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Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. + Carolyn Bessette star Paul Anthony Kelly has confirmed the birth of his first child with production manager wife, Syd Widziszewski-Kelly.
The Canadian star is currently portraying the late John F. Kennedy Jr alongside Sarah Pidgeon as his wife in a new FX anthology miniseries about their three year marriage.
Discussing the show, which has faced considerable backlash, during an appearance on Monday's instalment of The Show, Kelly, 38, confirmed he became a father in January, but withheld the child's name and gender.
'You just became a dad!' Clarkson announced while interviewing the actor. .
'I did, yeah. Thank you so much,' he replied.
The host asked Kelly he if he has felt tired since becoming a father, to which he added: 'A little bit, yeah. That’s, like, an understatement, for sure.'
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Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. + Carolyn Bessette star Paul Anthony Kelly has confirmed the birth of his first child with production manager wife, Syd Widziszewski-Kelly
The Canadian star is currently portraying the late John F. Kennedy Jr alongside Sarah Pidgeon as his wife in a new FX anthology miniseries about their three year marriage
In December, Kelly revealed that he and his wife found out that they were expecting a child on the day of his producer callback for Love Story, a biopic charting Kennedy and Bisette's relationship.
He told Interview magazine: 'When we finish filming, my wife and I need to go back home and start nesting.
'The baby comes in January. Originally, the baby was estimated to come January 7, which was Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s birthday.”
Recalling when Syd told him they were expecting a baby around the time he was cast as John F. Kennedy Jr., Kelly said: 'February comes around, and I felt pretty good about it, but casting said they were reading other gentlemen for it.
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'I was like, "OK, that’s fine. Whatever." A few months go by, and near the end of April, I got an email from my agents. Casting wants to see me again to do another tape.
'Twenty minutes later, I got another email, and they’re like, "We’re just going to go straight to the producer callback." We’re in Portland. That’s our home base now, my wife and I.
'So I do the Zoom, and right before we’re about to go for dinner for our second wedding anniversary, she tells me we’re pregnant. May 1 was a big day.'
He added: 'The next day, I got a phone call from my agent. They want to see me for a chemistry read with [co-star] Sarah [Pidgeon], who was already cast as Carolyn, the following week.
Discussing the show during an appearance on Monday's instalment of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly confirmed he became a father in January
Kelly's new FX and Hulu series traces Kennedy and Bessette's relationship, from an initial meet at a party to the deaths of the couple and Bessette's sister Lauren on July 16, 1999,
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Kelly as the late JFK Jr, in a scene from his new show, which has faced considerable backlash from members of the Kennedy family
John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Bessette are pictured in New York City in 1996, three yeqars before their deaths
Murphy was absent from the recent press circuit for Love Story, but executive producer Brad Simpson - a veteran of Murphy's based-on-a-true-story "American Crime Story" projects - told The Associated Press that the creative team is "fully aware that there are real people and real tragedies often at the heart of these stories."
