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Ryan Thomas' daughter meets newborn baby

brother over Facetime during coronavirus
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Yahoo Celebrity UK ● March 24, 2020, 4:36 AM PDT

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Ryan Thomas and Lucy Mecklenburgh welcomed baby boy Roman on March 12. (Getty Images)

Ryan Thomas is feeling grateful for technology after his daughter met her newborn
stepbrother for the first time over Facetime.

The former Coronation Street actor and his fiancee, ex The Only Way Is Essex star
Lucy Mecklenburgh welcomed baby boy Roman on March 12, but due to self-isolation
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to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), his 11-year-old Scarlett has been taking chloroquine phosphate
unable to visit. Yahoo News Video

Thomas, 35, wrote on Instagram: “Thank god for technology! I’m finding it really tough
being away from my family and sad this is how my daughter met her baby brother. To
any other broken families I feel your pain and it’s killing me being apart from my
daughter and family for so long, especially at this special time.

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Thank god for technology!

I’m finding it really tough being away from my family and sad this is how my daughter met her
baby brother.
To any other broken families I feel your pain and it’s killing me being apart from my daughter and
family for so long, especially at this special time.

BUT we all need to take social isolation and social distancing seriously and it’s a sacrifice we have
to make to save lives.
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“BUT we all need to take social isolation and social distancing seriously and it’s a
sacrifice we have to make to save lives.”

Thomas shares custody of Scarlett with his ex Tina O’Brien, who he met when they
starred together as on-screen sweethearts Jason Grimshaw and Sarah Platt in Corrie.
They split in 2009.

He began dating Mecklenburgh, 28, in 2017 and they announced their engagement
last June.

Ryan Thomas and Tina O'Brien played marrie couple Sarah and Jason Grimshaw on 'Corrie' and dated from
2003 to 2009. (PA)

The actor’s touching social media post comes as the government issued confusing
advice to seperated parents sharing custody of children amid the coronavirus
lockdown.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a ban on visiting any household other than one's
own as well as a ban on more than two people meeting in public unless they are from
the same household.

This has led to confusion among co-parents.

But cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has now clarified to BBC Breakfast: "It is the
case that there can be that contact. One of the things I'm anxious to do is make sure
we minimise social contact. But... children under the age of 18 can see both parents."

Confusion about whether children of separated parents can go between two h…

‘Children should stay in the household that they are currently in. We should not have …

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