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A spot check of the Gaydar website revealed men were advertising from around the immediate area. He had no comment to make on his tenants, who were placed by a letting agency. So what are the devoted couple, who sealed their year relationship with a spectacular civil partnership ceremony this July, doing on a dating site? With seven female 'man-maids', a fleet of stretch limos and a glass Cinderella 'pumpkin' carriage pulled by six white horses with pink feathered plumes, there couldn't have been a more extravagant way of declaring their undying love to the world. Whatever reservations people may have had about the way the Drewitt-Barlows came by their designer family, about their exuberant attention-seeking, iffy taste and impetuous spending, the stable, monogamous nature of their relationship never seemed in doubt.
Until now. Since , when they achieved fame as 'The Gay Dads', much of their lives - or their children's - has been chronicled by television, newspapers or magazines, often in return for a fat cheque. But while the public is invited to share the details of little Saffron's Chanel No 5 habit, there are other areas about which the couple are more reticent.
Despite their wealth, they were turned down as adoptive parents, so decided to raise a family by a different method. They bought one. To create the twins, two eggs from donor Tracey McClune, 40, were inseminated - one with Barrie's sperm; one with Tony's. The resulting embryos were implanted into the womb of a second woman, Rosalind Bellamy.
A third embryo, created when the egg fertilised by Tony split in two, was frozen. Three years later, it was used to impregnate a second surrogate mother, Donna Cellarase, who gave birth to Orlando, now aged three. It means their sons are genetic twins despite being born four years apart. Little was left to chance — even the sex of the twins was selected, with Barrie fathering Saffron, and Tony, Aspen. In the pair made legal history when they became the first same-sex British couple to register as joint parents on a birth certificate in the United States.
But while they forged their remarkable family, the couple became increasingly rootless as they drifted from country to country like exquisitely dressed nomads. Citing homophobic abuse, they left Britain for the United States when the babies were born. They returned to Britain, where they briefly enrolled Saffron and Aspen at the same Hertfordshire school as Brooklyn Beckham. No other establishment would do, they hinted, because of the constant kidnapping threat to their offspring. It wasn't long, however, before the children were uprooted again.
Barrie and Tony decided to follow the sun to the Costa Blanca, where their seven-bedroom luxury villa boasted a retinue of mostly gay servants.
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If the men were hoping the Spanish would be more understanding about their domestic arrangements, they were wrong. It is in Spain that the Mail has uncovered another troubling aspect of the Drewitt-Barlow saga. A Spanish newspaper labelled them 'The Odd Couple'. So they did what any parents with a few million in the bank would do - they started their own school. According to them, the enterprise began well in April but came unstuck a year later when their old enemy, homophobia - this time on the part of the municipal authorities - surfaced again.
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The school was closed down a year ago for not having a licence. But the Mail has spoken to the parents of some of those children whose school simply evaporated before their eyes, and they tell a story which paints the Drewitt-Barlows, and particularly Barrie, in a very different light. Barrie assured us it was licensed. Now my son has been left without a school and has lost a year of his education.
The Spanish education authorities say he might as well have stayed at home. Estate agent Chris Shelton, father to year-old former pupil Georgina, added: 'The rumours started about the school not being legal a few months back, but we were repeatedly assured by Barrie that they had the proper licensing. The traumatic effect on my daughter has been awful.
She has lost all her friends and her confidence. I'm not the least bit homophobic, or why would I have let my daughter go to the school in the first place? Some aspects of the education offered at the school, named Our Lady of Elche, were a little unusual to say the least, such as the time the, as far as we know, unqualified Barrie cast himself in the role of sex education teacher to deliver a lecture to the children.
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On another occasion, he attempted to fire young imaginations by asking a class of year-olds to imagine themselves as homosexuals being persecuted by the authorities in Nazi Germany. The case is working its way through the Spanish courts. It emerged, rather surprisingly, that Barrie can do menacing as well as frothy, when he was convicted of threatening two former parents.
I'm going for your jugular. I have already dealt with people like you. Similarly, he told Deborah Lee, 44, from Manchester: 'I have already dealt with people like you.
I'm going to bring people over from England to shoot you. In answer to the parents' accusations, Tony, usually the silent half of the duo, puts in a spirited defence. It is perfectly normal there to open a school and later go through the application for a licence,' he insists. We did everything we could to ensure they had the best education possible. I opened a business, I didn't defraud anybody. I gave them a good school, the best on the Costa Blanca.