STRANGER Things fans have been left shocked as they realise that show star Charlie Heaton has an 11-year-old son.
The actor, who turns 32 next month, portrays Jonathan Byers in the popular Netflix series – which recently came to a hotly-anticipated end.
And this week, Charlie has made a rare admission about his son, leading fans to only know find out he is a dad.
Charlie welcomed little one Archie in 2014, when he was just 20 years old.
He shares the youngster with ex-girlfriend Akiko Matsuura, who at the time was 32 – meaning the pair have a 12 year age gap.
In a new interview, Charlie said that Archie is finally reaching an age where he is getting into his dad’s show Stranger Things.
“He has just started getting into it,” the actor told US outlet PEOPLE.
He continued: “He got to come to set last year and that was really cool.”
Charlie’s rare insight into family life has left fans online more shocked that he has a son.
Talking on a Reddit thread, one fan said: “SON??!!!????!! TWEEN!!?!!??????!!!??”
Another wrote: “I’m 33, about the same age the mother of his child was when she was with him and had their baby. I can’t even fathom being with an 18/19 year old like he was at the time”.
“The fact that he has an eleven year-old; I am speechless. I am without speech,” said a third.
While another fan wrote: “What in the actual f***?? I can’t with the ages of Charlie, his kid, and the mother”.
Charlie was in a relationship with Akiko when they were bandmates in rock group Comanechi.
The duo met when Charlie was a teenager and are thought to have split shortly after Archie’s birth, but it’s not known exactly how long the relationship lasted.
Charlie is now in a relationship with his Stranger Things co-star Natalia Dyer.
The duo fell in love on the show’s set and confirmed their romance back in 2017.