Lionel Richie ’s granddaughter is the love he’s been looking for. Indeed, the American Idol judge recently gave insight into his bond with daughter Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge ’s baby Eloise , whom the couple welcomed in May. “I have a problem,” he effused exclusively to E! News in an interview alongside his fellow American Idol judges Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan , as well as host Ryan Seacrest .
“I could just stick her in my pocket and take her around town. Amazing.” And the 75-year-old—who is also a self-described “Pop Pop” to Nicole Richie and Joel Madden ’s 16-year-old Harlow and 15-year-old Sparrow —couldn’t quite put into words how precious he finds his family’s newest addition.
He even described how he could metaphorically just eat her up—and doesn’t mind when she drools on him. “You know that stage of the baby part where the leg becomes a drumstick and you just can’t keep your mouth off of the little drumstick,” he enthused. “I'm so sorry.
But you know, it's that thing where you can just blow on the stomach and the little smile comes on the face.” (For more from Lionel and his American Idol costars, tune into E! News tonight, Oct. 2, at 11 p.
m.). At just 5-months old, Eloise is certainly in an adorable baby stage —and her grandfather isn’t the only one who can’t get enough of her.
After all, her mom Sofia is soaking in every last second of her infancy. “I wrote everything down in a scrapbook for Eloise, just th.
