Following the Aug. 8 birth of his son Parker, singer Clay Aiken is following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he's gay.

"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, tells the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."

Aiken says he expects the news may overwhelm some of his fans. "Whether it be having a child out of wedlock, or whether it be simply being a homosexual, it's going to be a lot," said Aiken.

It's not like we consider ourselves psychic or anything. We don't have ESP or any real phantasmagorical abilities. However, we've got to say, we've kind of thought there was something up with Clay for a while now. Maybe it was the effeminate way he carries himself. Maybe it was the waxing and the lip gloss and the penchant for crooning show tunes. Maybe it was him having lots and lots of anal and oral sex with men. But there was something–a spark, a something–that just made us say hey. Let's keep our eye on this guy and see where this goes.

Here's what we know. Multiple sources tell us the mother is Jaymes Foster, a record producer and Clay's best friend. He lives at her home when he's in L.A.

We're told 50-year-old Foster, who produced several Aiken CDs, is due in August. She's the sister of record mogul David Foster. She divorced a few years back and has no kids. Aiken is 29.

We're told Foster was artificially inseminated. But Clay is a lot more than sperm — we're told he will have an active role in raising the child.

No immediate word from Aiken's rep.

Hopefully the child will have play dates with Suri Cruise and Prince Michael and Blanket Jackson. Why? Oh, no reason.

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American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken has reportedly been involved in an air-rage bust-up on a flight from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday. Aiken fought with a woman after his foot was resting on her armrest and she gave him a "minor shove" according to reports. When the plane landed, passengers were held at Tulsa International Airport until they were interviewed by FBI agents. FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson has confirmed there was an altercation between a male and female passenger, but refused to confirm Aiken was involved. No arrests were made. The singer hinted of the incident at his gig at Tulsa's Brady Theater on Saturday, telling fans he had been beaten up by a girl – but his representative has yet to confirm the incident took place.

Clay really has bad luck when it comes to planes. Well, maybe "bad luck" aren't really the words we're looking for here; maybe it's more "totally disgusting habit of putting his fetid feet in other people's personal space." Perhaps the next time Clay needs to travel to a far-off land he should stick to more private and less odoriferously confined modes of transportation, like a bicycle or a rickshaw.

UPDATE: Welcome, Claymates!

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ï Germany has banned Tom Cruise from filming scenes for a new movie in their country, simply because they think Scientology is lame. Who says Germans don't have a sense of humor? (Celebrity Hack)

ï Hef: the Movie. (Hollywood Grind)

ï V.I.L.E. henchmen Timberlake and Biel have been spotted passing the loot on to Robocrook in . . . Copenhagen! (I Don't Like You In That Way)

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On a recently flight from LA to Clay Aikenís hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, the American Idol runner up didnít get drunk and rowdy, but he did act weird and smelly.

Aiken was said to have taken off his socks and shoes and to have put them on his assistantís lap. His feet stunk up the whole first class cabin.

"Clay, who was accompanied by a terrified-looking female assistant, draped his feet over her lap and removed his shoes and socks – allowing a foul smell to invade the small cabin! Even stranger, after fidgeting through most of the flight, he ended up sitting on the floor in front of his expensive seat! Exclaimed one passenger, 'Heís an odd one!'î

The way we see it, Clay's fellow first-class passengers got off easy. If Clay had really wanted to get comfortable, he could have went beyond the socks and shoes and removed his entire ensemble, and if his feet are so odoriferously offensive, we're guessing that kid has some major ball stench.

Pffft, those are totally implants.

Frankly, we are loathe to believe that the pic is the real Clay Aiken. Do you honestly think Gayken has the ability to grow such butch facial scruff? Perhaps it's a shadow. At any rate, even closeted American Idol runners-up with huge, rabid, teen-girl fan bases and impressive record contracts need a little sugar sometimes. The problem comes when said runner-up opts to troll for e-dong on the internets instead of keeping a few Thai houseboys under a strict contract/confidentiality agreement. Have you learned nothing from Tom Cruise, Clay?
Aiken has been extremely busy lately, what with touring and recording a new album . . . oh, and frequenting gay chat rooms online. First, he makes the mistake of sexing up a Green Beret, who then sung like a canary (Birdcage reference intended) to the media. Now, a transcript of Aiken chatting with/sending shirtless webcam photos to a gay teacher has surfaced in the National Enquirer. Reading the transcript of the chat session is like being best friends with an emotionally abused sixth-grade girl with severe body issues:

Source: you've never posed shirtless?????
Clay: just need to be a little careful
Clay: no
Source: really?
Source: howcome?
Clay: no one wants to see this
Clay: its boring and white
Source: and sexy and smooth and lickable
Clay: well you may feel that way
Clay: but the only way youll see it is in person
Clay: i dont have what you have to show off

The only thing to do now is sit back and wait for Clay to take a year off for "personal issues", record a comeback album, give a tearful interview to Stone Phillips in which he recounts these "dark, desperate days" before the nice folks at the Christian Heterosexual Retraining Institute helped him battle his demons, and then watch him marry a mousy, non-famous girl from a nice background in a well-publicized yet low-key ceremony. Meanwhile, we'll turn the chat transcript into a hit off-off-Broadway play. Everybody wins!

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- That's it, we're giving up on the TomKat jokes. There's no way we can beat Goldenfiddle at that game. We ain't even gonna try.