A FAMILY AFFAIR!

HE'S BACK FOR MORE GLORY – WITH SOME NEW SUPPORTERS

- Celia Whitley

Life has become a lot busier for LEGO® Masters Australia star Cade Franklin since he rose to fame by winning the inaugural series, alongside Henry Pinto, in 2019.

After stepping away from the cameras to focus on building his family with wife Melissa, Cade and Henry are now returning to the Build Room to compete in the show's Grand Masters of the Galaxy season. And this time, Cade has quite the cheer squad in his corner!

He and Melissa have been married for 10 years and now have three beautiful kids together – Duke, eight, Theodore, five, and Lily, six months.

In fact, LEGO® Masters plays a big part in the timing of the couple's family! While Cade was filming Season 1, Theodore was born. Then, during work on this brand new season – like some sort of LEGO® Masters spell – Lily came along!

Sitting down exclusively with New Idea, Cade, 42, and Melissa, 41, open up about what it was like to welcome a new baby at the same time as filming a TV show – twice.

“It was a bit surreal because Lily was a little surprise,” Cade says. Melissa adds, with a laugh: “[You] got the phone call about competing on LEGO® Masters: Grand Masters of the Galaxy and I was like, ‘OK, this is starting to get almost very deja vu like.’

“But despite everything, the timing was right and so it all fell into place.”

Now that their sons are a little older, building is something Cade enjoys doing with Duke and Theodore.