Nick Cannon is catching heat online after a viral clip of him forgetting the names of all 12 of his children made the rounds this week.
Cannon appeared on a recent episode of The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff, where the topic quickly turned to his famously large family.
“I don’t want no wives, I just want kids,” Cannon told Althoff.
He said he’s not sure he’ll be expanding having any more kids before he added, “I don’t know what God and the universe have in store for me.” Later in the interview, Althoff asked Cannon to name each of his children. “I just told you,” Cannon said, prompting Althoff to note, “You told me one.”
Bobbi Althoff asked Nick Cannon to name all 12 of his kids, but he forgot some of them
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“You want all 12?” he responded. “This is where I usually get in trouble… I know all of ’em, but can you rattle off just 12 of anything?”
Trying to flip the challenge, Cannon asked Althoff to name 12 states, but she replied that they weren’t “personal” to her. Eventually, Cannon gave it a shot.
“There’s Roc, Roe, Golden, Powerful, Rise, Onyx, Legendary, Zion, Zillion, Zen, and…” he began, trailing off. “And see this is where I, uh…” After a brief pause, he realized he was “missing two” before adding Beautiful and his youngest daughter, Halo Marie Cannon.