EastEnders actress Kellie Bright has confirmed the name of her third son.

Born on July 22 and weighing 7lbs 14oz, baby Rudy Joy Stocker joined Bright and husband Paul Stocker's family, consisting of four-year-old Gene and nine-year-old Freddy.

In conversation with OK! magazine earlier this month, she described the first six weeks of Rudy's arrival as "a little bit of a blur because I'm so tired, but it's been amazing".

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"I'm trying to savour every bit as these first few weeks are so precious and this is definitely my last [baby]! I'm sure your body makes you forget how hard the first few weeks are and what that sleep deprivation is like. It's like nothing else!"

Bright, who finished as the runner-up in Strictly Come Dancing's 2015 series, then went on to explain where her newborn son's full name originated from.

"Joy was my nana's name and I said that whether we had a boy or a girl, I would really like the middle name to be Joy as she meant such a lot to me.

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"We weren't sold on Rudy until about a week before I had him, but it's been on my boys' list for a while and was definitely around when I had Gene," she continued.

"All the girls' names I really like, my husband didn't! If he'd been a girl he probably would have been Robyn Joy."

Congratulations to the happy fivesome!

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