Jon Bon Jovi is proud to be the grandfather of Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi’s child woman.
“It’s loopy, however nice. Fantastic,” Bon Jovi mentioned of his life as a grandfather whereas chatting with influencer Bunnie XO in a teaser clip of their interview shared via TikTok on Sunday, September 21. “They adopted a woman, we met the child clearly and instantly that turns into your grandchild, you already know what I imply? Your child. It’s lovely. I wish to see photos, like, each different day. I’m that ache within the butt man already and, yeah, it’s cool.”
The proud grandfather went on to reward his new daughter-in-law for her exhausting work.
“They received married very younger however we blessed it as a result of we get it — you already know, they’re sorta mature past their years,” he mentioned. “She comes from a household the place her dad and mom are nonetheless collectively and so they married very younger. Her and Jake fell in love and we simply thought OK, we’ll help this and it’s figuring out.”
The Bon Jovi frontman, 63, shares Bongiovi, 23, together with his spouse, Dorothea Hurley. The couple, who’ve been married since April 1989, are additionally dad and mom of daughter Stephanie, 32, and sons Jesse, 30, and Romeo, 21.
Bongiovi and Brown, 21, introduced in a joint Instagram submit on Thursday, August 21, that they grew to become first-time dad and mom earlier this 12 months.
“This summer time, we welcomed our candy baby girl through adoption,” their assertion learn. “We’re past excited to embark on this lovely subsequent chapter of parenthood in each peace and privateness. After which there have been three.”
The pair’s child information got here a couple of 12 months after they tied the knot in Might 2024. Since then, Brown has been forthcoming about her desire to start a family.
“My mother really had her first baby at 21, and my dad was 19. And you already know, it’s been my factor since earlier than I met Jake,” she defined on the “Smartless” podcast in March. “Since I used to be a child, I informed my mother, like, child dolls. I needed to be a mother similar to the best way my mother was to me.”
She continued: “And my nan, my grandmother … she was an enormous a part of my life. And so, yeah, I imply, Jake is aware of how essential it’s to me and, in fact, I wish to deal with actually establishing myself as an actor and as a producer, however I additionally discover it’s so essential to start out a household for me personally. It’s an enormous factor. Jake was like, ‘We can not try this till we get married.’ In order that was his factor.”
Brown elaborated about her and Bongiovi’s plans for a giant brood since they each have three siblings.
“My factor was, I actually need a household. I actually need a huge household,” she famous. “I’m one in all 4. He’s one in all 4. So, it’s positively in our future, however for me, I don’t see having your individual baby, you already know, as actually any totally different [than] adopting.”
Previous to Brown and Bongiovi’s adoption announcement, Bon Jovi opened as much as The Sun in regards to the duo’s future youngsters.
“My grandkids shall be extra English than Italian or my different heritage!” he informed the outlet in an interview printed in June. “How loopy is that?”
He added: “All of the sudden, your children are married after which they’re telling you in regards to the prospect of grandbabies … whoa! There’s no chapter in my e-book that went this far.”