'It's really lovely to become a grandma again!' Dame Joan Collins, 88, welcomes her fourth grandchild as her son Alexander announces the birth of his first daughter with wife Sheela

Joan Collins has welcomed her fourth grandchild as her son Alexander 'Sacha' Newley announces the birth of his first daughter with his jazz singer wife, Sheela Raman.

The actress, 88, is currently grandmother to Miel Celeste Adam, 23, Weston Skeates, 19, and Ava Grace Newley, 17.

The former Dynasty star has expressed how 'lovely' it is to become a grandma again and is already doting on the baby girl who is called Deia Shanaya.

Joans told the Daily Mail: 'It's really lovely to become a grandma again,' the Dynasty star tells me at a Bafta party in Piccadilly.

The star - who turns 89 on Monday - said: 'It's all these grandchildren that keeps me so young.' 

Distinguished painter Alexander – whose father is Joanie's second husband, the late actor and singer Anthony Newley – proposed to American-born writer and musician Sheela in 2019.

Known as Sacha to his pals, Alexander has a daughter, Ava, with his first wife, the U.S. jewellery designer Angela Tassoni, whom he divorced in 2012.

Joan has been married to her husband Percy for 20 years, after meeting at a book-signing event in San Francisco in 2000. She was first married to late film star Maxwell Reed in 1952.

The star then went on to marry British pop star Anthony in 1963, with whom she shares two children, Tara and Alexander, now 58 and 56.

The couple divorced after six years, and she went on to marry her third husband Ron Kass in 1972. The two welcomed daughter Katyana, 49, that same year.

The pair were divorced in 1983, and Collins went on to meet her fourth husband, Scandinavian singer Peter Holm, at a party. They wed in 1985 but split just two years later in 1987.

It comes after Joan revealed that her teenage granddaughter was rushed to hospital with 'terrible stomach pains' after her star-studded 20th wedding anniversary bash. 

She also revealed that her husband Percy went with their granddaughter to A&E, where he stayed for eight hours by her side.

Joan, who declined share her granddaughter's name, told OK!: 'On Saturday we were going to write all our thank yous [for the party gifts] but Percy was called to the hospital with my granddaughter, who was taken off with terrible stomach pains.'

 

Percy added: 'She had a terrible reaction to something or other on the Saturday,' before reassuring: 'She's fine now, they put some fluids into her and she was OK.'

Gushing over her husband's selfless actions, Joan recalled: 'He was there for eight hours in A&E. This is what I want people to know about Percy, how utterly kind and selfless he is.'