{"id":2480921,"date":"2026-06-29T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480921"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:40:28","slug":"judy-gold-remembers-letting-madonna-borrow-her-baby-on-the-rosie-odonnell-show-amid-craze-around-first-photos-of-lourdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/judy-gold-remembers-letting-madonna-borrow-her-baby-on-the-rosie-odonnell-show-amid-craze-around-first-photos-of-lourdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Gold Remembers Letting Madonna Borrow Her Baby on \u201cThe Rosie O&#8217;Donnell Show\u201d amid Craze Around First Photos of Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Judy Gold served as a writer and producer on <em>The Rosie O&#8217;Donnell Show<\/em> from 1996 to 1997<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>The comedian, 63, looked back at Madonna&#8217;s guest appearance on the show, shortly after welcoming her daughter Lourdes in Oct. 1996<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Gold offered her infant son Henry, who was almost the exact same age as Lourdes, for a funny on-air moment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judy Gold once lent her baby to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Madonna;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/madonna\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a> as part of a television gag.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian and actress, 63, recently appeared on SiriusXM&#8217;s <em>The Julia Cunningham Show<\/em> where she chatted about her time as a writer and producer on <em>The Rosie O&#8217;Donnell Show. <\/em>She recalled how Madonna made the show her first public appearance after giving birth to daughter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lourdes &quot;Lola&quot; Leon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lourdes-leon\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lourdes &#8220;Lola&#8221; Leon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>Madonna, when Lourdes was born, all the papers thought Madonna was bringing Lourdes, so this was her first TV show after giving birth,&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My son Henry was born. They had the same due date&#8230; he was born right around the same time as Lourdes. And so Madonna is coming on the show and they say to me, &#8216;Listen everyone thinks Madonna is bringing Lourdes on the show. Can we use Henry?&#8217; My Henry, as a prop baby. And I talked to my partner and we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Sure.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;ll never forget, we&#8217;re backstage and Madonna is holding Henry and she&#8217;s like, &#8216;What does he like?&#8217; I said, &#8216;He loves when I sing to him.&#8217; And she starts singing and he starts crying. I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Great. Thanks, Henry,&#8217; &#8221; she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So he was like 6 weeks old. But she brought him out and Rosie&#8217;s like, &#8216;What a cutie.&#8217; And the audience is going crazy because they think it&#8217;s Lourdes&#8230; And Rosie&#8217;s like, &#8216;Yeah, but that&#8217;s not your baby.&#8217; And she&#8217;s like, &#8216;I know, but isn&#8217;t she really cute?&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donnell then called Gold out to grab Henry. &#8220;Rosie called me out to go take the baby and I took the baby. And all of my mother&#8217;s friends called my mother and were like, &#8216;You didn&#8217;t tell me Judith had a baby.&#8217; Yes. &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m gay and I had a baby and she didn&#8217;t want to tell anyone,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;d tell people my roommate had a baby and I adopted it.\u00a0 Yeah, &#8217;cause that happens. You get a roommate, they get pregnant, and then you adopt the baby. So that was like a major coming out for my mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure flex justify-center mb-[1em] mx-auto\">\n<div style=\"max-width:960px\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p><i>Rosie O&#8217;Donnell and Madonna<br \/>Credit: Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The &#8220;Ray of Light&#8221; singer recently offered rare comments on her bond with her eldest child, whom she shares with fitness trainer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Carlos Leon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/carlos-leon-im-a-lenient-father-to-lourdes\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Leon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a cover story interview <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:for;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/madonna-confessions-on-a-dancefloor-nadia-lee-cohen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">for <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Interview;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/madonna-confessions-on-a-dancefloor-nadia-lee-cohen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Interview<\/em><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:magazine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/madonna-confessions-on-a-dancefloor-nadia-lee-cohen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> magazine<\/a>, the Queen of Pop revealed that Leon approached her with an unexpected idea: writing a song together. What started as a creative collaboration soon became something much more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For instance, the song I wrote with my daughter, Lola,&#8221; Madonna said while discussing the inspiration behind the record. &#8220;She approached me about writing a song together as a way to heal our relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their latest collaboration, however, carried a deeper purpose than simply making music. Madonna said the songwriting process became a meaningful step forward in their relationship and ultimately helped shape the direction of her new album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a really important moment, and it solidified the idea that now is the time to make this record,&#8221; Madonna said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/judy-gold-remembers-letting-madonna-borrow-her-baby-on-the-rosie-o-donnell-show-12007686\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Judy Gold served as a writer and producer on The Rosie O&#8217;Donnell Show from 1996 to 1997 The comedian, 63, looked back at Madonna&#8217;s guest appearance on the show, shortly after welcoming her daughter Lourdes in Oct. 1996 Gold offered her infant son Henry, who was almost the exact same age as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[388380,351167,488378,21963,430082,371216],"class_list":["post-2480921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-judy-gold","tag-lourdes","tag-lourdes-lola-leon","tag-madonna","tag-rosie-o39donnell","tag-son-henry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Judy-Gold-Remembers-Letting-Madonna-Borrow-Her-Baby-on-The.com2Fen2Faol_people_articles_4712F6aa6f30cf6de8e75120a4dd6a212fff1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480923,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480921\/revisions\/2480923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}