Jon Bon Jovi is one proud “Papa” to his first grandchild.
“Immediately, you fall in love,” Bon Jovi, 63, gushed during his Thursday, October 23, appearance on Today. “When we met Jake and Millie’s daughter, it was just immediate, like, ‘That’s my granddaughter,’ and it’s cool, you know?”
Bon Jovi’s son Jake Bongiovi announced in August that he and wife Millie Bobby Brown welcomed their first child via adoption. (Bongiovi, 23, and Brown, 21, have not publicly revealed their baby’s girl name or shared a full photo.)
“She won’t be able to walk for at least 10 or 12 years because Papa will be carrying her everywhere she goes,” Bon Jovi quipped, using his grandparent nickname.
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After Today interviewer Savannah Guthrie joked that the rocker should get his granddaughter a pair of baby-sized headphones to come to his Forever tour, Bon Jovi (real name John Francis Bongiovi Jr.) concurred.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I count on it,” he exclaimed, hinting that Brown and Jake might bring their little girl to one of his upcoming concerts.
Jake is one of Bon Jovi’s four children with wife Dorothea Hurley and the “It’s My Life” musician has previously been candid about becoming a first-time grandparent.
“It’s crazy, but great. Wonderful,” Bon Jovi said during an interview on Bunnie Xo’s “Dumb Blonde” podcast last month. “They adopted a girl, we met the baby obviously and immediately that becomes your grandchild. It’s beautiful.”
He added, “I want to see pictures, like, every other day. I’m that pain-in-the-butt guy already and, yeah, it’s cool.”
At the time, Bon Jovi also revealed what it was like welcoming Brown into his family. (The Stranger Things actress married Jake in 2024 after several years of dating.)
“They got married very young, but we blessed it because we get it — you know, they’re sorta mature beyond their years,” Bon Jovi told Bunnie Xo, 45, referring to his own marriage to high school sweetheart Hurley. “She comes from a family where her parents are still together and they married very young. Her and Jake fell in love and we just thought, OK, we’ll support this and it’s working out.”
Brown and Jake have kept many details about their life as a family of three to themselves, though the British actress recently called her little girl the one thing she can’t live without in a TIME interview earlier this month.
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“Without her, there’s no him,” Brown told her Stranger Things castmates about her husband and daughter.
Even before welcoming her daughter, Brown had been vocal about her parenthood dreams.
“My mom actually had her first child at 21, and my dad was 19, and you know, it’s been my thing since before I met Jake,” Brown said on the “SmartLess” podcast in March. “Since I was a baby, I told my mom, like, ‘Baby dolls.’ I wanted to be a mom, just like the way my mom was to me.”
According to Brown, she and Jake spoke about expanding their family during their early romance.
“I’m one of four. He’s one of four. So, it is definitely in our future, but, for me, I don’t see having your own child, you know, as really any different as in adopting,” she noted at the time. “My home is full of love for anyone and anything, and so that is what we kind of stand by, Jake and I, is our energy in the house is the door is always open, and we want everyone to feel really comfortable.”
