Giuliana and Bill Rancic are two American celebrities who over 5 seasons of their reality TV show Giuliana and Bill on the Style Network have shared the ups and downs of their life. This has included their happy marriage, their struggles to conceive including a miscarriage, her 3 failed fertility attempts, the shock of her breast cancer diagnosis and her subsequent double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. And then earlier this year it was announced to much rejoicing that they were to be parents by a gestational surrogate. And no doubt all their fans were waiting for the Giuliana Bill baby to make its entrance and have a starring role on the programme.

But no. After sharing almost every detail of their lives the couple sensibly decided that the birth of their baby was to be private matter – well at least that’s what they said. It now seems that the couple have had a change of heart. The arrival of their son Edward Duke is now going to be shown as part of the 6th season of their reality show. The reason that Giuliana has given for them changing their mind is that they feel so many people have followed their struggle and wanted them to have a baby “that to say after all the prayers and support ‘were not showing the baby’. That’s wrong”

Excuse me! What is wrong with the woman? She’s seems to completely absorbed in reality la la land. Many people offer love, support and prayers to strangers, it doesn’t give them any rights. Besides her 2 million plus Twitter followers and the people who follow the Rancic’s programme (with a few exceptions) are not their personal friends. You’d think their priority would be their son and getting to know him, not preparing to share their home video. Let’s hope they’re giving a cut to Delphine, their gestational surrogate. I bet she didn’t sign up for a starring role in their video – even if she’s only heard in the background.

But the person I feel really sorry for is their son. Of course he’s only a baby so his only real interest at the moment is where the next meal comes from, but he’s not being given a choice about whether he wants his birth shared on television. Okay his parents will continue to make choices for him for years to come and no doubt like many other famous parents and others continue to post pictures of their son for all to see – but something so intimate as your birth? You’d think this is one thing that for their son’s sake they would have just kept to themselves. I’m sure their fans would have coped!