHT SHARE THE HAPPY NEWS THAT THEY’RE EXPECTING THEIR SECOND CHILD FOLLOWING THE TRAGIC LOSS OF HIS FATHER AND REVEAL THEIR MISSION TO REBUILD HIS SPANISH RESTAURANT

- GEMMA MCCARTNEY

It’s been a hard year for us all, but for Elliott Wright and his family it’s been six months full of tragedy. In the midst of the pandemic, Elliott’s grandparents, uncle Mark and father Eddie were all hospitalised with Covid. Devastatingly, on 2 March, his beloved dad lost his battle with the cruel illness and was laid to rest in a beautiful ceremony on 15 April.

To add to the former TOWIE star’s heartbreak, just 11 days after his dad’s funeral, his Spanish restaurant, Olivia’s La Cala, burned down.

But despite the cloud of grief and sorrow, when we catch up with Elliott, 40, and his wife Sadie, 29, they have big smiles on their faces as they exclusively share their amazing, positive news with OK! – they are expecting their second child together.

The timing proves bittersweet, as Elliott tells us, because when he found out Sadie was pregnant, his first thought was of his late father.

“I thought, this is the first grandchild that’s not going to have met my dad, and that’s an upsetting thing for me,” he says. “But the next thought was, he sent this baby down.”

Talking of their heartbreaking year, Sadie, who is four months pregnant, adds, “It’s been hard, but it’s made us stronger as a family and as a couple and what doesn’t break you only makes you stronger.

“We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s going to be great – I can feel it!”