“All right, I at least want to be able to be true and honest.”
Nick Cannon at the FOX Fall Press Day Red Carpet held at the FOX Lot on September 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, California
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Nick Cannon shared an honest reflection when speaking about his children. During an interview with Extra’s Mona Kosar Abdi, the actor opened up about the kind of person he hopes his daughters choose to date. The candid conversation unfolded as they discussed his new late-night television show, Nick Cannon @ Night.
“The goal here is to reinvent the late-night experience and make it more interactive,” explained the 44-year-old. “For years, we’ve kind of only known late night to be dictative. I wanted to make it more experiential,” he explained, adding, “It’s a cool environment and a cool space to talk about love, sex, and relationships.”
Abdi continued to explore who would be dishing out the guidance on the program, which Cannon clarifies hes giving insight and comical relief alongside professionals such as doctors and therapists who can give professional advice.
Nick Cannon and Brittany Bell with children attend the Los Angeles Premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Moana 2” at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California on November 25, 2024.
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“You’re bringing in your life and experiences, so I gotta ask you, with the dating world now, where do you think things are?”
“I think everybody is about to start dating robots,” Cannon joked. “We are definitely in the Total Recall, Terminator era.
“You used to be a player…what changed for you? Abdi continued to inquire.
“Fatherhood, more than anything,” confirmed the Drumline star. “When you have five daughters and you’re like. I at least want to be able to be true and honest,’ but like I can’t live the same life that I’ve always been living and attempt to right my wrongs in that sense of where like hopefully my daughters learn from my mistakes and not date people like their dad.”
Nick Cannon is the father of 12 children with six different women. He shares twins, Moroccan Scott and Monroe, both 14, with singer Mariah Carey. With model Brittany Bell, Cannon has three children: Golden Sagon, 8; Powerful Queen, 4; and Rise Messiah, 2. He also has three children with DJ Abby De La Rosa—twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, both 4, and Beautiful Zeppelin, 2.
Cannon also welcomed son Legendary Love, 3, with model Bre Tiesi, and daughter Onyx Ice, 2, with photographer LaNisha Cole. With model Alyssa Scott, he had son Zen, who was born in June 2021 and died at five months old from brain cancer, and daughter Halo Marie, now 2.