After quitting Baywatch, Aussie TV star Jaason Simmons did a lot of soul searching - now he's about to marry his boyfriend and become a dad!

Baywatch hunk Jaason Simmons revealed for the first time that he's gay - and that he plans to wed his lover, Irish actor John O'Callaghan, and together raise the boy John rescued from an African orphanage.

Jaason's handsome face lights up with happiness whenever he's in the presence of John, his partner of eight months. And his smile increases when six-year-old Odin, the Ugandan boy John adopted two years ago, comes home from school and joins them.

Clearly they are a real family unit, and it will soon become official.

John proposed a few months after they met and Jaason immediately said 'yes'. When the two men wed later this year, Tasmanian-born Jaason will officially become Odin's second father.

It's a long way from flirting with bikini-clad babes on TV's Baywatch in his role as bad boy lifeguard Logan Fowler, but privately Jaason was miserable riding that wave.

So in 1997, after three years on the show and with two years still on his contract, he quit, turning his back on Hollywood.

To read more about Jaason Simmons and how the actor built his life with his husband to be and and his son Odin, check out this week's issue of New Idea on sale now!