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One of UK’s first gay dads, 50, welcomes baby girl with his eldest daughter’s ex-boyfriend, 25, who’s now his fiance
ONE Britain’s first gay dads has welcomed a baby girl with his fiance, who used to date his eldest daughter.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 50, got engaged to daughter Saffron's ex-boyfriend and his assistant Scott Hutchinson while on holiday with her and him in Croatia last month
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And now Scott, who’s bisexual, and Barrie have announced the birth of their first child together - Valentina Willow Drewitt-Barlow.
Proud dad Barrie took to where he shared the news alongside a video of the newborn who arrived a month early via a surrogate.
Captioning his post he wrote: “Welcome to the world out beautiful daughter - Valentina Willow Drewitt-Barlow x our girl is almost a month early but she is perfect.
“We feel totally blessed x I love you Scott x”
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Barrie and ex partner Tony Drewitt-Barlow hit the headlines in 1999 as the first gay men in the UK to father twins born through surrogacy.
Now, more than 20 years later, Barrie has split from Tony and hooked up with their adult daughter Saffron's ex-boyfriend Scott Hutchinson.
Barrie and Scott told in March how they were having triplets together, while living in the same house with Tony.
But they later revealed it was just one baby, Valentina who was born over the weekend.
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Saffron, now 20, briefly dated bisexual Scott, 25, months before he fell in love with Barrie.
Previously Barrie, 50, originally from Manchester but living in Florida, told The Sun: “I am overjoyed to share the news that Scott and I are pregnant with triplet girls. We are using a surrogate and she’s fallen pregnant at the first attempt.
“Our surrogate, Marie, is a lady from San Francisco we have worked with previously for our agency, the British Surrogacy Centre.
“This will be her last surrogacy and she wanted to do it for Scott and I.” They chose the egg donor based on her “gorgeous” looks and high IQ.
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Barrie said: “We found a beautiful, young, educated egg donor before the surrogate.
“We met 15 egg donors at the Beverly Wiltshire hotel, the hotel in the film Pretty Woman.
“We decided that would make the perfect setting to find the woman who would add the part of the DNA for our baby girl."
Tony, 55, who was with Barrie for 32 years, has no plans to divorce and is living in a separate wing of their £6million home.
He is said to be “delighted” at the new additions to their “very modern family”, although he hasn't commented on it on his own Instagram page.
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Tony and Barrie’s first children were twins Saffron and Aspen.
“Our family has too many boys and too much testosterone! So we used sex selection to even things out. We know we are having girls,” he added.
Now he and Scott are shopping to furnish a Burberry-themed £100,000 nursery for this daughter, described as “the ultimate princess palace”.
Barrie said: “We are thrilled we are going to become daddies again.
“Tony is excited too, although it does underline that our marriage really is over after all these years, so it is very bittersweet.
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“But we are all going to remain living under the same roof. Tony is Dad, I’m Daddy and while at the moment Scott is stepdad, soon he’s going to be Daddy Two.
“We are happy, we want to co-parent our kids and that’s all that matters. If people don’t get it, that’s their problem, not ours.”
The pair, who are worth a combined £40million from various business ventures including a global research company, used their experience having Saffron and Aspen to set up their own surrogacy agency in 2000.
They then welcomed son Orlando in 2003 and twins Jasper and Dallas in 2010. Tony and Barrie don’t know who is the father of which child — and some have different egg donors — meaning potentially they are not biologically linked to the kids.
And the mind-boggling connections between the siblings will become even more confusing with Scott and Barrie’s daughter, as they have decided they don’t want to know which of them is the biological father.
Even though Saffron, a make-up entrepreneur, had dated Scott, she has given their relationship her blessing. She said last December: “As long as they’re happy, I’m not bothered.”
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