Freddy Brazier 'suffering new setback' as dad Jeff helps him 'navigate' fatherhood

Following reports that Freddy Brazier is soon going to enter fatherhoodafter his ex-girlfriend has fallen pregnant, a source has revealed Jeff’s reaction to becoming a grandfather and how he has been in close contact with Freddy since the news broke.

The brief romance between Freddy, 20, and the child’s mother is believed to have ended on difficult terms, but Freddy is said to be receiving full support from Jeff, a parenting coach and This Morning regular, as well as other close family and friends.

While Freddy is now spending more time at home with his father and his wife Kate in Essex, a close source revealed to The Daily Mail that they hope the news of fatherhood on the horizon helps him ‘get his act together and grow up’.

The source said: “Freddy says he wants to get his own place but he isn’t working, and doesn’t have access to money left by his mum until he’s in his mid-20s, so until then he’d have to find a way of paying his own rent.

"His modelling career hasn’t taken off in the way he had hoped it would, and he hasn’t done any TV work in a while but now he is going to have to do something if he is going to be a dad soon.

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While Freddy and Jeff have had their ups and downs, the source said Freddie has been in ‘close contact’ ever since the news of the baby came about.

They said: “He has been in close contact with Jeff ever since, and has been taking his advice. It came as a shock to Freddy that he is going to be a dad, and he needed some help navigating it. Jeff has been amazing and is helping him so much.”

It is also reported that Jeff is keen to meet the girl's family so they can ‘deal with this together’, as Freddie is also hoping to do a DNA test to confirm that the child is his before he gets further involved.

The world was able to witness the father-son relationship of Freddie and Jeff when they starred in the reality show, Celebrity Race Across The World, where cameras followed them as they navigated their differences.

Freddy and his older brother Bobby, 22, were raised by Jeff from a young age after their mum Jade passed away from cervical cancer in 2009. The brothers have gone in different directions as they have grown up, with Bobby going on to act in EastEnders and Freddy turning to drugs.

In a snippet from his new podcast, which is due to launch this week, Freddy said: “I’ve been smoking since I was 12, I’ve been to rehab, I’ve been sectioned, I’ve had manic episodes. There’s been a real journey and it’s been a tough one”.

In June, Freddy said he planned to go to rehab and that he wanted to be clean in order to repair relationships within his family. He said previously: "I want to be happy and be in a healthy relationship and have a healthy relationship with my Nana and my father."

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