Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette star Paul Anthony Kelly not too long ago welcomed his first child along with his spouse, Syd Waszewski-Kelly.
Kelly, 37, confirmed the information throughout an look on The Kelly Clarkson Present on Monday, February 23.
“You simply grew to become a dad!” host Kelly Clarkson mentioned, to which the actor replied, “I did, yeah. Thanks a lot.”
After Clarkson, 43, requested Kelly whether or not adjusting to fatherhood has made him extra “drained,” he admitted, “Somewhat bit, yeah. That’s, like, an understatement, for certain.”
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The mannequin didn’t reveal the title or intercourse of his new child.
Kelly beforehand shared that Widziszewski-Kelly, whom he married in Might 2023, had been as a consequence of give start on Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy‘s birthday.
“After we end filming, my spouse and I want to return dwelling and begin nesting,” he instructed Interview in November 2025. “The newborn is available in January. Initially the infant was estimated to return January 7, which was Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s birthday.”
Paul Anthony Kelly and Syd Widziszewski-Kelly
Paul Anthony Kelly/InstagramKelly additionally recalled how Widziszewski-Kelly had knowledgeable him they had been anticipating across the identical time that he landed his star-making function as John F. Kennedy Jr.
“February comes round, and I felt fairly good about it, however casting mentioned they had been studying different gents for it. I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s wonderful. No matter,’” he instructed the journal. “A couple of months go by, and close to the tip of April I received an electronic mail from my brokers. Casting needs to see me once more to do one other tape. Twenty minutes later, I received one other electronic mail and so they’re like, ‘We’re simply going to go straight to the producer callback.’ We’re in Portland. That’s our dwelling base now, my spouse and I. So I do the Zoom, and proper earlier than we’re about to go for dinner for our second wedding ceremony anniversary, she tells me we’re pregnant. Might 1 was an enormous day.”
The creator of FX’s Love Story has no regrets about not consulting the Kennedys earlier than making John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette‘s romance the main focus of the brand new scripted FX collection. “As a author, it’s extra wholesome and efficient to have a ways from the subject material,” EP Connor Hines instructed Selection on Friday, (…)
Kelly continued, “The following day I received a cellphone name from my agent: They wish to see me for a chemistry learn with Sarah (Pidgeon), who was already solid as Carolyn, the next week. The stipulation was I needed to have my inexperienced card earlier than then. The cellphone name got here on Friday. Saturday I received my inexperienced card. Sunday I booked my ticket.”
Kelly and Pidgeon, 29, painting Kennedy and Bessette-Kennedy in Love Storywhich premiered on February 12. The restricted collection additionally stars Grace Gummer as JFK Jr.’s sister, Caroline Kennedyand Naomi Watts as his mom, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Kelly mentioned on The Kelly Clarkson Present on Monday that he nearly gave up on attempting to interrupt into appearing proper earlier than he booked Love Story.
“I’d been going after it for 12, 13 years, and it was simply attending to the purpose the place I used to be auditioning rather a lot, wasn’t actually shifting ahead with something and was like, ‘OK, cool. It’s not for me,’” he mirrored. “After which I had this glorious alternative.”
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette airs on FX Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. Episodes stream the subsequent day on Hulu.