The Going for walks Dead’s Tom Payne & Jennifer Åkerman Welcome Twins

Tom Payne is a twin dad now. 

The Strolling Useless actor declared that he and his spouse of 3 a long time, Jennifer Åkerman, have welcomed their 2nd and 3rd baby into the family—in addition to their 2-calendar year-old son Harrison. 

“We are overjoyed to share the news that on April 1st, 2024, we welcomed twins into our relatives,” the couple stated in a assertion to People. “An totally unanticipated and great shock.” 

And the couple—who very first began courting in 2013 right before having engaged in 2018—are thrilled at their growing household, but shared that their son is probably even much more so. 

“Harrison is around the moon to have not 1 but two new siblings,” Tom extra in a assertion. “Jennifer and I have joked that he had anything to do with this for the reason that there is absolutely nothing he likes a lot more than a dwelling entire of folks.”

News of the couple’s equivalent twins—whose names and sexes have not but been revealed—also will come amid the premiere of their new podcast, California Dreamin’, in which they’ll detail their lives as parents—and their unforeseen twin pregnancy.