Alex James' baby girl

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Blur bassist Alex James has revealed he is having a baby girl with his wife.

The 39-year-old rocker - who has three sons, Geronimo, four, and two-year-old twins Artemis and Galileo, with spouse Claire - says he is "really excited" about having a daughter.

He said: "We're having a girl! We pretended not to be really excited about the news that we were having a girl but we secretly were!"

Alex also revealed he has already picked out some unusual names for the unborn baby, but might be tempted to go for a traditional name instead.

He added: "I think you've got to have a look at them before you decided what they will be called. We quite like Sophie, although I don't think we will get that past the board of censors - especially Geronimo! There's a shortlist now. I quite like Boudica."

Alex cleared up rumours he is quite partial to a breast milk cappuccino, insisting he only used Claire's naturally-produced milk on his breakfast cereal.

He added to Britain's OK! magazine: "When the twins were born it was very traumatic as we didn't know whether they were going got make it as they were so premature. So after we finally got them home, Claire had a night out with friends and got totally wasted.

"We had this particularly fearsome maternity nurse who told us Claire's milk was condemned. I thought, 'We can't throw that away!' so I tried it - I had some on my cornflakes as well!"