Karel Gott will become a father again in four months! The third child is due just before his sixty-seventh birthday. Karel Gott’s friends wish he had a son. Karel Gott, the sixty-seven-year old singer and the holder of 30 Nightingales will become a father for the third time. ”Yes, I am in the fifth month of pregnancy,“ confirms his girlfriend, the producer Ivana Macháčková. The baby is due in March 2006. Gott has two grown-up daughters from his previous relationships, thirty-year-old Dominika and eighteen-year-old Lucie. Does he wish for a son now? “The gender makes no difference. Today when we see so many serious diseases and high-risk pregnancies the health of the child is the only thing that matters. Even though it may sound like a cliché,“ says Macháčková. She would not say, however, whether her pregnancy is a high-risk one or not. According to her colleagues from the Broadway Theater in Prague, where Ivana works as a producer, Ivana sticks to her regular working routine. Even though she has been gone for several days, she’s going to be back at work after Sunday. Nothing serious, she has had flu. The happy couple is going to make an official appearance next Saturday at another grand evening of the Czech Nightingale awards. Both Ivana and Karel hoped to be keeping the pregnancy a secret by the awards night. Macháčková last appeared in public two weeks ago when she, together with her colleagues, celebrated the first year from the premiere of the Three Musketeers in the Broadway Theater, Prague. “I still managed to mask it then,“ she smiles. The couple has not had selected any name yet. Several years ago Karel Gott said that his son’s name could be Kristián. “The child’s name is definitely not going to be Kristian.” Karel made this comment only as a joke three years ago. It was during an interview he gave in German where people greet each other by saying ‘Grüss Gott’, the similar sound of which inspired Karel to combine the first name Kristián with the surname Gott. To German speaking people the Kristián Gott combination would sound like Kris Gott,“ explains Macháčková. “My husband and I have known about the happy news for a month and a half. I even imposed myself on Karel, offering to be a godmother to his baby, providing it’d be a boy. Well, and if it is a girl, I’ll be happy to be her godmother as well. Yet I wish Karel finally had a son. I think he liked my idea. He laughed at it saying it was not bad at all,“ says Helena Vondráčková. ”I wish their child was at least as quiet and good as our little Jakub,“ said Vendula Svobodová, the wife of Gott’s prominent composer and the Lady President of the Kapka naděje foundation. Gott and Svoboda often see each other. “Some time ago, when Jakub was just a new born baby, Karel sang Lady Karneval while visiting with us. Jakub, otherwise a remarkably good child, began to cry – so I’m not sure what it meant…,“ recollects the story Vendula Svobodová with a smile on her face.