adoption

Josh Kelley is a proud new papa and he wants the world to know.

Sad news for Elton John today. He and his partner David Furnish were hoping to adopt a fourteen-month old HIV-positive baby boy from the Ukraine, but John's request has been denied. The government's reported reasons are that he is too old and not married.

Katherine Heigl is adopting a 10-month old baby girl from Korea this week. Her name is Nayleigh, but will be known as Leigh for short.

The adoption process has been going on for over six months.

Heigl and husband Josh Kelly have wanted a child for some time now.

Well that explains the sudden absence of nicotine.

Congrats on the new addition to the family.

It's Sex and the City: The Next Generation.

Actor Willie Garson, who's best known for playing Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City, is working on finalizing the adoption of an eight-year-old boy named Nathan before heading to New York to film the SATC sequel.

Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette are reportedly planning to adopt after having no success with IVF for a second child.

The couple conceived their daughter Coco, 5, through IVF and reportedly tried again this year but had no success.

An unidentified source said: "It's been a tough ride already. They've said they'll do 'whatever it takes' to have another child and have started looking seriously at adoption. Courteney always wanted loads of children, but after fighting so hard to have Coco, she and David had to face facts."

Remember a while ago when Angelina Jolie went on her world-wide adoption spree and it kicked off a huge trend among celebrities? Well, it looks like the fad may still alive and well.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban may be looking to become the latest celebrity couple to adopt a child from a developing country. They've reportedly made inquiries with the government of Vietnam regarding a possible adoption.

Madonna has left Malawi empty handed.

In the indomitable words of the Soup Nazi: “No baby for you!”

In case she needs something to comfort her as she slinks off without the matching set of African children she so coveted, her ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, the one who called her “It” (as in Stephen King’s scary baby killin’ clown), issued this statement in the ultimate show of class:

Madonna’s attempt to adopt a second child from Malawi has been rejected.

After spending the past week in the African nation, filing court papers asking to be granted an interim adoption of four-year-old Mercy James, Madonna was met with hostility from human rights groups and childrens’ charities in Malawi.

When she arrived at court on Friday, the judge overseeing the case ruled against her and denied to adoption.

Madonna arrived in the African nation of Malawi on Sunday in order to adopt another child. 

The singer, 50, already has her daughter Lourdes, 12, and son Rocco, 8, but adopted David, 3, in Malawi last year and wants David to have an African sibling. 

This morning Madonna is scheduled to appear before a high court judge to process her second adoption, reportedly 3-year-old Mercy James, whose single teenage mother died at age 18.

We wish this made us like her more but the whole thing seems self-indulgent and too overtly publicized.

Madonna is expected to return to Malawi next week to adopt a second child, according to officials in the African nation.

Last year she adopted her three-year-old son David Banda and now Madonna has filed adoption papers for a second child. She’s expected to return to Africa before the end of the month.

Besides Banda, Madonna is mother to eight-year-old son Rocco and 12-year-old daughter Lourdes.

Somebody thinks she’s Angelina Jolie.

She’s not.

—Sasha Perl-Raver