Michael Jackson’s son Prince Jackson got candid about the legacy of his dad in a rare interview.

“I come from a very rich family history, and those are some big shoes to fill,” Prince, 27, told Associated Press on Thursday, December 19. “I don’t know if I ever could. But I wear it with … it’s like a badge of honor.”

Prince noted that he and his siblings — sister Paris Jackson, 26, and brother Bigi Jackson, 22 — have held onto a piece of their late father in various ways.

“My siblings and I, we each kind of got a piece of him in different ways,” Prince said. “For me, it’s that philanthropic kind of giving back, and that’s where I’m really passionate about. I just hope the work that we do makes him proud.”

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Prince honored his father through cofounding the nonprofit Heal Los Angeles in 2016 while a student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Ahead of the holidays, Prince hosted an event at a Mattel toy store on Tuesday allowing kids to load up on toys to take home.

“It warms my heart when we see the kids smile at the end of the day,” he said. “So, it’s really fun.”

Michael welcomed Prince and Paris with ex-wife Debbie Rowe, whom he was married to from 1996 to 1999. Son Bibi arrived via surrogate in 2002.

While reflecting on Michael’s legacy following the 15th anniversary of his death, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that the “King of Pop” would be proud of where his kids are today. (Michael died at the age of 50 in 2009.)

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“Some people could let nepotism get to their heads, but they are the complete opposite of that,” the insider said, while a separate source noted that Prince “loves riding motorcycles and his charity work.”

While Prince has been dating college sweetheart Molly Schirmang for over seven years, he doesn’t have plans to tie the knot anytime soon.

“Molly doesn’t care about Prince’s fame or who his family is,” a third insider said in April, noting that Schirmang gets along well with Paris and Bigi. “They want the same things out of life and are taking each day as it comes.”

While balancing his relationship with Schirmang, Prince also has a close bond with his younger siblings.

“They are each other’s best friends and all stick together,” the second source said. “Michael would be so happy.”

Tiger Woods made a rare appearance with both of his look-alike children at the PNC Championship at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando on Saturday, December 21.

Tiger, 48, played alongside his son Charlie Woods, 15, while his daughter, Sam Woods, 17, served as caddy. Their mother, Tiger’s ex-wife Elin Nordegren, was in the gallery during the tournament.

Tiger and the teens posed for photos on the green following the first round of competition. The tournament concludes Sunday after another 18-hole round.

“To be our here in this environment and to have fun like this – it doesn’t get any better,” Woods told NBC of sharing the course with his son. “This week is for each other, and we’re just rooting so hard for each of us to pull off each shot that we want.”

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The PNC Championship provides a unique experience for pro golfers as they get to team up with a family member for the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned event. According to ESPN, Tiger and Charlie ran off five straight birdies on the back nine on Saturday for a 13-under 59 in the scramble format, giving them a share of the lead after the opening round. They were joined at the top by the previous two champions — Bernhard Langer and son Jason, 24, and Vijay Singh and son Qass, 34.

“We’re trying to pull off each and every shot for each other, and to ham-and-egg,” Tiger said, according to the outlet. “And I think we did that great pretty much the entire day. We picked each other up, which was great. And Charlie made pretty much most of the putts today.”

The PNC Championship is Tiger’s first competition since he underwent back surgery in September. At the event, he reportedly said he scheduled that surgery — the sixth on his lower back in the past 10 years — to be sure he recovered in time to play with Charlie for the fifth straight year.

Tiger also spoke to PGA Tour about Charlie’s blossoming golf career at Saturday’s tournament, saying his son has grown “3.5 to 4 inches in height” and has gotten “stronger, faster, heavier” since last year. He admitted they “needle” each other at home in a competitive spirit, but “it’s all love, that’s what it’s all about. I love him to death.”

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Tiger also shared the advice he’s given his son to deal with the pressure of competing under the name “Woods.”

“I just always remind him ‘Just be you,’” Tiger said, according to CNN. “Charlie is Charlie. Yes, he’s my son, he’s gonna have that last name as part of the sport, but I just want him to just be himself, you know, and be your own person. That’s what we’ll always focus on, and we’ll always encourage it, for him just to carve his own name, to carve his own path and have his own journey.”

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Torrey DeVitto is officially a mom, welcoming her first baby just in time for the holiday season.

“Happy birthday to my husband, the man who makes all my dreams come true daily,” the Chicago Med alum, 40, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 21. “The greatest accomplishment I’ve ever achieved was giving our daughter an incredible dad like you. We love you so much .”

DeVitto uploaded a pic of husband Jared LaPine holding the infant skin-to-skin after her birth.

According to LaPine’s Instagram, his wife gave birth on November 21. They named their daughter Lyle-Josephine Alina.

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LaPine, 34, also honored his wife in a social media post.

“As I sit on my hospital bed, watching my wife hold our gorgeous newborn baby girl, I would like to take a moment to praise this beautiful, strong, and amazing woman,” he gushed via Instagram late last month. “The past 9 months of her pregnancy, I have watched my wife put our baby first in EVERYTHING she has done. I have watched countless nights of no sleep, excruciating acid-reflux, horrible aversions, and intense hormones.”

LaPine continued, “We were induced Monday morning at 7:30am and little Lyle-Josephine didn’t come until Thursday at 4:19pm. It was a struggle like nothing I have ever seen before and it completely terrified me. Torrey is the strongest person I have ever met. Period. She did all of this so that our little girl would be healthy as humanly possible. She succeeded tremendously.”

LaPine further gushed that he felt “so lucky” to “watch and learn” from DeVitto, already calling her “the best mother in the world.”

“What a special gift that is and thank you for making me a dad! I love BOTH of you girls with everything I have,” he concluded.

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The actress and LaPine met through DeVitto’s cousin, going Instagram official in June 2023. Three months later, Us Weekly exclusively confirmed that LaPine proposed.

DeVitto and LaPine announced they were expecting a baby in May of this year and they tied the knot in September.

“It is definitely the most incredible, amazing, miraculous experience I’ve ever gone through,” she exclusively told Us Weekly of her pregnancy later that month. “To feel her roll and swish and kick and all those things, it’s truly mind-blowing. It’s something I could have never wrapped my head around without experiencing.”

At the time, DeVitto praised “supportive” LaPine for stepping up “in all the ways” throughout the journey.

“He’s always giving me leg massages, foot massages, back massages. And he definitely doesn’t make me feel dramatic,” she told Us. “He’s very, very, very supportive, which has been so lovely.”

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Hilary Duff is still working hard to keep family traditions alive this holiday season, even though her family will be spending Christmas on the road.

“We’re actually traveling on Christmas day this year, which is really exciting,” Duff, 37, exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “I think that I love the whole buildup of the holidays. I know it’s chaotic, but I really love being in town, all the festivities, like, we’re going to a holiday road and we’re going to pick out our Christmas tree, we always play tag on the Christmas tree lot. That’s one of my favorite family activities.”

One of Duff’s personal holiday traditions happens when her kids are out of the house. “We put the tree up together, and then once the kids go to school, I replace all of the ornaments and put them where they actually belong,” she quips.

Duff shares her eldest child, son Luca, 12, with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie. She and her husband, Matthew Koma, welcomed their first child together, daughter Banks, 6, one year before they tied the knot in 2019. They continued to grow their family with the arrival of daughter Mae, 3, in 2021. Duff and Koma, 37, welcomed their third child, daughter Townes, on May 3.

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This year, Duff introduced a new tradition that’s fun for the whole family. “We’ve been doing night swims with hot cocoa,” she reveals. “It’s a little bit of a spoiled thing ’cause we heat the pool and get it really warm, but we’re out there doing night swims and cocoa. Sometimes I’ll have a glass of red wine. It’s really fun. We try to do it on the weekdays so the kids — it took, like 30 minutes, but the kids feel like it’s something special and it’s not a normal night around here.”

She adds: “We’re traveling on Christmas day and then we’re skiing, and that’s it for the holidays.”

While the holidays come with plenty of excitement, they also come with stress, especially for parents. “The burden is heavy for moms,” Duff tells Us. “I wake up in the middle of the night like, ‘Oh, I have these things I didn’t handle.’ … So, I’m getting slowly but surely prepared and [am] definitely excited. I love the holiday season so much, but being an adult now and making it magical for so many people is just so much.”

To help keep things organized, Duff is partnering up with Meta AI, which she describes as a “thought partner.”

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She explains: “It’s just something that you can rattle your thoughts off with, and it comes [up] with ideas. … [If] my normal approach to this part of the holiday is a little stale, what can I do? Or [it can] help me get these lists together. ‘I’ve already done this. What can I add to it? I’m going to be in this part of town.’ It’s really amazing that we have this assistant for people that, one, don’t have access to a normal assistant. The other day I had to bring an appetizer and I was like, ‘I have this, this and this. What can I do with it?’ And it helped me.”

She goes on to joke: “I have a personal assistant and I even still need it.”

For more on Duff, watch the video above and pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi

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Bachelor Nation couples have produced their fair share of adorable babies over the years, from Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici to Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum.

Lowe met and fell in love with Giudici while starring on season 17 of The Bachelor. Nearly two years after the duo tied the knot in January 2014 in California, they announced that their first child was on the way. Their son Samuel arrived in November 2017, followed by son Isaiah and daughter Mia in May 2018 and December 2019, respectively.

As for Hebert and Rosenbaum, the pair announced their split in October 2020 after welcoming son Fordham in September 2014 and daughter Essex in November 2016. The former couple now coparent their two children, documenting their birthday parties and holiday celebrations together.

The exes’ dynamic is “complex,” Hebert told her Instagram followers in August 2021, explaining, “If I’m ever in a situation where I am torn about what to do or say, I ask myself, ‘What is the right thing for the kids?’ I let that guide me.”

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Andi Dorfman and her husband, Blaine Hart, have welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Harper.

“28 hours of labor later … and we are officially a party of 3,” Dorfman wrote alongside a sweet snap of her and Hart holding their newborn’s hand on Friday, December 20.

The former Bachelorette, 37, announced her pregnancy via Instagram in August. “Future Mom + Dad!!!!” she captioned a photo of the couple posing with sonogram images as she showed off her bare baby bump. “To say we are over the moon is an understatement! Baby Hart coming later this year .”

Days later, Dorfman reflected on the timeline of her relationship with Hart. The pair reconnected in 2021 while on separate vacations in Italy, though they first met 15 years earlier when they were in college. Dorfman went public with Hart in December 2021, and they announced their engagement in March 2022. One year later, they tied the knot in Italy in May 2023.

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“A little reminder that good things can happen fast … while it is so wild (and surreal) to look back at this, for anyone who needs to hear this and those of you asking and seeking comfort about blooming later in life, I hope you never give up and never doubt yourself and your timeline,” Dorfman wrote via Instagram alongside a video of her relationship milestones with Hart. “Trust me, I’ve been on both sides of it, and I know it’s not easy, but I’m a firm believer that anything can happen at any moment at any age at any time. So say yes to the date, take that trip, indulge and invest in yourself, spend time with your girlfriends and don’t be afraid to live YOUR life on YOUR time! It is yours after all .”

In March 2023, Dorfman opened up about her strong connection with Hart, revealing how she knew he was right for her.

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“I didn’t ever think he wasn’t The One,” she exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “I don’t remember having that moment where I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is the man I’m gonna marry.’ We weren’t ever not together, and we never had a bad time and it just built up into what we have now.”

Bachelor Nation was first introduced to Dorfman during Juan Pablo Galavis’ season 18 of The Bachelor in 2014. Later that year, she appeared as the lead of season 10 of The Bachelorette. While she got engaged to Josh Murray on the show, they ultimately split in January 2015.

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Dennis Rodman and his youngest daughter, Trinity, have had ups and downs over the years.

Rodman and ex-wife Michelle Moyer welcomed Trinity in 2002, one year after the birth of son DJ. (Rodman also shares eldest daughter Alexis with ex-wife Annie Bakes.)

More than 20 years later, Trinity declared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that the NBA legend was “not a dad” to her.

“Maybe by blood, but nothing else,” she said in December 2024. “ I don’t want to say negatively, but more realistic about it. We tried to be that foundation and to be the good people around him. Because in reality, we never really asked for anything unless we really needed it. … He’s never understood that people could actually just want to be around him and to just want to make him happy.”

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According to Trinity, Rodman’s lifestyle impacted his ability to be a good husband and father.

“We tried to live with him, but he’s having parties 24/7. He’s bringing random bitches in,” she claimed. “My mom didn’t want — she was strong enough to deal with it because even to this day, I still believe that my dad hasn’t loved anyone after my mom. I think my mom just saw the situation of, ‘We love each other. It’s not gonna work, or my kids, I can’t have them seeing you treat me this way, embarrass me this way and have the party scene all the time.’”

After Moyer and Rodman split, the kids primarily resided with their mother.

Keep scrolling to revisit Rodman’s ups and downs with daughter Trinity:

May 2002

Trinity, the second child of Rodman and Moyer, was born in May. As noted on “Call Her Daddy,” she was Rodman’s “little princess.”

June 2006

Rodman and Moyer made a rare red carpet appearance with DJ and Trinity at the Los Angeles premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. They continued to support Rodman at his 2011 jersey retirement ceremony and more public events despite alleged drama at home.

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After Rodman and Moyer finalized their divorce, DJ and Trinity primarily lived with their mom.

“We were seeing him once, two, three, four times a year,” Trinity recalled on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in 2024. “Every time they were together, it was the same s—. It was my mom being valid and ‘What the f— are you doing? Help us and help your children.’”

At one point, Trinity claimed that her family lived in a car because Rodman stopped financially providing for them.

“That was all the fight was ever about, in front of us at least,” she said. “It was just the money party and helping your children.”

Later that year, Rodman was ordered to pay Moyer $500,000 in back child support.

Trinity Rodman Says Dennis Rodman Is 'Not a Dad' to Her

March 2018

“He’s kinda rad,” Trinity wrote in an Instagram tribute, sharing a pic of the father-daughter pair.

November 2021

Rodman attended one of Trinity’s pro soccer matches during her rookie year with the Washington Spirit. While they were photographed hugging ahead of the match, she later broke down in tears.

“I think it’s like halfway through the first half and I hear [his voice],” she recalled on her “Call Her Daddy” episode. “I’m like, ‘Oh my f—ing gosh, like, there’s no way this is happening right now.’ Mind you, I haven’t seen him in or talked to him in months. I was like, ‘You took this happy moment for me, like, you f—ed with my head again.”

After the soccer game, Rodman allegedly stopped reaching out to Trinity.

April 2022

“I love you, dad,” she wrote via Instagram.

Soccer Star Trinity Rodman and BF Trinity Benson’s Relationship Timeline

December 2024

During Trinity’s “Call Her Daddy” appearance, she claimed that Rodman resumed communication earlier that year.

“I answer the phone now for my conscience. If something does happen, God forbid, I want to know that I did that,” she said. “Or if he needed to hear my voice before anything happens. That’s why I answer the phone, not for me.”

Trinity’s claims sparked a response from Rodman, who apologized in a lengthy Instagram note.

“Sorry I wasn’t the dad you wanted me to be but either way I still tried and I still try and never will stop. I will keep trying even when you’re being told as an adult not to respond to my phone calls,” he wrote. “I will try even when it’s difficult and if it takes a long time. I’m always here and tell you all the time, whether it’s your voice or voicemail, how proud I am.”

Rodman added, “I always had one wish and it was I wish my kids would call me and come see me. Hopefully, one day I can get that. I’m here and I’m still trying to pick up the phone you have my number, You see me calling, I’m still here.”

In response to Rodman’s message, Trinity alleged it was all done for “the attention.”

“Wiping my hands with it. I’m done,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Thank you.”

While Meryl Streep is known for many notable roles on screen, the actress’ most special one is being a mom.

After Streep and Don Gummer tied the knot in 1978, the pair went on to welcome Henry Gummer, Mamie Gummer, Grace Gummer and Louisa Jacobson in 1979, 1983, 1986 and 1991, respectively. (Streep and her husband announced in October 2023 that they had quietly called it quits more than six years prior.)

When asked whether she found motherhood or acting to be more difficult, the Devil Wears Prada actress candidly confessed being a mother has been her hardest role.

“Mothering. Definitely. Acting — that’s praise, money, fulfillment,” she told The Washington Post in 1998. “Mothering — they don’t even say, ‘Thank you.’ There’s no comparison to acting. I can’t really call acting work, since it’s secretly so fun.”

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When Meghan King couldn’t get tickets to Taylor Swift’s sold out The Eras Tour, she knew just how to shake it off.

“I have an 8-year-old daughter and I live in St. Louis, Missouri, so we didn’t have the privilege of having Taylor come to our city,” King, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly at iHeartRadio z100’s Jingle Ball concert on Friday, December 13. “But we had a cover band. Taylor Swift artists do a tour. Believe it or not, this exists. And so I [took] my 8-year-old daughter and it was amazing.”

According to The Real Housewives of Orange County alum, the vibe “was great” and her daughter, Aspen, had a fantastic time.

“[It] goes back to what women are doing in music today,” King explained. “Taylor Swift is setting an example not just at her shows, but for other people to piggyback onto her success as well. I just love it. It’s girl power.”

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The Eras Tour was previously confirmed as the highest-grossing tour of all time, grossing over $2 billion in ticket sales. Concerts all around the world sold out quickly, leading Swift to add more dates during the history-making tour, which officially ended on December 8.

Earlier this month, King gave a glimpse into her own unique concert experience at the St. Charles Family Arena. While it wasn’t Swift, 35, behind the mic, the “Faux Taylor” exceeded expectations.

“[Aspen] turned to me like the little fashionista she is and said, ‘Mom, I know that’s not the real Taylor bc she only wears red bottom shoes,’” King wrote via Instagram on December 10. “Once Aspen released this utterance of the glaring — appalling? — sacrilegious atrocity of an off-brand copycat DSW footwear choice, she immediately shifted into full-blown fan girl and we sang every word together for the rest of the show.”

“Night made. Month made. Year made? It was one for the books,” King added. “Thanks to Momo and Papa for the best seats in the house to celebrate Aspen’s 8th birthday and a sitter for the boys so mommy could join in on the magic too .”

In addition to raising Aspen, King also shares twin sons Hart and Hayes, 5, with her ex-husband Jim Edmonds.

While attending Jingle Ball at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, King was able to enjoy performances from Katy Perry, Meghan Trainor, Tate McRae and other artists.

When it comes to her top-played artist of 2024, however, King revealed it’s Sofi Tukker.

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“It was really fun,” she told Us. “I saw them like three times last year, so that would make sense.”

The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour special airs on ABC Wednesday, December 18, at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Hulu.

With reporting by Molly McGuigan

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90 Day Fiancé star Shaeeda Sween has given birth to her and husband Bilal Hazziez’s rainbow baby, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.

“After two days of labor, we joyfully welcomed our handsome son, Ayaan, on December 14, 2024, at 10:40 p.m.,” the couple shared in a statement. “Our hearts are overflowing with gratitude and love as we embrace this new chapter of parenthood. Welcome to the world, Baby Ayaan!”

In the family’s first portrait with their baby boy, Bilal, 46, cuddled the newborn while sitting on a couch. Shaeeda, 40, was all smiles as she was perched beside Bilal, resting a hand on Ayaan’s blanket.

Bilal and Shaeeda first chronicled their journey down the aisle on 90 Day season 9, often debating whether they wanted to expand their family.

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“I have been trying to have this conversation with Bilal, but it’s always on deaf ears,” Shaeeda said in a November 2022 episode. “Every time I blink my eyes, I hear tick-tock. I feel as if I continue to wait, I could wait a lifetime.”

Bilal, for his part, has two older children from a previous relationship and thought he was done having kids when he met Shaeeda.

During season 7 of the Happily Ever After? spinoff reunion, Bilal announced that he changed his mind.

“When it comes to having children, I just realized, like, how much it’d mean to her,” Bilal said during the January 2023 tell-all.

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Shaeeda suffered multiple miscarriages before the couple confirmed her pregnancy earlier this year.

“Happy Birthday to my lovely wife! Celebrating you and our new bundle of joy coming soon!!” Bilal wrote via Instagram in August. “This year, you’ve given us the most precious gift of all — our little one on the way.”

He added, “After experiencing two miscarriages we are beyond excited for our new addition to the family. As we prepare to welcome our child, I am filled with awe at the thought of our family growing and sharing our love in a new way. I feel incredibly blessed to walk this journey with you. Thank you for being the heart of our home and the light of my life. Here’s to celebrating you today and every day, and to the beautiful adventure that lies ahead.”

Bilal and Shaeeda found out in October that they were expecting a baby boy, gushing via Instagram that they couldn’t wait to “meet our little miracle.”

British singer-songwriter Joss Stone and her husband, Cody DaLuz, are expecting their fourth baby just one month after adopting a son.

“Honestly. Shocked was an understatement ,” Stone, 37, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, December 19, sharing a video of herself looking at a positive pregnancy test. “Nothing and no one can take our joy now. We are so chuffed !!!!”

She added, “Maybe we should call the ‘Less is More Tour’ the preggo tour .”

Stone announced her Less Is More: An Evening With Joss Stone tour earlier this month and is scheduled to perform eight concerts in the United States in February 2025.

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Stone and DaLuz, 34, are already parents of three: Violet, 3, Shackleton, 2, and newborn Bear. The married duo formally adopted Bear in November, later telling Hello! that the process took nearly 18 months.

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“He’s the best Christmas gift ever,” Stone told the magazine in an interview published on Monday, December 16. “What’s crazy is that we brought him home the night before Thanksgiving. So we woke up in the morning with our son — and that is something to be thankful for.”

The couple, who got married in 2023, were interested in adopting because of DaLuz’s family history.

“The reason why Cody even exists is because his bio mum loved him enough to make an adoption plan for him and the same goes for Bear,” Stone wrote via Instagram on December 2. “Honestly, bio mothers do not get the gratitude they deserve. It is a more selfless love than I knew existed. Truly. We are just so happy to be part of this beautiful cycle.”

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Bear was born 11 weeks early and his older siblings were quickly thrilled to meet him.

“Violet knows Bear is a boy but she keeps calling him ‘her,’” Stone gushed to Hello. “It’s almost like she wants to put a little bow on his head. It’s such a lovely space for him to be in and I hope he’s feeling that love.”

Stone and DaLuz feel the same. The Grammy winner recently told Us Weekly how parenthood strengthened their marriage.

“It’s funny because we never had a big relationship before we had kids,” she exclusively said in May. “So, our entire time has been having children. We’re getting to know each other at the same time as doing a very difficult job. Parenting definitely, you know, [is] like having no sleep and all that kind of stuff. So it’s really crazy. And we wanted to be married, but we wanted to be married before we had kids, but that just didn’t happen.”

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Trinity Rodman seemingly did not find father Dennis Rodman’s social media apology to be genuine.

“A joke. The response alone. And the attention,” Trinity, 22, wrote via Instagram Story on Thursday, December 19, sharing a screenshot of Dennis’ comments. “Wiping my hands with it. I’m done. Thank you .”

Earlier this week, the Olympic soccer star detailed her estrangement from Dennis, 63, during an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

“He’s not a dad. Maybe by blood, but nothing else,” Trinity, who is the daughter of Dennis and ex-wife Michelle Moyer, explained during the episode. “We never really asked for anything unless we really needed it.”

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She added, “I think, for him, he’s never understood the fact, because he’s never experienced it. … He’s never understood that people could actually just want to be around him and to just want to make him happy.”

By Thursday, Dennis issued a social media response directly to Trinity.

“Sorry I wasn’t the dad you wanted me to be but either way I still tried and I still try and never will stop. I will keep trying even when you’re being told as an adult not to respond to my phone calls,” the NBA legend wrote via Instagram alongside throwback family photos. “I will try even when it’s difficult and if it takes a long time. I’m always here and tell you all the time, whether it’s your voice or voicemail, how proud I am.”

Dennis continued, “I always had one wish and it was I wish my kids would call me and come see me. Hopefully, one day I can get that. I’m here and I’m still trying to pick up the phone you have my number, You see me calling, I’m still here Dennis RODMAN- Dad.”

Dennis further noted that he watches Trinity’s soccer games “all the time.”

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“[I] actually flew in to watch you play and was told not to show up [because] who I was with instead and me just wanting to support you,” he claimed. “So I watched you from my hotel balcony just to make everybody happy. I love all my kids.”

In addition to Trinity, Dennis shares son DJ, 23, with Moyer and daughter Alexis, 36, with ex-wife Annie Bakes. He’s previously been candid about his parenting ups and downs.

“I think the only major demon I have right now is trying to convince myself that I’m a good dad,” Dennis told ESPN in 2020.  “It’s very hard for me to try to break out of that cycle. It’s just one of those things where I never had anyone to ever do that [be a dad] for me and I think sometimes, ‘Why am I doing it for somebody else?’ Knowing that’s my child, that’s my wife or that’s my mother, that’s my sister and it’s hard for me to just gravitate to people, like, that’s close to me. It’s difficult even though inside I love them.”

Kylie Kelce is coming clean about why she wanted to expand her family with husband Jason Kelce.

The podcaster and mom-of-three joked on the Thursday, December 19, episode of her “Not Gonna Lie With Kylie Kelce” podcast that she settled on four kids because “I really like even numbers.”

During an interview with guest Charissa Thompson, Kylie, 32, shared that she always knew she wanted a big brood.

“Jason was always like, ‘I’ll do whatever you wanna do,’ and I was always in the camp of I wanted four with room for one pleasant surprise,” she explained.

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“We got to three and I was like, ‘Three’s cool. This feels good,’” Kylie added, referring to her and Jason’s three daughters, Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 22 months. “Then we got out of the rough baby sleeping and all that, and I was like, ‘You know what, I like even numbers, let’s do it.’”

Thursday Night Football host Thompson then asked Kylie if she still wanted one more after welcoming baby no. 4.

“I think it might get shut down after this one,” the podcast host admitted. “We’re gonna have this next kid and I’m gonna be like, ‘Don’t even look at me. Eyes at the floor. Don’t look at me.’”

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Earlier on the podcast, Kylie responded to fans’ questions about whether she and Jason, 37, have picked out a name for the new addition.

“First of all, love the confidence, but even if I did have a name picked out, I’d probably keep that one in the family,” she said. “What I will say: We don’t have a name picked out, so you’re not missing out on anything. And I have seen a number of the suggestions come through in the comments section so I appreciate that.”

Kylie and Jason shared news of their impending arrival last month via Instagram.

“I feel like we captured a very accurate representation of how each of the girls feel about getting another sister,” Kylie, 32, wrote via Instagram on Friday, November 22, alongside a photo of the couple’s three children wearing matching sweaters that read, “Big sister.” She added, “At least Ellie, mom and dad are on the same page! .”

In the snap, their youngest daughter, Bennett, is crying, while the eldest, Wyatt, is holding her hands over her ears in shock. Elliotte, nicknamed “Ellie,” however, is all smiles.

As bandmate Paul McCartney would later note, The Beatles’ John Lennon’s short life was full of tragedy.

Brought up in a turbulent family dynamic after his father Alfred left at an early age and his mother Julia let her sister Mary “Mimi” Smith raise him, John’s family life was never smooth sailing.

As an adult John welcomed two sons, Julian Lennon, 61, and Sean Ono Lennon, 49, – and was a vastly different father to each before his untimely death at 40 in December 1980.

These days, the brothers “face demons together,” according to Julian in an interview with Esquire in 2021.

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“It’s funny because there’s always been, especially in the UK press, ‘Lennon Sons Feuding,’ this, that. We’ve never had a fight in our life. It’s such bull,” he said.

Scroll on for more on the key family members throughout John’s life.

 Julian Lennon

John’s foray into fatherhood got off to a controversial start when he and then-girlfriend Cynthia Powell discovered they were expecting a child after they failed to use contraception.

When John (then 21) found out Cynthia (then 22) was pregnant, he decided they would marry – and the pair tied the knot in 1962. Their son Julian was born in April 1963 but John missed the birth due to his responsibilities with The Beatles.

While John was around for the first few years of Julian’s life, he eventually left Cynthia for Yoko Ono and had a strained relationship with Julian for much of his life.

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Julian later reflected on his tricky relationship with John in an interview with The Guardian in 2020.

“Then suddenly my dad literally disappeared off the face of the planet. At least, that’s how it seemed to me. He and Yoko Ono were deeply and publicly in love. And I felt as if my mom and I had been cast aside,” he told the outlet. “Maybe 10 years passed during which my dad and I barely spoke. I was very angry about how he left the family. It was thanks to my mom that we started having conversations again. She was such a gentle soul, never vindictive in any way, shape or form. She always wanted me to have a relationship with him.”

Julian, who is the inspiration behind Paul McCartney’s song “Hey Jude,” written for him after John and Cynthia’s divorce, also shared that he eventually reconnected with his dad before his death.

“I was scared the first time I went to visit him in the US after my parents’ divorce. I was becoming more aware of the magnitude of this man,” he told The Guardian. “Much to my relief, the visit was a success. My dad was charming and funny and warm. From that trip on, I remember us getting along better.”

Sean Ono Lennon

In stark contrast to his parenting style with Julian, John was a more hands-on father the second time around.

John welcomed his youngest son Sean into the world in October 1975 with second wife Yoko, and took a break from music to become a house husband.

In an interview with Playboy that took place in September, 1980, and was published in January, 1981, John shared how well he had taken to the role.

“I’ve been baking bread and looking after the baby … because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job,” he told the magazine at the time.

Sadly, John was fatally shot in December 1980, when Sean was just five years old.

Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2020, Sean reflected on how his father’s death affected him and explained that he still has memories of his dad when he was alive.

“A lot of people don’t remember when they were five,” he said during the interview. “I’ve never asked a psychologist, but I’ve assumed that because my dad dying was so traumatic for me that a lot of those early memories just stayed. I have more memories of being five and four than I do being 16.”

Julia and Alfred Lennon

John’s parents Julia and Alfred Lennon first met when they were teenagers and married in secret a decade later in 1938. John was born in 1940 but his parents didn’t raise him – Julia allowed her sister Mary “Mimi” Smith to bring up her son.

Fellow Beatle, McCartney, spoke about John’s troubled upbringing at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

“As a kid, his mother was decreed to not be good enough to bring him up… His father had left the home when John was 3. So that’s not too wonderful,” McCartney, 82, recalled. “It made me realize why he had that vulnerability. I always admired the way he dealt with it because I’m not sure I would deal with the stuff he went through that well.”

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Julia was tragically killed after being hit by a car at age 44 in 1958. John was just a teenager at the time.

“That was another big trauma for me. I lost her twice. When I was five and I moved in with my auntie, and then when she physically died,” he told Playboy in 1980. “That made me more bitter; the chip on my shoulder I had as a youth got really big then. I was just really re-establishing the relationship with her and she was killed.”

John and Alfred were estranged for much of their lives but reconnected on Alfred’s deathbed in 1976.

Mimi Smith

John was raised by his aunt, Mimi and her husband George Smith. Mimi and John remained close throughout his life. Following his success in The Beatles, John purchased a property for Mimi in Dorset, the U.K. where she lived until she died in 1991.

Angelina Jolie loves seeing her children find their passions — and sometimes that’s on set (or in the theater) with her.

Jolie shares sons Maddox (born August 2001) and Pax (born November 2003), daughters Zahara (born January 2005) and Shiloh (born May 2006), and twins Knox and Vivienne (born July 2008) with ex-husband Brad Pitt. As her kids have grown up, Oscar-winner Jolie has included them in several of her projects.

Maddox made his first cameo in Pitt’s 2013 film World War Z. In 2014, Pax, Zahara and Vivienne had minor roles in Maleficent which starred Jolie as the titular character.

After dabbling in acting, Jolie’s children shifted their focus from on-screen to behind-the-scenes. Maddox joined his parents behind the scenes for their 2015 movie By the Sea as a trainee. Two years later, Jolie brought Maddox and Pax on as part of the team for the TV series First They Killed My Father, which she directed. Maddox worked as an executive producer while Pax was credited as a still photographer.

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While Jolie’s children have acted in the past, she confessed that their preference is to work behind the scenes rather than on camera.

“No, I think they’re especially shy, very private people,” Jolie said of her children’s preference to being crew members over actors to E! News in October 2024. “And they want to be private.”

Maddox and Pax have continued to work alongside their mom in several of her other projects including Without Blood and Maria. Vivienne, for her part, teamed up with Jolie for the Broadway musical adaptation of The Outsiders. While Jolie was a producer, Vivienne served as a producer’s assistant.

Keep scrolling to see what Jolie has said about working with her children:

Trying New Things

Jolie shared that both Maddox and Pax were doing assistant directing with her for Maria, which they’ve done in the past.

“They’ve done that quite a few times, and I think that’s good for them,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2024. “Pax tends to do stills and he gets brought in, and [director] Pablo [Larraín] was wonderful and recognized that he was good at it.”

Watching Her Work

“They’ve seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn’t experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child,” Jolie said in a December 2024 interview with BBC News about how Maddox and Pax aided her during her emotional scenes as real-live opera diva Maria Callas in Maria. “So, they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea.”

Jolie added that it was good for her sons to see their mom “not do something easily” and get frustrated but have the courage to “try again.”

“One of the greatest privileges of being an actor is you often are supported by a crew to try something and explore something you’ve never done,” she continued. “And this certainly was most challenging.”

Seeing Them Get Inspired

Jolie opened up about how blown away she was to see how passionate Vivienne was about The Outsiders musical when they first saw the show together.

“As a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her,” Jolie said during a June 2024 interview with Deadline. “It was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she’s communicating something to me.”

After that, Jolie watched Vivienne as she worked on how they could bring the Broadway adaptation to life.

“Viv and I sat together and we wrote down what we liked, what we were curious about. And they responded to our notes,” she recalled. “For me, it was a moment to learn more about Viv, not me thinking of becoming a producer.”

Taking Notes

Jolie revealed that Vivienne was not afraid to give her mom critiques as she took her role seriously.

“She’ll correct me. She’ll say, ‘Didn’t you read the memo? We have to do this. We have to go through this,’” Jolie said to People in April 2024 of working with her youngest daughter. “She’s been a really tough assistant. She takes it very, very seriously.”

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee welcomed sons Brandon and Dylan before their 1998 split — and they’ve continued to prioritize their kids ever since.

The former couple tied the knot in February 1995 following a whirlwind romance, and they became parents when Brandon was born in June of the following year. Their second child arrived in December 1997.

Brandon and Dylan have gone on to follow their parents’ footsteps in the entertainment industry. Brandon starred on Hills: New Beginnings and Dylan is a musician.

“I like to kind of pave [my] own path,” Dylan exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2020. “I guarantee if we mess up, [my] family [would be] like, ‘You gotta do this.’ But other than that, I feel like we do a pretty good job of navigating our way.”

Dylan gushed that his mom is “always playing” his band Midnight Kids’ songs. “I remember she was, like, at the nail salon and heard Midnight Kids playing in the nail salon and she was like, ‘What the f–k?’ Like, ‘That’s crazy!’” he recalled. “She sent me a video. She loves it.”

Keep scrolling to see Lee and Anderson’s photos with Brandon and Dylan over the years:

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Chris Martin shared the sweet reason why he was on-board with attending daughter Apple’s Le Bal Des Débutantes.

Martin, 47, told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Thursday, December 19, that attending the event was “so not something I ever thought I’d do, but because I’m so in love with her, I’m like, ‘OK.’”

While at the ball, Martin shared a slow dance with Apple as part of her introduction into formal society. Martin was seen smiling and laughing while dancing and talking to his daughter as he twirled her around, per a TikTok shared by Paris Match. Apple smiled during the moment.

The ball, which was held in Paris, was also a way to spend time with his whole family. (Martin’s son, Moses, is now in college but attended the event alongside his mother, Gwyneth Paltrow, and grandmother, Blythe Danner.)

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“A special long weekend in Paris ,” Paltrow, 52, captioned a carousel of photos from the event on December 1.

While reflecting on his life as an empty nester, Martin told Rolling Stone that “it’s sad.” He added, “That’s the only word. But of course it’d be weirder if they were still like, ‘I can’t leave.’ Then you’d be more worried.”

Martin gushed that he “very much” likes his kids. “Even though they’re not biologically mine — I’m breaking the story now,” Martin joked. “My favorite new thing to embarrass my son is, if we’re walking down the street and someone comes up to us and they say, ‘I’m sorry to disturb you while you’re with your son,’ I say, ‘That’s not my son. That’s my partner.’”

Martin laughed, before adding, “Yeah. I like them a lot. I think they are mine, to be fair.”

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The Coldplayer singer was married to Paltrow for more than 10 years before they separated in 2014 and finalized their divorce two years later. They have since been open about their dedication surrounding coparenting their children.

“Chris and I committed to putting them first and that’s harder than it looks because some days you really don’t want to be with the person that you are getting divorced from,” Paltrow said during a September 2020 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “But if you’re committed to having family dinner then you do it. You take a deep breath, and you look the person in the eye, and you remember your pact, and you smile, and you hug and you recommit to this new relationship that you are trying to foster.”

Paltrow has since moved on with Brad Falchuk, whom she married in 2018, while Martin has been dating Dakota Johnson since 2017.

Kylie Kelce has her three children — and her baby girl on the way — on her mind as she navigates her life in the spotlight.

“I assume this isn’t always going to be our life, and I don’t want them to be impacted in some way that twists them into thinking that this is normal,” Kelce, 32, told The New York Times in an interview published on Thursday, December 19.

Kelce explained that she wanted to start her podcast, “Not Gonna Lie,” so that she could have the opportunity to “set the record straight” about her family.

Due to husband Jason Kelce’s career in the NFL, Kylie and her family were already in the public eye before her brother-in-law, Travis Kelce, began dating Taylor Swift — but the pop star and Kansas City Chiefs’ player’s romance has brought their fame to new heights.

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While Kylie and Jason, 37, have been candid about their stardom, he has acknowledged that the couple don’t receive as much attention as Travis and Swift, both 35.

“It’s been crazy [and] then Travis and Taylor have taken it to another level and that’s a whole other side of it,” Jason said during a June episode of Andrew Santino’s “Whiskey Ginger” podcast. “Like, Kylie and I think we have it bad and then we go hang out with one of them for a second. This is a whole other situation here [and] I don’t even know how to, like, you can’t be a normal person at that point.”

Jason joked that Kylie, with whom he shares daughters Wyatt, 5, Bennett, 3, and Elliotte, 21 months, should “no doubt” be more famous than him. (The duo revealed in November that Kylie is pregnant with their fourth child, a girl.)

“So, we did the [Kelce] documentary a few years ago and… I think she’s a little bit uncomfortable with how much it’s become and our family’s out there, like, people know what our kids look like,” he said. “We’ve tried to retract from that a little but, I think she enjoys the fact that she gets to go and do charitable outings [and] she gets to give back to the community [and] do clinics with little girls [for] field hockey and all these other things.”

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Jason noted that there are some parts of their fame that Kylie was “more hesitant” to accept that she “didn’t really sign up” for when they tied the knot in 2018.

“I’m like, ‘We’re going to be all right [and] we’re getting through it,’” Jason explained. “It gets to be too much at times and it’s hard to always be available, … but I think, more often than not, it’s awesome whenever you’re doing that stuff and the vast majority of people are beyond just respectful and appreciative.”

Travis, for his part, wasn’t used to the level of fame that surrounds Swift, but he hasn’t shied away from embracing it.

“Obviously, I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them … I’ve never dealt with it,” Travis told WSJ. Magazine in a November 2023 profile. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it. … The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that, I better not be the one acting all strange.”

Angelina Jolie’s sons saw a whole new side of her while working as production assistants on her new film, Maria.

“They’ve seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn’t experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child,” Jolie, 49, told BBC News of 23-year-old Maddox and 21-year-old Pax in an interview published on Wednesday, December 18. “So, they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea.”

Jolie portrays renowned opera singer Maria Callas in the biopic, which was released in select theaters on November 27 and is now streaming on Netflix. Callas, who died at age 53 in 1977, faced her share of struggles and scandals over the course of her career, including vision problems, vocal decline and a highly publicized affair with shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

Jolie, whose contentious split from ex-husband Brad Pitt has played out in the public eye, explained how she related to Callas during an August press conference promoting the film.

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“Well, there’s a lot I won’t say in this room, that you probably know or assume,” the actress said. “I think the way I related to her may be a surprise — [it was] probably the part of her that’s extremely soft and doesn’t have room in the world to be as soft as she truly was, and as emotionally open as she truly was. I share her vulnerability more than anything.”

Jolie told BBC News that letting her sons see that vulnerability allowed her to connect and be honest with her children “in an even greater way.”

In addition to Maddox and Pax, Jolie shares Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16, with Pitt, 61. Jolie has collaborated with her children before; Maddox and Pax have worked on a number of her films, including Without Blood, and Vivienne worked as a producer’s assistant on the Broadway musical The Outsiders, which Jolie coproduced.

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Maria director Pablo Larraín told BBC News that Pax and Maddox were “very busy” and “good professionals” on set. Jolie shared that Pax recorded some of her vocal training sessions for Maria, hearing her “early horrible days.” She trained for about seven months to sing for the film, which features Jolie’s voice blended with original recordings of Callas.

“[I’m] actually quite shy about singing,” Jolie admitted. “It was probably one of the areas in my life that I was hesitant.”

The Oscar winner noted that she’s glad her sons got to watch her struggle with something outside of her comfort zone.

“It’s always good for your children to watch your mum not do something easily, but swear and fight and fail and have to try again,” she said. “One of the greatest privileges of being an actor is you often are supported by a crew to try something and explore something you’ve never done, and this certainly was most challenging.”

Maria is now streaming on Netflix.

There’s one present on Hoda Kotb’s daughters’ Christmas lists that Santa Claus won’t be placing underneath the tree this year.

“They want makeup, but what is that about?” Kotb, 60, shared on the Wednesday, December 18, episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers. “That is not happening. What are we talking about? All these little kids, like young kids, 7, 8, 9 [years old], are into skincare and stuff. But we don’t have that in my house. That’s a big no.”

Kotb shares daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with her ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman. This year will mark her first Christmas in her new suburban home outside of New York City, where she moved her family earlier this year.

Luckily for the Today show host, her girls have more than just makeup on their holiday wishlists. “They asked Santa for magic sets. They like magic sets,” she shared. “They like American Girl dolls. They’re into anything with bubbles.”

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Host Seth Meyers went on to joke that Kotb’s kids will have to put up with a “few more years of bubbles” before they are allowed to start wearing makeup.

Kotb will be by her daughters’ sides when that time comes, as she will be leaving Today next month after nearly 30 years at NBC. While announcing her exit in September, Kotb cited turning 60 and wanting to spend more time with her kids as the main reasons behind her decision.

“All of us, like, have a time pie and you kind of have to decide how much of your time pie do your kids get and how much does your work get,” Kotb reiterated on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “And so, I thought, it’s time for my kids to get a bigger slice.”

Following her final episode on Friday, January 10, Craig Melvin will take over her role as Savannah Guthrie’s Today coanchor. Jenna Bush Hager will continue to cohost the fourth hour — which will be retitled Today With Jenna & Friends — alongside a rotating lineup of guest hosts.

On Wednesday, Meyers, 50, questioned Kotb about what parts of her Today job she will and won’t miss. One thing she, Haley and Hope will all miss about 30 Rockefeller Plaza is eating at the NBC commissary dining hall.

“I love the NBC commissary,” Kotb gushed. “In fact, when my kids come to hang out or come to see me at work, the only thing they ask for is to go up to the ninth floor of the commissary, because it’s got a good spread.”

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Among the things Kotb won’t miss are waking up at 3 a.m. for the show and having to work on holidays. Though she will no longer receive her morning weather report from Al Roker on-air, Kotb said she will keep up the tradition from home.

“I’m still gonna get that [weather report]. I’m texting Al,” she stated. “I’m gonna be like, ‘What’s up for my trip? What’s up for today?’ And Al, he’s the first one to respond.”

The Today cast and crew will celebrate Kotb throughout her final week on the show next month, which will culminate with a special “Hoda-bration” episode filmed in front of a live studio audience in 30 Rock’s Studio 8G, a.k.a. the Late Night With Seth Meyers studio.

“This is gonna be the spot. And we, first of all, we love you. We love this spot. And to think that the last one’s gonna be live on a Friday is pretty cool,” Kotb told Meyers, who hilariously responded: “But don’t get, like, any sticky fingers while you’re here.”