Some days are just brilliant in The Motorhome Holiday Company office, and today is one of those. Chris Yapp, our Mister Dependable, has just had his second baby.
Okay, it was actually his lovely wife, Claire, who did the whole nine months of discomfort and gave birth, but Chris is grinning like it was all him.
On behalf of them both, we are delighted to announce that Freddie Yapp was born at 8.45pm on the 17th of March, weighing in at just over 8lbs and is in complete working order. We haven’t been able to meet him yet, but we have a bottle of champagne with his dad’s name on it and something very special and non-alcoholic for Claire.
Not to be left out of the celebration is firstborn and Broadchurch star, Benji Yapp, who stole every scene he was in for the first season of Broadchurch, and reprised his role as Fred Miller in the third season. We’re not sure if Freddie was named after his brother’s fictional character, but we do know that Benji is absolutely delighted to have a sibling to follow in his footsteps.
After a suitable break, Yapp senior will be returning to The Motorhome Holiday Company as we’re generously saving all of his work for him. For those of you hoping to catch up with Chris in person, he’ll be joining us at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 2017 and rumour has it Claire may well drop in to see us there, too.
We’re not promising anything, but Benji could be persuaded to autograph some merchandise, and Freddie should be well and truly into the dribbling on your shoulder stage. We can’t wait.
Motorhome Holiday Company; your adventure [is born] here.