Jonathan Scott Talks About Becoming an ‘Insta-Dad’ to Girlfriend Zooey Deschanel’s 2 Kids: ‘One Big Happy Family’
03.08.2022 - 19:35
/ usmagazine.com
All in the family! Shortly after Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel fell in love, he was thrust into a brand-new world — parenthood.
“Family’s very important for us and we’ve got two kids,” the Property Brothers star, 44, told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday, August 3, referring to Deschanel’s two children. “They come over all the time with the nephews, the nieces and everyone’s friends — they all play together. I can just imagine as Parker [twin Drew Scott’s son with his wife, Linda Phan] gets older, it’s gonna be one big happy family.”
Jonathan and the New Girl alum, 42, publicly debuted their romance in October 2019 after they met on the set of Carpool Karaoke alongside their respective siblings: Drew, 44, and Emily Deschanel. The Canada native has since become a “bonus dad” to Elsie, 7, and Charlie, 5 — whom Zooey shares with ex-husband Jacob Pechenik — after he previously had a feeling that fatherhood was in his future.
“We were filming one of our shows in Toronto and we wrapped filming, and we threw a party for all of our crew,” he recalled to ET on Wednesday. “We had a tarot card reader at this party that we thought, you know, ‘This’ll be fun. Everybody will enjoy.’”
He continued: “When she was doing my cards, she’s like, ‘Ah, yes. You will be a father within the year.’ And I’m like, ‘[You’re] missing some key information, there’ [because] I wasn’t even dating anyone at the time. Three months later, I met Zooey. We then started dating, never even thought of it until all of a sudden — I was the insta-dad.”
The (500) Days of Summer actress previously gushed over Jonathan and Pechenik, 50, in a joint Father’s Day tribute earlier this year.
“So thankful my kids have these two awesome guys in their