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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Penn Badgley Reveals Sex of Twins on the Way with Pregnant Wife Domino Kirke: 'Pressure's On'
Penn Badgley is continuing his streak as a boy dad! While speaking with Access Hollywood on the red carpet for the premiere of the final season of Netflix's You, the John Tucker Must Die actor, 38, revealed that he and his wife, Domino Kirke, 41, are expecting twin boys. The new additions will join the couple's son James, 4, as well as Kirke's son Cassius, 16, from a previous relationship. 'They're identical boys, so now we have four boys,' he shared. 'You know, I do mean this sincerely. It sounds a bit tacky, but the world needs more good men, so you know, pressure's on us to raise them well.' When asked to share his dad superpower, the Easy A actor replied, 'Well, it's my patience until I've lost it, and then I'm just as bad as anybody else. But, I can be very patient.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Penn Badgley Shares How He Reacted to Expecting Twins with Wife Domino Kirke: 'Who Could Be' Ready? Kirke first announced that the couple is expecting twins on Instagram in February. The announcement began with a photo of two photobooth images. The images showed a side view of Kirke's growing baby bump as Badgley and their 4-year-old son kissed it. In a follow-up photo, Kirke showed a photo of a red heart cake that read, "marry me over & over." She and Badgley tied the knot in February 2017. "Babies #3 and #4 coming this Summer! Talk about a PLOT TWIST! Spontaneous twins are beyond magical. We are stunned. We are in awe. Can't think of anyone else I'd rather be on this ride with @pennbadgley 👶♥️👶🎢#handsoffthewheel #monoditwins," Kirke wrote on Instagram. She included the hashtag "monoditwins," referencing monochorionic diamniotic twins who are "identical twins who share a placenta (monochorionic) but each have their own inner sac (diamniotic)," per the University of Michigan. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! During a recent appearance on an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Gossip Girl alum was asked by host Alex Cooper about his little ones on the way. "Are you ready?" Cooper asked the actor. "Who could be?" Badgley joked in response. "As ready as we could be." When asked what his reaction was to hearing that he and his wife were expecting twins, Badgley said that since Kirke is a doula, birth is a "big part" of their world, and since they already had two kids, having two more didn't feel as scary. "Actually, to be honest, when we see the sonograms right now, seeing them an only child, you know, it's very touching to see them already so together," he explained. "They're so together. There's one shot of them where they looked like they were just hanging out in a hot tub because they were both like up like this, or at least in the sonogram," he continued. "I don't know which direction was north or south here, because you know, it's its own world." Read the original article on People
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Penn Badgley's Pregnant Wife Domino Kirke Shows Off Growing Baby Bump at 'You' Red Carpet
Penn Badgley's wife Domino Kirke has officially debuted her baby bump on the red carpet. The Gossip Girl alum, 38, appeared with his wife, 41, at a Wednesday, April 23, screening for the upcoming season of You. At the New York City event, Kirke showed off her baby bump. On the carpet, Badgley wore a light brown suit with a matching tie. Meanwhile, Kirke arrived in a fiery, bright red gown, with billowing sleeves and a skirt that draped over her baby bump. Related: Penn Badgley's Son: Everything He's Said About Being a Father Kirke announced in February that the couple is expecting twins. The two, who tied the knot in February 2017, also share a 4-year-old son, James. Kirk also shares son Cassius, 16, with her ex-boyfriend, Morgan O'Kane. The adorable announcement began with a photo of two photobooth images, one of which showed a side view of Kirke's growing baby bump as Badgley and James kissed it. In her announcement, she added the hashtag "monoditwins," which refers to monochorionic diamniotic twins, who are "identical twins who share a placenta (monochorionic) but each have their own inner sac (diamniotic)," per the University of Michigan. Earlier Wednesday, Badgley appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast and said he and Kirke are 'as ready as [they] could be' for the twins. "Actually, to be honest, when we see the sonograms right now, seeing them together ... as an only child, you know, it's very touching to see them already so together," he told podcast host Alex Cooper. "They're so together. There's one shot of them where they looked like they were just hanging out in a hot tub because they were both like up like this, or at least in the sonogram," he continued. "I don't know which direction was north or south here, because you know, it's its own world." Related: Penn Badgley and Domino Kirke's Relationship Timeline Kirke previously told PEOPLE, expecting twins was a "total surprise" and an "absolute shocker." "I feel like I wear the feeling of twins.' Adding, "Twin pregnancy is just on my face. It's my resting bitch face now." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. You season 5 premieres on Thursday, April 24, on Netflix. Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
You star Penn Badgley makes rare red carpet appearance with pregnant wife after he dished on ex Blake Lively
Penn Badgley enjoyed a rare red carpet moment with his wife Domino Kirke at a special screening of his show You. The couple, who are expecting twins, beamed with happiness while attending a season five screening at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Tuesday. Sweetly, both Domino, 41, and Penn, 38, cradled her bump as they posed up a storm on the red carpet. The expectant mother displayed her chic eye for maternity style in a flowing red dress with puff inspired sleeves. Her spouse sharpened up in a mocha suit with matching tie. While en route to the event, Domino offered fans a close-up view of her bump. She shared video of her riding in a car to the soiree and panned the camera in an angle that provided a clearer view of her bump. 'Coming for @younetflix,' she wrote in the video. The couple announced their expanding family in February. 'Babies #3 and #4 coming this Summer! Talk about a PLOT TWIST! Spontaneous twins are beyond magical,' Kirke shared in an Instagram post. The heartwarming announcement featured a touching photo of Kirke's growing baby bump, as Badgley and their four-year-old son James tenderly kissed her belly. Kirke is already a mother to 15-year-old son Cassius from a previous relationship, making this expanding family all the more joyful. Penn will be returning to small screens for the fifth and final season of You, playing stalker Joe, on April 24. Netflix has dubbed the upcoming last season 'a killer finale.' 'In the epic fifth and final season, Joe Goldberg returns to New York to enjoy his happily ever after… until his perfect life is threatened by the ghosts of his past and his own dark desires,' the official synopsis teases. Penn rose to fame playing Dan Humphrey on the CW soap opera Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012. He also famously dated his co-star Blake Lively, who played socialite Serena van der Woodsen and his on-screen love interest, from 2007 to 2012. She gave fans more of a close-up look at her bump on her Instagram Stories But for Penn, the relationship caused him to blur the lines between fiction and reality. 'It was the struggle,' the actor confessed on Call Her Daddy Wednesday of juggling his relationship with Blake and playing her boyfriend on the show. 'What starts to happen when you're in this one role for a long time — the aspect of celebrity being a part of it, a huge part of it — there is not enough separation, I think, for anybody. 'You're seen as this person, you're called their name out on the street. You also constantly have to be that person at work.' Penn, who played Brooklyn scholarship student Dan Humphrey, said people often viewed him as the same as his character. 'And I was 20. I was 21, 22. So like I didn't have the emotional maturity to understand... to how to differentiate myself just in terms of self-worth. 'Like what people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought of me. And I now had enough sense, enough intelligence, enough self-worth, enough just, you know, I wasn't losing myself, but it bothered me.' Back in 2009, Blake confessed to Glamour of Penn that she 'poisoned' the cast against Penn when he first joined the show. 'At first I was so upset that they hired him. I actually poisoned the whole cast against him,' she admitted. 'But then they noticed that he wasn't a jerk and was actually a really nice, charming person. Almost immediately I realized that too, but it took me about a week to admit it.' Blake is now in a massive legal battle with her It Ends With Us director/co-star Justin Baldoni over their time filming the movie and aftermath.
South China Morning Post
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is You star Penn Badgley's wife Domino Kirke?
Everyone's favourite fictional erotomaniac Joe Goldberg, from the Netflix series You , is gearing up to return to our screens this April. Netflix confirmed on its website that the fifth and final season of the show will take it 'back to where it all began' and culminate in a 'delightfully twisted conclusion'. Penn Badgley will return to play Joe alongside his on-screen partner, Call the Midwife actress Charlotte Ritchie, who plays Kate. And while theirs is far from a perfect relationship, Badgley says his real-life marriage to Domino Kirke was guided by 'divine love'. The two began dating in 2014 and got married in 2017. They have a child together, four-year-old James Badgley, and Badgley is also stepdad to Kirke's son from a previous relationship, teen Cassius Riley. After more than seven years of marriage, the couple is clearly still going strong. In fact, it was Kirke who 'encouraged' Badgley, whose breakout role was on the hit teen show Gossip Girl , to take on You after he initially wanted to turn it down. He was averse to appearing in sex scenes for the sake of 'fidelity in [his] relationship', he told Variety in 2023, but given his wife's support, decided he 'wasn't going to listen to anyone more than her'. So, what else do we know about Kirke? She's a musician Domino Kirke has new music for 2025. Photo: @domino_kirke_badgley/Instagram Kirke has been making music since she was nine years old and performing since she was 17 – She calls music her 'first love' and 'first home'. She studied piano and vocal performance at New York's LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts, and her first record deal was with Mark Ronson. After she got pregnant with her first child in 2008, Kirke took a step back from her music career, believing she would be able to 'just get back to it' after the birth. However, she says it was harder than she imagined. Her debut record, Beyond Waves , came out in 2017, and Badgley supported her on X saying that it was 'gorgeous' and would 'stand the test of time'. Kirke's band Domino has toured with Lily Allen , and her shows are often described as 'meditative'. On February 12, she released 'It's Not There', the first single from her forthcoming EP The Most Familiar Star , due out in April. She's also a doula Domino Kirke is a doula and passionate about birth education. Photo: @domino_kirke_badgley/Instagram
Los Angeles Times
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Lola Kirke knows she's too young and fame-ish to write a memoir. She did it anyway
When Lola Kirke was a young teen, her 'manny' was a fallen rock musician with boundary issues while a movie star friend of the family she calls Gideon (not his real name) seemed a little too friendly when she got high, as the actor-musician recalls in her collection of essays, 'Wild West Village.' Then there was the time spent visiting a sister in rehab and the day she learned she had a half brother from one of her father's affairs. So, while Kirke grew up with wealth and privilege (she's the daughter of Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke), and glamorous older siblings (Domino signed to a recording deal in her teens while Jemima became a co-star on 'Girls'), life in her expensive New York brownstone and private school wasn't always easy. She writes about a chaotic family life in a home filled with booze and drugs (Jemima has spoken openly about time in rehab). Even as Kirke found success on her own, for her prominent role on 'Mozart in the Jungle' among other projects, she was struggling with her sense of who she was, drinking and smoking and sabotaging herself along the way. Now 34, living in Nashville and with a burgeoning country music career and a stable relationship, Kirke has turned to self-reflection, and although the book is subtitled 'Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1),' it is very much is a memoir. Kirke spoke recently with The Times about her unusual upbringing and writing about it. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Do you think of yourself now as a country singer or as somebody who sings and acts and now writes? I think of myself as a person who sings and acts and now writes. I don't think it's wise, at least for me, to identify as anything other than a person. Life's too precarious, and if you're lucky enough to try to make art as your career, it's so volatile that I feel like you have to ground yourself in your personhood first. Why did you call this not a memoir? I describe myself as fame-ish, not famous. Writing a memoir at my age, I'm straddling a bizarre line — it's not just a literary memoir, but I'm not fully in the celebrity lane, even though so much of the world in which I grew up was about being somebody. The subtitle is me saying that I know I haven't done the things that you need to do to write a celebrity memoir and poking fun at that idea. You write about your boyfriend, whom you call The Cowboy, saying that you need to be enough of a 'someone' just to yourself. Have you reached that level of acceptance? It's taken a lot of work, but I actually feel very grounded in that way now. I'm so grateful because it's just so exhausting to constantly be trying to be somebody to other people. And that's so much of what my book is about. I know that my parents love me to the best of their ability and very, very deeply, and that I got so much out of those relationships, but I didn't always feel that love. And so my work — whether it's acting or music or writing — is me saying, 'I love you,' and wanting someone to say, 'I love you, too.' Now I'm able to see, I am loved, too, and I don't need to chase something that is very much already there. And that's a relief. Did you need to find yourself to write the book, or did writing it help you get past your insecurities about your identity? Writing has helped me discover and articulate who I am in a way that I never knew. So much of great writing when I read it is naming the unnameable. When somebody can put into words things you have felt — whether that's music or prose or poetry or just an advertising slogan — it's incredible. When I began to write about my life, I really did understand it so much better. I made the mistake of going on Goodreads and the first review, from a woman named Jennifer from Boston, said essentially, 'She sucks and she's not famous enough to write a memoir.' Then I'd get three good reviews, so I'd keep going back, but the next one would be 'I hate her writing, and who the @#$@ does she think she is?' So I'm getting used to not being liked, and I am grateful to this book and my writing for helping me do that. Are you naturally funny or were you consciously thinking I need to keep this entertaining so it doesn't feel more weighty than my life really was? I aspired to be funny my whole life, but it's only recently that people have started to tell me I am funny. Reading my writing, I was able to see how much I use humor both positively and avoidantly, so I learned a lot from editing my own work. But also when I read my own work during editing I've noticed this distinct voice I have as a writer. People have said, 'Reading your book is just talking to you,' but do you remember Dame Edna? I feel like Dame Edna wrote my book — some delusional grande dame who's so funny. I don't know who that person is, but I guess that's who I am. I think by virtue of the way I grew up, my perspective is going to seem funny in a myriad of ways to other people, whether that's funny or just, 'Oh, she's a little off.' I have this kind of delusional charm, but that can be a manipulative tactic to survive. I always wanted people to like me and I didn't feel safe in the world for a lot of my life so I had to be very charming to feel secure. And now I'm letting go of that a little bit, and thank God, because it's exhausting. [Switching to a dry, joking tone] It's exhausting being this charming. You didn't find out you had a half brother until your late teens; he was born with severe brain damage and died at 19; you spent a few years visiting him even though your father never did. How did that impact you? I do think it softened me and opened me up. As a person who is probably more on the precipice of being a mother myself, it's made me think about what it's like to be a true mother. I think about unconditional love and learning what that is and learning how to give it. I grew up in this world where you being someone is what earns you a place in the world. At least, that was the feeling I had. With him I saw you are worth love no matter who you are. So that will always be with me. How concerned were you about showing the book to family members? The rule I tried to implement, and I mostly do, was that I'd only tell stories about other people that they've already revealed themselves in one form or another. But when I shared it with my family, I definitely got feedback of, 'Oh, I've never told anybody that.' My sisters have been absolutely incredible about the book, which was so heartening to me. I was most scared of their reaction. Their support feels like the sisterly relationship I write about not having so much throughout the book. So that was a real blessing. My brother asked, 'Why aren't I in the book more?' But he's been very sweet about it — he's 12 years older than me and was pretty much out of the house. But also he just was really good so there isn't enough drama with him. There have certainly been other people that have been really upset. But some that I thought might be upset have loved it. It's complicated to write about people who are alive and to be written about. [With mock petulance] I have yet to be made into a character in somebody's book…. I'm waiting.
