Kelsey Grammer has officially become a dad of eight at the age of 70 after his wife, Kayte Walsh, who is 36 years his junior, gave birth to their fourth child together, a baby boy named Christopher.
The “Frasier” star shared the happy news of their latest arrival during an appearance on Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong‘s “Pod Meets World” podcast, while discussing his recently-released memoir, “Karen: A Brother Remembers.”
Though the main topic of conversation was somewhat heavy—focusing on the tome, which reflects on the murder of his sister, Karen—Grammer lightened the mood when he confirmed that his newborn baby boy had arrived.
“We just had our fourth one, so it just became eight kids,” he revealed. “It was like three days ago. Christopher that’s just joined the family.”
Grammer went on to joke about his growing brood, noting that he is able to break them into “clusters” by age—with the four kids he shares with Walsh, 46, making up one of those groups.
The age-gap couple already had three children together—daughter Faith, 13, and sons Gabriel, 10, and James, 8—when they welcomed Christopher, who is now the youngest of eight Grammer kids in total.
In addition to his four kids with Walsh, Grammer shares daughter Spencer, 41, with his first wife, Doreen Alderman; daughter Greer, 33, with his ex, Barrie Buckner; and daughter Mason, 23, and son Jude, 20, with his other ex, Camille.
When asked whether any of his children have read his book, Grammer noted that the “younger group” of his kids have been banned from reading it because of the “brutal” source material, although he noted that he has shared some details about his sister’s passing with the eldest of his youngest “cluster” of kids.
“This younger group, you know, I’ve told him they can’t read the book yet because some of the stuff is too brutal … They don’t really need to be exposed to that yet. [But] my eldest daughter of this cluster, Faith, my 13 year old, I’ve told her some of what happened.
“Then I said maybe in another year or two [she] can probably read the book and be able to handle it. It’s pretty brutal. But she’s a very sensitive kid, too, so I want to be careful about it.”
Grammer went on to reveal that his son, Gabriel, has been much more “inquisitive” about the circumstances surrounding his aunt’s death—and the impact that it had on the actor.
“He’s the one that’s more inquisitive,” Grammer shared. “He says, ‘How do you feel about that? How does it make you feel? Do you want to kill the guy that killed your sister?’ Stuff like that. I said, ‘Well that wouldn’t be right … Death doesn’t necessarily make things right.’ But he asks really, really probing questions.”
The arrival of Grammer’s youngest son comes just four months after it was first revealed that Walsh was pregnant with their fourth child, when People published images of the expectant mother showing off a baby bump during an outing in London with her husband.
Two years earlier, the couple purchased a permanent home base in the U.K. to be closer to Wash’s family, who hail from Bristol.
The “Cheers” actor and his spouse of 14 years were pictured enjoying a stroll through a London park, taking full advantage of the balmy summer weather in the British capital.
However, Grammer’s move to the U.K. has not been without its downsides; just weeks before their pregnancy news was revealed, the actor faced fury from residents of the rural town in which he purchased his U.K. property over his plans to tear down the historic dwelling.
According to SWNS, locals in the quaint Somerset village where Grammer purchased a cottage in 2023 were outraged after the “Frasier” star was given permission to demolish a cottage on the land to make way for a new four-bedroom abode.
“It’s such a shame because it’s a beautiful building with character, it’s old, and it’s part of the community,” local resident Wendy Osment, 74, told the outlet, according the New York Post. “People have already taken a couple of the old cottages down.”
Osment also railed against rising prices in the local area, noting that her grandchildren are unable to move closer to her because wealthy buyers have driven up the cost of properties.
Another local, Susan Smart, 76, added: “I would like it to stay like that, but unfortunately, I think in this climate, people have got the money, they buy houses and do things you’re only able to do if you’ve got the money to pay for it.
“I just hope it’s in keeping with the other houses that have been done. Three properties have been knocked down over the past year.”
Initially, Grammer had applied for permission to build a sizable extension onto the existing home. The process would have involved demolishing three walls of the home to make way for an addition that would be twice the size of the original structure.
However, those plans were rejected by the local council, forcing Grammer to consider another option: the complete demolition of the dwelling, which regulations specify must take place on or before February 2030.
Though the actor clearly has big plans for his British abode, it’s understood that he is not planning to relocate to the U.K. full-time. Instead, he will head back and forth between that property and the U.S.
According to multiple reports, he and Walsh purchased the cottage as a permanent base for them to be closer to her family, who live in Bristol, which is about 35 minutes away by car.
Over the years, Grammer has owned multiple dwellings in the U.S., including a sprawling property in the Hamptons, which he sold in 2011, not long after marrying Walsh, and a stunning Malibu mansion that was last on the market for just under $20 million.
He also once held the keys to a New York condo, which he put on the market in 2016 for $9.75 million.
His luxurious property portfolio is a far cry from the humble Pompano Beach, FL, dwelling where the actor spent much of his childhood—an experience that he recently opened up about in very intimate detail in his memoir, “Karen: A Brother Remembers.”
The tome was dedicated to his sister, Karen, who was brutally murdered after moving away from the family home to Colorado Springs.
Grammer revealed his grief over the death of his beloved sibling and the trauma he experienced from having to identify the 18-year-old’s body, recalling the moment the police turned up on the family’s doorstep in Florida to reveal that Karen had been killed.
At the time of Karen’s death, the actor was living at the family’s Pompano Beach home. His younger sibling, whom he described as “funny and free-spirited,” had moved away to Colorado after graduating from high school.
Just months after she moved away, detectives turned up on the Grammer family’s doorstep with gut-wrenching news: They had found the body of a Jane Doe whom they believed was Karen.
Karen was abducted on July 1, 1976, by Freddie Lee Glenn and his accomplice, Michael Corbett, who were planning on robbing the Red Lobster restaurant where she worked.
But in a heinous turn of events, they kidnapped Karen before raping her and stabbing her 42 times, nearly decapitating her in the process.
“The coroner noted that through a gaping wound in her neck, he could see all the way into Karen’s lung. I had been right in saying he almost decapitated her. Freddie Glenn punched holes in my sister’s body with unimaginable brutality,” Grammer described.
Later in the memoir, Grammer revealed that he and Karen were extremely close as they were the only two siblings and they grew up with a single mother.
