Fans say 'I love this' as Gemma Atkinson shares moving post teaching daughter Mia to follow in her footsteps

Gemma Atkinson has earned herself more adoration from her online followers as she shared a moving post featuring her daughter Mia. The Hits Radio host, who is preparing to give birth to her second child with partner Gorka Marquez, shared how she's teaching her little girl to hopefully follow in her footsteps when it comes to her love for animals.

Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary is a place Gemma visited regularly growing up and now with a public profile having starred in Emmerdale and Hollyoaks to name but a few, the former soap star has continued to show her support for the Bury-based animal sanctuary and is the charity's president.

Taking to Instagram on Friday (June 30), Gemma, 38, reminisced on when she took Mia for a visit to Bleakholt last year. At the time, Gemma shared a video to her Instagram Story, writing "Brought Mia up to @bleakholt_animal_sanctuary today to drop off some food off."

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The video featured Gemma, dressed in a white hoodie with a dark pair of shared, and Mia, in a fluffy hooded jumper, outside. Just as it begins you can hear the toddler saying: "We're at Bleakholt," before Gemma adds: "There's lots of animals here that need looking after." She then asked her little girl: "Have you seen any that you like?" to which she replies: "Yeah," before pointing with Gemma pulling an emotional face as she said: "The doggy ones!"

"That's why you always have to be nice to animals isn't it?" Gemma said before adding: "Yeah? Be nice to them." Mia then asked her mum what else is here and as her mum reeled them off, Mia replied: "I want to see some cats." However, the visit did end with Mia asking if they could have a pig and