Celebrity Parents’ Most Honest Quotes About Their Children Dating

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Celebrity Parents' Most Honest Quotes About Their Children Dating

Honesty hour! Gordon Ramsay and more celebrity parents haven’t held back while talking about their kids’ dating lives. In January 2022, the Hell’s Kitchen star told Kelly Clarkson that he wants his and wife Tana Ramsay's daughters to be “looked after and for them to look after each other.” (The couple are the parents of Megan, Jack, Tilly and Oscar.) The chef admitted that his daughters dating makes him “anxious,” which led him to “do something really bad” when Megan recently reconciled with her ex-boyfriend. While the Scotland native considered the guy to be “OK to begin with,” he said, “You want a man to date your daughter, and he was just a little bit pathetic. … [He was] a bit wet.” When Clarkson joked that Byron was “peeing his pants somewhere,” Gordon replied, “I’m going to kill that little [bleep].” The Kitchen Nightmares alum even asked Megan for her beau’s phone number, he said, explaining, “She gave me it and said, 'Dad, don't do anything,' and I said, 'No, just give me. If anything's wrong, I need his number on my phone.’ So, I waited to find out when they were having dinner together and I FaceTimed him. I said, 'Byron, it's me. Not your future father-in-law, you little [bleep].” Megan hung up on Ramsay, which the reality star found “so rude.” He joked, “I was just in the middle of having a proper chat.” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDNZsq33FPk&feature=emb_imp_woyt[/embed] Candace Cameron Bure, for her part, is more supportive of her kids’ dating lives — but the Fuller House alum does have one rule for daughter Natasha and sons Lev and Maksim. “When it comes down to it, I just want [their significant others] to love Jesus the way I love Jesus,” the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries star exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2021. “That’s all I really want. Is that too much to ask for? Yeah. It’s not too much.” The Los Angeles native noted that she isn’t opposed to setting up her little ones as long as she finds “a good prospect.” The actress told Us, “If you know they’re from a good family and you know they might get along, we’ll do [that.] For sure.” Keep scrolling to see what more celebrity parents have said about their children’s love lives, from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Lisa Rinna to Power's La La Anthony. [podcast_block]

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Celebrity Parents' Most Honest Quotes About Their Children Dating

Honesty hour! Gordon Ramsay and more celebrity parents haven’t held back while talking about their kids’ dating lives. In January 2022, the Hell’s Kitchen star told Kelly Clarkson that he wants his and wife Tana Ramsay's daughters to be “looked after and for them to look after each other.” (The couple are the parents of Megan, Jack, Tilly and Oscar.) The chef admitted that his daughters dating makes him “anxious,” which led him to “do something really bad” when Megan recently reconciled with her ex-boyfriend. While the Scotland native considered the guy to be “OK to begin with,” he said, “You want a man to date your daughter, and he was just a little bit pathetic. … [He was] a bit wet.” When Clarkson joked that Byron was “peeing his pants somewhere,” Gordon replied, “I’m going to kill that little [bleep].” The Kitchen Nightmares alum even asked Megan for her beau’s phone number, he said, explaining, “She gave me it and said, 'Dad, don't do anything,' and I said, 'No, just give me. If anything's wrong, I need his number on my phone.’ So, I waited to find out when they were having dinner together and I FaceTimed him. I said, 'Byron, it's me. Not your future father-in-law, you little [bleep].” Megan hung up on Ramsay, which the reality star found “so rude.” He joked, “I was just in the middle of having a proper chat.” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDNZsq33FPk&feature=emb_imp_woyt[/embed] Candace Cameron Bure, for her part, is more supportive of her kids’ dating lives — but the Fuller House alum does have one rule for daughter Natasha and sons Lev and Maksim. “When it comes down to it, I just want [their significant others] to love Jesus the way I love Jesus,” the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries star exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2021. “That’s all I really want. Is that too much to ask for? Yeah. It’s not too much.” The Los Angeles native noted that she isn’t opposed to setting up her little ones as long as she finds “a good prospect.” The actress told Us, “If you know they’re from a good family and you know they might get along, we’ll do [that.] For sure.” Keep scrolling to see what more celebrity parents have said about their children’s love lives, from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Lisa Rinna to Power's La La Anthony. [podcast_block]

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Sofia Pernas

"She has a beautiful, wonderful boyfriend," the actress told Page Six in April 2022 of stepdaughter Isabella. "I don’t want to say too much about it because she’s like, ‘Ahh!’ but they’re awesome. ... She knows what she wants, and [my husband, Justin Hartley, has] lucked out. It’s rare when you get someone [who is almost] 18 being that precocious about what they want in a partner and not messing up and figuring out from your mistakes later. She’s great.”

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Heather Dubrow

“With our kids, we’ve sort of taken the approach [of], ‘Look, we’ve given you all the tools. We trust you. And until you prove otherwise, we’re going to just continue to trust you,’” the Real Housewives of Orange County star exclusively told Us in February 2022 of her and Terry Dubrow’s teens dating. “It has served us.”

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Mark Wahlberg

The actor called his 18-year-old daughter Ella’s boyfriend a “great young man” in a January 2022 Instagram video of them working out. “Ella is a lucky girl and I’m a lucky dad!” he captioned the footage.

The following month, Wahlberg told Ellen DeGeneres that Ella’s boyfriend “couldn’t be any sweeter,” gushing, “They’re perfect for each other.”

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Deon Derrico

The Doubling Down With the Derricos star exclusively told Us in February 2022 that his No. 1 dating rule for teenage daughter Darian is: “Don’t date.”

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Ant Anstead

The Radford Returns star has had "honest" conversations with daughter Amelie and son Archie about dating. "I treat them like adults. No topic is off [the table]," Anstead exclusively told Us in January 2022. "My kids approach me all the time about advice and that stands testament to the type of relationship I have with them.”

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Gordon Ramsay

The restaurateur joked in January 2022 that he is “so naughty” when it comes to interfering in his children’s dating lives.

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Candace Cameron Bure

While the Full House alum is “good” with her daughter dating, she told Us in June 2021 that Natasha "has to date the right guys.”

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Lisa Rinna

“It’s a what the f--k moment,” the Bravo personality said during a June 2021 RHOBH episode of her daughter Amelia Gray Hamlin dating Scott Disick. “You’re like, ‘What the f--k?’ She’s 19. He’s 37 with three kids.” (Disick and Hamlin split in September 2021.)

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La La Anthony

“I'm terrified [of his teenage years],” the Total Request Live alum exclusively told Us in September 2019 of son Kiyan. “I’m completely terrified [of] girls. He’s starting to like girls, and … that scares me. I’m keeping a close eye on him.”