He welcomed his new granddaughter late final 12 months.
And plainly Line Of Obligation star Adrian Dunbar was already getting the new child engrossed in his iconic position, as a candy snap noticed the tot wearing an AC-12 babygro.
The actor, 63, who performs Superintendent Ted Hastings on the BBC police drama, may very well be seen cradling his granddaughter Zephyr in footage shared on Instagram on Saturday by his daughter Madeleine.
She captioned the publish: 'Zephyr repping her Grandpop,' and her bundle of pleasure may very well be seen in a black and white prime with the AC-12 brand on the entrance, and the phrases 'undercover officer' emblazoned throughout it.
Adrian's daughter Madeleine welcomed Zephyr to the world in December final 12 months.
The actress and songwriter introduced the beginning of her 'completely cooked' child woman in an Instagram publish.
The Line Of Obligation star's offspring posted a sequence of cute snaps from the hospital along with her baby and her fiancé and child daddy, Callum Lazenby-Todd, 32.
In a single picture, Madeleine lay in a hospital mattress along with her daughter mendacity throughout her chest as she smiled for the {photograph}.
Whereas in one other her accomplice sweetly kissed her on the pinnacle whereas sporting hospital scrubs, shortly after welcoming their child woman.
In a caption, Madeleine wrote: 'Woooooow solely simply residence from the hospital.. (a few of you had began to message me to see if I used to be okay.. thanks.
'We went in on Monday night time and Wednesday we did a child!! ( with no sleep in between!) A superbly cooked 8lb girly with robust lungs and hyper consciousness.
'Thanks to my good-looking boy Callum for serving to me make a beautiful woman and thanks for supporting me by this absolute gorey horror story of beginning. Solely you BB.'
It was introduced by way of the Day by day Mail in October that Madeleine and Callum are set to wed, after the singer popped the query to her husband-to-be.
Madeleine revealed that her father was a little bit in the dead of night - and solely learnt about her pleased information when it was about to be publicised in print.
She mentioned she needed to hurriedly inform her dad in regards to the engagement as a result of she had already informed the newspaper and it was about to be printed.
Madeleine is to marry roofer Callum after she proposed to him on London's South Financial institution - and practically received arrested.
Regardless of being crushed to the information by the Mail, Adrian was delighted to be taught that his daughter was getting married.
Madeleine mentioned: 'He mentioned, 'After all I am delighted. My child daughter's getting married!'
She added: 'I used to be a little bit nervous about the truth that I used to be the one who requested Callum to marry me, as a result of Dad comes from a really conventional Irish background and I used to be involved about what he would suppose.
'However he had no challenge with it. He is aware of me. He is aware of it is the sort of factor I do!'