Actor and comedian Wayne Brady has grown his family! During the series premiere of his reality show Wayne Brady: The Family Remix, the comedian shared for the first time that he welcomed a baby in 2022 with his on-again, off-again ex-girlfriend Tina. “I was shocked.”
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Let’s Make a Deal host revealed he was surprised to hear the news. “I asked the silly question that I think many men since the beginning of time have asked. ‘How?’ You know how! So get past it.” Wayne learned of Tina’s pregnancy shortly after returning from the Virgin Islands following the passing of his grandmother Valerie. When Wayne and Tina’s baby, a boy, arrived, they named him after Valerie, giving him the moniker Val Henry.
The comedian is no stranger to unconventional family dynamics. In 2021, he shared that he would be taking on a co-parenting role with his ex-wife Mandie Taketa’s new baby with her partner Jason Fordham. The three co-parent a son named Sundance-Isamu, who goes by the nickname Sunny. Wayne, Mandie, and Jason already had experience co-parenting together as they all participating in raising Wayne and Mandie’s daughter, now 21, Maile.
Wayne shared in his interview how he wants to raise Val and give him an experience similar to Maile’s. “I never want Val to grow up thinking that he should be ashamed or look back and go, ‘Oh, my dad didn’t want me,’ or he was ashamed of me. Because I want him, in his own way, to know that I love him as much as I love Maile, who is of me and that I had a part in creating. So I had to do that work.”
Congratulations to Wayne on growing his family!
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