Rupert Grint & Georgia Groome Are Expecting A Child

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Actors Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome have announced they're expecting their first child.

A representative for the couple told the press on Friday night: "Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome are excited to announce they are expecting a baby and would please ask for privacy at this time."

Grint, who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films, and Groome, star of the iconic British teen film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Up the Women, a sitcom about the Women's Suffrage movement, have been dating since 2011.

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On Twitter, fans reacted excitedly to news that two actors who appeared in beloved films from their childhoods are going to become parents.

One fan even hailed it as "the best thing I've heard in the past two months". Check out a selection of reactions below.

If Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome don’t dress there baby up as an olive or a wizard for their first Halloween then they’re doing it wrong pic.twitter.com/R94IPutNvI
— Kirsty (@kkirstylouise) April 10, 2020

Rupert Grint expecting a baby with Georgia Groome (the lead of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) is the best thing I’ve heard in the past two months pic.twitter.com/5CikiklDms
— 🦖 (@trashycowgirl) April 11, 2020

Friends!!! Georgia Groome, aka Georgia Nicholson from Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging, is pregnant and the baby’s dad is RUPERT GRINT!
— Marcie Gibbz (@marceltheshella) April 10, 2020

Since Georgia Groome is pregnant and she’s the main character in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging I’m gonna make a thread no one asked for of gifs from that amazing movie 😂 #renewannewithane pic.twitter.com/7aQm76hr63
— 🌸Queen Cordelia🌸 (@amazerfulanne) April 11, 2020

im so offended that they wrote ‘girlfriend’ like his girlfriend isn’t iconic actress georgia groome who played GEORGIA NICOLSON in angus thongs and perfect snogging !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/RTHioNIZDi
— ☾･ﾟlily (@moonlightlilyx) April 11, 2020

Grint and Groome like to maintain their privacy; they've never spoken about their relationship in interviews or shared photos on social media.

However, Grint told The Guardian in December 2018 that he'd "like to settle down and have kids soon".

"If I had a son, would I call him Ron?" he added. "It’s quite a good name, but probably not. And Grint’s a tough name to pair a one-syllable first name with."