Even Nick Cannon can’t help but poke fun at his populous brood . While exclusively chatting with Page Six at the Fox Fall Press Day in Los Angeles earlier this month, the TV host compared “The Masked Singer” now entering its 12th season to him fathering 12 children. “[Twelve seasons], right? It’s a dozen,” Cannon, who judges the hit reality singing competition series, began.

“Got the same amount of kids!” Cannon, 43, shares his 13-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe , with his ex-wife, Mariah Carey. He’s also dad to Golden , 7, Powerful Queen , 3, and Rise , 1, with Brittany Bell; 3-year-old twins Zion and Zillion and Beautiful , 1, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary , 2, with Bre Tiesi; Onyx , 2, with LaNisha Cole; and Halo , 1, with Alyssa Scott. The “Wild ’n Out” star and Scott were also parents to son Zen, who tragically died at just five months old in 2021 due to a brain tumor.

During his wide-ranging interview with Page Six, Cannon at one point opened up about what it’s been like co-parenting his now-teenage kids with Carey. Moroccan and Monroe, his eldest son and daughter, turned 13 on April 30. “It’s the scariest thing in the world.

My daughter, she’s wearing makeup now,” he said of Monroe. “She doesn’t wear it a lot, luckily, but it scared me. Like, we were getting ready to go, we’re in Malibu about to go to dinner, and I was like, ‘What is taking her so long?’” “I go to her room and it literally looks like, just hair and .