Will McMahon co-host of the KIIS Network’s Will & Woody has been on paternity leave while awaiting the birth of his second child with partner Sem. Yesterday he called into the show, which Woody Whitlaw is currently hosting with Sophie Monk, with an update that Woody didn’t yet know a thing about.

Will: Last time, we had an emergency caesarean which was pretty wild, like code blue, everyone ran in the hospital, running and trying to resuscitate Max. So, we didn’t want that. Started natural labour and then Sem was basically labouring for like forty-eight hours, like she had this pre-labour thing come on and the baby was posterior.

Anyway, she’s got to the point where she’s like, I’m in so much pain, we’ve got to go to the hospital. So we did, and then she laboured for a bit more at the hospital, and then it just got to a point where it kind of felt a bit like last time, like the heart rate was dropping a bit and they were like, you can keep going, and she was like, nah, you know what, I don’t really owe anyone this. Like it’s nice to have a vaginal birth. Let’s just get the baby out and was really cool, calm and collected.

So, we went down to the operating theatre…and then we had him out. Him. It’s a boy!

I couldn’t actually imagine it myself. It was obviously a complete surprise, and I was a bit scared about having a boy because I don’t know, it’s different having a baby of your own gender, because you know what it’s like being that gender in the world.

Like with a girl, I’m going to be an absolute rock for you, and help with everything. There’s lots of things that I won’t be able to help you with because like that’s what your Mums for and I’m just not going to be very good at doing that. But with a boy, it’s going to be a bunch of stuff that you need me for, and also that like I’ve suffered as a boy before.

I was scared of that. But he actually came out and you guys aren’t going you know this because you’re uncultured, but he came out to this song called One of These Things First by this guy called Nick Drake. I’ve always loved that song and it’s always the song that shuffles on and you’re like, oh, of course he came out to this, but he came out to that and the whole song is about what you could be as a human, like who could you be?

And I had this really nice thought. I don’t know why I thought about this. Like Sem’s got a stomach splayed open, she’s looking at me trying to be all lovey dovey and in the back of my mind I was thinking a really weird political thought about the fact that like the world’s currently getting like ruined by really shit men and while One of These Things First was playing, I remember thinking to myself, I’m scared because there are like nasty men in the world, and I don’t want you to be a nasty man. But then also I felt so empowered. You could be anything, and I felt so empowered to raise a man who’s going to be one of the ones, to hold in his heart what’s good for the world.”

Will and Woody have their young families very close in ages, making dad-ventures a regular occurrence. Woody’s bub Murphy, his second daughter with partner Mimi, arrived in November.