{"id":2475393,"date":"2026-06-25T16:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2475393"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:19:59","slug":"rob-lowe-wants-to-make-grandpa-hot-as-he-shares-his-hopes-for-grandkids-following-his-sons-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rob-lowe-wants-to-make-grandpa-hot-as-he-shares-his-hopes-for-grandkids-following-his-sons-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe Wants to &#8216;Make Grandpa Hot&#8217; as He Shares His Hopes for Grandkids Following His Son&#8217;s Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Rob Lowe joked about wanting grandkids but admitted he&#8217;s not ready to embrace being called &#8220;grandpa&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Lowe is crowdsourcing ideas for a unique grandparent name, inspired by his grandmother&#8217;s sweet nickname, Mim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>He acknowledged feeling old at the idea of being a grandfather and joked about being on AARP&#8217;s cover twice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rob Lowe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/rob-lowe\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Lowe<\/a> is trying to make &#8220;hot grandpa&#8221; happen \u2014 but he&#8217;s not quite sure it&#8217;ll catch on.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em> alum, 62, appeared on a Wednesday, June 24 episode of <em>The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em> and was asked if he&#8217;s angling for grandkids after his son Matthew got engaged last July. In addition to Matthew, Lowe is dad to son John, both of whom he shares with wife Sheryl Berkoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not even pretending otherwise,&#8221; joked Lowe. &#8220;I want to do all the things that I did with those little guys. Here&#8217;s the thing, but I&#8217;m not looking forward to being called grandpa.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kelly Clarkson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kelly-clarkson\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a>, 44, then asked Lowe what he&#8217;d prefer to be called. The actor said that being a grandpa isn&#8217;t &#8220;on brand&#8221; for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could make grandpa hot,&#8221; said Clarkson. &#8220;You could make grandpa hot. I feel like Rob Lowe can do it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; responded Lowe, shaking his head. &#8220;We need a name.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s your name? What are you going to go by?&#8221; asked the &#8220;Since U Been Gone&#8221; singer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure flex justify-center mb-[1em] mx-auto\">\n<div style=\"max-width:960px\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p><i>Matthew Edward Lowe, John Owen Lowe, Rob Lowe, and Sheryl Berkoff attend the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Unstable&#8221; at TUDUM Theater on March 23, 2023, in Hollywood, California.<br \/>Credit: Gregg DeGuire\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m crowdsourcing it. So if anybody has any ideas, I&#8217;m open to them,&#8221; said Lowe. &#8220;My grandma was Mim, which was super sweet, so it doesn&#8217;t have to be like, &#8216;Grandpa, like, old man,&#8217; right?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson then asked Lowe if becoming a grandfather was tied to feeling old for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, yes. 100%, I just go, that&#8217;s it. Listen, I&#8217;ve been on the cover of AARP twice. It&#8217;s over,&#8221; teased Lowe. &#8220;It&#8217;s over. I&#8217;m out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rob-lowe-wants-to-make-grandpa-hot-after-his-son-gets-engaged-12006477\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Rob Lowe joked about wanting grandkids but admitted he&#8217;s not ready to embrace being called &#8220;grandpa&#8221; Lowe is crowdsourcing ideas for a unique grandparent name, inspired by his grandmother&#8217;s sweet nickname, Mim He acknowledged feeling old at the idea of being a grandfather and joked about being on AARP&#8217;s cover twice Rob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22530,314244],"class_list":["post-2475393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-kelly-clarkson","tag-rob-lowe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rob-Lowe-Wants-to-Make-Grandpa-Hot-as-He-Shares.com2Fen2Faol_people_articles_4712F216137436f38d9bf46b1f9467604ea9b.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475395,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475393\/revisions\/2475395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}