EastEnders star reveals he has become a dad for the second time as he shares newborn’s sweet name

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By KIRSTEN MURRAY FOR MAILONLINE

Published: 09:32 BST, 29 April 2025 | Updated: 09:46 BST, 29 April 2025

EastEnders star Amar Adatia has revealed he has become a dad for the second time as he shared the happy news on Monday evening. 

The actor, who plays Jags Panesar on the BBC soap, took to Instagram as he shared a shared photo of his daughter wearing a personalised baby grow.

Revealing her sweet name he penned: ‘Full Heart. Welcome to the world Arella Adatia.’

Rushing to congratulate him his pal Jess Impiazi commented: ‘Congrats you guys.’

While his EastEnders co-star Rukki Nahar added: ‘Congratulations.’

The star welcomed his first daughter Aliana Adatia in December 2021. However he keeps the identity of his partner private. 

EastEnders star Amar Adatia (R) has revealed he has become a dad for the second time as he shared the happy news on Monday evening

Revealing her sweet name he penned: ‘ Full Heart. Welcome to the world Arella Adatia’

Other friends penned: ‘Congratulations Welcome to the world Precious little one’;

‘Congratulations to you all! I hope Mummy is well lots of love from all of us xxxx’;

‘Aww congratulations to you all!’; ‘Congrats guys love to all x’; ‘Congratulations amar’.

The actor appeared in EastEnders from October 2019 to October 2020, when his character was wrongly sent to jail by his mum Suki. 

Suki framed Jags for Martin Fowler’s assault, which was actually carried out by her other son Vinny, after Jags revealed his secret romance with Habiba to the family. 

Amar previously admitted he stayed longer than he originally intended too on EastEnders after other commitments got put on hold to the pandemic.

He told The Sun at the time: ‘With timings all pushed back, I was more than happy stay a little bit longer to make sure that we wrapped up Jags’ storyline properly.’

And the star won’t be returning to the soap after his character was then killed off-screen in prison – leaving Suki and the rest of the family devastated.

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EastEnders star reveals he has become a dad for the second time as he shares newborn’s sweet name

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