Michaela Strachan has confirmed the birth of her first grandchild after step-son Thomas Chevallier welcomed a baby boy with partner Mikayla Humphries on Tuesday. 

Announcing the news across social media, Strachan, 59, admitted Mikayla had given birth following a ‘long and stressful’ labour. 

Sharing her first pH๏τos of grandson Huxley, she wrote: ‘Today I became a Granny!! After an extremely stressful and exhausting labour, 55hrs, baby Huxley finally arrived!!

‘So proud of my future daughter in law & my step son. Proud new parents. Me and granny @jackyhumphries were a wee bit emotional.

‘Welcome to the world baby Huxley. So, so precious.’ 

Michaela Strachan has confirmed the birth of her first grandchild after step-son Thomas Chevallier welcomed a baby boy with partner Mikayla Humphries on Tuesday

Announcing the news across social media, Strachan admitted Mikayla had given birth following a ‘long and stressful’ labour

Strachan – who now lives in South Africa with cameraman partner Nick Chevallier and their 20-year old son Oliver – looked ecstatic as she cradled hew newborn grandson shortly after his birth. 

The presenter made her name fronting children’s television shows including Wide Awake Club and Wacaday before turning her attention to wildlife programmes including The Really Wild Show, Countryfile and Springwatch.

More recently she was a finalist on ITV show Dancing On Ice with professional skater Mark Hanretty after overcoming a series of health concerns. 

The star’s appearance on the show was thrown into doubt when she sprained her ankle two months before the start, leaving her hobbling on crutches and nursing some nasty bruises.

She was forced to limp back down the mountain that she had been walking on with Nick Chevallier, and commence an intense period of recovery.

The setback was not the first health scare the presenter has had. In 2014, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and recommended a double mastectomy, following a routine mammogram.

She told You at the time: ‘The tears started to roll as my doctor tried to tell me what would happen next but I only took in every fifth word or so. The one word that registered was cancer.’

Strachan is now cancer-free and she believes the ordeal made her appreciate life more.

Strachan poses alongside new mum Mikayla and Jacky Humphries, Mikayla’s mother 

Michaela’s step-son Thomas cradles his baby son in another social media snap 

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The presenter told Woman & Home magazine in 2022: ‘Going through breast cancer also strengthened me. It has given me more resilience and made me appreciate my life more because I realise that something could have ended it early and that’s a shock.

‘Often, I forget I’ve had breast cancer. I had a double mastectomy and have slightly funny-looking boobs but, other than that, that’s it. I was incredibly lucky.’

She also went through the misery of having a live worm inside her for six months after she accidentally ate animal faeces, telling a horrified Loose Women panel about the experience.

‘People are going to think this story is awful,’ she said. ‘I was doing a lot of work in zoos at the time and I didn’t wash my hands properly and then ate a sandwich.

‘It was from animal faeces that I ended up getting a worm inside me, and under my skin.

‘You could see it. I would itch and then you could see this worm moving under my skin. I got quite attached to this worm – literally! I gave him a name, William the Worm. And he is still there six months later. It didn’t impact me in any way. It wasn’t intestinal.

‘Eventually I had to end the love affair by taking double dosage of worm tablets. Most of the time you wouldn’t know he was there but when I itched he would come up the surface to say hello.’ 

Strachan now lives in South Africa with cameraman partner Nick Chevallier and their 20-year old son Oliver (pictured)