Category Archives: Celebrities

Doogie Howser and Partner to be Dads to Twins

Doogie Howser is all grown up and ready to be a dad. Doogie, AKA Neil Patrick Harris, 37, and long time partner David Burtka will be doubling their family by two. According to E! Online, the couple used a surrogate.   

“So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall,” Harris tweeted. “We’re super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy…”

Harris is currently starring in “How I Met Your Mother.” At the age of 16 in 1989, he starred in Doogie Howser, M.D., for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. The show ran for four years.

Rod Stewart, 65, to be a dad for 7th time.

Rod Stewart will be a dad for the 7th time, reports People magazine.

The 65-year-old rocker and his 39-year-old model wife Penny Lancaster, will be having a baby. The couple already has one one child together, 4-year-old son Alastair. Rod Stewart has five other kids from past relationships.

Four time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champ Jimmie Johnson is a Dad

Wait until he has to chase a toddler around the living room.

Four-time and defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson is now a dad.

A baby girl was delivered to Johnson and wife Chandra Wednesday. Both mother and daughter are doing fine, according to a Hendrick Motorsports spokesperson.

[From Jimmie Johnson Is Now A Dad]

Little Zac Hanson (of The Hansons) to Be a Dad again

It seems like this guy should be about 40 by now. But I guess he was the little tiny Hanson in the boy band. And now little Zac is all grown up and a dad two times at just 24.   

Another baby is on the way for Zac Hanson!

The pop rocker, 24, and his wife Kate are expecting their second child, he revealed Thursday on nationally-syndicated radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning.

A Great Dad: Gilles Marini?

What’s the most important thing your own dad taught you about fatherhood?

My father was a really hard-working man. So he taught me how to be a man. That was really his job. And by a very young age, I learned from him that working was a part of being a man. That’s why I was never scared of work. I think I worked from about age 7 on and never really stopped. I owe him so much. I will never be a third of the man he was, but I’m going to keep trying.

[From A Great Dad: Gilles Marini | GoodyBlog]

Will Smith most popular celebrity dad?

I’m only looking for three votes in that category. Poor Will Smith has to appeal to bigger numbers.

Movie ticket selling website Fandango.com has done a poll ahead of Father’s Day (June 20 in the U.S., Canada and U.K.) of movie fans’ favorite father/son and father/daughter actors and actresses, and Will Smith comes out a winner.

Words to live by: Parkinson’s Disease Helped Make Fox a Better Dad

Some times it takes great tragedy to really understand what living in the moment with your kids really means. We all fail at this a million times a day, but anything it takes to bring us back to the “now” when with our kids is good stuff. … During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on her daily talk show on Tuesday, Fox said, “If I’m sitting, watching TV or something and my kids come and they want to show me something, they wanna ask me something, I just made up my mind that there’s nothing that I’m doing at any time that’s more important than that, and I’ll always get up every time and go.

Barack Obama on lessons from your father

He wasn’t a presence in my life, he was an idea that I had to wrestle with for a long time.

… In this interview, on his 47th birthday, he said, “Somebody once said that every man is either trying to live up to his dad’s expectations or make up for his dad’s mistakes. … One could make the case, I guess, that every individual make his or her own choices, or that genetic predisposition sets everything in motion at the time of conception and and that dads and moms are just unwitting witnesses to the entire passion play.

AFP: French film star Depardieu’s son dies of pneumonia

I always want to read more when I see stories like this one about GĂ©rard Depardieu’s son, who just died of pneumonia. … The son of Gerard and Elisabeth Depardieu, Guillaume had starred alongside his father for the first time in director Alain Corneau’s “Tous les matins du monde” (All the world’s mornings) in 1991.

…It’s very rare for any one dad, or mom, to be able to be a super person during the day and a great parent when the kids come home.

Russell Crowe: a pushover dad?

People magazine reports that Russell Crowe is a “pushover, as far as the kids are concerned.” … Importantly, he added some comments about multitasking and fatherhood: “everybody who’s got kids knows exactly what that drill is. When you are the father of two, and sometimes moms got to work, you got to do it, man.”