Britain’s first openly gay couple to be jointly listed as the parents of their surrogate children have announced they are expecting twins.
After a five-year transatlantic legal battle and with the help of some of the world’s leading IVF doctors, Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow made international headlines by fathering twin girls with a surrogate mother.
The outcome of their legal battle to be jointly recognised as the parents of their children buoyed the multimillionaire couple into emulating their success a second time, and four years later their son, Orlando, was born to renewed calls that the couple were “playing God.”
Speaking from their home in Chelmsford, Essex, Barrie recalled: “I knew that I’d be a good father and later I knew that Tony, as my partner, would make a great dad. I wanted to have my children with Tony.”
Their second surrogate mother—a Japanese woman living in San Francisco—is said to be expecting twins on Valentine’s Day 2010.