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Ron Howard is getting ready for a full house over the holidays
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While speaking with PEOPLE exclusively at the DOC NYC Visionaries lunch, the Happy Days alum opens up about his family’s plans for the upcoming Christmas holiday
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Howard adds that his entire family, including his and wife Cheryl Howard’s four adult children and six grandchildren, made it a “real point” to make it to his house for the winter celebration
Ron Howard is getting ready for a full house over the holidays.
While speaking with PEOPLE exclusively at the DOC NYC Visionaries lunch, the Happy Days alum, 72, opens up about his family’s plans for the upcoming Christmas holiday. Howard adds that his entire family, including his and wife Cheryl Howard’s four adult children and six grandchildren, made it a “real point” to make it to his house for the winter celebration.
“We’re spread out a bit this year out of necessity. But everybody’s made a real point that, come hell or high water, the family’s showing up at our house at Christmas, which makes our day,” he tells PEOPLE. “What’s fantastic is we don’t have to really do that much anymore. We don’t have to plan it, prep it.”
“Everybody just shows up, and it happens,” he adds. “So, I guess that’s one of the nice things about shifting over into the grandparents’ role.”
Cheryl Howard (L) and Ron Howard attend a special screening of “Thirteen Lives” at the Vue West End on July 18, 2022 in London, England
Credit: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage
Last September, Howard spoke with PEOPLE at the YES Scholars 25th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, Sept. 4, at a private event in Los Angeles, Calif., where he shared that he and his wife have become very doting grandparents.
“My wife Cheryl, who was always kind of a tough mom, kind of a disciplinarian, has gone into full grandma mode,” he admitted. “‘Come on over here! I don’t care what your diet is supposed to be! I don’t care what time you’re supposed to go to bed!’ Rules do not apply.”
Ron said that his kids were “a little surprised” to see their mom become more relaxed, and joked they were asking, “Where was that when I was 8 years old?”
However, the Emmy nominee has been enjoying spending time with his family and showing them his work from over the years.
“They run quite the gamut. We got a couple of teenagers already as grandparents, and then some 5- and 6-year-olds,” he said. “So some of them are just discovering The Grinch. Other ones are getting old enough to check out Ransom and Frost/Nixon.”
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Ron and his wife Cheryl are parents to four. Their daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, 44, is mom to son Theodore Norman and daughter Beatrice Jean, whom she shares with her husband, Seth Gabel. Cheryl and Ron are also parents to twin daughters Paige Carlyle Howard, 40, and Jocelyn Carlyle Howard, 40, who is mom to kids Quinn, Sawyer and Elodie.
The couple also shares a son, Reed Cross Howard, who is the dad to daughter Aspen Leigh Howard, whom he shares with his wife, Ashley.
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