Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black share surprise baby news

Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black share surprise baby news

04/16/2023

Tom Daley’s baby surprise: Olympic diving champion and husband Dustin Lance Black welcome second son Phoenix Rose via surrogate

Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Lance Black have welcomed their second child together.

The Olympic diver, 28, and his husband, 48, shared their surprise baby news on April 5, despite not previously revealing they were expecting another child.

The news was shared in The Times with an announcement revealing that their second son, Phoenix Rose, was born on March 28 via surrogate.

It read: ‘Black-Daley on 28th March to Thomas Robert Daley and Dustin Lance Black, a son, Phoenix Rose.’ 

MailOnline has contacted Tom’s representatives for further comment. 

Congratulations! Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Lance Black have welcomed their second child together

Overjoyed: The Olympic diver, 28, and his husband, 48, shared their surprise baby news on April 5. They are pictured with their first child Robert Ray 

The couple welcomed their first child together, a son called Robert Ray, via surrogacy on June 27, 2018, after announcing they were expecting months earlier in February.

They named their first child after Tom’s late father Robert, who sadly died of a brain tumour in May 2011. 

The couple, who got married in 2017, are raising their children in London, despite previously opening up about the negative reaction to their surrogacy.

Tom and American screenwriter Lance decided to go through the surrogacy process in the US, with Tom previously explaining how in the UK, both surrogates and parents are not afforded the same legal rights.

He said: ‘We looked into it in the UK and in the US. In the UK it’s a lot more complicated because surrogates aren’t as well protected legally, intended parents aren’t protected legally, it’s just not safe, there’s a lot of hurdles to have to jump over. 

‘In the US, everything is regulated in a way that keeps everyone safe and in the US the surrogacy process is a lot more streamlined.’ 

Tom previously revealed that he and Dustin were drawn to surrogacy when they decided to have a child as they wanted to continue their family lineage.

Tom, whose father Rob Daley died in 2011 at the age of 40, said he and Lance had both lost many beloved family members and wanted to pass on ‘the people we’d lost’ to their offspring.

Overjoyed: The news was shared in The Times with an announcement revealing their second son, Phoenix Rose, was born on March 28

Family: The couple, who got married in 2017, welcomed their first child together, a son called Robert Ray, via surrogacy on June 27, 2018 

Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast in May 2022, Tom said: ‘Lance and I […] had lost so many people in our families and there was something about surrogacy that we were drawn to that just meant that we could pass on the people that we’d lost, their genes and their thoughts, their feelings, their personalities and being able to bring someone into the world, that felt so extremely special.’

Tom previously explained they both provided sperm to fertilise their surrogate’s eggs, but did not wish to know who the biological father of their first child is.

Hinting at another child in the pipeline, he also told The Times in 2020: ‘We found an egg donor and we are the sperm donors, we have fertilised half the eggs each.

‘We put in a boy embryo and a girl embryo and we don’t know whose is whose. The next time we will do it the other way around.’

Tom also opened up about the complications around having children as same sex parents as he revealed his worries that came when he first realised that he was gay.

He said: ‘Once I started to realise that I was gay, it was like, how am I going to have children in the future? What does this look like for me? What are the options? 

‘Having to figure out exactly how that was going to work, looking down the routes of adoption, surrogacy and all of those different things.’ 

In October 2021, Tom said he hoped to have more children with Dustin, who is 20 years his senior, because he wanted their son Robert, now five, to have siblings.

Speaking to The Guardian, he shared his desire but admitted that it’s trickier for same-sex couples.

‘It’s not quite as easy as a bottle of wine and a good time. A lot of thought has to go into it,’ he told the publication. ‘But absolutely, I’d love more kids.’

Asked about the 20-year age-gap between the couple, Tom explained that he barely notices it.

Surrogacy: Tom previously revealed that he and Dustin were drawn to surrogacy when they decided to have a child as they wanted to continue their family lineage

Loved-up: Tom and filmmaker Lance, who started dating ten years ago, married at Bovey Castle in Devon in May 2016

He said: ‘If anything, Lance is very much the big kid in the house. I consider myself to be an older soul, hence I have nearly 200 houseplants, and I knit, and I like to be able to have conversations with people who have experienced a similar amount as I have. 

‘That’s where Lance and I connected a lot – he had lost his brother, I’d lost my dad, and then he lost his mum. 

‘We’d also experienced the highs of a career and having that comedown afterwards. That was something we really were able to connect on.’

Tom and filmmaker Lance, who started dating ten years ago, married at Bovey Castle in Devon in May 2016. 

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