Here are some new photos of January Jones and her baby Xander, who is being carried by a nanny. Because apparently January doesn’t want to be photographed holding her own baby. That’s like something Goop would think up, honestly. Or maybe January doesn’t want to be photographed with Xander because she knows that it will only spur more speculation as to the baby daddy?
Last week, I wrote about the latest rumors concerning paternity of January Jones’s little baby boy, Xander. Too many of you had emailed and commented that little Xander was a ginger (he’s not really) and that because of this faux “ginger” status, Michael Fassbender MUST be the father. Like January wasn’t wandering around with Bobby Flay last year, right? Anyway, I completely dismiss the idea that Fassie would get anywhere near January’s cold, vanilla bitchery, and I continue to believe that the baby daddy is a married man who worked with January on X-Men: First Class. If you do the math, you can easily figure out that January was in London, working on X-Men while she conceived. I have my theory of who the baby-daddy is, but no one is saying and no one wants to get sued, so all of it has just remained in “hypothesis” status.
Then last week, Blind Gossip had a blind item that everyone suspected was about January and her mystery paternity. The blind item:
This married actor had a one-night stand with one of his exes, who is an actress in an acclaimed television show. She wound up pregnant.
The actor’s wife found out about the baby, and, to no one’s surprise, went completely ballistic. Both the actor and his wife tried every tactic (money, lawyers, threats to ruin her career) to convince the ex to terminate the pregnancy.
Despite enormous pressure from all sides, the ex decided to keep the baby. The actor’s marriage is now on the rocks. We’re not sure how long everyone can remain tight-lipped about this one. It will be difficult to keep such a bombshell out of divorce proceedings, which will likely occur before the New Year.
[From Blind Gossip]
Michael K theorized it was January, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, and ever since then, everybody has been citing this blind item like it’s a sure thing. Media outlets are even calling Ashton and January’s reps to get confirmations or denials (the reps aren’t talking).
Now, Ashton and January did date – from 1998 to 2001. Which is when he broke up with her for Brittany Murphy, right? And then he went on to Demi. But in interviews, January has said that Ashton was unsupportive of her career, and that he was kind of a d-bag to her. So why would she go back for a one night stand with her douchey ex? It doesn’t make any sense, especially when you think that Ashton probably would have had to fly to London to impregnate her. Bad blind item!
Photos courtesy of Fame.
I hope she at least shows some warmth to her child. She is probably the coldest smug looking woman I have ever seen. I bet she makes the nannies life hell.
I doubt it’s true, I think they’re claiming it because they did date once.
I really believe a lot of blind items are utter b.s. these days; look at the sheer volume of them, and they’re always worded to sound like (usually) who’s in the news currently.
It’s a shame, because I totally love blind items.
According to attendees of Lainey’s Smut Soiree, LAiney confirmed that the director of the most recent X-Men, MAthew VAughn (hubby of CLaudia Schiffer) is the father.
Sounds more like James Marsden than Ashton Kutcher to me. But didn’t Ted C and Lainey imply that Mattew Vaughn was actually the father ?
I don’t know much about her, but the more I read she sounds a lot like her character Betty On Mad Men.
My opinion of this woman is as “meh” as her personality seems to be but I do give her credit for the public dignity she’s shown. However, if Ashton’s the baby daddy, it’ll be a hot day in January before I’ll ever respect her (southern climates exempt).
Fassy is NOT NOT NOT the daddy. First off there would be no reason to hide his paternity if he was. Zoe was hugging up on January during the premiere so there is not any reason to think he’s in contention. Also I think January is a bit to pale and blond for him. The baby was obviously concieved on the X-Men set and Vaughn is still my #1 contender. He acted all kinds of guilty with his sudden ‘laryngitis’ that prevented him from stepping within 10 feet of January.
A ginger baby? Conceived in London? Paternity cloaked in secrecy? I think Harry’s got some splainin’ to do.
I like Enny’s choice!
Matthew Vaughn seems like the most likely bet. Although the schadenfruede bitch in me wants to add fuel to the fire and hope it’s Ashton Kutcher.
January’s body language says it all. She has 0 interest in the baby and looks pissed that the baby is “ruining” her career. It’s very sad and I hope I’m wrong and that January is pissed about the paperazzi hounding her. But given January’s track record for being self absorbed, I doubt it. I feel so sorry for baby Xander. 🙁
But the thing is that his larygintis really happened — if one followed the X-Men promotion and the interviews he did with UK journalists in that time period, it’s easily verifiable and that is before the rumours about Vaughn hit the web. And it’s also pretty known that the NY X-Men premiere was literally thrown at the last minute (god knows why)… it was originally supposed to be a press screening! The FOX marketing team scrambled on the day to turn it into a proper premiere. So I don’t really read into Vaughn’s absence in NY as much as other do, but who knows?
London? She wasn’t in London when she got pregnant–she was on set in Georgia or in LA.
“So why would she go back for a one night stand with her douchey ex?”
Hot, hot sex! C’mon, ladies, I can’t be the only one who has hooked up with a total a*hole again because the sex was that good. Thankfully, my contraceptives always did their job.
You are right, Podzol, that NYC “premiere” for XMFC was thrown together at the last minute (though I thought Marvel did all the work, not Fox)–and there was no premiere in London. But I figure all that supports the Vaughn paternity theory….
@pozdol. Have you ever had laryngitis??? It doesn’t actually prevent you from taking photos and showing up to a premiere ESPECIALLY if there were literally hundreds of millions of dollars on the line. He could have walked the red carpet posed for a few pics and had his assistants explain that he couldn’t talk I just ain’t buying it. That and Claudia was looking downright gaunt and miserable right around that time. There are too many co-wink-y-dinks for me to think that he isn’t the daddy.
Okay, i get having a nanny to maybe help at your house, ESP if you have more than one, maybe doing bath time, diapers, etc; but to follow along BEHIND you carrying the kid? just because you don’t want to be seen with a baby carrier? that is just OBSCENE. i chose to never have kids BUT i would think if you are a new mom you couldn’t GET ENOUGH of them and the last thing you would do is toss them off on a baby ‘carrier’ nanny…..just an accessory to her i guess….
She looks like she’s up to a size 2. I bet she wants to kill herself.
mln, I wasn’t defending Vaughn, I just pointed out that it was well-reported that he was bed-ridden with tonsillitis and that the “premiere” was organized on the day it actually happened so it’s also possible that he didn’t plan on taking a plane for 7hrs if he didn’t know there would be a premiere.
With hindsight, of course it looks suspicious that the director is absent when there are rumours of a scandal, but who knows, was my original point. I certainly don’t claim to know who’s JJ’s baby daddy.
@Findley — you’re right, I think it was actually Marvel and not Fox, who threw together the event.
Aah he$l no! She doesn’t seem like the type to give douchey guys a second chance. Even a one night stand with him makes no sense whatsoever.
@pozdol you have a right to your own opinion. I’m just saying I didn’t buy his story. His ‘illness’ seemed to coincide with anytime January appeared to do press. If there was one photo of them together during the junket I wouldn’t be so suspicious.
I don’t get why everyone is so interested in who the father is. He’s obvs not in the picture and she’s certainly not the first woman to raise a child alone. I’d be a smug, cold bitch too if everyone kept speculating about my baby ‘s daddy.
@judyjudy because we are all nosy bitches and this is a gossip site. LOL.
EDIT: and January has always been a cold smug bitch mysterious baby daddy or not.
What if Ashton is the one flaming this fire because it’s better than what he’s REALLY done to piss Demi off? That might make things more interesting (or uglier) if we were to find out the real truth.
@mln: In truth, I’m not even disagreeing with you, I actually thought too that Vaughn was the culprit!
The only thing that made me question it was seeing some behind the scenes reels of one of the Hellfire Club scenes as she’s questioning his authority on the way the scene should be directed — and the whole time he looks at her with skepticism and eyeroll that just didn’t give the body language of someone who had been near her loins. But it could as well have been a post-coitus “I can’t believe I slept with that dimwit” look, haha!
For those questioning her ability to be a warm, nurturing mother, keep in mind that if she didn’t want the baby she wouldn’t have had it. If she only had it for the publicity, then obviously she’d be carrying it to have her picture taken since that would have been the point of the baby in the first place. Personally, she doesn’t interest me enough to even care who the father is.
Just because the guy’s a douche doesn’t mean he can’t hang in the bedroom. Unfortunately, the dirty hate sex I had with my Captain Douche was fantastic. If I wasn’t in a committed relationship with my love, I’d prolly still be hitting Capt D-Bag on the regular. Of course, I’d use protection (like always), but whatevs.
Point is, stranger things have happened.
@pozdol LOL seems like January inspires that feeling in a lot of her exes 🙂
She’s not holding her child so the pictures will be worth less. I don’t think she enjoys being papped. She certainly always looks super pissed about it.
LAiney confirmed that the director of the most recent X-Men, MAthew VAughn
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How can she confirm something that neither of the principals is confirming?
Pozdol– I know exactly that scene you’re talking about (I looked too–LOL)–but they may have gotten together during the cold & windy Georgia shoot in December (count back 9 months from mid-September). There were rumors among the crew… [The only other thing my furtive brain’s come up with is “Xander” = X-Men and Danepak is a brand of–dare I say it–bacon in the UK.]
@Leelo:
seriously? If she’s “pissed off” at the baby like you claimed, would have gotten an ABORTION (and she can afford one, too). It’s not your business to judge whether she wanted the baby or not.
Who is she again?
Just because lainey says it, does not make it a fact. She thinks alot of herself, but she is no better than any other tabloid…her’s is just a blog.
actually there are 3 blind items about the daddy and no one gave the same name so my guess is SPERM DONOR
PS Lainey only confirms the first rumor about the daddy because unless that Jones gave her the name,she knows nothing
Re: the Lainey confirmation, of course like I said this is coming from LAiney, so yeah take it for what it is. WHen Ted Casablancas fingered MAthew Vaughn as the babydaddy, VAughn hired MArty Singer to threaten him with a lawsuit so he took it down.
I haven’t read much about this chick but if what I have read from you the comments is correct than this girl likes to date up so why the heck would she want a child with that man-child Ashton? He isn’t exactly A-List. Seems the director would make more sense. Or are we assuming this wasn’t a delibarate pregnancy? I don’t find her interesting but the speculation is entertaining.
Also, I am not reading any Ashton stuff because I think it is all fake in order for him to get attention for his new role as the bad boy. It worked for Charlie so why not him is his thinking. Notice all of his and Demi’s problems started when he got that new role? I think they are both at home laughing at all of us for falling for their shenanigans.
I don’t mean to quibble – and I certainly don’t want to spend too much more time contemplating the inner secrets of January Jones’s womb (blech) – but human gestation is not actually 9 months, it’s closer to 9.5 months (or 38 weeks) from conception (it’s actually 40 weeks, or about 10 months, but that’s from the date of the mother’s LMP, not conception, which can be confusing). That’s assuming that Xander was born on time – most first babies aren’t. So he was probably conceived early-to-mid December 2010. So wherever they were then – London, Georgia, who cares. It’s the same crew of people, right? The same list of possible daddy candidates? Now excuse me while I scrub my brain with bleach for having just calculated JJ’s likely LMP before her son was born. SO WRONG.
I agree, I think she wanted the baby and hardly seems angry to have had it. There was pics last week of her looking very doting. Also, everyone and their mother knows that MV is the daddy. E! basically confirmed it months ago. There have been no blinds to suggest that January wanted MV to leave his wife or caused any drama…it just seems like she stupidly had an affair, got pregnant and wanted a baby anyway, so she she kept it. Obviously she, herself, is telling people who the father is if they ask and clearly has no shame about it.
what about rupert grint…ginger.. london…ehhh??
Chris Martin ? From London, wife seems pissed too.
Enny: “I think Harry’s got some splainin’ to do”
This made me giggle!
Yeah, I used to think blind items (such as those reported by Enty and Lainey) were pretty solid but a lot turn out to be BS. I don’t think the writers themselves purposefully cook up BS, but that it’s just a huge game of tabloid telephone and ‘connect the dots’ by their ‘source’ without much verifiable first-hand knowledge… if they’re not straight up invented.
Still enjoyable, but they’re always written in away that makes me first guess Ben Affleck, January Jones, Blake Lively or George Clooney (on auto-rotate). Haha!
@ omj:
“Unfortunately, the dirty hate sex I had with my Captain Douche was fantastic.”
Good Lord that is too freakin’ funny.
Enny– The writer said it couldn’t be Ashton Kutcher because she was in London–but that baby was most likely conceived in December when she was filming in Georgia, NOT London.
I think it is McAvoy – the body language in the photo in CBs article reminds me a lot of brad and angelina in mr and mrs smith movie and also look in the eyes, a bit tiger woods a bit jesse james before they got caught.
Was JJ even in Georgia if she does not at all appear in the beach scenes filmed there though? Or do they all travel in pack together when shooting on location?
OH GOD I am spending way too much time contemplating the inner womb of JJ (well said Enny! And love your Prince HotGinge reference).
Didn’t you post pictures of her holding the kid last week? What’s the story? Yeesh. Comment on the silly outfit, at least that would make sense.
To those who say “she obviously wanted the baby since she could have had an abortion!”, what, you’ve never heard of someone doing something out of spite? Seems way more her style than suddenly thinking of chubby baby cheeks and tiny shoes…she was probably like, “Oh, you won’t leave your wife? Try explaining this boy with your exact face in 10 years.”
Obviously I don’t know her, but it’s much funnier to me to think of the situation that way. I love thinking of January as a cold hard bitch who makes decisions just to make everyone else miserable.
Oh please, it was NOT McAvoy. No way no how. And yes, she was on set in Georgia. More was filmed there than the beach scenes–the boat scenes, for instance.
I agree with you about the father being Claudia Schiffer’s husband, Matthew Vaughn.
That said, it’s only going to be a matter of time before Ashton Kutcher knocks someone up if he’s having unprotected sex with random hookups.
I think all this secrecy about paternity is January’s revenge against all her married lovers, so they sweat bullets, hoping she never spills the beans about them.
I feel bad for her baby. January sounds like a cold and manipulative piece of work, and the father is obviously a lying, irresponsible cheater. It’s not a great start in life, especially since all this drama is unfolding in the public eye.
@Jazz Fabulous I was merely pointing out how pissed off she looks in the picture and how much she looks like she has little interest in the baby in these photos. I added my own conjecture. I’m not January so I have no clue what’s going on in her head. But the body language in these photos seems to merit my observation that she has little interest in the baby. In that moment of time? Forever? I don’t know. I was adding my own opinion.
@cmc – Your comment is very funny. Though in reality I would never want a child to suffer because of an evil parent but I do like the idea of her controling the situation. What I hope is that this child ends up looking exactly like his papa and then we will all know for sure.
Put all theories to rest and look out for the bright star in the sky to see if there are any signs of a child born through a miraculous conception.
Oh my bad, January would have to be a virgin for that theory to work. Sorry folks, we’ll soon get the confirmation.
Watch out January – don’t you know if you keep scowling like that you’re brow will stay that way? Horrid outfit by the way but will give slack b’cuz of recent baby. She’s from my hometown of Sioux Falls, SD and she has NEVER given props to where she comes from – in my book that’s a sign of a crapstick.
I don’t know who the baby daddy is, but
it seems someone that is married with all of the secrecy going on.
I read someplace that she didn’t put down the name of the father on the birth certificate in the hospital.
In my opinion she has the most stunning and beautiful face in Hollywood.
Jolie has a pretty face, but to me Jones is much more gorgeus in the face and body.
Jolie’s body is gross, only skin and bones with ugly veins.
I think people want to believe the Ashton thing because it would add so much fuel to the whole affair. I think it was definitely a married man, simply because she’s being so secretive about it. I get why she doesn’t deny it’s anyone in particular, because could you imagine?
“Is it Fassbender?” “No, he’s not the father.”
“Is it Kutcher?” “Nope, not the father!”
“Is it Matthew Vaughn?” “Uhhhhh….”
Maybe she used a sperm donor and isn’t telling because she doesn’t think its anyone’s business?
I’m with those who think that she seems like a cold, smug bitch but maybe we’re reading too far into the fact that she got knocked up and we don’t know who the Daddy is.
If I’m not mistaken, Jody Foster has never revealed the name of her child(ren)’s father either…
This is ridiculous! Leave her alone!
@Happy21 Jodie Foster is a different animal. It’s pretty much an open secret in Hollywood that Jodie is gay and her children were fathered by an anonymous sperm donor. Jodie has never been even connected with having any high profile relationships with a man.
With January, she’s been in several high profile relationships with men. I mean, she could be bisexual but there would be some inkling of rumors suggesting January is not straight. I mean sure, January could have been artificially inseminated but she hasn’t mentioned anything even remotely suggesting that such a thing is possible nor have any unnamed sources said anything. You know there would have been a tabloid report somewhere telling us that January got a sperm donor. In Jodie’s case there were unnamed sources saying Jodie was artificially inseminated. In January’s case there are several unnamed sources saying that January had sex with a married man. I know gossip can be touch and go but the very basic gossip such as this is usually the most truthful.
One of my friends thinks she made a deal with the father not to reveal, but she and the child are being taken care of financially.
Newsflash! X-Men was filmed in many locations, including the Mojave Desert, which is a hop and skip away from L.A.
If you don’t personally know January Jones, how can you say she’s cold and doesn’t give Xander enough affection, etc.? That’s right, you can’t. Sleeping with a married man is normally not okay, but if you’re in an open marriage, all bets are off. Also, Ashton and Demi were already separated when Xander was born. They’re just tying up the loose ends at this point, as you will soon see.
There is a post with Minnie Driver and if I remember, she had a baby and never said who the father was. Why is it so important folks know who the father of Jones baby is? I also think it might be a sperm donor and she just doesn’t want to say.
Anyway, if the kid starts looking like someone, it will be a dead give away, so it might take a few years. Also, don’t know her other wise as I have never seen Mad Men.
You’re being funny, right? Otherwise, which part of X-Men: First Class (do you seem to think) was filmed in the Mojave Desert?
anyone notice how ugly JJ’s polkadot sweater and saddlebag jeans are?
she’s so pretty, but she always frowns! sad.
If the baby is a ginger, it’s gotta be Bobby Flay.
food for thought: ashton in London in Feb..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1355858/Ashton-Kutcher-breaks-3am-fight-Londons-Chinatown.html
So if Lainey says it’s Vaughn it must be true? Does she have access to a paternity test?
Seriously getting sick of blind items as most of it are made up, and even the unconfirmed guesses are now taken as gospel. The bloggers repeat each others blinds too and tailor it to current gossip to make it sound real.
I like guessing them to make them fit but get really annoyed when people start spewing venom and judging people they don’t know cos of a blind item. It’s all just for entertainment folks!
Samantha– JJ wasn’t in London in February.
Ashton steadily dated up the food chain, going January, Brittany Murphy and Demi.
Maybe Demi’s not a youth vampire or cougar, but Ash is a gold digger?
Why does everyone think she’s a cold smug bitch??? I don’t get it. I know Betty is the coldest but it’s called acting. Where does all this vitriol come from? Maybe she’s just really private?
The baby is Ginger? OK, I know who the daddy is…Danny Bonaduce!
Or maybe Ronald McDonald..he most spend some time in London on business.
Is it just me or are Ashton and January a match made in heaven? Ok, hell. Those two deserve each other.
This is an interesting discussion, no matter who the father is I hope she at least tells the child who his father is.
How many times does it have to be said: She didn’t get pregnant in London. A baby born in September was most likely conceived in December–January Jones was in Georgia (filming) and LA in December.
Couldnt finish the article. her icy mug froze my damn computer!
Minnie Driver has never named her BabyDaddy and he is at least 3 now. So, Hollywood can keep secrets.
@Findley “Principal photography began on August 31, 2010, in Oxford, England, which included St Aldate’s street and some of the University of Oxford’s buildings, lasting for two days. Production then moved to Pinewood Studios in Iver, and to Georgia in October, including Jekyll Island, Thunderbolt and Savannah. Additional location shooting took place in Russia. A section of the plot is set in the Argentine coastal city of Villa Gesell, but was filmed elsewhere in the country. Washington, D.C. and the Mojave Desert also served as locations.”
It’s 100% not Ashton’s I heard from a reliable source, but that’s all I can say
And Linda Evangelista only named her baby’s father because he wouldn’t pay child support. I like January. Who would want to be followed by paps all day trying to get photos of the baby? With you all calling out Ted & Lainey supposedly knowing for sure who the father is. Judging from how ill Claudia still looks there may well be some basis for the Vaughan claims. Although I do like the McAvoy body language in photos theory too.
If she gave birth on schedule in September, then she concieved in November (not December). I have no idea whether she was in London, Georgia or somewhere else.
But I bet $50 that it’s Kevin Bacon. =(
Matthew Vaughn. That is the most likely father.
This needs to come out in the open sooner rather than later.
The douche obviously has a thing for cold, distant, tall blondes.
I feel so sorry for Claudia and her beautiful children.
January is a nasty, home-wrecking super-b*itch.
hmm, i started to wonder if all of those bitter comments january made about ashton a while back were not some form of reverse psychology; so that in our subconscious there was in no way ashton could ever be the father. makes you wonder doesn’t it?
January Jones was dating Jason Sudelikis over Christmas 2010- there are several photos of them together. 9 months later she had the baby in September 2011. The baby is now 8 months old as of May 2012 and the boy looks 100% like Jason. It is absolutely his kid. NO DNA test needed. Why doesn’t he just fess up? I think he did NOT want to be a father and just signed his parental rights over to January and January doesn’t want him in his son’s life at all period.