Whoopi Goldberg has change into a great-grandmother for the second time.
Whoopi Goldberg is a good grandmother for a second time
The 70-year-old star has revealed her grandson Mason Dean and his girlfriend Hylee Whitley have welcomed their first youngster into the world.
Throughout Monday’s (08.12.25) taping for The View, she mentioned: “I’ll begin out as we speak as a result of I’ve some enjoyable information from over the weekend.
“My household welcomed Lotus Dean to the world. She’s 6 kilos, 3 ounces.”
She added: “It is a fantastic factor. It is a fantastic factor. That is my second.”
Her co-hosts congratulated her on the fantastic information, whereas Ana Navarro gave a shout out to Whoopi’s solely youngster Alex Martin.
She mentioned: “Congratulations to Alex, who’s a grandmother once more.”
Nevertheless, Whoopi quipped: “I don’t take into consideration that, I merely take into consideration myself. Trigger I by no means thought I’d have two great-grandkids. To be there for that.”
Her granddaughter Amara Syke welcomed child Charli Rose into the world in 2014.
The Sister Act star was requested if her great-grandchildren have a nickname for her like “glam-ma”, however she insisted there is no such thing as a particular moniker.
She defined: “No, they name me Whoopi — trigger I’m not the grandma! I’m the nice grandma! So simply Whoopi.”
She did reveal that her first great-grandkid struggled with saying Whoopi, however she would not know if child Lotus could have the identical issue.
She mentioned: “She couldn’t say her Ws, so I used to be ‘Oopi’ for the longest time. So we’ll see. However I believe this one, she’s able to get stuff finished.”
When she first turned a great-grandmother, Whoopi insisted after turning into a grandmother in her 30s, she wasn’t planning to stay to conference.
Again in July 2014, she informed Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Present: “I wasn’t your regular grandmother, and I am not going to be your regular great-grandmother.”
In the meantime, it seems she received precisely what she needed when she was requested what she’d like her then-newborn great-granddaughter Charli to name her.
She quipped: “She higher name me Whoopi.”
