Tina Sparkle Talks About Having Todd McKenney’s Baby

After the Australian Woman’s Weekly published an interview with Todd McKenney where he admitted he’d offered to have a baby with longtime friend and radio co-host Sonia Kruger, some folks out in the gossip world decided that the entire revelation reeked of publicity stunt. Well, Sonia Kruger has hit back at the haters.

Thanks to Sonia’s “people” (hi, producer Bruno!), I got my hot little hands on audio from this morning’s Mix 106.5 FM breakfast show and I have lovingly transcribed the bits where Tina Sparkle opens up on the topic. Ready?

Well, I do wish that Todd was here this morning so we could both talk about this on the record. Obviously we were both overseas last week when the Woman’s Weekly came out, when the article came out. It created a bit of a stir, I think it made headlines in terms of News.com – even A Current Affair did a story on the piece. The thing that disturbs me is that in the newspaper on Saturday in Confidential there was a story that said, that basically the Sonia Kruger/Todd McKenney baby is a publicity stunt, which personally I find really quite insulting. There’s no way in the wide world that I would ever contemplate having a child as a publicity stunt. To me, that’s just a ridiculous suggestion.

This is something that Todd as a friend said to me when I was going through a really difficult period – “if you want to have a baby, I’ll be there for you”. Which almost brings tears to my eyes now, because it’s a really generous, selfless thing to say from one friend to another. So to have people turn around and suggest that it’s a publicity stunt because of our radio ratings is… I find it really offensive.

So to set the record straight – Todd made an offer to me which I think is incredibly generous, and for that I love him. I wish he was here, I wish he could tell his side of the story. I think that anybody… obviously people have views about gay people, straight people, single people having children together. A girlfriend of mine said to me last night “Good on you for saying this because as a single woman, I have a back up plan.” And a lot of my single friends have since said to me that they all have either a platonic male friend or a gay friend, a platonic friend of some sort, that they have a pact with should they get to a point in their life where they need to make a decision about having children. So I’ve said my piece there, I think the cynics who are suggesting that this is a publicity stunt might like to move into the year 2009 and join the rest of us.

So there you have it.