It's a boy for Liz

A delighted Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to a son yesterday.

Both the actress and baby Damian Charles were 'happy and healthy' after he arrived at 12.22pm, her publicist Karin Smith said later.

The boy's 安全な 配達／演説／出産, however, drew a いっそう少なく than enthusiastic 返答 from the man 行方不明になる Hurley has 指名するd as the father.

American playboy Steve Bing 辞退するd to 答える／応じる when asked if he would like to 申し込む／申し出 mother and baby his best wishes.

Standing outside his Los Angeles home, the 35-year-old millionaire smiled for photographers but said only: 'I really have no comment to make on the baby or the 指名する of the baby.

'I really have nothing to say beyond the last 声明 I made.'

Mr Bing's last public words on 行方不明になる Hurley's pregnancy （機の）カム in December when he commented: 'Ms Hurley and I were not in an 排除的 関係 when she became 妊娠している. It is her choice to be a 選び出す／独身 mother.

'If indeed I am the father, I will be an 極端に 伴う／関わるd and responsible parent.'

行方不明になる Hurley, 36, is thought to have had a Caesarean section at the 私的な Portland Hospital in Central London. The Portland has become famous for 配達するing the babies of high-profile 人物／姿／数字s such as the Duchess of York, Victoria Beckham, Zoe Ball and Caroline Quentin.

An elective surgical birth would have 始める，決める 行方不明になる Hurley 支援する almost £2,500 with the 法案 rising by nearly £700 for each 付加 night she spends in hospital.

She is believed to have checked in under a 誤った 指名する まっただ中に 恐れるs for her safety に引き続いて a 一連の 脅しs by a stalker.

Her mother Angela is said to have left her home 近づく Basingstoke, Hampshire, several days ago to help her 対処する with motherhood.

The actress 用意が出来ている for the birth by splashing out £10,000 on nursery furniture and designer romper 控訴s.

No 詳細（に述べる）s were 解放（する）d of Damian's 負わせる or why the actress chose his 指名する.

行方不明になる Hurley has already 明らかにする／漏らすd in an interview that she 'longed for a mummy's boy who sits on my 膝 all day and tells me he loves me'.

Although Mr Bing has 供給するd little moral support for 行方不明になる Hurley, she has been able to rely on friends and her former long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 lover Hugh 認める.

The actor is filming in New York but was 予定 支援する in London for the 首相 of his film, About A Boy, on April 14.

He is now 推定する／予想するd to 飛行機で行く 支援する sooner, however, to see baby Damian and 行方不明になる Hurley.

認める, who has his own 始める，決める of 重要なs to her West London house, …を伴ってd her to the U.S. late last year for 危機 会談 with Mr Bing and also went with the actress for her first ざっと目を通す.

She 乗る，着手するd on an 事件／事情／状勢 with Mr Bing soon after splitting up with 認める in the summer of 2000. 発表するing last November that she was 妊娠している, she 指名するd Mr Bing as the father.

She was horrified when he 問題／発行するd a 声明 casting 疑問 on her （人命などを）奪う，主張する by 示唆するing she had seen other men when they were together.

行方不明になる Hurley 反対するd by 宣言するing: 'I loved Stephen enormously during the 18 months we were together.

'I was 完全に loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he 保証するd me he was to me.' If the baby is 証明するd to be his, then 行方不明になる Hurley would be する権利を与えるd to millions of dollars in child support.

Bing, who has worked as a Hollywood 生産者, is the son of a New York 所有物／資産／財産 有力者／大事業家 and 概算の to be 価値（がある） around £400million.

行方不明になる Hurley has 表明するd her hope that the 論争 can be 解決するd 友好的に, 説: 'It would be horrible to do anything 合法的な and 汚い - and I hope it will never come to that. We are both nice people.'