Rate My Takeaway’s Danny Malin is expecting his most surprising delivery yet – a bun in the oven, years after getting a vasectomy.
Yes, the 43-year-old foodie, who shares silly reviews of kebabs and pizzas on YouTube for his 588,000 subscribers, is set to become a dad again despite getting the snip.
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Danny’s whirlwind romance with is current partner, belly dancer Sophie Mei Lan, 34, who appeared on Britain’s Got Talent in 2007, began when they met in November and they became engaged one month later.
Sophie interviewed Danny for her YouTube channel, Sophie’s World and the rest is history. They are now expecting a child, with their baby due to arrive in September.
The Yorkshire couple are already parents. Danny is the dad to Summer, 13 and George, 11 while Sophie is mum to Jasmine, 11 and Arianna, eight.
All the kids are excited about their new sibling and Danny and Sophie are planning to tie the knot this summer.
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The most surprising part of their love story is the fact Danny had a vasectomy, which clearly wasn’t as permanent as he probably thought it would be.
Speaking to The Mirror, Danny said the baby is a ‘miracle child’ that they didn’t expect.
“The bubba is a miracle child and is cooking nicely in Sophie’s tummy,” he said. “I had the snip in 2013 but I am the one in 2,000 where it fails. My tubes, I’m told, must have joined up again,” he theorised.
Of course, there are some other theories as to why Sophie is pregnant despite Danny's vasectomy, but we'll leave that for the Reddit threads.
A vasectomy is a surgical procedure to cut or seal the tubes that carry sperm in order to permanently prevent pregnancy.
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The NHS says the procedure is more than 99 percent effective and is considered permanent. A man’s ability to get an erection isn’t affected and they can still ejaculate, although heir semen won’t contain any sperm.
People who get the procedure must use another form of contraception for at least the first eight to 12 weeks as it can take this long to clear the remaining sperm in the vas deferens tubes. But since Danny had his vasectomy done 10 years ago, this was not how his new bundle of joy was conceived.
A vasectomy can’t be easily reversed but in ‘very rare’ cases the vas deferens tubes can reconnect even without medical intervention.
Danny has gone down from 22st to 19st 5lb through eating more healthy foods and exercising.
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He said: “As my belly shrinks, Sophie’s is nicely growing. I’ve told her she is joining my fat club and now she knows what it’s like to be a fat person!”
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