Melissa Etheridge has announced that her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, is pregnant with twins. “We are thrilled to announce that Tammy is pregnant, and expecting our twins sometime around october,” the couple said in a statement. “To answer the obvious question: we used an anonymous donor from a sperm bank.” Melissa (44) and ‘The L Word’ star Tammy (31) held a commitment ceremony in the US in 2003. This will be the third and fourth children for the Grammy-winning singer, who had a girl and a boy with her former partner Julie Cypher. Julie had the children through artificial insemination using a sperm donation from rock legend David Crosby. [19 April 2006]