ONE of Britain’s first gay dads Barrie Drewitt-Barlow has revealed he’s secretly fathered 17 children as an “international sperm donor”.
Barrie, 50, who is currently expecting his first baby by surrogate with toyboy lover Scott Hutchison, 25, his daughter Saffron's ex-boyfriend, also fathered two children naturally before he realised he was "as camp as Christmas".
While this is Scott's first baby, incredibly it will be Barrie's 17th as he has led a secret life as an international sperm donor.
He said: “I am the biological dad now actually to 17 children which include my own children and the children I provided sperm for.
"When I was a teenager I got two women pregnant at the same time – before I realised I was gay. Goodness knows how I didn't know it myself as I was as camp as Christmas!
“That figure includes my baby with Scott and there's also a lesbian couple in Manchester who are pregnant at the moment who I have helped via sperm donation. So it's been a busy year."
Barrie said lockdown has been stressful for the family, as his surrogate had suspected Covid-19.
While she was initially pregnant with triplets, their latest scan has revealed they are now having one little girl.
They are now planning to have a second surrogate pregnancy early next year so she has “one or two” sisters to grow up with.
Speaking from his Florida mansion, Barrie said: “Our amazing surrogate has had Covid-19, we were so worried about her.
“I can't pretend we weren’t devastated, when we discovered our triplets are now one baby, but when there are people all over the world whose IVF has been postponed or cancer or other treatment, we still feel we are very lucky to have a child on the way.
"These are extraordinary times – and we are just praying the rest of our pregnancy together is smooth.
“We are sad for the ones we lost, but thankful one is well safe and healthy.
“Plus, it just means that we will have another one or two next year so she's not on her own growing up as all the brothers and Saffron are so much older than she will be that we don’t want her growing up on her own with a close sibling.”
Barrie became Britain’s first gay dad with ex-partner Tony, and the former couple have five children, Aspen and Saffron, 20, son Orlando, born in 2001 and twins Jasper and Dallas born in 2010.
He and Tony announced their separation earlier this year but they remain under the same roof as Tony has major health problems due to complications from cancer treatment a decade ago. He recently had reconstructive surgery on his jaw and is recuperating.
Barrie and Scott’s first baby is due on October 24th – Barrie's birthday – and he and lover Scott saw a scan of their unborn daughter for the first time a couple of weeks ago via Facetime.
Barrie said of their unusual living arrangement: “I've got my husband in one wing of the house, and me and Scott are in the other.
“The best time of the day for me is the time when they have all gone to bed.
“I turn on the hot tub and Scott and I get in it, naked, with a bottle of champagne.
“The world might be coming to an end, and if it is, I'm still going out the way I have lived my life… in style.”
Barrie and Scott are in charge of managing the 10 bedroomed mansion without chefs, maids and an army of staff due to lockdown.
Barrie said: “It’s carnage like in the movie three men and a baby.
“I totally understand why we have to do it, BUT, this is a nightmare.
“I've not done washing for over 20 years, and when you have as many kids as I have, a young boyfriend and ex-husband all living in the same house, trust me when I say, I've never been so exhausted in my life!
“I’ve had to learn how to use the washer again, to cook again and to change and make the beds.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow's 17 kids
- Son Colin – Barrie had a relationship with his mum Ann when he was 17. He said: “I later realised I was as camp as Christmas.”
- At the same time as Ann Barrie got another 17-year-old pregnant who had a little boy.
- Barrie's own child Aspen
- Barrie's own child Saffron
- Twins for a heterosexual couple from Essex who were infertile via sperm donation.
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- Barrie's own child Orlando
- Sperm donated a second time for the Essex couple who had a little boy to complete their family
- Twin girls for Spanish Lesbian couple via sperm donation
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- Barrie's own child Jasper
- Barrie's own child Dallas
- Twin boys to a lesbian couple in Manchester via Sperm donation
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- Triplets via Sperm donation to an Australian couple
- Sperm donation to Lesbian couple in Manchester who are pregnant a second time
- Pregnant with his own little girl with toyboy Scott.
“I’m still working, seven days a week at the moment too.
"Princeton Consumer Research, our company, is a clinical testing company and we are currently working on potential vaccine trials for the Covid-19 virus. So trying to carry on running the company, get the kids homeschooled and running the house has been exhausting.
“And of course, my kids have never even made a bed in their lives so they are totally no help whatsoever.
“I forgot they like to eat at least three times a day so getting breakfast, lunch and dinner, on top of the housework and business."
Meanwhile, with the rest of his family going stir crazy on lockdown, the multi-millionaires even considered trying to fly in Supernanny Jo Frost to “take back control” and said life in their £6 million mansion is “chaotic like three men and a baby”.
Barrie's children have tried to help but after the white clothes in the washer all turning pink three times, the dishwasher breaking down, twice because they put fairy liquid in it instead of the tablets and £2,000 worth of pans being burnt out on the cooker, Barrie begged them not to help any more.
He said: “I'm at the point where I need to bring in Supernanny and maybe pay her danger money!”
Their son Dallas also gave the dads a scare when he also tested positive for Coronavirus.
Barrie said: “It was the scariest time of my life. I sat with him for four days 24 hours a day, just me and him.
“I didn’t want the others to come anywhere near him because of needing to shield Tony as he's recovering from a major operation due to complications of cancer treatment.
“Dallas had a temperature of 103F (39C) for three full days, on the fourth day it was breaking then coming back up up down up down. I’ve never seen anything like it.
“I was sick for the following three days, but nothing like you hear of other people. Dry cough, which is still here two weeks later, but temperature was up and down.
“We have been super clean with everything though again because of Tony, we don’t want him to get sick, he is only weeks out of major life saving surgery and we need to keep him away from any danger because his body is so frail that we know if he gets sick the likelihood is he will be one of the unlucky ones and die."
Among it all they are still shopping to get their baby's nursery completed.
Barrie said: “I gave Scott my card and told him and Saffron to just start finishing off everything for the birth, clothes shoes, prams diaper changing Gucci nappy bags etc…..delivery times are so much slower I want to be ready and I don't even have time for shopping at the moment.
“There's always time to shop!"
Previously, daughter Saffron was trolled by cruel bullies who mocked her lip fillers online.
And she is no stranger to fabulous shopping sprees… look at her here.
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