{"id":516887,"date":"2026-07-09T03:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/516887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:03:11","slug":"luke-wilson-actor-54-welcomes-first-child-with-girlfriend-kendall-yates-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/516887\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Wilson: Actor, 54, welcomes first child with girlfriend Kendall Yates, 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legally Blonde<\/a> star Luke Wilson<\/a>, 54, and his girlfriend Kendall Yates, 24, have welcomed their first child together<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The couple were spotted with their newborn daughter at a press event in California on July 7 for Wilson\u2019s new Netflix<\/a> series The Hawk. <\/p>\n

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Legally Blonde actor Luke Wilson, 54, and his girlfriend Kendall Yates, 24, have welcomed their first child together. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

They were holding their baby in a carrier and introduced their daughter to guests and cast mates at the event,People<\/a> reported<\/a>. It is the first child for both Yates and Wilson. <\/p>\n

Wilson looks relaxed at the event, wearing casual clothes and tracksuit pants. Yates was spotted in an oversized shirt with cowboy boots. <\/p>\n

Wilson and Yates have been together for a few years but are both notoriously private. Wilson\u2019s Instagram features just three posts, with the last post being November 1, 2025. <\/p>\n

While the star is very private, he did open up about wanting children in an old interview from 2007. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a girlfriend, but I wouldn\u2019t mind one. I definitely want [kids] at some point,\u201d he told People at the time. <\/p>\n

Before their most recent outing, where they were spotted with their child, they\u2019d only been photographed together a handful of times. <\/p>\n

The pair were snapped walking along the beach together in April 2026. <\/p>\n

They were also photographed at the Premiere of Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 at a Steakhouse in Los Angeles in June, 2024. Yates would have been 22 at the time, while Luke would have been 52. <\/p>\n

Luke is the last of Wilson\u2019s brothers to have children. His older brother, Zoolander Actor Owen Wilson, 57, has three children: two sons, Robert Ford, 15, and Finn, 12, and a daughter Lyla, 7. <\/p>\n

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The pair have been dating for a few years. They were photographed at an event together in 2024, when Yates was 22 and Wilson was 52. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Wilson had his first son, Robert Ford, in 2011 with his then-girlfriend Jade Duell. He welcomed his second, Finn, with his close friend and personal trainer, Caroline Lindqvist. The pair were not romantically involved but decided to have a child together and have raised him as friends. <\/p>\n

Owen also has a third child, daughter Lyla, with Varunie Vongsvirates. However, he does not have anything to do with her, aside from providing financial support, according to People<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The eldest Wilson brother, Andrew, 61, has one son, Joseph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legally Blonde star Luke Wilson, 54, and his girlfriend Kendall Yates, 24, have welcomed their first child together.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-516887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}