Nicola Thorp pregnant

Nicola Thorp is pregnant.

The 35-year-old actress and her actor fiance Nikesh Patel have revealed that they are expecting their first child together.

The couple made the announcement on Instagram with pictures from a professional photoshoot, which Nikesh captioned: "Some news". Nicola reshared his post.

Nicola, who played Nicola Rubinstein in Corrie until 2018 and again briefly in 2019, announced her engagement to Nikesh, 38, in January.

Nikesh has starred in 'Indian Summers', 'Starstruck' and the mini-series 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.

He and Nicola have been dating since 2021, and they appeared together in the fifth series of Channel 4 show reality show 'Celebrity Hunted' earlier this year.

Meanwhile, it was recently revealed Nicola was terrorised for two years by a stalker known as "the Grim Reaper".

The 'Coronation Street' actress and activist told a court about how Ravinderjit Dhillon used 25 aliases to torment her online and threatened to sexually abuse her in front of her parents.

The star took to the stand in court in June as she opened up on an 89-page document she handed to the Met Police about his campaign of terror, which started with an obscene image he sent of himself in October 2018.

She told the court: "He became an army of men all wanting to do me harm, threats to rape me.

“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting for the rights of women and doing so in the public eye has come with some personal cost.

"I became the target of the exact behaviour I was standing up against.”

She recalled messages sent by Dhillon describing himself as her "grim reaper", adding: "He sent messages saying, ‘I’m going to be with you forever’, ‘I’m your grim reaper’. In one message he said 28 times he wasn’t going to leave me.”

She noted that he also claimed to be 'Helena' and said a friend followed her onto a train, apparently getting "so close he could smell her".

He was convicted in April and had been remanded in custody before sentencing at Isleworth Crown Court.