A GAY couple from Cheshire are advertising for a woman to become the surrogate mum to their fourth child.
Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow have just celebrated the birth of their third baby - and are already planning the next by placing an advert on the internet to find a woman to carry their child.
The pair have also revealed that they plan to move to Spain and have have put their £4m home in Adlington, Macclesfield, on the market.
Tony, 38, and Barrie, 34, own a home in Alicante and will move there permanently, although they will keep a flat in Manchester city centre.
But the millionaires insist they have not had a hostile reaction from the public after fathering their third baby, Orlando, who was born to a surrogate mother in California.
The pair made legal history with their first children, twins Saffron and Aspen, when a US court granted them to right to be named joint parents.
Barrie said: "We've had enough, it's time for a change.
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"We want some warm weather and a change of scene, but we both love Manchester. It's where we came from and I'm looking forward to having a place in the city centre."
They are deciding whether to keep Saffron and Aspen at their exclusive Cheshire school to avoid disrupting their education. They already commute from Spain every weekend.
"We don't want the children to be treated differently," said Barrie. "They do have minders, but many pupils at the school have well-known parents, so it's normal for them."
The pair used a different surrogate mother for the twins and Orlando, but the children have the same biological mother who donated eggs.
Barrie said: "Orlando is a lovely, well-behaved baby and Saffron and Aspen are just thrilled. Now we've decided we want just one more."
The pair grew up on council estates in Longsight and Wythenshawe and became rich through their pharmaceuticals testing firm, which they sold for £4m in 1998.
Barrie is writing a book about surrogacy and a Channel 4 documentary will be screened next year.
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jennifer hayden, san diego, california (28/08/2004 at 18:37)
Eileen Smith, Bolton (04/09/2004 at 23:03)
John, Perth Australia (13/03/2005 at 06:21)
im eager to know when they are planning to have their fourth child was also wandering if their will be any british newspapers that will report and do an article on them after they do have their fourth child.
im also keen to know who will be the biological father of their fourth child will it be Tony or Barrie?
i know that the 3 children have different biological fathers Tony is the biological father of their sons Aspen and Orlando and Barrie is the biological father of their daughter Saffron. will be very interesting to find out which one of them will be the bioloical father of their fourth child.
its great to see that they are getting alot of positive attention from the media and from some people in the community im also awhere that they have faced alot of scruntny and discrimanation by mostly homophobic people who dont like the thought of two men raising children and of course there have also been a few religious extremists which have targeted them to.
i also beleive that alot of people are jealous of them particularly some heterosexuals because they are both rich happy and succesful and are able to have children of their own and have their own family which does get to alot of heterosexuals because of the fact that certain heterosexuals see it as only their right to have children and have families and they try to do their very best to stop and prevent gay men and lesbians from having children and having families.
although just aswell their bid to do so is failing as so it should i also believe that people shouldnt be denied the right to have children because of their sexual orientation and it is true and their is proof that homosexuals can be good loving caring decent people and can also be good loving caring decent parents to.
anyway its good to see that a loving stable healthy family with two dads like this one are getting alot of media attention because that way they can show that a family with children being raised by same sex parents can be happy healthy secure and the children are loved lookafter and grow up to be psyhcologically and emotinally stable and healthy.
i can tell for sure that these 3 children are lucky blessed and are happy healthy and are loved and well looked after by their two wonderful dads.
i wish both Tony and Barrie all the best in finding a woman to have their fourth child for them i also wish both them and their 3 children all the best and all the happiest for the present and future.
also would like to know if the woman they find to have their fourth child will be american british or even spanish considering the fact that they now live in Spain.
John from Perth Australia
lisa, cheshire (06/11/2005 at 12:22)
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