I’m attacked for dating my daughter’s ex-boyfriend – but I don’t care what people think, it’s true love
BARRIE Drewitt has hit the headlines many times, first for being one half of the first same-sex couple to be named on a birth certificate as parents of their twins, Saffron and Aspen.
Then, years later in 2019, he hit the headlines again, when he announced that he and his husband Tony were breaking up, as he had fallen for another man - daughter Saffron's boyfriend.
Now Barrie, 50, has opened up about life with his partner Scott, 27, and their baby Valentina in the show My Extraordinary Family.
The father-of-six said: "Lots of people think that it's weird that I would be dating my daughter's ex.
"I see the keyboard warriors. I see the types of things they write. But I love it! Bring it on!"
Barrie lives with all six of his children, his partner Scott and his ex-husband Tony and his new partner Brent.
Speaking about their first meeting, Barrie said: "I was definitely attracted to Scott the moment I met him, I mean he's just gorgeous.
"I just wanted to rip his clothes off and get him in bed straight away."
Scott said: "I was still kind of that straight lad so I didn't kind of have that attraction straight away.
"My sexuality, I was straight but then I don't label myself. I like what I like."
But their initial meeting wasn't as two potential partners, it was a boyfriend, meeting his girlfriend's dad.
Barrie said: "So when Scott was first coming out, he didn't want to just announce to his parents and everything that he was gay.
"So between him and Saffron, they came up with this plan to say that Saffron was actually his girlfriend, but actually they weren't.
"He was literally seeing me. It kept our relationship secret."
Saffron, 22, said: "I never actually dated Scott, he was just my best friend."
However it seems that faux-mance or not, Barrie would still have been keen to get things going.
He said: "Even if he was my daughter's boyfriend, I would still have no qualms f***ing him.
"They'd be no problem with that at all. If they're done then he's mine if I want him and that's it."
Millions will recall pictures of Barrie and Tony cradling week-old twins Saffron and Aspen — born to a surrogate in California in 1999 — as they revealed themselves as the UK’s first gay dads and the first same-sex couple to be named on a birth certificate as parents.
The former couple, now multi-millionaires from their ventures including a trans-Atlantic surrogacy business and a global medical research company, became civil partners in 2006, then wed as soon as it became legal in the UK in 2014.
Saffron and her brother Aspen were conceived using the donor eggs of one woman, Tracie McCune, and carried in the womb of surrogate Rosalind Bellamy.
Manchester-born Barrie is the biological father of one, and Tony is the dad of the other — so they are actually half-siblings born at the same time.
Aspen, though, does have an identical twin — Orlando, 17. This is because the embryo from which Aspen was born split in two in the lab.
The other half was put on ice for four years before being carried for Barrie and Tony in the womb of a Japanese woman called Donna.
Barrie and Tony also have a second set of twins, Dallas and Jasper, born 11 years ago after Donna acted as surrogate again.
This time the eggs were from a Brazilian model, who Barrie spotted on a catwalk and paid £35,000.
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