Time to dip into the Everything You Thought You Knew Is Wrong files, now, as it emerges that Michael Jackson's three fair-skinned kids - Prince Michael, Paris, and of course our most beloved Blanket - may not be the actual fruit of his loins.
There appears to be no dispute that the elder two were incubated in Debbie Rowe, the dermatologist nurse who offered to literally give the singer some kids in exchange for stuff like a house and money a few years ago (Blanket's provenance remains an enchanting mystery). But apparently he and former wife Debbie never even did it. Can you BELIEVE anything so outlandish? Anyway, according to a hardly-disturbing-at-all interview with the Mail, Debbie is now feeling uneasy because the children have been photographed in public without their trademark veils.
Whether Debbie should have felt uneasy at some unspecified point prior to this is not one for Lost in Showbiz to call, but she claims the veils were all her idea, and that she's "not happy" at this latest development.
Anyway, there's more - so much more - and I urge you to take a look. In it we get to revisit all those heartwarming moments from the amazing Michael Jackson Is Allowed Kids story, like the fact the couple's best man was an eight-year-old boy (friend of the groom, obviously); or the time when Michael is so delighted with his new baby Paris that he cuts the umbilical cord, picks her up, and runs straight out of the hospital, never to return - with the little darling still covered in blood. Oh yes, and the placenta. He later realised he was also trailing the placenta.
Incidentally, it's always worth reminding people that Michael Jackson's entire Neverland animal menagerie has been taken into care and re-housed, or re-zooed, at some sanctuary in California. The kids, however, remain in his capable hands. Do our world's priorities ever feel faintly out of whack to you?
