Dad-of-four Kimmel had two of his kids – Katie and her brother Kevin, 31 – with ex-wife Gina Kimmel.
Katie and her husband, Will Logson, who she married in a private Las Vegas ceremony during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, welcomed their daughter just as filming was due to begin on one of Kimmel’s shows.
Kimmel explained his absence with typical humor: “My oldest daughter – you know, people don’t realize, people that know I have two little kids, they don’t know I have two older kids. My oldest daughter, she’s 83 years old. Her name is Katie. Katie and her husband Will had a baby girl right at the time we shoot our show last night. So I decided to be there instead of here.”
Kimmel also has two younger children – Jane, 10, and Billy, eight – with his current wife Molly McNearney.
In 2021, the host joked about Katie’s then-upcoming marriage on The Ellen DeGeneres Show: “She actually turned 30 two weeks ago, which is strange to have a 30-year-old daughter. And she is getting married this weekend, as a matter of fact, which is a big deal.”
Congratulated by DeGeneres, Kimmel responded with characteristic sarcasm: “People keep saying congratulations. I don’t know what I’m being congratulated for.
“Congratulations on raising a human that is attractive enough to be taken by one person?
“It’s not like we were trying to get rid of her, you know? It’s not like we’re selling a houseboat on eBay or something like that. But I guess congratulations is the thing.”
