DISNEY/Eric McCandless Clay Aiken ’s son, Parker, is growing up and stepping into the spotlight. Aiken, 45, appeared on the Tuesday, August 6, episode of Celebrity Family Feud , bringing along his 15-year-old son to help win money for charity. “This is my son Parker making his TV debut,” the American Idol alum told host Steve Harvey , pointing to the teenager.
Aiken’s team — which also consisted of his mother, brother and Parker’s mom, Jaymes Foster — competed against D avid Foster and wife Katharine McPhee . Jaymes, 66, is also the younger sister of music producer David, 74. “David’s sister Jaymes is on the right team.
She wanted to win tonight,” Aiken quipped on Family Feud. Aiken and Jaymes, the singer’s longtime friend, welcomed their son in August 2008. Aiken later told Us Weekly how fatherhood changed his life.
“I feel a little more mature and substantially older. I realized on Father’s Day, ‘Oh wait, I don’t have to do anything for Father’s Day, it is for me!’” Aiken exclusively told Us in June 2010. “It’s strange to think about that.
I enjoy also the quiet of living in North Carolina still and then I come back here to New York a good chunk of the time, at least a week a month doing [press]. I’m a fan of New York. People are a little more grounded here.
” At the time, Aiken admitted that it wasn’t “that hard” balancing his music career with parenthood. “We’ve been pretty well. Anybody who has a kid has to juggle ever.