Clay Aiken called a ’spectacular father’

Clay Aiken called a ’spectacular father’

WASHINGTON — Music producer David Foster sees nothing strange about his sister Jaymes having a baby with Clay Aiken.

David Foster told AP Radio: “She’s very close with Clay; they’re best friends. It made perfect sense to me that he’d want to have a child with his best friend.”

Jaymes Foster gave birth to Parker Foster Aiken last August, conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Her brother considers it “a very normal situation.”

David Foster finds Aiken to be a “spectacular father” and Jaymes “a natural mother.”

He says Jaymes, also a music producer, “always wanted a child, so it kind of worked out.”

He doesn’t know what their plans are for raising the baby. “They’re working it out. I don’t know quite how. It’s a bicoastal thing.”

David Foster, who has worked with the likes of Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion, writes about his sister’s relationship with Aiken in his autobiography, “Hitmaker.”

Obama’s half sister to pen children’s book

NEW YORK — President Obama’s half sister has a book deal, for a children’s picture story.

Maya Soetoro-Ng’s “Ladder to the Moon,” based in part on Obama’s mother and other family members, will be published by Candlewick Press at a date not yet determined. According to Candlewick, Soetoro-Ng will pay “homage to her mother’s tradition of storytelling.”

The late Ann Dunham is mother both to Obama and Soetoro-Ng, who was born in 1970, nine years after the future president. (Obama and Soetoro-Ng have different fathers.) Soetoro-Ng, who teaches at an all-girls school in Honolulu, campaigned for her half brother and spoke at last year’s Democratic National Convention.

Today’s birthdays

Actress-singer Doris Day is 86. Actress Marsha Mason is 67. Singer Wayne Newton is 67. Singer Tony Orlando is 65. Singer Richard Thompson is 60. Guitarist Mick Mars of Motley Crue is 53. Actor Alec Baldwin is 51. Actor David Hyde Pierce (“Frasier”) is 50. Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy is 48. Singer-guitarist Mike Ness of Social Distortion is 47. Singer Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) is 41. Actress Jennie Garth (“Beverly Hills 90210”) is 37. Singer Leona Lewis is 24. Actress Amanda Bynes is 23.