RSSSir Elton John and the Eternal Question: Who’s Your Daddy?
Gene Lalor | December 29, 2010
It’s undeniable. Elton John and David Furnish make a beautiful couple. And “their” new son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John who weighed in 7lb 15oz, 22 inches long at birth, is surely a beautiful baby.
“The couple have not said which of them is the biological father of the baby, who was born via a surrogate mother in California on Christmas Day.” The more relevant issue is that, since both John and Furnish are both being billed as, “husbands,” who will little Zachary Jackson Levon call, “Daddy,” and what will he call his other parent? Daddy 2? Other Daddy? Mommy Substitute?
Whatever they are, their civil partnership was legalized in England five years ago following what could be called a 12 year courtship.
Entertainer Sir Elton John, 62, and Canadian filmmaker, David Furnish, 48, are both a little long in the tooth to have a baby so maybe an even better question might be: When Zack hits teenagehood, how will he address 74 year old Sir John? As Sir John? As Elder Dad? As Daddy Elton? As Gramps?
So many questions, so few answers. A pre-emptive solution to all these pun-less conundra was offered by officials in Ukraine in 2009 when they said, “Nyet” or the Ukrainian equivalent, to John and Furnish when they tried to adopt a Ukrainian baby boy: http://tiny.cc/f5khw
Precisely why they refused permission to a British lord to adopt the boy and provide him with a wonderful life is somewhat unclear and attributing that refusal to the fact they believed a raving homosexual wouldn’t exactly be the ideal parent is purely conjectural. Since the official reasons for the refusal were John’s relatively advanced age and Ukraine’s rejection of civil marriage, it is even more conjectural, as well as wildly bigoted and homophobic, to think that Ukrainians possessed more common sense than Britons.
In any event, Sir Elton and partner didn’t take no for an answer and instead of again pursuing adoption, which involves investigations into lifestyles, etc., elected to make their very own baby via surrogacy, meaning one of them was a sperm donor and some desperate woman bore his progeny. Mercifully, neither surrogate nor donor has been identified.
John had said after the failed adoption, “David always wanted to adopt a child and I always said no because I am 62 and I think because of the travelling I do and the life I have, maybe it wouldn’t be fair for the child.” Sir Elton is still 62 but things will be much fairer to their new child since he says he has retired and now he and David are dedicating themselves to “active parenting” of their bouncing baby boy.
Little Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John might end up more normal and much happier if Daddy Elton went on the road again–and took Daddy David with him.
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