Riley Hawk Talks ‘Quiet' Life With Wife Frances Bean Cobain, Says Dad Tony ‘Helps a Lot' With Baby Ronin
In an interview with People published Wednesday (July 30), the young skater opened up about living a 'quiet' life, despite his and his wife's famous parents. Riley is the son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, while Frances' father is late rock icon Kurt Cobain.
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'We just do our own thing,' Riley told the publication, noting that they 'don't really think too much about' the weight of their respective inherited legacies. 'We're just a very quiet stay-at-home family. We just hang out.'
'My dad helps a lot, and it's really cool that we get to all hang out together,' he added. 'It's just a cool thing for him to get to hang out with his grandson a lot. That's kind of where we're at, just taking it day by day.'
Riley and Frances — whom Kurt shared with fellow rock pioneer Courtney Love — welcomed Ronin in September 2024, about one year after they got married. Tony has been open about how much he loves being a grandfather to the little boy, and on Instagram this past February, he wrote, 'I wish Kurt were here so he could see the incredible woman his daughter has become, meet her devoted, caring husband, and hold our wondrous grandchild.'
The Nirvana frontman died in 1994 after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Frances wasn't even 2 years old at the time.
On the 30-year anniversary of his death last year, the younger Cobain opened up about her complicated feelings of grief on Instagram. 'I wish I could've known my Dad,' Frances wrote at the time. 'I wish I knew the cadence of his voice, how he liked his coffee or the way it felt to be tucked in after a bedtime story. I always wondered if he would've caught tadpoles with me during the muggy Washington summers, or if he smelled of Camel Lights & strawberry Nesquik (his favorites, I've been told).'
'Whether it's by hearing a song or through the hands we share, in those moments I get to spend a little time with my dad & he feels transcendent,' she added at the time.
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