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My favorite former Daily Show correspondent, Rob Corddry, (sorry Stephen Colbert) and his wife Sandra had a baby girl yesterday. Marlo Stevensen Corddry is the second child for the young family. Little Marlo joins her older sister Sloane, two.
Former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry and his wife Sandra welcomed their second child Wednesday, daughter Marlo Stevenson Corddry, the actor’s rep Nicole Chabot confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
“Mother and daughter are doing well,” says the rep.
Corddry, 37, and his wife also have daughter Sloane, born in July 2006.
The actor joked about name choices two months before his daughter was born.
“We have a short list of names that we are considering,” Corddry told PEOPLE . “My 2-year-old is pretty set on the name ‘Freeka.’ She also likes ‘Laura Berkner,’ but that sounds weird in front of Corddry. We may just go with ‘Baby the Entertainer’ in case she grows up to be a black comedian.”
Corddry’s latest role was as White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer in Oliver Stone’s George Bush biopic W.
[From People]
Corddry is genuinely funny and I love his personality. I hope this guy goes on to more feature film roles and a lot of success. Congratulations to Corddry and his wife on their new arrival!
Here’s Corddry on Conan O’Brien on 10/16/08. He cracks a lot of jokes about overhearing snippets of conversations in NY. He is promoting his film W in which he plays the press secretary to the President.
Rod Corddry and his wife are shown at the premiere of Semi-Pro on 2/19/08. He is shown below at the premiere of W on 10/14/08. Credit: PRPhotos.
Births, Deaths, and Marriages is a column about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today's roundup: hotelier Ian Schrager, Hugh Hefner and Kendra Wilkinson, late Obama campaigner Terence Tolbert, and a rare pygmy hippo baby:
Baby Sanjae Obama Fisher was born in Florida. It's the first Obama-named baby! [AP]
A rare pygmy hippo was born in an Australian zoo. They're endangered—only about 3,000 left worldwide. Videogum has footage of the lil' cutie. [Metro UK]
Terence Tolbert, a longtime politico and Nevada director of the Obama campaign (he also worked on Bloomberg's 2005 re-election campaign), died of a heart attack two days before the election. He was 44. We're sure he knew he had it in the bag. [Newsday]
Kenneth Johnson, newspaperman. "As editor of The Dallas Times Herald in the 1970s and ’80s transformed it into one of the most respected newspapers in the nation while fighting a spirited but ultimately losing old-fashioned newspaper war with The Dallas Morning News." He was 74. [NYT]
Ian Schrager, Inventor of the boutique hotel (um, thanks) and Studio 54 guy, will wed Tania Wahlstedt, a ballerina. His previous wife was a ballerina, too. What an amazing coincidence! [Page Six]
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 82—desperately clinging to his youth and virility with the help of Viagra—will walk his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old "model" Kendra Wilkinson, down the aisle when she marries her new boyfriend, Philadelphia Eagles footballer Hank Baskett. Makes sense: traditionally a woman's father gives her away, and Hef is certainly old enough to be her dad grandpa. [SF Chronicle]
We hear that the owner of a preppy douche-magnet bar in SoHo, engaged to marry next week, has called off the much-hyped Massachusetts wedding.
Gwen Stefani out on 7/12/08. Credit: Fame
Singer Gwen Stefani has seemingly been pregnant forever, but reports are surfacing that she has been admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA to give birth via C-section.
It’s D-day — as in delivery day — for Gwen Stefani! The singer checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is scheduled to give birth via C-section at 10 a.m. PT. This will be the second child for Gwen, 38, and her husband, Gavin Rossdale — and it’s in the same hospital where she gave birth to son Kingston, 2. “Gwen’s so excited to have this baby because she gained a lot of weight during this pregnancy,” her pal reveals to In Touch. “She is ready to meet her new baby and get her body back.”
I’ve actually been really excited about this baby. Gwen is my age and it makes me happy whenever I see someone of so-called “advanced maternal age” (yes, that is the actual term my doctor used!) have a healthy, normal pregnancy. It’s obvious that Gwen loves being a mother. Little Kingston is so cute and cool, so I’m sure the new baby will be equally awesome. I kind of hope, for Gwen’s sake, it’s a little girl. I’m sure she is dying to play dolls and dress-up.
Photo below credit: WENN
If there is still any shred of doubt as to Ricky Martin’s sexual orientation, his latest move most likely removes it. Taking a page from the Clay Aiken book of fathering children, the Latin singer announced that he has recently become a father to twin boys, carried by a surrogate. The babies reportedly will be in Martin’s care full time, and he has decided to take the rest of the year off from his busy schedule of denying gay rumors to be a full-time dad.
There won’t be much “livin’ la vida loca” for Ricky Martin these days — he’s now the father of twin boys.
The Latin superstar had the children via a surrogate mother, and the babies were born a few weeks ago, according to a statement from his representatives.
“The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care,” said the statement. “Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children.”
A representative said there was no further information on the details of the children’s birth.
Congrats to Ricky, and kudos to the nameless “gestational surrogate” who made it all possible. That is truly a selfless act right there. I don’t know if I could do it- if I carried something for 9 months and then gave birth to it, it’s mine, dammit! Twin boys are surely a lot of work, so even if there’s no mom in the picture, I hope Ricky has some help. I wonder if this means he will finally come out to his adoring public? At this point, what does he have to lose, really? His days as a Latin heartthrob are pretty much over anyway. Coming out might be the best thing to happen to his career since William Hung sang “She Bangs” on American Idol.
Picture note by JayBird:Here’s Ricky Martin receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October. Photographer: Nikki Nelson. Images thanks to WENN.
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Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man” who became famous after appearing on Oprah, has given birth to a daughter, according to several media outlets. TMZ reports that Beatie checked into a hospital in Bend, Oregon on Monday under a fake name. His room was “sealed off” from the pregnant women, and he gave birth late sometime on Monday. Beatie and his wife Nancy haven’t released any official statement, so we don’t yet know the name or other stats of the child.
It’s a girl for the “pregnant man.”
Thomas Beatie, who was impregnated after changing genders but keeping his female reproductive organs, delivered a healthy baby daughter Thursday, ABC News reported.
The 34-year-old transgendered man revealed his pregnancy in April, setting off an international furor. He underwent surgery for breast removal and began taking male hormones years ago. The man with the wispy beard also legally changed his gender from male to female, married a woman and led his life as a man.
But Beatie retained the female organs he was born with with the intention of one day getting pregnant. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he told Oprah Winfrey. “It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”
He was reportedly scheduled for a Cesarean section, but details on the birth was not immediately released.
[From the Daily News]
Us Weekly reports that Thomas has written a memoir titled “Love Makes a Family: A Memoir of Hardship, Healing and an Extraordinary Pregnancy,” which will be released in September. Congratulations to Thomas and Nancy!
