OK, So We Got It Wrong

October 24, 2006

In an exclusive, the website TMZ is reporting that it has snagged a copy of Britney Spear’s and Kevin Federline’s birth certificate for their baby born on September 12, and it turns out that everyone — People, US Weekly, me — got it half wrong! Britney and Kevin did have a boy, but his name is Jayden James, not Sutton Pierce, as was widely-reported at the time.

But, having been burned once, one has to be cautious. Is that it? Is that the lot? Last week, there was a rumor floating around that Britney had given birth to a girl. Where did that come from? More to the point, where did it go? Seems to me that the onlyÂ journalistically-responsible thing to do nowÂ is to assume that — well, to assume that we can’t assume anything, I guess.

Who thinks Britney actually had twins?