Wayne Brady Quietly Welcomed a Baby With Ex-Girlfriend Tina Months Ago
Wayne Brady is a dad!
The 51-year-old comedian revealed the news during the premiere episode of his new Freeform show Wayne Brady: The Family Remix.
Wayne welcomed a son, Val, with his ex, saying it was “not on [his] bingo card,” via Page Six.
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“When I first found out … I was floored. A 51-year-old dad? I didn’t see it coming. So was I happy? No. Because I was in shock,” he explained of the now 6-month-old newborn.
He aadded he is in “uncharted territory” co-parenting Val with his ex-girlfriend Tina, whom he “dated during the pandemic on and off” before breaking up.
“How do I co-parent with this person that I am not with and make this work?” he asked. His ex-wife Mandie Taketa and their 21-year-old daughter, Maile, similarly expressed hesitation, with Mandie noting she and Tina “don’t get along.”
“Tina and Wayne had been broken up a year. Then [his] grandma Val passes away, so we go to her funeral in the Virgin Islands, then we come back. Something happened — you fill in the blank. Then, two weeks later, we get a phone call from Tina that she’s pregnant with Wayne’s baby,” she explained.
Maile‘s parents “didn’t want her to know about the pregnancy” because of “how she felt about Tina,” said Mandie.
“Maile will say she warned Wayne about this happening,” she said, adding that she “didn’t make eye contact with Maile for three months” while holding in the secret.
Maile says she did not “initially [feel] super happy” about her half-sibling’s arrival, adding that she was “worried.”
“Tina does not live her life in complete honesty. The string of events is suspicious. I don’t enjoy her presence,” Maile said.
Wayne and Mandie were married from 1999 to 2007. She has since moved on with Jason Michael Fordham and welcomed son Sundance in 2021.
Wayne Brady also came out as pansexual last summer.