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You know what they say: if you’ve got it, monetize it! And what does Nick Cannon have? An inability to stop having children.
On Tuesday, Cannon announced plans for a new game show, Who’s Having My Baby With Nick Cannon, hosted by Kevin Hart and set to air this spring on E!. Billed as the “mother of all game shows” (we see what you did there), Cannon will choose from a list of female contestants who want to — you guessed it — have their next baby.
In the teaser for the show, Cannon takes his place in the hot seat as Hart tells him, “You’re going to get some contestants who want your baby.” Then, in a show of how seriously he takes procreation and parenthood, Cannon looks at the mothers-to-be and jokingly begins to make his choice by saying, “Eeny, meny, miny…”
Cannon is currently the father of a dozen children. He shares 11-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with Mariah Carey; Rise, 5 months, Powerful, 2, and Golden, 6, with Brittany Bell; Beautiful, 3 months, and Zion and Zillion, both 1, with Abby De La Rosa; Halo Marie, 2 months, and the late Zen with Alyssa Scott; Legendary, 7 months, with Bre Tiesi; Onyx, 5 months, with LaNisha Cole.
The star has been open about his growing family, joking last year that he was “like crazy” and that more children were on the way. During a performance at Lip service podcast, Cannon cracked, “If you thought that was a lot of kids last year…”
At the time, Cannon also said he went to therapy and attempted celibacy last fall, though he admitted the effort didn’t last long as he was depressed over the loss of his son Zen, who died on December 5, 2021 of brain Cancer.
“I fell victim to it because I was in a weak state,” he said. “Then December, especially right before Christmas, I started to be insane … so I broke celibacy.”