New Kid Danny Wood Father for Months Already!

Hitkrant, 1993
Massachusetts: We thought he was just a kid himself to tell the truth, but Danny Wood of the huge megaband New Kids on the Block has announced this week that he became a father. Danny (23) and his 20-year old girlfriend Elise Stephenson have been the proud parents of a healthy son, named Danny Jr., October 3rd 1992. Danny, Jr. was born in the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, but Danny, Sr. thought it wiser to keep him being a father a secret in order not to scare off his fans. But how on earth can you keep this a secret? The shy-of-publicity star locked himself and his family up in an old house in Quincy, Massachusetts. The following months he was only visited by fellow members of the New Kids on the Block and his family members. The baby is four months old now, so Danny thought it the right time to tell the outside world about him being a father. Despite all rumors that had started around Danny being a father over the past months, the official news hit the New Kids fans like a bomb.

Translation by: Barbara van Feggelen, December 1998.