Michael Strahan is a grandpa!
In the course of the Fox NFL Sunday present on Sept. 22, the Good Morning America anchor introduced that his eldest daughter Tanita gave delivery to a child boy named Onyx, in line with a PEOPLE staffer.
Extra particulars concerning the newest addition to the household weren’t revealed.
In the meantime, Tanita, 32, has not addressed her being pregnant publicly and her most up-to-date Instagram post was in October 2023.
The Los Angeles based mostly illustrator is Michael’s eldest of four children. He shares Tanita along with his first spouse, Wanda Hutchins. She was born in Germany, however lived in Houston, Texas, till her mother and father divorced, after which she moved again to Germany along with her mom.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE in 2016, Tanita spoke about how rising up in Germany made her the laidback particular person she is. “I’ve by no means been the kind of particular person to be starstruck. Rising up in Germany, nobody cared about stuff like that,” she stated.
Tanita moved again to the US in highschool and went on to check design and visible communication on the Style Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
In a 2013 interview with New York Family, Michael stated that Tanita is “type of like me within the sense that she has a really sturdy persona, however a silent sturdy persona.”
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He added, “She’s not going to be one to stroll right into a room and make all of it about her. She positively has an opinion and he or she’s very good and he or she is aware of what she desires, which I like about her.”
Michael additionally shares son Michael Strahan Jr., 29 with Hutchins, and twin daughters Isabella and Sophia, 19, along with his second spouse, Jean Muggli.
The Good Morning America host typically praises his family, telling PEOPLE in 2016 that he credit his children as his supply of power. “To me it’s all about household, now greater than something,” he stated.
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Michael made a candy celebratory publish for Tanita for her thirty first birthday on Instagram.
On the time, the discuss present host shared two images of himself along with his daughter, one among which was a throwback of them embracing when she was a toddler.
“Glad birthday to my first born @tanitaa.st 🎉🎊🍾,” he wrote within the caption. “Please assist me want her probably the most wonderful day. So pleased with the particular person and artist you’ve got grow to be my child. Proud to be your Dad❤️❤️❤️❤️.”