{"id":667773,"date":"2026-10-28T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:08:21","slug":"actor-reveals-he-donated-sperm-to-his-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667773\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor reveals he donated sperm to his sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American actor Jordan Firstman has shared he has become an uncle &#8211; while also revealing he is the baby&#8217;s biological dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/culture\/jordan-firstman-club-kid-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">W. Magazine<\/a>, the Club Kid actor and director, 35, revealed that he was asked to be his sister\u2019s sperm donor so that she could have a <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/10\/27\/entertainment\/celebrity\/lynn-kelly-baby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">baby<\/a> with her wife. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to say that the baby was born on the last day of production for Club Kid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2300276811.jpg\" alt=\"Director, writer and actor JordanFirstman attends the opening night screening of &quot;Club Kid&quot; during the 2026 Chicago International Film Festival at Music Box Theatre on October 14, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-2215578\"  \/>Director, writer and actor JordanFirstman attends the opening night screening of &#8220;Club Kid&#8221; during the 2026 Chicago International Film Festival. (Photo by Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: &#8216;It was coincidental,&#8217; Jordan said of the similarities between his real-life story and the story of his film, which follows a club promoter who learns he fathered a 10-year-old boy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I had written the first draft, and then my sister asked for my sperm [for her wife].&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2302021848.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Star Director Award recipient Jordan Firstman attends the gala screening of &quot;Club Kid&quot; and award presentation at Day 2 of the 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 25, 2026 in Savannah, Georgia (Photo by Paras Griffin\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-2215577\"  \/>Rising Star Director Award recipient Jordan Firstman attends the gala screening of &#8220;Club Kid&#8221; and award presentation at Day 2 of the 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 25, 2026 in Savannah, Georgia  (Photo by Paras Griffin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan said it was a &#8216;total no-brainer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Total no-brainer. The baby was born on my last day of production. Very emotional, very hard to process. But \u2014 I\u2019m an uncle, let\u2019s be clear. I\u2019m not doing any fatherly duties. I smile on FaceTime and send her gifts. My <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/10\/23\/news\/m9-crash-sisters-thank-public\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sister<\/a> and her wife are so happy,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actor Jordan Firstman has shared he has become an uncle &#8211; while also revealing he is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-667773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}