Brian Dowling and Arthur Gourounlian were “absolutely delighted” to reveal their newborn baby’s godparents over the weekend.
The couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Blake Maria Rose Dowling Gournounlian, on September 1 with the help of Brian’s sister Aoife, who acted as their surrogate. Taking to Instagram over the weekend, Brian told his followers that he and Arthur had chosen their friends, businesswoman and influencer Pippa O’Connor and publicist Simon Jones, to be baby Blake’s godparents.
Sharing photos of Pippa cradling her godchild and Simon posing with Brian, the former Big Brother star captioned the post: “When it came to choosing Godparents for Blake @gourounlian & I were looking for 2 people who had integrity, class, and good values & treated people with kindness & respect.”
"Sadly we don’t [know] anyone like that," he joked. We are ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED that Pippa & Simon said yes and they are on this CRAZY JOURNEY with us. Now bring on the Christening."
It comes as Brian and his husband Arthur Gourounlian have recently finished filming for their RTE documentary on their surrogacy journey which will air later this year. Titled Brian and Arthur's Very Modern Family, the documentary will bring audiences along the journey with Brian and Arthur as they aim to become parents through surrogacy.
Brian and Arthur announced the birth of their baby daughter Blake Maria Rose Dowling Gourounlian at the beginning of September. Brian's sister Aoife acted as the couple's surrogate, something Brian hailed her as "an absolutely incredible human" for doing.
The whole surrogacy journey is set to be detailed in the new doc including all of the highs and lows, difficulties and joys which eventually led to Brian and Arthur forming their family. Brian shared a snap of him, Aoife, Arthur and baby Blake to Instagram, telling his followers that filming the documentary has been a "life-changing" experience.
"This documentary has been such an honest/therapeutic/emotional/fun & life-changing thing to film," he wrote.
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