Hollyoaks’ Kieron Richardson feared his baby twins’ surrogate mum would take them back for SIX MONTHS
Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson feared the surrogate mother to his baby twins would take them back for six months after she gave birth.
The process was difficult for the actor – who plays Ste Hay on the Channel 4 soap – and husband Carl Hyland as they had to put the surrogate’s name on the birth certificate for six months.
In that time, the mother is legally allowed to take the children back – something that worried the pair.
Speaking on Loose Women on Wednesday, Keiron explained: “So once the babies were born, we had to go sign the birth certificate.
“And for the first six months we had to put the surrogates name first and then her husband’s name second because they were married.
“We had the documents that said we know who’s semen it is, it’s not his, so we’re fraudulently writing this name on this document.
“It has to be six months because then she’s got six months to change her mind and decide whether she wants to get the babies back.”
When asked by host Ruth Langsford if this worried them, Kieron replied: “We trusted her implicitly and she was amazing.”
Whereas husband Carl said: “There’s always that niggle in the back of your head.”
Kieron and Carl welcomed the twins in May 2017.
They also opened up about how they met the twins for the first time, saying: “When we were at the hospital, the midwife was that the handover, which sounds awful, can’t happen on the premises, it has to happen in the car park of the hospital.”
Kieron admitted that they get bad comments on social media because they are two dads with children.
He said: “Comments on social media saying, ‘Those kids need a mum, it’s not right’.
“So I feel like we’re not being poster boys for it, but we’re trying to say that because w love each other, why do people think we shouldn’t be parents just because we’re two boys?”
Kieron lives with Carl and their two kids Phoebe and Chase, both two, in Cheshire.