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Celebrity Baby News: Asher Keddie and Vincent Fantauzzo

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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Actress Asher Keddie, and her husband, artist Vincent Fantauzzo, welcomed their first child together on March 1 and have named their son Valentino. Valentino is a brother for Vincent’s son Luca, from a previous relationship.

Asher has been on our television screens since the mid-1980s, first appearing in guest roles on various drama series. After roles in Blue Heelers and Stingers, her big break came in 2004, when she had a lead role in Love My Way, winning as Astra Award for best actress. More roles followed, including a part in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and taking the starring role in hit drama series Offspring in 2010, for which she won a Logie as Most Popular Actress. As well as playing Dr Nina Proudman on Offspring, she has portrayed both Blanche d’Alpulget in Hawke, and Ita Butrose in Paper Giants, helping her to win further awards, including two Gold Logies. Last year, Asher starred in Party Tricks, and she has also appeared in various theatre productions. Asher’s name has been featured on the blog.

Vincent is originally from the UK, and studied Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he is now an Adjunct Professor. Vincent has exhibited in Australia, New York, Los Angeles, India, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, and is a brand ambassador for Audi and laurent perrier. He often collaborates with film makers and works on creative projects with others. He won Peoples Choice Awards at the Archibalds with portraits of actors Heath Ledger and Brandon Walters in 2008 and 2009, and won the Archibald Packing Room Prize and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize for his painting of director Baz Luhrmann in 2011. His portrait of Asher Keddie, titled Love Face, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Archibald Prize, and his portrait of son Luca won the 2014 People’s Choice Award, making him the artist most often awarded the People’s Choice. He has also won a GQ Artist of the Year, and a Metro Art Award. Vincent and Asher began dating in 2012, after meeting through mutual friends, and were married in Fiji last year.

Celebrity Baby News: Vov and Toni Dylan

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Violinist Vov Dylan, and his wife Toni, welcomed their first child on January 30 and have named their daughter Avalon Rose.

Vov Dylan has been playing the violin since he was a baby, and won many awards and scholarships performing on the classical music circuit. He formed his own orchestra in 2001, and tours Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Last year Vov officially became the world’s fastest violinist when he played Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee in 38.1 seconds during a gig at Lizotte’s in Dee Why (it usually takes around 90 seconds). He has released six albums, with his most recent being Timeless. He has already bought Avalon her own violin, and she is taking daily lessons with her dad.

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Celebrity Baby News: Ryan Fitzgerald and Belinda Irons-Fitzgerald

11 Thursday Apr 2013

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071935-the-fitzgeraldsRadio host Ryan Fitzgerald, and his wife Belinda Irons-Fitzgerald, welcomed their second child today, April 11, and have named their son Lennox Dean, nicknamed “Lenny“. Lenny Fitzgerald joins big brother Hewston, or “Hewie“, aged 3.

Ryan, known as “Fitzy”, is a former AFL footballer who got his start in the media after becoming a contestant on the 2004 series of Big Brother (he came fourth). Since then he has been a radio host on Nova FM, and is currently co-host of the drive time show on Nova 96.9, Fitzy and Wippa. He also regularly appears on Channel Ten’s The Project, and last year made his acting début on the Channel Nine drama series, House Husbands.

Belinda, known as “BJ”, married Ryan in 2008 in an unconventional football-oriented ceremony on Adelaide Oval.

(Photo shows Ryan and Belinda with Hewie and their dog Cooper)

Celebrity Baby News: Claudia and Matt Bowman

21 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Independent candidate for Sydney City Council, Claudia Bowman, and her husband Matt, welcomed their son Sunday Charles last week. Sunday Bowman has two older siblings.

Claudia is not at all unusual in being a female candidate with a new baby – there are several running for office at the moment. However, she’s the only one to get in the papers, because she has hit the campaign trail just a few days after giving birth, taking Sunday with her. She has won praise for demonstrating that motherhood is no barrier to public life.

Apart from her political ambitions, Claudia runs a successful gourmet cheesemongers’, and is the co-ordinator for a weekly parenting group in her community.

Whenever someone has a day of the week as their name, I always think there must be a story behind it, so I’m disappointed the paper didn’t do just a little tactful probing.

Celebrity Baby News: Brett and Selina Clappis

22 Thursday Mar 2012

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Channel 10 reporter, Brett Clappis, and his wife Selina, welcomed their first child this week, and have named her Dahlia Marie.

Brett works for Network Ten Adelaide, and last year won a SA Media Award for his reports on the flooding of Lake Eyre. Selina (nee Whillas) worked for a Port Lincoln caravan park before her marriage. She and Brett were married in 2008.

The stylish flower name Dahlia won a Matilda Award on the blog last year, so I’m guessing many will approve of of the couple’s choice.

Celebrity Baby News: Chris and Jane Thompson

08 Thursday Dec 2011

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Sunshine Coast councillor, Chris Thompson, and his wife Jane, welcomed their fourth child and first son on December 2, weighing 3.8 kg. They have named him Matthew Ian, and Matthew arrived on his due date, at 7.50 pm after a brief labour, and shortly before his parents’ sixth wedding anniversary.

Matthew Thompson joins big sisters Seanna, aged 5; Ella, nearly 4; and Mary, aged 21 months. The girls are “smitten” with their “early Christmas present”, and keep “poking and prodding” their new brother. The Thompsons don’t plan on having any more children.

The Thompsons chose the name Matthew because they liked it, and Ian is Councillor Thompson’s father’s name. They considered Thomas, but didn’t like the idea of people calling him Tommy, and also Joseph – but having a Mary and a Joseph in one sibset didn’t seem feasible.

Chris Thompson has been a Councillor since 2004, and holds the portfolio of Financial Management and Business Unit Performance.

(Story and photo from Sunshine Coast Daily, December 8 2011)

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