'You've got your hands full'

'Raising Sextuplets' reality show to air on WeTV

THE Masche Sextuplets of Arizona will star in a new reality-television show on WeTV, slated to start June 11, 2009.

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Art at the double: Tate Modern wants twins

ARE you an identical twin? Fancy taking part in an art exhibition at the Tate Modern? (or as The Guardian puts it sitting in front of a pair of Damien Hirst's spot paintings while people look at you.)

The museum is appealing for pairs of identical twins to get in touch as it announced details of this year's big autumn show, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, examining Andy Warhol's declaration that "good business is the best art". It's to be held in October.

According to the Independent, the exhibition, three years in the planning, will also look at more modern day artists at their most "self-aggrandising."

News round-up: Mum of twins has triplets, plus other current stories

ESSEX mum Joady Dyer has welcomed triplets into her family - and will have no shortage of helpers thanks to her 15-year-old twin daughters.

Joady, 39, also has a nine-year-old. You can read a fuller story courtesy of Bounty, here.

The Sun reports on the arrival of identical triplets Alfie, Sebastian and Zak, conceived without IVF treatment, by Emma Spooner, 28, and husband Ken, 35, of Cockley Cley, Norfolk. The BBC has a lovely video.

"Brainy" triplet brothers who have excelled in science are celebrated by the Reading Eagle.

The Today Show talks about multiples

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Texas octuplets talk about California octuplets

PARENTS of 10-year-old octuplets, Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi, speak to Larry King about raising a large family. One of the octuplets died a week after birth. They also have a 7-year-old daughter.

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'The most sought after mum in the world right now': Octuplets' mum inundated with interview offers

WELL as night follows day, it was going to happen.

Here's a link to a Telegraph report on how Nadya Suleman is set to make a mind-boggling $2 million (£1.4 million) from flogging her story to the highest bidder.

Via Press Gazette

See also: Bloggers, columnists discuss California octuplets.

X Factor twins compete for chance at Eurovision

IDENTICAL twin sisters Francine and Nicola Gleadall compete on Your Country Needs You final tonight on BBC1. If they win, they will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009 in May.

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UPDATE: They lost out to Jade Ewen. See earlier performances here.

Author dismisses claims Mengele created 'twins' master race'

I recently read a couple of articles about a book that claims that Josef Mengele was responsible for a town in Brazil called "The Land of Twins."

Jorge Camarasa, a historian from Argentina, wrote a book called Mengele: The Angel of Death in South America. Camarasa says that Mengele is responsible for the high proportion of blond-haired blue-eyed twins in the small Brazilian town of Candido Godoi.

It seemed incredible and, from what I could tell, the articles were written from press releases and nobody had actually read the book or looked at its documentation (it's only been published in Spanish). Then I read an article by Guy Walters, who said the story is "not likely."

Not that Guy Walters has the last word, but I have to admit that his article made me feel better about my initial skepticism of the book by Camarasa. I'm sure the story doesn't end here.

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BECKY has set up a blog network on Facebook for You've got your hands full. If you would like to join, then you can do so here.

This network is another way of bringing families with twins, triplets or more together, as well as other parents who have read and enjoyed this blog. It also helps spread the word about the blog.

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From X Factor to Eurovision hopefuls: What next for The Twins?

THIS sister act has been around for a while, hasn't it?

They come across as lovely, warm girls - perfect say for kids' TV, but they're not Eurovision material really, are they?

Or perhaps I should say they could be, if the competition this year wasn't so strong.

Personally, I find it a tiny bit annoying to see them encouraged to flag up how they feel they 'are the same person' - as they do in the video below. But I understand that's how these things work.

And here's how they did on X Factor: