USHER IS PROUD FATHER OF BABY BOY

Usher's wife has given birth to the couple's first child.The singer's wife Tameka Foster delivered the 7lb 9oz boy, named Usher Raymond V, at 9.30pm on Monday in Atlanta, Georgia.The overjoyed couple said: "We are so happy and proud of our beautiful son. What a blessing!"Usher, 29, and 36-year-old Tameka married in a secret ceremony in Atlanta on August 3.Just before the couple announced Tameka's pregnancy in June, she said: "What people don't realize is that Usher and I were friends for nearly seven years and I worked as his personal stylist for five years. I was the only female friend he felt he could talk to."I definitely plan to have children with Usher. This is the man I love and plan to spend the rest of my life with, so why wouldn't I want to share that bond of bringing another life into this world with him?"The new family are expected to leave hospital and return home today.

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