Yahoo News ‘We fertilised half the eggs each’: Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black don’t know who the biological father of their unborn baby is
Olympic swimmer Tom Daley has confirmed that neither himself nor his husband Dustin Lance Black know which of them is the biological father of their unborn child.
The couple were able to conceive the baby boy, who Daley revealed is due in June, through “an egg donor” and surrogate mother.
“We found an egg donor and we are the sperm donors, we have fertilised half the eggs each,” Daley said in an interview with The Times. “We put in a boy embryo and a girl embryo and we don’t know whose is whose.”
The Olympic bronze medallist revealed that he and his husband speak to the mother every single day, adding that she is “the most amazing woman” and describing her as “lovely and kind and generous.
Appearing on the Happy Place podcast last month, Daley told host Fearne Cotton that they “had names for [their] children within a week of knowing each other”, before confiding that they are using the name that they decided on their first date.
Having both lost parents at a young age (Daley’s father Robert died of brain cancer in 2011, just days after his son’s 17th birthday), Black added that in having a child, the couple were seeking a “biological connection to [their] past, to bring it into [their] present and let that grow into the future.”
Despite their twenty year age gap, Daley and Black were married in a lavish wedding ceremony at Bovey Castle in Devon in May 2017. They announced they were expecting a child on Valentine’s Day this year.
