Showing posts with label birth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birth. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Congratulations...

To Cerys Matthews, mother to a new-born baby.

Chris Hawkins is sitting in for Cerys now - which is kind of ironic, given that Cerys was officially covering Nemone's maternity leave. You suspect that Nemone might not be expected back.


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Edith Bowman: It's a boy

That's not Edith who's a boy. It's what she's given birth to, her and Tom from Editors. Congratulations all round.

[UPDATE: That'd be the proper link now, then]


Sunday, April 13, 2008

Kerry Katona: who knew there were new lows?

Not only was Kerry Katona's baby born prematurely, but surely the release the pictures of the birth has come a little too soon?

In perhaps the most grisly aspect of the story, not only has the poor kid's first seconds been flogged to newspapers, magazines and a TV station, but they've even named it after Max Clifford. Don't social services have some sort of duty to act?


Friday, February 22, 2008

Jennifer Lopez: It's twins

Oh, apparently everyone knew it was going to be twins. One of each, mind. Oh, you'd heard that too?. Oh.

No word yet on which one will be the evil one.


Friday, February 15, 2008

"Also, naturally, you can't rely on an 11.30 slot"

You'll recall that Christian Aguilera kept her pregnancy to herself:

"I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl."

Fortunately for Hello!, it turns out that she is the 'hey, everybody, I'm a mother; chequebooks out' girl, flogging her newborn into a showbiz marketplace, and revealing that she had a Cesearian because she was "afraid":
"I'd heard horror stories about tearing. I really wanted a calm and peaceful environment. I didn't want any surprises."

Heaven forbid that any throw themselves into a highly-skilled, expensively-equipped hospital and undergo a natural childbirth - a procedure from which hardly any women ever recover.

The Daily Mail nods sagely about how terrifying childbirth is, happily pushing the cycle of fear on another round.


Saturday, January 12, 2008

Bratman now a dad... perhaps

The exact position of Christina's Aguilera potential child is a matter of some debate. Like a kind Schroedinger's Cat with added placenta. Some insist that the there is a child, while her people insist it is still a foetus at this stage.

Adding an extra edge, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are in the same hospital, Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. They're also having something approximating a baby.

This doubling-up is useful; not only does it allow economies of scale for papparazi and entertainment journalists, but it also makes that episode of Friends where Monica and Janice spawned simultaneously seem a little less far-fetched. There's also the tantalising prospect of a delivery-room mix-up, with Christina bringing up Lionel Richie's grandchild believing it was her own child. You can almost smell E! and Us Magazine willing those little ID anklets to fall off...


Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Take that and baby

Who knew that seeing a Take That gig was so exciting it could cause spontaneous birth? Well, not quite spontaneous, but a seven-months pregnant woman Louise Morris, went into labour while waiting for the band to come on stage in Birmingham.

The gig was held up while Louise was helped to an ambulance; two hours later she gave birth to a girl. The child has been called Clementine, presumably after Jason Orange.