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Tom Daley’s mum has moved in to help look after one-year-old son Robert in lockdown, says husband Dustin Lance Black

TOM Daley's husband Dustin Lance Black revealed his mother-in-law has moved in with them to help look after their one-year-old son Robert.

Dustin, 45, chatted to Good Morning Britain presenter Lorraine Kelly today about supporting the LGBT+ community when he opened up on his lockdown life with Olympic star Tom, 26, in South London.

He spoke about Tom's amazing mum Debbie who has been giving them a helping hand, after moving in to be closer to her grandson.

Dustin said: "He's getting huge, he's nearly two years old, he's telling us how to run this house. We're really lucky that Tom's mum has isolated with us this entire time.

"All of a sudden I'm less lonely because I can hear the pitter patter of tiny feet above my head, and Tom is doing his workouts.

"I'm surrounded by family, I'm really luckt. We're really lucky."

Later, Tom, who has taken up knitting in lockdown, gatecrashed Dustin's chat after doing a sweaty workout off camera, and the couple looked so loved-up

Baby Robert Ray been given the name of Tom's late dad, who died of a brain tumour in 2011.

The couple welcomed Robert Ray Black-Daley in 2018 after the couple retained the services of a surrogate mum so they could become parents.

The couple  married in May 2017, and announced they were expecting a child via a surrogate in the US - but said they did not want to know who the biological father is.

Tom told the Times that they had both provided sperm to fertilise their surrogate's eggs - and hinted that a second child could be on the cards.

He said: "We found an egg donor and we are the sperm donors, we have fertilised half the eggs each.

"We put in a boy embryo and a girl embryo and we don't know whose is whose.

"The next time we will do it the other way around."

At the time Tom hit back at critics who sniped at the use of a surrogate.

He said: “There are lots of people in this world that can’t have kids, whether it’s due to fertility issues or health issues, whatever it may be, I don’t think there would be as much drama if it was a straight couple.”

Dustin has also said they want to have “biological connection” to their child.

He said: “There was something for both of us where we felt deeply that we’d like to complete that connection first when creating our family, and to have a biological connection to our past, to bring that into our present and let that grow into the future.

"At least at first, for the first couple.”

The American film director and writer has previously revealed their newborn would be raised in London, after they made the "difficult" decision to settle in the UK.