Jacko's secret son? Not bloody likely

London's Daily Mail has the best and most-quoted celebrity tabloid page of all the mainstream newspapers, but were still trying to figure out the circuitous, misleading story they're hyping this morning about Michael Jackson's "secret son." Twenty-five year-old Omer Bhatti sat with the Jackson family at the Staples Center Memorial and wore the sunglasses and black suit combo favoured by Jacko's brothers. The Daily Mail writes that he "is believed to have asked for a DNA test to prove once and for all if he is the singer's love child," fathered on a one-night stand in Norway in 1984. The paper even touts the young man's physical resemblance to Jacko's (white) surrogate son, Blanket (let us not forget that Jacko was a black man).


But read a little deeper and see that Omer was more likely one of Jacko's little circle-jerk buddies, sold to the superstar by his parents, to whom Jacko gave jobs and gifts.

Omer, it turns out, was one of those mini-Michael Jackson impersonators from modest circumstances in another part of the world who was thrust upon the so-called King of Pop by his parents during his wildest pajama party days. Jacko reportedly "met" the child in Tunisia in 1996. was "impressed" by the pretty boy's aping of his dance moves and soon had the kid and his folks moved from Oslo to his Neverland lair.

Omer's mother Pia was hired as a nanny for Jacko's surrogate son and Omer's father Riz got a job as a chauffeur.

Parents cared for, son slept with: it was a scenario played out more than once in Jacko's fantasy world. Jacko's secret son? Not bloody likely.