{"id":50256,"date":"2023-10-31T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/al-roker-gives-health-update-shares-best-part-about-being-a-grandpa\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:27:53","slug":"al-roker-gives-health-update-shares-best-part-about-being-a-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/al-roker-gives-health-update-shares-best-part-about-being-a-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker Gives Health Update, Shares Best Part About Being a Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>All is well in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/al-roker\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Roker<\/a><span>&#8216;s\u00a0world.\u00a0ET&#8217;s Rachel Smith spoke with the weatherman and his\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/today-show\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>co-anchors in honor of the morning show&#8217;s Halloween episode on Tuesday, and Roker had a lot of positive updates to share, following <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/al-roker-is-glad-to-be-alive-while-celebrating-69th-birthday-after-a-year-of-health-struggles\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his health scare<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/al-roker-is-officially-a-grandfather-after-his-daughter-courtney-gives-birth-to-first-child-207390\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the arrival of his first grandchild<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing great, doing great. I tell you, the thing that&#8217;s kept me going is I&#8217;ve had a new granddaughter,&#8221; Roker said of his daughter, Courtney, and son-in-law, Wes&#8217;, baby girl, Sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for the best part of life as a grandfather, Roker remarked, &#8220;You could love up on &#8217;em and then you give them back&#8230; If I had known they were this much fun I would&#8217;ve had them first. It&#8217;s the best.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For her very first Halloween, Sky is &#8220;going as a little cloud,&#8221; Roker revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s very sweet, so [I&#8217;m] very excited,&#8221; the proud grandpa said, before discussing his own Halloween costume: Lionel Richie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I hope Lionel Richie hasn&#8217;t seen this because I&#8217;m a huge Lionel Richie fan,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;Lionel, please forgive me. I could wear this all night long, but I don&#8217;t know if the mustache would hold up.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">John Nacion\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Watch the video below for more on Roker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/interview-al-roker-gives-health-update-and-shares-the-best-part-about-being-a-first-time-grandpa-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All is well in\u00a0Al Roker&#8216;s\u00a0world.\u00a0ET&#8217;s Rachel Smith spoke with the weatherman and his\u00a0Today\u00a0co-anchors in honor of the morning show&#8217;s Halloween episode on Tuesday, and Roker had a lot of positive updates to share, following his health scare and the arrival of his first grandchild. &#8220;I&#8217;m doing great, doing great. I tell you, the thing that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[461,174,40,1547,20,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-50256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-al-roker","9":"tag-entertainment-tonight","10":"tag-et-black-stories","11":"tag-interviews","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-the-today-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}