Dad-of-four Kimmel had two of his youngsters – Katie and her brother Kevin, 31 – with ex-wife Gina Kimmel.
Katie and her husband, Will Logson, who she married in a non-public Las Vegas ceremony throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, welcomed their daughter simply as filming was because of start on certainly one of Kimmel’s reveals.
Kimmel defined his absence with typical humor: “My oldest daughter – you understand, individuals don’t notice, people who know I’ve two little youngsters, they do not know I’ve two older youngsters. My oldest daughter, she’s 83 years previous. Her identify is Katie. Katie and her husband Will had a child lady proper on the time we shoot our present final evening. So I made a decision to be there as a substitute of right here.”
Kimmel additionally has two youthful youngsters – Jane, 10, and Billy, eight – along with his present spouse Molly McNearney.
In 2021, the host joked about Katie’s then-upcoming marriage on The Ellen DeGeneres Present: “She really turned 30 two weeks in the past, which is unusual to have a 30-year-old daughter. And she or he is getting married this weekend, as a matter of truth, which is a giant deal.”
Congratulated by DeGeneres, Kimmel responded with attribute sarcasm: “Individuals preserve saying congratulations. I do not know what I’m being congratulated for.
“Congratulations on elevating a human that’s enticing sufficient to be taken by one individual?
“It’s not like we had been making an attempt to do away with her, you understand? It is not like we’re promoting a houseboat on eBay or one thing like that. However I suppose congratulations is the factor.”