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Perez Hilton Has a New Baby; Who is Missing a New Baby?

Drew Grant — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:06:05 -0400

Perez with new baby (PerezHilton.com)

About 41 minutes ago (according to Tweetdeck), Modern Family actress Sophia Vergara wrote an angry message to Perez Hilton:

mobi.perezhilton.com/2013-02-27-sof… this is not news.this is desrespectfull.we know everyhing we need to know about my brother's death.

We followed the link and were surprised to find that the article was missing, and replaced by a new "Top Story" on the Hollywood gossip blog:

So far, no one is offering up any explanation of where this baby came from, but congrats? And good job deleting the story about Sophia Vergara's brother, or at least doing a bait-and-switch where you just put the story about his death elsewhere on your blog today.

'Newsweek' Wants You to Help Name Employee's New Baby

Drew Grant — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:21:45 -0400

'Newsweek' makes a baby!

Interesting: Most soon-to-be parents squabble for months over baby names. But if you work at Tina Brown's Newsweek, one of the nice perks is that you can just put the question to your magazine's 1,500,000+ Twitter and Tumblr followers and let them decide for you! At least, that's what Deputy Editor Paula Szuchman was forced by Tina Brown to do in an attempt to boost the company's image as a warm, friendly work environment chose to do.

Here is the Tumblr post of the smiling mom-to-be, who is expecting a baby girl. (And is, according to the underminey caption, "Like, really pregnant!")

There's also a hashtag for people who want to participate: #namePaulasbaby. The suggestions thus far have been rather, well, old-fashioned...which should never of course reflect the nature of the people who read the publication. But Josephine? Eleanor Breslin Davis? How about just naming her after any/all the Bronte sisters?

The Village Voice has taken a very cynical view of what they see as "crowd-sourcing" baby names, but come on. It was either this, or have your child grow up under the cruel schoolyard taunts from kids jeering at The Daily Beast Szuchman.

Former Vogue Paris Editor, Carine Roitfeld, to Become a Grandma

Henry Krempels — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:10 -0400

Carine Roitfeld had big news for us Friday. We chatted with the former Vogue Paris editor as she signed copies of her new book, Irreverent, at Marc Jacobs's cleverly but obviously named Bleecker Street bookshop, Bookmarc. Much to our surprise (and delight), the beaming Ms. Roitfeld spoke exclusively to The Observer, revealing that next year she is to become a grandmother.

Her daughter, model and designer Julia Restoin Roitfeld—who has been dating fellow model Robert Konjic—is three months pregnant.

While discussing her son Vladimir's recent appearance on the cover of NYO, the former editor of Vogue Paris broke composure, interrupting our polite inquiries to exclaim, “This is the big news of this week. I’m going to be a grandmother. My daughter is having a little baby in May.”

Ms. Roitfeld even drew a halt to the signing of her book—which is a chronicle of her collaborations with the likes of Mario Testino and family friend Tom Ford—to bring us up to speed with all things natal.

And is it a boy or a girl? To Ms. Roitfeld, that was not important. “I am so proud of my family," she enthused. "I have not asked. I do not want to know.”

The predominantly young crowd were eager for some face time with the Gallic editrix, and she was happy for the attention. “It’s very special to me that people come to see me,” she acknowledged.

However, a note to the future grandchild: being a member of the ultra-glam Roitfeld family is not without the burdens of renown. Book in hand, one member of the crowd—a petite fashion student—was proud to admit; "I'm really happy just to have seen her. I met her once last year and I followed her up the elevator...she remembered me though."