I hate that this is the second post about Larry Birkead but here are some photos from his shoot with OK Magazine. I have to say that he and Danni look beautiful together. I guess he and Anna were secretly engaged. No matter what this is a beautiful child and I hope somebody can get over the hype and actually take care of her.

Gay Larry update via TMZ
UPDATE: In reference to the National Enquirer stories, Larry tells OK! “Both stories are totally untrue. I understand that’s part of the celebrity game that people will say anything for money. He was a friend of a friend of mine and has a picture of us standing next to each at a party. That’s it. We haven’t spoke since but now that he can some money for the photo he’s making up a story to sell it. As far as having a baby, I’ve never seen any documents saying that I fathered a child before Dannielynn.”

After spending almost two hours in a Bahamian courtroom sans cameras, Larry Birkhead emerged victorious on Tuesday afternoon, as a doctor told the judge that the DNA tests revealed that he was the father of Anna Nicole’s baby, Dannielynn, with “99.9999% certainty.”

When asked about the paternity results, Howard K. Stern, who is currently listed on the birth certificate as Dannielynn’s father, stayed true to his word. “I am obviously very disappointed … I am not going to fight Larry Birkhead for custody. I will do everything I can to make sure he gets sole custody.” Stern and Birkhead hugged after leaving the courtroom, and Stern invited Birkhead to his house, where Dannielynn currently resides, to spend as much time with the baby as he wants.

The only reason Birkhead would not get custody at this point is Anna’s mother, Virgie Arthur, who had no role in this child’s life before Anna’s death, because Anna hated her. I don’t know much about family law, but I have no idea how this kid could possibly go to Arthur when there’s a healthy adult parent who wants her. Arthur’s custody case is expected to be heard on Friday in the same Bahamian court.

We’ll of course keep you posted as the story develops…

Congrats to Larry Birkhead who was just confirmed to be the father of Dannielynn Hope. The Bahamanian court just made their ruling and about 100 tourists and members of the media waited outside in the heat for the ruling.

Larry brought members of his family along with him to hear the good news. Bad news however is that Virgie Arthur is expected to now contest Larry for custody of Anna’s baby.

The drama continues and more updates as they come.

I have no idea why I’m running this story. Maybe because everyone else is running it. It’s like the night before the Oscars, when everyone’s running these “It’s the Night Before the Oscars” stories and it doesn’t really matter because the decisions have been made and are sitting in an envelope at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the only thing that could possibly make the whole mess interesting is if somehow Talladega Nights won Best Picture as a write-in candidate. I think everyone kind of knows Larry Birkhead is the daddy right now. Even Howard K. Stern is starting to backpedal. Personally, I hope something more exciting happens. I hope, like, the Broward County Medical Examiner happened to have, say, Matt Lauer’s DNA on file, and the kid turns out to be his. I want it to be something like that.

Maybe we should liveblog the Dannielynn paternity revealing. Do you think the whole thing will be televised? Probably. Lars, you want this one?

Anyway, we’ll get the results of the DNA testing tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted around here.

Woo hoo! I read, like, three articles about the Anna Nicole Smith saga today. Somebody give me a cookie! It really hurts my head to follow this stuff these days, but this seemed like an intriguing turn of events, so I decided to read up on it.

Anna Nicole loverboy and sometime Ari Gold henchman Larry Birkhead has parted ways with his attorney, Debra Opri, resulting in an eruption of finger-pointing.

“I just had enough,” Opri told Extra. “I can’t represent a client who has a middle man by the name of Howard K. Stern. I feel very comfortable in my decision, and I wish Larry the best. But I am worried about him. I couldn’t continue with the way things were going…I don’t want anyone to think that I’m jumping ship. He’s close enough…I didn’t abandon Larry.”

Larry tells a different story to Access Hollywood (what, the Wall Street Journal wasn’t interested?). “I have chosen to go in a different direction. I have complete confidence in my attorney, Emerick Knowles, who’s handling the Bahamas portion of my case.”

For what it’s worth, TMZ seems fairly confident that Birkhead was the one initiating the split. They’re also being all “we’re such insiders” about it, stating that Birkhead and Opri “were butting heads over various issues for weeks. Because of confidences, TMZ cannot be more specific.”

So what’s up with Larry and Howard K. Stern being all buddy-buddy these days? I thought they hated each other. There’s something very, very strange going on here, and, I’d bet, quite a bit of ass-covering. I’ve heard some very strange rumors these past weeks, the most disturbing (and recurring) of which is that some evidence suggests the real father of Dannielynn is actually Anna’s son, Daniel. Ew and gross.

Having bravely delved into this story in order to bring it to you, I shall now return to the relative safety and simplicity of making easy jokes about how Ryan Seacrest may occasionally enjoy doing sex stuff with men until we get the results of this paternity case.

Over the past few months, we have seen without a shadow of a doubt that Anna Nicole potential impregnator Larry Birkhead is — if nothing else — a genius at making an household name out of a talentless nobody, so perhaps it’s no wonder that super-agent Ari Gold once called on him to resurrect a career for Johnny “Drama” Chase in an effort to appease Drama’s more successful younger brother. Check out this screen cap from an episode of Entourage. That is unmistakably Larry Birkhead in that boardroom. As Defamer points out, there is no mention of Birkhead on IMDB, so he wasn’t formally credited, but I’m sure he’s grateful that his brief foray into HBO dramedies will not go unnoticed by his fans.

Update: Fabulous! TMZ has the video now. Ha. “I don’t care if it’s a porn shoot in which he is being ganged raped by a gaggle of silver-backed apes. If there are cameras rolling, everybody wins.” I love Ari Gold.