Last Updated: 23 Aug 2010

From weird to even weirder

When Cristiano Ronaldo came out and said that he had become the proud father of a son it came as a bit of a surprise, not only to us but reportedly to his very 'not pregnant' swimsuit model girlfriend too.

Who was the mum? Was the child planned? What was with all of the secrecy?

Well Portuguese papers tried their best to get to the bottom of the story and reported that Cristiano had actually paid a surrogate to have his son as he felt it was time to have a child.

But that hardly made things any less confusing, why would a 25-year-old man at the height of his career, earning £200,000 a week and in a relationship with a gorgeous model suddenly decide to buy a child?

When did he think he would have time to look after said child? And how on earth did he guarantee it was a boy?

Yes more question arose from the surrogacy story than were answered.

It became even odder when Cristiano jetted off on holiday to New York with his black painted toenails and his girlfriend whilst the baby, only a few weeks old, was being looked after by his family in Portugal.

Why go to all of the bother of arranging a surrogate mother to have his baby if he's not even going to spend time bonding with him?

Well just when you thought the story couldn't get any weirder it did.

Now reports are emerging that the baby wasn't actually planned through a surrogate. Sources say that instead the child's mother is a 'penniless waitress' from America who Cristiano had a one night stand with. When he found out she was pregnant he then reportedly paid her £10 million for her silence and for her to give up all rights to the child.

But arguably the most ridiculous part of the whole story is the chat up line Cristiano allegedly used to bed the waitress. He apparently said to her, "me, you, f**k-f**k' - eeeewwwwwww!