SATC actor next big role is Daddy
Categories: Adoption, Celeb parenting, Single parenting
Willie Garson, the accomplished actor best know for playing Carrie Bradshaw's gay sidekick Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City, is having a momentous year. In its opening weekend, the SATC movie pummeled the competition (including box-office darling Indian Jones) to be the #1 movie of that week.
But Garson has something more exciting than professional success. He recently revealed that the adoption paperwork is nearly finished for him to become the father of a boy from Los Angeles county.
Becoming a parent is a life-changing but the single actor has an impressive resume of experience with kids. According to his bio on the HBO website, he is active with the national not-for-profit organization Big Brothers and has helped run Young Artists United, a nationwide group aimed at communication and problem-solving among teens. Garson also reads to first graders weekly through the Screen Actors' Guild Bookpals program.
When asked if he'd allow his son to hang out with other celebrity offspring, Garson sounds like he's got the "Proud Papa" part mastered as well.
"If I like their kids," he jokes, adding, "My kid's going to be the coolest!"
Awwww, in addition to being the coolest I'd say that kid is also one of the luckiest.
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the goddess anna 6-02-2008 @ 2:37PM
I wouldn't watch SATC for a million dollars, but I do recognize this guy from another show - he was on a few episodes of SG-1. I'm glad he's doing so much to give back to the community, and I wish him and his new family the best!
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Allison 6-04-2008 @ 10:42PM
Really? A million? That's college tuition and change right there...
Kate 7-09-2008 @ 12:51PM
More and more single people are adopting children. I hope he adopted an American child verses a child from another country. Celebrities are big on adopting children outside the US and donating to children organizations outside the US. What happen to taking care of our own first? I guess having an American child isn't in fashion at the moment.... We can thank Angelina Jolie and Madonna for that.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit donated a million dollars for children in Iraq, which was truly generous. But what about donating a million dollar for children in the US who have no home, family or future? We have children who are starving and living in deplorable conditions in the US. The number of homeless familes with small children has sky rocketed. Aren't our own children equally important?
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