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Maybe this is the real reason Mel Gibson won't be back for the next Mad Max: he's got more maddening things to worry about. Like diaper duty.

"This will confirm that Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles," publicist Alan Nierob tells E! News. "No further details are available at this time."

The 53-year-old Oscar winner confirmed he and his other woman fiancée were expecting during a Tonight Show appearance in May, during which he dubbed himself "Octo-Mel."

He has six sons and one daughter with his estranged wife of 28 years, Robyn. She filed for divorce in April after photos surfaced of the star and Grigorieva in Costa Rica, and Mel admitted he and the aspiring singer were romantically involved.

Grigorieva, meanwhile, has a son from her relationship with former Bond star Timothy Dalton.

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The only role Colin Farrell has played twice—dad.

The 33-year-old thesp and his actress girlfriend Alicja Bachleda welcomed son Henry Tadeusz Farrell on Oct. 7, E! News confirmed Friday.

Farrell is also dad to 6-year-old James Padraig, his son with ex Kim Bordenave.

While the In Bruges star has earned much acclaim for his chameleonic acting ability, it was fatherhood that proved to be the occupation that tamed the Irish badboy. He checked into a rehab program in 2005 after he finished shooting Miami Vice.

Farrell and Bachleda met while shooting the fairytale-esque Ondine in Ireland, in which the Polish beauty played a mysterious woman who gets caught in Farrell's fisherman's net, leading him to think she's a mermaid.

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Colin is a hot Hollywood dad two times over now!

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Jude Law's fourth child and his hot baby-mama, Samantha Burke, are ready for their closeup.

Five-week-old Sophia is making her debut in this week's British tab Hello!, appearing on the cover with her mom and with a 14-page spread inside—which means you're seeing the happy newborn before her dad.

"There are no plans for it to happen at the moment, but I know he's busy," Burke says. "He'll fall in love with her when he sees her.

"She has Jude's chin and nose, and she does a little pout, that I notice he's done before."

Gushing isn't the only aspect of the article. The 25-year-old model-actress also spills the beans on her dalliance with the Sherlock Holmes star...

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Just because your birth doesn't come complete with a cover shot bidding war or heralded in a gun-jumping Twitter frenzy, that's no reason to feel insecure about your adorableness.

Besides, it's not every baby that can boast one degree of separation from Michael Scott. (Sorry, Sparrow.)

Which is why we're pleased to offer some column inches and congratulations to The Office's Amy Ryan and her fiancé, comedy writer Eric Slovin, who welcomed their first child last week.

Publicist Carrie Gordon confirmed to E! News that the Oscar-nominated actress delivered Georgia Gracie Slovin in New York City on Oct. 15.

Looks like it's gone, baby bump, gone.

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Check out who else is ready to pop in Hollywood's latest baby boom.

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Ah, baby magazine covers. They're that rare breath of cute air that we can look at in the supermarket line without feeling angry at Jon & Kate or sad about Lindsay Lohan's new haggard makeover or annoyed at the Jen Aniston lies.

Instead, we can just let the warm fuzzy feelings wash over us and be like, "Well, that's nice."

So thank you, Nicole Richie, for showing off your cuddly 6-week-old son Sparrow in this week's People. Inside the magazine there are even more adorable pictures of the new family of four that are worth checking out.

And as an added bonus, Nicole and her longtime partner, Joel Madden, even (kind of) explain what's up with the strange bird name...

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There's nothing more irritating to a reality star than Perez Hilton stealing their precious scoop. Yesterday, newly engaged Real Housewife of New York's Bethenny Frankel tried to play off pregnancy rumors with jokes and Skinnygirl margaritas.

Well, today she's decided to change it up and aim for the sympathy vote. She 'fessed up that she is in fact pregnant and even managed "fight back tears," People writes, while she confirmed her pregnancy :

"It's premature to be telling people this. It's not like, 'Did I get Botox?' It's not the way I wanted it to get out. I haven't even gone through my first trimester. We haven't even heard the heartbeat. My [fiancé's] parents didn't even know."

She keeps this victim thing going on her Twitter where she adds she "was unfairly forced to come forward early."

Apparently, bestie Jill Zarin didn't even know as she shot down baby rumors last night...That ought to result in a "Why didn't you tell me before you went crying to People?!" fight.

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Whitney Houston's wasn't the only near nip slip we got to see today.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to The View after welcoming her third child, Isaiah, in early August. While her reunion with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg was smooth enough, the child's entrance to the world was not without its hiccups and oopsie-daisies.

Mom and tot wound up logging a few extra weeks in the hospital, and, shortly before they returned home, she proudly snapped a photo of one of the newborn's first smiles and, well, a little something extra.

"I had just been feeding him, and I took the photo," she recalled. " He had this huge, huge smile, and it was the cutest picture, so immediately I forward it to everyone in my family distribution list—my mom, my dad, my brother, Tim's dad, his brother, his mom, his other brother—and I sent it to myself, 'cause I'm on the list. So I get home and I open up the photo to see my cute little guy. No wonder why he's smiling because my nipple is in the photo!"

The hostess insisted the whole thing was "worse than drunk-dialing," although we're sure hundreds of embarrassed boozers would disagree.

Before delving into the truly hot topics of the day—Balloon Boy, anyone?—Elisabeth admitted the big problem with her newborn.

"I just can't believe I named him Isaiah, 'cause he'll never be able to spell his own name," she laughed. He's gonna totally fail kindergarten!"

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Isaiah may be cute, but he's got nothin' on our girl, Suri Cruise!

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Bethenny Frankel is engaged. That much we know for sure.

Whether or not the 38-year-old Real Housewives of New York City star is expecting a child as well is not entirely certain.

When Perez Hilton blogged about her supposedly knocked-up status, the cheeky Skinny Girl didn't confirm it…but she didn't flat-out deny it either. Instead, she implied a love that dare not speak its name, all for the sake of killer ratings for her upcoming solo show.

"Is preggers w perez hilton's 9 blue haired babies," she Tweeted about herself. "That's what my bravo show is about. We're going to beat jon & kate's ratings w 1 more baby!"

That's what we call circumlocution, people (a word that's probably in one of those Twilight-inspired SAT-prep books).

But, then again, she also tweeted about having a "girls' night" with Denise Richards, Lisa Rinna and The Insider's Lara Spencer, although no one's promising any tequila in those margaritas.

And let's not forget that the reality star confessed to E! News earlier this month that she "would definitely like to have children."

We're just sayin'.

—Additional reporting by Aly Weisman

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