Jimmy Kimmel welcomes new family member

Jimmy Kimmel just became a grandfather at the age of 57!

The iconic late-night talk show host, opened the latest episode of his series Jimmy Kimmel Live! explaining to his audience why he cancelled Monday’s show.

He revealed that his 33-year-old daughter, named Katie had given birth to her first child, saying, "We are back to work after an extra day off. You know, we were supposed to have a show last night, but we didn't because my daughter had a baby last night.”

After prompting cheers from the studio audience, Kimmel continued, "People know that I have two little kids (but) they don't know I have two older kids."

"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. The baby's very healthy,” he explained.

Kimmel then proceeded to joke about the baby’s "very cute name" saying it was "Melania... Melania Thee Stallion" before sharing the newborn's real name which is Patti Joan.

He also extended out a sincere apology to the studio audience and his "very understanding" guest Seth Rogen for calling off Monday's show.

Jimmy Kimmel revealed that besides official holidays and during the Covid-19 pandemic, he has only ever missed one other show in 22 years and that was back in 2007 when he had his appendix removed.