Matthew Wright reveals he nearly MISSED daughter Cassady's birth

He recently welcomed his first child with wife Amelia, a daughter named Cassady.

However Matthew Wright has now revealed to Hello! Magazine that he almost missed the birth of his daughter because he was stuck in traffic.

The TV presenter, 53, and his wife welcomed Cassady in January, after trying for eight years and enduring six failed IVF attempts and one life-threatening ectopic pregnancy.

Matthew said that he was 'having kittens', after coming off air to learn that his wife was in labour with their baby daughter on the other side of London. 

After receiving a text as he finished his radio show, the star hopped in a car to make his way across London from Waterloo to Hammersmith, where Amelia was giving birth at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital.

He said: 'There was a taxi drivers' strike, every road we went on was stuck and there was no more communication from her.

'It took one hour 15 minutes to get from my offices in Waterloo to the hospital in Hammersmith, usually it would be 40 minutes, and I was having kittens.'

Amelia said: 'My blood pressure suddenly went sky high and they said, 'This is dangerous, it has to happen now'.

'They said they would try and wait for Matthew to get there but otherwise they were going to have to start.





MailOnline