Candace Cameron Bure Is a Grandma at Last—and Her First Grandbaby Arrived 10 Weeks Early
Lev and Elliott Bure welcomed Bond Leo after five weeks and five days in the NICU, turning the Full House alum’s long-awaited grandmother era into an emotional family group chat moment.
Candace Cameron Bure’s house just got a lot louder, sweeter and probably much more diaper-based. The Full House alum’s son Lev Bure and his wife, Elliott, have welcomed their first child—a baby boy named Bond Leo Bure—and the family’s long-awaited grandmother era arrived with an especially intense plot twist.
Bond was born Aug. 4, 10 weeks before his due date, according to E! News. He weighed exactly three pounds and was transferred immediately to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he stayed for five weeks and five days before finally going home with his parents.
Elliott shared the news on Instagram Sept. 27 with a series of intimate family photos and a message that made it clear this was less casual baby announcement and more emotional season finale. “Bond was born 10 weeks early at exactly 3 lbs and was transferred immediately to the NICU,” she wrote. “Through lots of tears, countless prayers, and what felt like endless hours in the hospital, 5 weeks and 5 days later we finally brought our miracle boy home!!”
There is a tiny baby in a cream-colored outfit, his parents’ hands sheltering him from either side. There is Lev looking at his son in the hospital crib. There is Elliott holding Bond from her hospital bed. The overall visual language is not polished celebrity birth-card minimalism; it is intimate, exhausted and deeply relieved—the kind of post that makes everyone in the family comments section reach for the heart emoji at once.
The first Bure grandbaby has a very full family waiting for him
Candace responded exactly as a newly minted grandmother might: with maximum exclamation points and absolutely no interest in playing it cool. “Bond Leo is a miracle baby. Our hearts could not be more full of love,” she wrote in the comments. “You and Lev are the most amazing parents, and we are here for every minute of it. We love you all sooooooo much.”
That “sooooooo” is doing important work. Candace and her husband, former NHL player Valeri Bure, are now grandparents for the first time, after raising three children: Natasha, Lev and Maksim. Bond is also arriving into a family that apparently does not believe in spacing out major life events.
Natasha Perry, Candace’s daughter, is expecting her first child with husband Bradley Steven Perry. She also joined the comments under Elliott’s post, writing, “Perfect boy!!!! My heart. We love Bond.” So the Bure family’s group chat is currently juggling one premature newborn, one pregnancy and a grandmother who appears ready to turn every family milestone into a full-scale celebration.
Candace previously celebrated the near-back-to-back baby news in her own very Candace way. When Natasha announced her pregnancy, the actor wrote, “CandyGram fully ignited!!! We are over the moon!!!!!” It is a phrase that sounds like a candy-themed family newsletter and, somehow, exactly right for this particular household.
Bond’s arrival came just over a year after Lev and Elliott married
Lev, 26, and Elliott announced their pregnancy in May, just weeks after Natasha shared her own news. The couple married in January 2024, meaning Bond’s arrival comes a little over a year into their marriage and after an early parenthood experience that began in a hospital rather than a nursery decorated on schedule.
Elliott’s message thanked the nurses and doctors who cared for Bond during his NICU stay, as well as the community that supported the family. “We couldn’t have done any of it without!” she wrote, later adding, “Thank you Jesus for every answered prayer!!!!! We are blessed beyond measure!!!!”
The post’s central feeling is relief, but it also captures the strange time warp of a premature birth: five weeks and five days can sound both impossibly long and like a blur when the only objective is getting your baby home. The announcement did not turn the NICU stay into a glossy celebrity anecdote. Instead, it gave the moment its proper weight while celebrating the part everyone had been waiting for—the family finally leaving together.
Welcome to the grandmother content era
Candace has spent decades being associated with family television, holiday movies and the highly specific cultural afterlife of Full House. Now she has entered a different kind of franchise: the celebrity grandmother soft launch.
And this one already has a built-in sequel. Bond’s arrival means Candace and Valeri’s first grandchild has appeared before Natasha’s baby, but the family’s next little one is on the way. The result is a rare Hollywood family update with no scandal, no suspicious unfollow and no red-carpet subplot—just two siblings becoming parents within weeks of each other and their mother reacting like she has personally won the lottery.
For now, the Bures are keeping the focus on Bond, whose five-week NICU stay makes his homecoming the real headline. Elliott’s photos show a tiny baby surrounded by the people who spent those weeks praying, waiting and showing up. Candace’s comments make the family’s position clear: the baby is home, the hearts are full, and nobody is pretending to be normal about it.
Bond Leo Bure has already made a memorable entrance. Ten weeks early, three pounds at birth and greeted by a grandmother who has apparently been waiting her entire life to say “my grandson”—this is one family debut that came with its own emotional soundtrack.
Dee Valladares Would Have Cut Rick Devens at Final Three — and That’s Exactly Why He’s So Dangerous
The “Survivor 50” allies turned “Big Brother 28” power duo had loyalty, leverage and one enormous problem: neither could afford to sit next to the other at the end.
Dee Valladares has left the “Big Brother” house, but she managed to deliver one last little knife twist on her way out: if she had made it to the final three, she would have voted out Rick Devens.
Not because their alliance was fake. Not because she suddenly decided he was unbearable. Quite the opposite. Valladares told Page Six that Devens was exactly the kind of player she could not risk bringing to the final two, even after the pair had dominated much of the season together.
“If I won the final HOH, I would have cut Devens because as much as my heart wants to stay loyal to Devens, he could absolutely beat me,” the 29-year-old said after her eviction.
That is the entire “Big Brother” experience in one sentence: I love you, you are my person, you are also absolutely ruining my chances of winning $750,000.
The alliance was real. So was the exit plan.
Valladares and Devens arrived with something unusually potent: shared history. Both had appeared on “Survivor 50” earlier this year, and their familiarity carried into the “Big Brother 28” house. Alongside Angela Murray and Drew Campbell, they became part of the season’s central power structure.
But “Big Brother” rewards loyalty only until loyalty becomes bad math. Valladares understood that Devens had the kind of résumé that could swallow a finale whole. He is a “Survivor” icon, a proven strategist and, according to Valladares, someone who would likely collect more jury votes than she would in a head-to-head finale.
“I also feel like he would have done that, because we need each other for jury votes,” she said. “So I would have stayed loyal to him up until the final two, because I need his vote, just like he needs my vote.”
It is a wonderfully ruthless arrangement: protect each other through the dangerous middle, then quietly prepare to destroy the partnership at the exact moment the game requires it. Their bond could be genuine and still come with an expiration date printed in invisible ink.
Final four turned the friendship into a math problem
The decision never reached Valladares’ hands. At the final four, Taylor Brown won Head of Household and Drew Campbell won the Power of Veto, which guaranteed that one of the two “Survivor” players would be leaving.
Valladares made her preference clear during her eviction speech. She told Devens it was “an honor of a lifetime to play this game with a legend,” then turned to Campbell with a blunt question: did he want to play for second place, or did he want to play to win?
Her argument was simple and brutal: sitting next to Devens at the end would be a losing proposition. Valladares warned Campbell, “You will lose sitting next to Devens.”
Campbell did not take the bait. He evicted Valladares and kept Devens in the game, even while admitting that the decision hurt because both “Survivor” players deserved to win. The 22-year-old surgical dental assistant called them “‘Survivor’ legends who have become ‘Big Brother’ icons” before sending Valladares out with a reference to Jeff Probst: “The tribe has spoken.”
That is the sort of line reality television editors dream about. A “Survivor” slogan, deployed in a “Big Brother” eviction, against two players whose entire game was built on carrying one franchise’s mythology into another. The crossover is doing a lot of work here, and Campbell knew it.
Dee’s loyalty had a very specific limit
During her interview with Julie Chen Moonves, Valladares confirmed that she would have evicted Campbell at the final four because, in her words, her “heart couldn’t allow me to evict Devens.” That sounds sentimental until you remember the rest of the plan: keep Devens at four, cut him at three.
Her loyalty was not the soft-focus kind. It was strategic loyalty, the kind that keeps a powerful ally close because his vote matters, his protection matters and his presence helps you advance. It was also loyalty with a trapdoor underneath it.
Valladares said she believed Devens probably would have voted her out at the final three too. That mutual suspicion is what makes their partnership more interesting than a basic showmance-style “power duo” narrative. There was no suggestion in the interview that the two were romantically involved; their connection was built on shared gameplay, mutual respect and the very practical knowledge that each could help the other reach the end.
They were not promising forever. They were promising to get each other close enough to the finish line that betrayal would become unavoidable.
And now Devens has to survive without his shield
With Valladares gone, Devens has made the final three alongside Campbell and Taylor Brown. The person who understood his threat level best is no longer there to explain it to the room — or to use it against him.
That could be a gift. It could also be a neon sign.
Valladares’ warning to Campbell framed Devens as the obvious finalist to beat, but evicting the person most likely to win is not always the same as evicting the person most dangerous to your own game. Campbell chose to keep the bigger legend, perhaps believing that Devens’ résumé would make him easier to target later, or simply deciding that the immediate move did not outweigh the value of keeping him around. The source does not spell out Campbell’s private calculation, but his choice has created the exact endgame Valladares said he should avoid.
For Valladares, the exit is a classic “you will miss me when I’m gone” moment — except she was also the person most prepared to cut her closest ally the second the numbers demanded it. She can respect Campbell’s decision while still believing he may have passed up the grand prize. As she put it, “I think he lost the grand prize. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect it.”
That is a very “Survivor” answer to a very “Big Brother” betrayal: hurt feelings, clean logic and a smile sharp enough to open the next blindside.
The “Big Brother 28” finale airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+.
Rob Lowe Just Named His Best On-Screen Kiss — and Andy Cohen’s Other Options Didn’t Stand a Chance
The actor didn’t need a lifeline on “Plead the Fifth” to pick Nastassja Kinski, recalling that he was “very, very scared” to kiss the woman he considered the most beautiful he’d ever seen.
Rob Lowe has kissed enough movie stars on camera to make the average actor’s résumé look aggressively under-romanced. Demi Moore. Kim Cattrall. Rashida Jones. Calista Flockhart. Meg Tilly. The man has spent four decades making cinematic chemistry look like a job requirement.
And yet, when Andy Cohen asked him to name his best on-screen kiss, Lowe did not pause, hedge or perform the elaborate diplomacy of a person trying to keep six famous women happy. He said Nastassja Kinski.
“Have a look at her,” Lowe replied on Sunday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, after Cohen ran through his list of notable screen partners. It was less an answer than a closing argument. No notes. No ranking spreadsheet. Just a very famous man pointing toward the obvious fact that Nastassja Kinski has always had the kind of beauty that makes adjectives feel underqualified.
Then Lowe made the story more interesting by admitting that the kiss did not exactly leave him cool, calm and Hollywood-trained.
“At that moment in time, she was probably the most beautiful woman I’d certainly ever seen,” he said. “I was, like, very, very scared.”
The 1984 movie that started the legend
Lowe and Kinski appeared together in The Hotel New Hampshire, the 1984 comedy-drama directed by Tony Richardson and adapted from John Irving’s novel. The film also featured Jodie Foster, which means its cast list alone feels like a time capsule from the era when a single movie could casually assemble several future cultural institutions.
Kinski, now 65, was already an international star when she made the film. Lowe was in the early, glossy stretch of his own ascent: the Outsiders heartthrob, a member of Hollywood’s young elite and the sort of actor whose face seemed designed for both a movie poster and a teenage bedroom wall.
That context gives Lowe’s answer a little more sparkle than a standard celebrity “best kiss” anecdote. He was not describing a random day at work or a forgettable scene from a crowded filmography. He was talking about being young, famous and suddenly expected to kiss the person he found most beautiful in the room — while a camera watched.
For all the practiced ease of movie romance, the confession is charmingly unpolished. Lowe did not frame himself as a master of seduction. He framed himself as intimidated. In the world of celebrity storytelling, where everyone is usually effortlessly magnetic and every encounter is supposedly destiny, “I was scared” is refreshingly human.
Andy Cohen brought the chaos; Lowe brought the memory
The question arrived during “Plead the Fifth,” the Watch What Happens Live game that exists to make celebrities choose between oversharing and strategic evasiveness. Cohen did his part by reminding Lowe that the competition was serious. The actor has shared screen kisses with an unusually starry parade of women, including Moore and Cattrall, two names that could make even a seasoned guest suddenly discover an urgent interest in passing on the question.
Lowe did not pass. He also did not try to turn the answer into a lecture about chemistry, professionalism or the magic of collaboration. He simply went back to Kinski — and to the face that, in his memory, made the whole situation feel slightly terrifying.
There is a reason this kind of old-Hollywood memory travels. It is specific enough to feel personal, glamorous enough to feel like gossip and harmless enough to be enjoyed without needing a scandal attached. The internet does not always need a breakup, a feud or a suspiciously timed vacation photo. Sometimes it needs a handsome 62-year-old actor to reveal that his most intimidating romantic scene involved a woman who looked, to him, completely unreal.
Page Six’s story had been shared 45,785 times at publication, suggesting that this particular bit of cinematic nostalgia landed with more force than a routine talk-show anecdote. The appeal is obvious: Lowe’s answer instantly sends viewers back to The Hotel New Hampshire, then to every other famous screen pairing Cohen mentioned, inviting the kind of highly unserious debate friends conduct in group chats with the confidence of professional casting directors.
The real-life plot twist is Sheryl Berkoff
Lowe’s on-screen romantic history may be extensive, but his off-screen story has a much steadier ending. He married makeup artist and jewelry designer Sheryl Berkoff in July 1991, and the couple share two sons, Matthew and John Owen.
The timing matters. Lowe met Berkoff on the set of the 1990 erotic thriller Bad Influence, after their earlier meeting on the film Class. In a 2022 interview with People, he described falling for her as the moment he understood that a lasting relationship might actually be possible for him. He also said he went to rehab and got sober in order to build a future with her.
“I had the feeling that if I was ever going to be able to make it work with anybody, it was Sheryl,” he said at the time.
That history gives the Kinski story its best contrast. Lowe can still identify the screen kiss that left him frightened by beauty, but the relationship he built his life around began somewhere less cinematic: on a set, with a woman he came to recognize as the person who made permanence feel possible. One is a perfect talk-show answer. The other is the actual plot.
And yes, he also revisited the Oscar disaster
Lowe’s Kinski confession was not his only recent detour into Hollywood memory. On Andy Cohen Live, he also joked that he was “the only person happy” when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
The reason was brutally self-interested: Lowe hoped the incident would finally knock his own infamous 1989 Academy Awards opening number out of the conversation. He called that performance “the worst opening ever,” then admitted the relief did not last.
“It turns out I still am dragged, dragged every year,” he said.
That may be Lowe’s real talk-show gift: he knows exactly which pieces of his past remain permanently available for public teasing, and he is willing to bring them up before someone else does. The bad Oscar opening, the famous exes, the long marriage, the terrifyingly beautiful co-star — he has enough lore to fill several rounds of “Plead the Fifth.”
But on this night, the headline belonged to Kinski. Decades after The Hotel New Hampshire, Lowe still remembered the kiss, still remembered being scared and still had no interest in pretending anyone else came close.