Benidorm star Asa Elliott becomes a dad again and reveals baby’s amazing name
BENIDORM star Asa Elliott has become a dad for the second time.
The actor and wife Natalie announced their happy news on Twitter, revealing their baby girl is called Rockie.
Natalie posted: “Our littlest Elliott, she’s going to be a Rockstar. 8lb 8.5oz of pure sass.”
While Asa shared a name reveal video clip inspired by the Sylvester Stallone boxing flick Rocky.
The 40-year-old, who played the singer at the Solana Hotel in ITV’s Benidorm from 2010 to 2014, announced Natalie was expecting earlier this year.
The couple are also parents to a little boy called Buddy, two.
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Asa became a delivery driver for ASDA after the coronavirus pandemic cancelled his singing jobs on cruise ships – just two weeks after the birth of his first child.
But he’s now back working on the cruises and has already been in St Lucia and Barbados this year.
Speaking about the past few years, Asa told Hull Daily Mail: “At the beginning of the lockdown the work was drying up for obvious reasons and I thought to myself, ‘I’m not going to be sat around on my hands for this’.
“I got a job with my local shop in Kingswood doing deliveries for them and I helped out at the local vaccination centres as a volunteer steward.”
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He added: “I look back and I just think ‘what a difference a year can make’. This time last year I was making my deliveries, and enjoying it, but now I’m back on the boats and have been out to Barbados.”
After appearing on Benidorm, Asa went on to join the cast of Benidorm Live in 2018/19.
He was originally spotted for the role while working in Benidorm by the show’s creator.
Discussing his time on the hit show, Asa said: “Working on Benidorm it didn’t seem like a big deal at the time, I wasn’t nervous or anything like that, it is only looking back I realise how big it was.
“It is one of those shows that just seems to stick around with streaming and things like that. I love it when people get in touch that have just watched it for the first time and find me on social media.”