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Jake Quickenden has revealed he's whittled down his list of baby names to three for his unborn second son . The reality TV star and charity campaigner, 36, is expecting a younger sibling for son Leo and stepson Freddie with wife Sophie and couldn't be more excited. Speaking to the Mirror at the JustGiving Awards last week, he confessed: "I’ve only just started sleeping after three years so I’m not ready for the lack of sleep yet! But I love the baby stage, I love having that little baby that can’t do anything and you’ve got to do everything for them.

"But I’m very excited - of course, worried, as with anything. I think I worry more than Soph because she did it all with Fred so Leo was her second, whereas Leo was my first so I was so worried. So I can’t wait to have my second and hopefully be a bit more laidback.



But yeah, we’re so excited. We’ve got names sorted - we’re down to three names - I won’t give them away yet." While he loves being a father, Jake says that being a natural worrier means that he's always fretting about his son and if he's OK.

"Sometimes I lay in bed and think, ‘What if somebody doesn’t like him at school?' Or ‘What if he doesn’t get into the footie team?' Everything’s a worry," he said. "And my mum always used to say, ‘If you think the kiddie stage is a worry, wait until they’re 18 and they go on a night out' because then it’s out of your hands. There’s other factors that can go wrong - the world ’s not full of n.

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