Here are some new photos of January Jones and her baby Xander, who is being carried by a nanny. Because apparently January doesn’t want to be photographed holding her own baby. That’s like something Goop would think up, honestly. Or maybe January doesn’t want to be photographed with Xander because she knows that it will only spur more speculation as to the baby daddy?

Last week, I wrote about the latest rumors concerning paternity of January Jones’s little baby boy, Xander. Too many of you had emailed and commented that little Xander was a ginger (he’s not really) and that because of this faux “ginger” status, Michael Fassbender MUST be the father. Like January wasn’t wandering around with Bobby Flay last year, right? Anyway, I completely dismiss the idea that Fassie would get anywhere near January’s cold, vanilla bitchery, and I continue to believe that the baby daddy is a married man who worked with January on X-Men: First Class. If you do the math, you can easily figure out that January was in London, working on X-Men while she conceived. I have my theory of who the baby-daddy is (HINT), but no one is saying and no one wants to get sued, so all of it has just remained in “hypothesis” status.

Then last week, Blind Gossip had a blind item that everyone suspected was about January and her mystery paternity. The blind item:

This married actor had a one-night stand with one of his exes, who is an actress in an acclaimed television show. She wound up pregnant.

The actor’s wife found out about the baby, and, to no one’s surprise, went completely ballistic. Both the actor and his wife tried every tactic (money, lawyers, threats to ruin her career) to convince the ex to terminate the pregnancy.

Despite enormous pressure from all sides, the ex decided to keep the baby. The actor’s marriage is now on the rocks. We’re not sure how long everyone can remain tight-lipped about this one. It will be difficult to keep such a bombshell out of divorce proceedings, which will likely occur before the New Year.

[From Blind Gossip]

Michael K theorized it was January, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, and ever since then, everybody has been citing this blind item like it’s a sure thing. Media outlets are even calling Ashton and January’s reps to get confirmations or denials (the reps aren’t talking).

Now, Ashton and January did date – from 1998 to 2001. Which is when he broke up with her for Brittany Murphy, right? And then he went on to Demi. But in interviews, January has said that Ashton was unsupportive of her career, and that he was kind of a d-bag to her. So why would she go back for a one night stand with her douchey ex? It doesn’t make any sense, especially when you think that Ashton probably would have had to fly to London to impregnate her. Bad blind item!

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Here are some new photos of January Jones, out and about in Pasadena. January is like the new poster girl for prenatal yoga. This hussy was ALWAYS at prenatal yoga when she was knocked up, and wouldn’t you know? Her body bounced back instantly after giving birth. Put her on the posters, I swear.

Anyway, I cannot believe the emails and comments I’ve been getting about January and her baby. Jan and her little X-Man (Xander!) were photographed recently, although we didn’t have access to those pics – you can see them here, at INF Daily. Xander looks… like a baby. He barely has any hair, but what’s there looks kind of light brown to me. But too many of you bitches have been yelling at me, claiming that this baby is a ginger, and because Xander is a ginger, that means this baby is half-Fassbender. BITCHES PLEASE.

Now, when January was still gestating, I devoted a lot of time and energy to what I considered the best living blind item of the year. January kept her mouth shut, for better and for worse, and the speculation, blind items and “reports” kept going and going. Sure, I had Michael Fassbender in the running, but it’s widely known that he was boning Zoe Kravitz as soon as he met her on the X-Men: First Class set. Other possibilities named (for better or for worse): James McAvoy, Olivier Platt (ha!), John Slattery, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Bacon, Bobby Flay and I even threw Jack Nicholson into the running (Jack and January are friendly). But when it came down to it, January’s X-Men director Matthew Vaughn (husband of Claudia Schiffer) was the best candidate, a theory and rumor which he has denied and which his lawyers are prepared to sue over. So, Vaughn (“Crumpets McMoneyDong”) is definitely NOT (cough, cough) the father.

So now that we’ve seen little X, why is everybody trippin’ out and claiming that Fassie MUST be the daddy? Fassie likes dark, passionate, crazy girls, and I truly can’t see him messing around with January’s cold, vanilla bitchery. And the baby isn’t even a ginger – at least, I’m not convinced Xander is a ginger. Yet. But even if he is… um, hello, BOBBY FLAY?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

The best living blind item of the year has come to its logical fruition. January Jones gave birth on Tuesday to a healthy baby boy. She named her son Xander Dane Jones. Xander because… she got knocked up while doing X-Men: First Class, so she thought she’d give her baby an X-name? If she’d gotten pregnant by someone on the set of Mad Men, she’d probably have named the kid Maddox or Madison or MadMenlina. So let’s get through the basics first:

And baby makes two.

Mad Men star January Jones welcomed her first child on Tuesday, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.

Son Xander Dane Jones and the new mom are “doing great,” the rep says.

Jones, 33, chose to keep the sex of her baby under wraps, remarking “it’s going to be a surprise for me” during a June interview.

The actress announced the pregnancy in April. A source told PEOPLE at the time, “She’s really looking forward to this new chapter in her life as a single mom.”

[From People]

Congrats to January and little Xander, and may they stay happy and healthy for a long time. January was spotted and photographed on a nearly daily basis, mostly coming in and going out of prenatal yoga, so I bet the birth was probably pretty easy for her.

Now, shall we talk about paternity? Why not? I feel like January is acknowledging that she got knocked up by *someone* on X-Men: First Class because she chose this odd X-name. In the past, I guessed everyone from James McAvoy to Michael Fassbender to Olivier Platt (I still have my fingers crossed for Platt) to Kevin Bacon. But really, the father is ALLEGEDLY Matthew Vaughn. That’s what all of the theorizing and pondering and blind items and reports led up to: Matthew Vaughn ALLEGEDLY cheated on his wife Claudia Schiffer and ALLEGEDLY got January pregnant with her little X-baby. I seriously hope Vaughn is shelling out some hush money too. Allegedly.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.

Too often, we only concentrate on the negative. When it’s someone like January Jones, it’s pretty easy to only see the negative. She sucks as a person, and as an actress. Even her fellow actors, old and young, have no problems proclaiming publicly that she’s a raging bitch. But January does have a few friends in Hollywood! Like… um…??? Oh, here’s January’s Mad Men costar John Slattery, talking about how she doesn’t suck that badly:

We’ve got some good news for January Jones. While the Mad Men star’s former onscreen son, 11-year-old Jared Gilmore, may not think so highly of her, not everyone in the cast is feeling the same way…

“Well, it’s an intimidating character,” John Slattery told us last night at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Performers Peer Group 2011 Emmys cocktail reception at L.A.’s Sheraton Universal Hotel. “I mean, that’s the character. Betty Draper is an intimidating woman I suppose, if you were a seven-year-old boy [or] her son.”

So no diva behavior around set?

“No, she’s a sweetheart,” Slattery said. “We got lucky. We don’t have anybody like that.”
Reps for Jones and Jared declined to comment for our story.

As for what kind of mom he thinks the preggers actress will make, Slattery gushed, “I have no doubts she’ll make a great mother.”

We have more Slattery scoop for you. Make sure to come back here later on to find out what he said about being directed by Man Men costar Jon Hamm.

[From E! News]

So, obviously, John Slattery IS THE FATHER. God, I hope not. He’s married to Talia Balsam, Clooney’s ex-wife, and John and Talia seem tight (hopefully). Well, that was very nice and noble of John Slattery to step up and defend a lady’s honor. I tend to think that January is probably nicer to men in general – she seems like one of those women. The kind of woman who won’t give other women the time of day, but if an attractive man comes in, January will attempt to flirt, in her way. And if that attractive (“rich”) man is married, so be it. Right, Matthew Vaughn?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN.

One of the little quirks of Mad Men is that it seems like producers have replaced the child actor playing Bobby Draper (the son of Betty and Don Draper) several times. Allegedly, Bobby has only gotten replaced once, but I really feel like there was at least one other child actor in the mix, making THREE Bobby Drapers. Anyway, the latest and last Bobby Draper, a kid named Jared Gilmore, is out of production now. He left Mad Men for a role on Once Upon a Time, which… good for him? Sure. It’s not like Bobby Draper is given that much to do – when we see Betty and Don as parents, it’s mostly through their interaction with Sally (Kiernan Shipka). Anyway, as Jared Gilmore was leaving, he gave a little exit interview to TV Guide, and he ended up calling out January Jones:

A new actor will assume the role of Don and Betty’s son, Bobby, since Jared Gilmore opted to take a series-regular role on ABC’s new Once Upon a Time instead of the seven episodes Mad Men offered.

Jared’s advice for his replacement: “Be careful around January [Jones]. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.”

[From TV Guide]

Ha! January is such an idiot, and now we know that she’s mean to kids too. If you listen to January talk about her Betty character, it’s clear that January is too stupid to really understand the nuances of what and who Betty really is – January just wants to stand around, looking pretty (which is kind of what Betty wants to do). Incidentally, Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper) has spoken about her relationships with various cast members, and she never sounds like January’s biggest fan either. Kiernan seems closest to Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss, both of whom seem to adore her.

Here are some recent photos of January and her bump. She’s still pregnant, for the love of God. And she’s still getting pap’d all of the time. She won’t be getting as much attention now that Jennifer Garner is knocked up, though. Dimple Parade photos sell better than Mystery Paternity Bump photos.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

One month ago (exactly), X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn SHUT DOWN E! News, after E! speculated with some unnamed sources that Vaughn was the father of January Jones’s bump. I mean, everybody had been speculating wildly about January and her bump, and most theories did seem to indicate that the father was not Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, or Kevin Bacon, which left Vaughn and Oliver Platt in the running (sorry, Mr. Platt!). Vaughn’s lawyers got E! News to pull a story online (which you can read here), and Vaughn and his wife Claudia Schiffer seemed to be pulling out the stops to ensure that they looked like a happily married couple with no hint of blonde-American-hussy-pregnancy dramz.

Claudia and Matthew have been getting pap’d regularly ever since, and I have to say… I don’t think Claudia looks good. She’s always been slender and lithe, but she looks tired, drawn and painfully thin in recent photos, and her appearance is adding to some more speculation that although she and Matthew are sticking by each other (they have three kids, for goodness sake), that they’re marriage is in trouble. Then I read this over the weekend:

When supermodel Claudia Schiffer was photographed looking a shadow of her former self recently, it seemed as though rumours of strife in her marriage to film director Matthew Vaughn were beginning to take their toll.

Matthew was forced to deny he is the father of Mad Men actress January Jones’s unborn baby. He directed the latest X-Men installment in which January, 33, appears. Now I hear Claudia, seen right in Cannes last month, has started working out with Madonna’s former fitness guru Tracy Anderson to get into perfect shape.

Friends say the 40-year-old, who denies her marriage is in trouble, is now feeling better than ever.

‘Claudia is working with Tracy to reinvent her look and she also plans to launch her own knitwear line in the autumn,’ says my mole. ‘Claudia wants to concentrate on herself for a while. She was shocked by the allegations, but her family and new fashion line are the most important things in her life now.’

[From The Mail]

Hm… she just “wants to concentrate on herself for a while”?? Sounds like somebody is pissed off at her husband for knocking up an American hussy, and somebody is using her husband’s affair to go off and do her own thing, and she’ll simply be using this incident as leverage in a future divorce proceeding. Maybe Claudia isn’t really that person, though. I have no idea what she’s really like, all I know is that when she married Vaughn, she really stepped away from the spotlight and she spends the bulk of her time raising their kids. I’m not saying she doesn’t deserve the time to do her own thing – she totally does (although the Tracy Anderson mention disturbs me). What I find interesting is the timing – this seems like a wife who is pissed off and looking to carve a niche for herself, to help her get on her feet after being devastated.

And seriously, if Vaughn isn’t the father, why hasn’t January Jones said anything?!? The photos of Jones are from her Malibu baby shower over the weekend.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Progressively, as her pregnancy goes on and January Jones continues to keep her mouth shut about paternity, she’s been getting some heat and some criticism. Lainey pointed out last week that it seems like people in Hollywood – official players and people who matter – don’t have any problems calling January out, or publicly stating their dislike of her. Now, as you might remember, I was never a fan. I always thought she was pretty stupid, vapid and full of herself. BUT – I grew to have some begrudging respect for her because of the baby-daddy drama. She’s played it in an interesting way, increasing speculation and garnering more attention for herself, all while looking private. Her baby drama is what makes her interesting to me – that, and the idea that she’s carrying a little Matthew Vaughn, or a little Fassbender, or a little James McAvoy (or Oliver Platt!).

Anyway, it turns out that January isn’t all alone now that she’s been labeled with the scarlet A (“A” for “Allegedly boning a married dude and getting pregnant”). She may be mocked and criticized, but she has a friend! One friend. Jennifer Carpenter, best known as Deb on Dexter, and the ex-wife of Dexter star Michael C. Hall. I had no idea Jennifer and January were and are friends, but they’ve been pap’d twice in four days. Remarkable.

Perhaps Jennifer is the baby-daddy? Or maybe it’s Michael C. Hall, and Jennifer and January are commiserating because they both got dumped (for Julia Stiles?)? This could really spin out of control. By the way, January just did yet another interview where she managed to avoid talking about paternity – you can read some highlights here. She really is playing this so well.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

I was not one of the many, many vocal critics and cinema-goers who loudly complained about January Jones’s part in X-Men: First Class. I didn’t think January was particularly good, but I didn’t really think she was so terrible as to destroy my general warmth towards a really solid film. Now that I’m several days away from my X-Men experience, and I’m not so suffused with Fassbender-lust, I can think back to January’s performance with more objectivity. Yeah, she really did suck. It was like she was sleepwalking through her performance as Emma Frost, the mutant with telepathic powers, plus she can turn into a diamond.

I have to wonder… what would an actress like Emily Blunt have done with the part? What about (gasp!) Sienna Miller? Or Diane Kruger? Surely, January Jones isn’t the only “icy blonde” who could have conceivably done the role? Surely someone else (Emily, Sienna, Diane) could have made this small-but-showy role really pop, right?

Anyway, Lost creator Damon Lindelof called January out on Twitter a few days ago:

[From Damon Lindelof’s Twitter]

Is Lindelof a Spielberg-like power player in the industry? No, not really, but his opinion counts amongst certain circles, especially when January’s sleep-walking performance is getting so many horrible reviews. But I’d just to like two more points, somewhat defending poor, horrible-actress January: one, Lindelof is responsible for the consistently crappy acting of Evangeline Lilly in Lost, so he’s one to talk. Also: I thought Zoe Kravitz sucked just as badly as January, if not more. Why is January getting all of the criticism and not Zoe?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some new photos of January Jones out with her bump yesterday, in Malibu for a Memorial Day party. Have you noticed something odd? January Jones isn’t confirming or denying ANYTHING concerning baby-daddy drama. She didn’t say anything when people claimed that the father worked on X-Men: First Class. She didn’t say anything when people claimed the father was a married man. She didn’t say anything when everybody started yelling that the father was probably Matthew Vaughn. And she still hasn’t said anything now that Vaughn has issued blistering denials to several media outlets.

It’s not like January is doing a media blackout or anything – she’s been giving interviews to print media and television outlets. They either don’t ask her about her paternity drama or she shies away from saying anything. Several people have made this argument: it would be very easy for January to keep paternity a secret and still make a public denial about Matthew Vaughn. So why hasn’t she? Because she doesn’t care? Because he’s the father and she promised him that she’d keep her mouth shut? Because she likes the attention? I don’t know. Personally, I don’t consider Vaughn’s denials as definitive evidence that he’s not the father. But I am considering other possibilities.

By the way, I’m kind of amazed at how much this paternity drama has changed the way I see January. I used to think she was kind of dumb and drunk and not half as interesting as she thought she was. But now I kind of love her. She’s playing this whole thing really, really well.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: January Jones’ pregnancy is the best living blind item of the year. At this point, theories and blind items and unnamed-source quotes are all coexisting together, feeding off of each other, egging each other on. As soon as “sources” began floating the theory that January was knocked up WHILE on the set of X-Men: First Class, BY someone working on the film, the baby daddy drama got even more awesome/terrible, because of the possibilities of a Fassbender Junior or McAvoy Junior.

Then came an important clue (that may or may not have been true): January’s alleged baby daddy not only worked on X-Men, but he was and is married. The possibilities were limited even further by that idea/theory, until almost everybody agreed that the best, most reasonable THEORY for baby daddy was director Matthew Vaughn. Vaughn is married to Claudia Schiffer. They have kids and tons of money and respectability and IF Vaughn is the father of January‘s baby, it will be a major scandal in Britain, and a pretty interesting gossip story in America. That being said, we do not know if Vaughn is the father. It really is just a theory, an untested hypothesis, and none of us really have anything to back it up.

This is the predicament that E! News found themselves in yesterday. Everybody is whispering “Matthew Vaughn something something January Jones” under their breath, and E! News stepped up and tried to make it into a legit entertainment news story, documenting the alleged sketchiness surrounding Vaughn, Schiffer and Jones. E! news published their initial story yesterday, then they put up an update after they got a call from Vaughn’s lawyers, then E! just pulled the story completely. Thankfully, I had it saved! Here’s the full story, with the lawyer-approved update:

When Mad Men star January Jones announced she was pregnant April 28, everybody started asking: Who’s the dad? Nobody—January, in particular—is talking. On the record, that is.

Off the record, several sources from January’s new film, X-Men: First Class, directed by Claudia Schiffer’s British husband, Matthew Vaughn, say odd happenings occurred on the set, including a “very close” relationship with Jones.

Did they have an affair, and is Matthew January’s baby daddy? Reps for January and Matthew aren’t saying. But here’s what we do know:

According to multiple knowledgeable X-Men sources, Vaughn and Schiffer, who were renting a house on Foothill Road in Beverly Hills, “abruptly” left town at roughly the same time Jones made her surprise baby announcement in April, even though the couple was tentatively scheduled to stay on through May.

“[Matthew] told us something about their house being renovated and they needed to get back,” says a top-level X-Men source, who was directly involved in editing the summer flick, which opens June 3.

However, a representative for both Schiffer and Vaughn says the departure was not only always planned, but, also due to their children’s school schedule, and that finishing up the mutant-franchise flick was unaffected. Another source on the film confirms that Vaughn’s travel schedule doesn’t seem to have adversely affected the film’s scheduled opening.

But this is where things get weirder:

Both the Vaughn/Schiffer rep, as well as another production source (Fox, which is releasing the sequel, would not comment) said there would be no X-Men premiere, other than a “cast screening” in New York, which took place yesterday—January, among several other cast members, did show for the screening.

But the rep tells us Matthew could not attend the New York screening because of a “severe” case of tonsillitis.

Miraculously, though, Mr. Vaughn still seemed quite the chatty Cathy for X-Men interviews on the same day. His health seemed to be in tip-top shape, as the Brits would say.

Also healthy was Vaughn’s time spent with Jones on set, say our X-Men insiders. Multiple sources from the set insist Jones and Vaughn were “very close” throughout shooting, as we have stated.

To which the Schiffer/Vaughn spokeswoman replied: “Matthew had a very good working relationship with all the actors during the making of this film.”

Something’s not adding up here, and it’s not just Vaughn’s dubious throat.

UPDATE: Legal counsel for Matthew Vaughn strongly denies that his client had an affair with January Jones, or is the father of her expected child. We’re also assured Mr. Vaughn does currently have laryngitis.

[From E! News]

This got pulled, and my guess is that E! News is on notice from Vaughn’s lawyers (once again, just a THEORY). So, how do you read this? I think the denial of the affair and the paternity is interesting, and now I kind of wonder if Vaughn and his lawyers would have even bothered to deny it if they thought there was even a slim possibility that he was the father. Or maybe they wouldn’t have denied if they didn’t have faith that January Jones was going to keep her mouth shut?

Interestingly enough, January bump and the paternity questions have now taken center stage during the promotion of X-Men: First Class. Even The Bacon had to field questions about paternity! Please God, don’t let it be The Bacon.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Pacific Coast News.