CONFIRMED: Actress Angie Harmon, 36, and her husband, former New York Giants cornerback Jason Sehorn, also 36, are expecting their third child. The couple have two daughters, Avery Faith, 3, and Finley Grace, 4.

CONFIRMED: Taylor Hanson, middle brother of the rock trio Hanson, and his wife Natalie, are expecting their fourth child this winter.

CONFIRMED: Another Spice Girls baby is on the way! Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, (and sometimes referred to as Mel C.) is expecting her first child, with boyfriend Thomas Starr. The thirty-four year old Chisholm is the last of the former all-girl pop group to become a mom. She is seen here at the final gig of the Spice Girls 2008 reunion tour, in Toronto.

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Posted on August 22nd 2008 and posted to CELEBRITY BABY NAMES,CELEBRITY PREGNANCY,Spice Girls | Comments(1)

Emma Bunton, ‘Baby Spice’ of The Spice Girls, and her boyfriend Jade Jones, former singer with the British band Damage, are new parents. Bunton gave birth to a boy named Beau, this morning in London.

Now there’s a new celebrity baby name worth talking about! Sometimes short for Beauregard, the name Beau means ‘beautiful’ in French. Can’t say I’ve heard it given to a baby boy since Beau Bridges was around (and in his case, it was a nickname given to him by his mother).

Beau weighed 7 lb 15 oz, according to news about the birth in People.

Bunton, 31, and Jones, 27, have been together for about eight years. With the birth of Beau, Melanie Chisholm is the only Spice Girl yet to become a mother. The Spice Girls 12 city world tour kicks off December 7 in Los Angeles.

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Posted on August 10th 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES,CELEBRITY BABY NAMES,Spice Girls | Comments(1)

People.com is reporting that Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, who has claimed from day one that her new daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, is entitled to call Eddie Murphy daddy, is planning legal action to force Murphy to take a paternity test.

Murphy claims he is not the father, or at least, claims that it hasn’t been proven. So Mel Brown is giving him his chance to do just that. She told People that Murphy hasn’t signed the birth certificate for Angel, who was born on Murphy’s birthday, April 3. Nor has he been in touch with her at all, or asked to see the baby.

In a recent poll here on this blog, more than 80 percent of our readers felt that Murphy is the daddy. With this latest legal salvo from Brown, I’d say that number might be heading higher.

Murphy is currently dating film producer Tracey Edmonds.

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Posted on May 02nd 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABY NAMES,Eddie Murphy,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(0)

“Murphy Because He’s The Dad, And Brown Because I’m The Mum!”

That’s how former Spice Girl Melanie Brown describes how she came up with the second half of her daughter’s name, in a story reported in People a few hours ago.

Since the birth of her daughter on April 3, Brown has steadfastly maintained that Eddie Murphy, who turned 46 on the same day, and who is now dating film producer Tracey Edmonds, is the father of her baby girl. Murphy has just as steadfastly refused to accept that fact, demanding a paternity test.

 It was revealed today that the baby’s name is Angel Iris Murphy Brown. The former Spice Girl, speaking through her London reps, said she chose “Angel” because the baby was her little angel, and she chose Iris to honor her grandmother. And we know why she chose “Murphy!”

Next move, it seems, may be up to Eddie Murphy. It has been reported that little Angel has already been swabbed for DNA. No word yet if Murphy has done so.

In a poll we conducted here over the past couple of weeks, 80 percent of respondents believe that Murphy is the father.

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Posted on April 24th 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES,Eddie Murphy,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(0)

A DNA sample has been taken from former Spice Girl Melanie Brown’s new baby, in a prelude to a public paternity battle involving alleged father Eddie Murphy.

According to Hollywood.com, Brown’s baby girl, known as Fortuna Daphne Bay, or just Baby Brown, depending on who you believe, has already been subjected to a DNA testing procedure. Brown is reportedly steaming mad that Murphy has questioned his paternity and caused her extreme emotional pain during what should have been a special time.

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Posted on April 17th 2007 and posted to Eddie Murphy,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(0)

UPDATE, April 12. Or is she? People Magazine today is citing sources close to Melanie Brown,  saying that reports of the baby name being Fortuna Daphne Bay are “total rubbish.” So what name does it give on the birth certificate, I wonder?
How’s that for a weird celebrity baby name?

EurWeb.com is reporting that Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown – already the mother of Phoenix Chi – has named her new daughter Fortuna Daphne Bay, or FDB, as she’s already been dubbed by the European press.

I’m not buying this one yet. Most of the major press has not reported it, and I have not heard personally from Mel B’s publicist. (If she’d like to contact me, see our contact info).

On a related note, no word yet if Eddie Murphy, who according to Melanie Brown is the father, has agreed to a DNA test. Murphy, who is currently dating film producer Tracey Edmonds, is not conceding the child is his. On the other hand, I haven’t seen any quotes from Murphy where he categorically said Fortuna Daphne Bay is not his baby.

UPDATE April 11: Mel B. puts it in writing — Eddie Murphy named as the father on Fortuna’s birth certificate.

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Posted on April 10th 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(0)

 UPDATE June 22: Source close to Melanie Brown tells People that DNA test results delivered to Brown on Thursday afternoon show conclusively that Eddie Murphy is the father of Brown’s two-month old daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown.

UPDATE April 11: British gossip site Exposay.com is reporting that Melanie Brown has listed Eddie Murphy as the father of her newborn daughter, Fortuna Daphne Bay, on the child’s birth certificate. Of course, being on the birth certificate for Dannielynn didn’t make Larry Birkhead the baby’s daddy, but I doubt that we’ll see a repeat. My money is on Mel B. for knowing who the daddy is.

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown will be leaving the Santa Monica hospital any day now, taking home her new baby girl to meet big sister Phoenix Chi.

“Baby Brown,” as she has come to be known, was born on April 3 — Eddie Murphy’s birthday.

This is going to be right up there with the Dannielynn Smith paternity media circus: for starters, mom is alive and well and has argued from the beginning of her pregnancy that Eddie Murphy is the father, and second, Eddie Murphy has certainly implied, on the record, that he’ll submit to a paternity test. Of course, that was no doubt said without a lawyer present, so maybe he has some wiggle room there.

Why do I have the feeling that Melanie Brown is going to come out the winner here, and Murphy is going to be paying some hefty child support for the next 18 years?

I can’t wait til Melanie B. gets out of hospital and this legal circus kicks into high gear, alongside the Dannielynn Smith paternity proceedings.

How will CNN and Fox TV have enough airtime to cover both of these nationally important stories? Will there be enough talking heads and legal experts to go around? Can Larry King get Howard K. Stern and Eddie Murphy on the same show? It should be fun, folks.

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Posted on April 05th 2007 and posted to Anna Nicole Smith,CELEBRITY BABIES,Eddie Murphy,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(2)

Comedian Eddie Murphy turned 46 on Tuesday — the same day that his former, extremely brief, girlfriend, ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown, gave birth to a baby girl in Santa Monica, California.

The little girl, who has been dubbed “Baby Brown” by the gossip media, doesn’t have a proper name yet. But that’s not the worst of it. She doesn’t have a proper daddy yet, either.

Melanie Brown insists that Eddie Murphy is the father, although I wouldn’t count Howard K. Stern out just yet. Murphy, cut from a different cloth than Stern, claims the little bundle isn’t his baby. He’s going to demand a blood test to sort things out.

Happy Birthday, Eddie.

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Posted on April 03rd 2007 and posted to Eddie Murphy,Melanie Brown,Spice Girls | Comments(0)

Baby names authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran are popping up all over at the moment, promoting their new book The Baby Names Bible: The Ultimate Guide By America’s Baby Naming Experts (winner of the self-aggrandizing book title award, 2007).

Here’s an interview they did with the Chicago Sun-Times about celebrity baby names. It actually contains some interesting trivia about how particular baby names were chosen, including David and Victoria Beckham’s Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz; the now-split Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s Ava; Nicholas Cage’s now boring Kal-El story; Tom Cruise and Katie Holme’s Suri, especially the pointy-nosed bit, which looks like they got from my posts; and the ever-fascinating Penn Jillette-Moxie Crimefighter saga.

One thing I didn’t know — Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale bought a hat with the name Kingston on it several years ago, while they were recording in Jamaica. They were planning that far ahead. That’s what I call being on top of your celebrity baby name planning.

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Posted on March 18th 2007 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES,David Beckham,Gwen Stefani,Katie Holmes,Nicolas Cage,Penn Jillette,Reese Witherspoon,Spice Girls,Tom Cruise,Victoria Beckham | Comments(0)

As everyone now knows, Eddie Murphy has broken up with former Spice Girl, and mom-to-be, Melanie Brown, and he is now dating music executive Tracey Edmonds. The breakup leaves one big question unanswered: who’s the Daddy?

Murphy reportedly is questioning paternity and may insist on a blood test if Brown points the finger at him.

Meanwhile, here are six celebrity baby names that Melanie B. may want to avoid as she’s mulling over her choices — they are the names of Murphy’s six children to date, five with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell, and one with Tamara Moore — daughters Bria, Shayne Audra, Zola Ivy, Bella Zahra, and sons Christian and Miles.

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Posted on December 06th 2006 and posted to CELEBRITY BABIES,CELEBRITY BABY NAMES,CELEBRITY GOSSIP,Eddie Murphy,Spice Girls | Comments(0)