A wardrobe full of designer labels and a yacht docked in Miami: You’d be forgiven for thinking this is the life of a wealthy, middle-aged high-flyer—but it’s actually that of a newborn baby boy.
Barry Dravitt-Barlow, 52, and her fiancée Scott Hutchinson, 27, welcomed their son Romeo Tarquin via surrogate on August 12. Since then there has been an influx of eye-watering gifts that cost.
“We spent $2.8 million on a yacht for Romeo and named it after him,” Dravitt-Barlow, told the sun, “It’s currently in Miami where Saffron [my eldest daughter] Boarding with my new boyfriend and going to Cuba and surrounding islands for two weeks.”
“We want to give him the same start in life as other kids so we have set up a trust fund for him. Tony [my ex] Gifted him $1.15 million and I matched it for him,” he continued. “We’ll obviously be building out a good portfolio of things for him over the next few years.”
Dravitt-Barlow said he has already bought “literally every designer you can imagine” for the little Romeo.
“Burberry, Versace, Dior, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, if anyone sells designer children’s clothes we’ve taken them away,” he quipped.
He added that 2-year-old Valentina – who used to be the child of the family – is in no way jealous of her younger brother and has a lot of gifts.
“She has a personal chef, a full play room filled with the latest gadgets and toys, a full-time live-in nanny and a team of house staff that take care of her every need, including a full-time hairstylist who helps her Styles the hair every day,” he listed.
Dravitt-Barlow, who has appeared in “Below Deck,” and her ex-husband Tony Dravitt-Barlow, 56, have a combined fortune of $204 million, which they continue to share after the split.
Dravitt-Barlow shares Saffron and Aspen, both 22, with Orlando, 18, and twins Jasper and Dallas, 11, with her ex, to whom she had a relationship. High-profile split in 2019,
The pair made history as Britain’s first “gay father” in 1999, when they referred to “parent” and “parent two” on their twin birth certificates instead of “mother” and “father”. Became the first same-sex couple to be listed. ,
The father of seven splits from his ex 2019 and started dating his now fiancé – who used to date his daughter – With the pair welcoming a daughter, Valentina, in October 2020.
Romeo’s conception was unconventional, with Dravitt-Barlow, Hutchinson and Dravitt-Barlow’s ex-husband, when they decided to have another child, with Romeo’s gender chosen by Drewitz-Barlow and Hutchinson through sex selection. Gone.
According to Dotting Dad, it’s not just him and Hutchinson who are spoiling the newborn.
“Our eldest daughter, Saffron, spent over $11,500 on clothes before she was born,” he recalled. “The moment she was born, another $23K, she’s totally gone over the top.”
Dravitt-Barlow and Hutchinson live in a $6.9 million, 10-bedroom Florida mansion with her ex-husband and their new partner, Brent. However that will soon change as the Dravitt-Barlows are building a $6.9 million home in Essex, UK, for the family to live in.