British multimillionaire Barrie Drewitt-Barlow made headlines last fall when he announced he was splitting up with his partner of 32 years, Tony Drewitt-Barlow, to be with his personal assistant, Scott Hutchinson, who also happened to be his daughter’s ex-boyfriend.
“Yes, it is unorthodox,” he said, “but we are a loving family and our priority is to have a stable home for our kids and what is now an extended family.”
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Barrie also said that he and Scott were looking into surrogacy to have a child together.
“Scott has always wanted to have a child of his own so I said if he wanted us to be parents together, I would support him in that and have a baby with him.”
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Now, the couple is expecting not one, not two, but three babies!
“I am overjoyed to share the news that Scott and I are pregnant with triplet girls,” Barrie tells The Sun. “We are using a surrogate and she’s fallen pregnant at the first attempt.”
He continues, “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.”
“It works for us. And if people are shocked, well, that’s their problem, not ours!”
The couple is working on a £100,000 Burberry-themed nursery for their three new additions, which they described as “the ultimate princess palace.”
“We are thrilled we are going to become daddies again,” says Barrie. “We’re going to spoil the girls rotten.”
Congrats to the dads-to-be!
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Jared MacBride
Such an incredible waste of carbon dioxide.
G-Man
I’m so with you on that!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
$uch a $weet relation$hip!! 🙂
Chrisk
Gay men adopting is noble. Gay men buying from the puppy mill is bad enough but “sex selecting”? Sounds like some Nazi Eugenics program. You want the most perfect little princesses money can buy. Buy a f*cking doll ya silly queens.
By the time their graduating high school Barrie will just be the old man…or dead. I’m sure Scott’s counting on something much sooner though. Lol
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Much $ooner!
Dashing Partycrasher
Totally agree. With so many poor or parentless kids who could benefit from good foster parents — and with our planet’s growing overpopulation — it upsets me that people feel that surrogacy is still a smart choice. But in any case, I wish this couple and their future girls lots of happiness, and the motivation to help kids who are less fortunate.
jayceecook
@chrisk and @Dashing Partycrasher
I hope both of you feel the same way about opposite sex couples using surrogacy. Or sperm donations. Or egg donations. Or a single person of any sexuality using said services to have a biological child.
david_warner
Where’s Jerry Springer when you need him?
winemaker
Jerry Springer retired last year after about 25 years of the always outrageous ‘Jerry Springer Show’. These guys would have been a nice change of pace for this show as the bulk of Jerry Springer’s guests were, shall we say, outrageous to the bizare. Still miss this show though. Seeing the guests on this show made you feel your own problems and situation wasn’t as bad as you thought.
Jared MacBride
Springer used actors. Unfortunately these people are very real.
Grrrowler
Do these people pay to have stories about them published here? Or have we just run out of gay community news? What’s even more inexplicable than why we keep seeing stories about these people who seem wholly unlikable is why I keep reading them.
SELA Rising
Such a vanity project. But hey, they got the money and obviously don’t care about changing the real problems facing the world, like ll the children up for adoption. They just want play things.
Michael
I’m not sure what’s worse, the fact they’re talking to homophobic tabloids The Daily Mail & The Sun which are so anti gay it makes my blood boil. It just reinforces old stereotypes of gays not having proper relationships they can’t keep it in their pants… This is the extreme the stuff of what tabloids love, making our relationships look ridiculous and that children are at some sort of risk in unstable promiscuous households. Which is so unfair to those couples fighting to give their children a stable loving home. Why they have to pursue the media spotlight baffles me, this story shows no one in a positive light.
Dashing Partycrasher
You make great points. Every time I see stories like this one, I want to shake some sense and some sympathy into such mypoic moneybags. But the light of money blinds people, and it’s hard to cure such blindness. As for their tabloid coverage, I think part of that is these days, people don’t think twice about spilling every little detail about their private lives. This new “post and share anything” culture makes people who aren’t famous think that just by getting any kind of media coverage, they can become famous and respected. That might work for some people with noble intentions. But as with this story, it often turns out to have the opposite effect.
Mack
Sounds like a soap opera.
tameron1
What a waste of space and time. Disgusting story. Feel sorry for the triplets.
sonic_source
I can think of a million reasons why $cott is in love.
Kangol2
Family values!
Man About Town
“A stable home” for your kids? Who’s your role model, Woody Allen?
jayceecook
You forgot to mention that Barrie donated his sperm to a lesbian couple who are pregnant as well. They should be having their baby not long before the triplets arrive.
I mean, hey, it’s definitely soap opera territory and very, very unconventional. However their kids seem to be taken care of and well loved. They all still live under the same roof and share their daily life with one another. The husbands are still there for each other. And while I doubt Scott is there solely out of love it’s Barrie’s life. And money. Could it be spent wiser? Absolutely. He just better not act all gobsmacked if Scott walks away for a woman his own age. Or a younger, childless sugar daddy.
innocentgay
Sick. Sick sick sick.
redzebra1
They talked to a homophobic tabloid! Disgusting pair! No principles!