Former EastEnders actress, Tamzin Outhwaite, has announced the birth of her second daughter, Marnie Mae Ellis!

The happy news was announced by her husband, actor Tom Ellis, who took to social networking site, twitter, to tell fans: “What a couple of days … Gold medals from everywhere and … oh, we had a beautiful baby girl called Marnie Mae Ellis, 6lb 5oz of gorgeousness!”

This is the second daughter for the couple,who got married in 2006, after their first daughter, Florence was born in 2008.

Outhwaite, who played Mel Owen in the hit BBC soap, left EastEnders, which her husband, Tom, also starred in, in 2002, shortly after the departure from the soap of co-star Martin Kemp, who had played her on-screen husband Steve Owen. She stated in 2006 that she wouldn’t rule out returning to EastEnders.

Tom has more recently been seen in Miranda and Doctor Who.