Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley welcomed the birth of their second kid together.
The Olympic swimmer, 28, and his wife, 48, revealed their pregnancy on Wednesday.
They had not previously disclosed that they were expecting a second kid.
The Times broke the news of Tom and his partner’s newest addition with a statement announcing their second boy, Phoenix Rose, was delivered via surrogate on March 28.
‘Black-Daley on March 28th to Thomas Robert Daley and Dustin Lance Black, a boy, Phoenix Rose,’ it said.
After marrying in May 2017 at Bovey Castle in Devon, the pair had their first child, a boy named Robert Ray, through surrogacy one year later on June 27, 2018.
The Olympian disclosed that they chose to use an American surrogate because surrogates and parents do not have the same legal privileges as they do in the United States.
He explained at the time: ‘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.’
After both losing loved ones, the actor revealed that he and his spouse wanted to have a child together to continue on their bloodline.
He told Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast in May 2022: ‘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 has also opened up about the difficulties of having a kid as a same-sex partner.
He expressed a desire to have more children with his spouse, who is 20 years his elder, so that his son could have a sibling.