Current:Home > ContactOlympian Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Welcome Baby No. 2 -FutureFinance
Olympian Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Welcome Baby No. 2
View
Date:2025-04-20 11:56:21
Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black just dove into a new parenthood milestone.
The couple announced that they have welcomed their second child together, a baby boy named Phoenix Rose. The Olympian, 28, and the screenwriter, 48—who are also parents to four-year-old son Robert "Robbie" Ray—shared the news of their little one's arrival on Instagram alongside a snap of the new family of four.
"PHOENIX ROSE BLACK-DALEY," Tom captioned the April 5 Instagram. "Our family has grown in the last week, we welcomed Phoenix to the world on 28/03/23 and he's just perfect. Robbie is loving being a BIG BRO!"
Reposting the photo on his own account, Dustin wrote, "And then there were four. Our second son, Phoenix Rose Black-Daley, arrived at 3:34pm on March 28, 2023."
The sweet baby news comes a month after Tom—who wed Dustin in 2017—got candid about his and the Oscar winner's path to parenthood.
"It is a lot more complicated for same sex parents to have children," the gold medalist said on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast in May 2022, "and you have to really think about it and like really, really want to have kids in order to be able to make it work and it's extremely complex for same sex couples in a number of different ways."
He added, "For as long as I could remember, I have wanted to be a parent."
And he noted that experiencing loss—including his father dying from cancer in 2011 and Dustin's brother passing from the disease the following year—played into the couple's urge to start their family.
"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," Tom explained on the podcast. "Their genes and their thoughts, their feelings, their personalities and being able to bring someone into the world, that felt so extremely special."
And having welcomed Robbie via surrogacy, the process has a special place in Tom's heart.
"Surrogates are guardian angels, they are so incredible," he noted. "There are no words to explain as to how grateful you can be to someone and they are so incredibly special. Our surrogate is so special we speak to her all the time, on Facetime with Robbie and we explain to Robbie that she is his tummy buddy and that is how he came into the world."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
veryGood! (14)
Related
- Military service academies see drop in reported sexual assaults after alarming surge
- Hungary is the last holdout for Sweden’s NATO membership. So when will Orbán follow Turkey’s lead?
- A Historic and Devastating Drought in the Amazon Was Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say
- Democrat Dean Phillips vows to continue campaign after losing New Hampshire primary
- Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
- 2024 McDonald's All American Games rosters: Cooper Flagg, Me'Arah O'Neal highlight list
- Experiencing racism may physically change your brain
- The West Bank economy has been hammered by war
- 'We're reborn!' Gazans express joy at returning home to north
- AP PHOTOS: Crowds in India’s northeast cheer bird and buffalo fights, back after 9-year ban
Ranking
- Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
- Los Angeles County to pay $5M settlement over arrest of election technology company founder
- Here’s what to know about Sweden’s bumpy road toward NATO membership
- 'Barbie' receives 8 Oscar nominations, but was that Kenough?
- Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
- 15-year-old to be tried as adult in sexual assault, slaying of girl, 10
- Heavy fighting in Gaza’s second-largest city leaves hundreds of patients stranded in main hospital
- Tesla 4Q net income doubles due to tax benefit but earnings fall short of analyst estimates
Recommendation
Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
China cuts reserve requirements for bank to help boost its slowing economy
Jessica Biel says she loves to eat in the shower: 'I find it deeply satisfying'
China formally establishes diplomatic ties with Nauru after Pacific island nation cut Taiwan ties
Sonya Massey's father decries possible release of former deputy charged with her death
Britain says it has no plans for conscription, after top general says the UK may need a citizen army
Online retailer eBay is cutting 1,000 jobs. It’s the latest tech company to reduce its workforce
Why did Bucks fire coach Adrian Griffin? They didn't believe he could lead team to title