Sixty-two year old Elton and his husband, David Furnish, have become the parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on December 25, Christmas Day.
Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate mother. Her identity is unknown.
Elton and David dated for 12 years, and then married in a civil partnership in December 2005, under a British law for same-sex couples.