Elton John and David Furnish's Baby Boy!

Meet Sir Elton John and David Furnish's Baby Boy!

Posted Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:33am PST by Us Magazine in Stop The Presses!

Ladies and gentlemen....introducing Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John!

In the new issue of Us Weekly (out Wednesday), Sir Elton John and David Furnish share first-ever photos of their beautiful baby son, who was born on Christmas Day.



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Sir Elton, 63, and his partner David Furnish have appointed a top Hollywood interior designer to turn the unit beside their luxury home into a dream nursery, The Mail on Sunday in the UK reported.

Although the work is not yet finished, several months after it started, eight-day-old Zachary is already installed there, and looked after by round-the-clock nannies.

"Elton and David have wanted this baby for a long time. They bought their first apartment in 2007 and then the following year they bought the smaller one next door," a New York television star who is a long-time friend of the couple said.

"Everyone originally thought they bought the smaller apartment because they wanted extra space, but then I found out they were trying to have a baby.

"They haven’t said whether they have knocked the wall down between the two apartments but I must say at Elton’s age, I wouldn’t blame him if there is no adjoining door. Will he really want to be woken up at night by a screaming baby?

"From what I understand the baby and his nannies are living in one apartment and Elton and David are living in another."

The couple have hired "interior designer to the stars" Martyn Lawrence-Bullard to decorate the baby’s unit. Lawrence-Bullard, who also masterminded Sir Elton’s flat, was overheard telling a friend: "I am still decorating it. It is not quite finished yet."

"It seems a slightly odd arrangement when you have waited so long to have a child. It certainly gives a new answer to the question: what do you give the baby who has everything? His own flat, of course," a source at the building, the 32-storey Sierra Towers, said last night.

"Everyone in the building has been talking of nothing else but the baby all week.

"Apparently he is seriously cute with wispy blond hair. He is in his own apartment with a Filipino lady and an African-American nurse, who are with him 24/7."

Sir Elton’s spokesman Gary Farrow yesterday said of the baby’s sleeping arrangement: "It’s private. No comment."

Zachary was born to a surrogate mother on Christmas Day. Sir Elton, who has battled alcohol and cocaine addiction throughout his career, and Furnish picked an egg donor to match their specifications.

Sir Elton and Furnish rang in the New Year at the five-star Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel at the end of Rodeo Drive, a 10 minute drive from Sierra Towers.

They joined their decorator Lawrence-Bullard and his partner, photographer David LaChapelle and magazine editor Ingrid Sischy at Wolfgang Puck’s acclaimed Cut steakhouse at the hotel.

The group donned fake black plastic top hats and blew cheap trumpets to welcome in the New Year.

As Furnish left he said: "The baby is beautiful. He’s back at the apartment sleeping. We’re just so excited."


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* Buying a baby - not a pair of shoes The Daily Telegraph, 3 hours ago
* Who's the daddy? Elton doesn't know The Australian, 17 hours ago
* Two godmothers for Elton's boy Herald Sun, 10 days ago
* Elton John's family dream is born Courier Mail, 1 Jan 2011
* Elton's spending spree for new baby Courier Mail, 1 Jan 2011

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