The gay dads may soon be fathers of five - and living in America.

Reports from America claim that Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow, of Bicknacre Road, Danbury, are expecting triplets through a surrogate mother.

The millionaire pair already have twins Aspen and Saffron born to an American surrogate at the end of last year.

Now another woman is pregnant with their children, which will be biological brothers or sisters for the twins.

The embryos implanted in the surrogate were frozen from the first surrogacy attempt.

The couple have not confirmed that they are expecting triplets.

It is also claimed that they are selling the two houses they own in Danbury and moving to America in September.

They have already sold the house they live in with the children, and are looking for a buyer for the neighbouring property.

They want to move to the States to be with the unnamed surrogate mother during the final stages of the pregnancy.

Mr Drewitt and Mr Barlow faced a legal wrangle to bring Aspen and Saffron into Britain, even though they had made legal history by both being named as father on their birth certificates.

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