Hang on tight, spider monkey! Taylor Lautner is about to become a dad. The Twilight alum announced his wife Tay Lautner's pregnancy on March 26th, sharing photos of the couple posing with a sonogram of their baby on the way. As a nod to the parents-to-be's similar names, he wrote on Instagram, "What's better than two Taylor Lautners?" Indeed, Tay (born Taylor Dome) took on her husband's last name when they married in 2023 after five years of dating, legally making her another Taylor Lautner.
But for the pair, who were first introduced by Taylor's younger sister Makena Moore during a game night in 2018, having multiple people with the same moniker under one roof isn't as complicated as it seems. "A lot of people just do 'boy Tay' and 'girl Tay'," Taylor explained during a 2022 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. "Either Taylor and Tay—or boy Tay, girl Tay—works."
In fact, they even had some fun with Taylor's former girlfriend Taylor Swift, referring to the singer as "blonde girl Tay" when she enlisted the actor for her "I Can See You" music video in 2023. "I know on paper, it sounds like a tough situation, but I was never once worried about it," he said of having Tay meet his ex on an episode of The Squeeze at the time. "We're just confident in our relationship. [My wife] is the coolest, chillest person ever. She's also a diehard fan of that person."
But don't let that fool you into thinking Tay is Team Jacob when it comes to the Twilight saga. After all, the podcaster had a childhood crush on Robert Pattinson, who played her husband's onscreen rival Edward. It was all the more serendipitous when Tay had a near-encounter with his former costar on a plane ride.
"She was visiting me on the set of a TV show I did called Cuckoo in London," Taylor told E! News in 2022. "When she got to me, she was like, 'You'll never guess who I was sitting next to on the plane.'"
And just like his Twilight character, Taylor has always wanted to imprint on someone special. "I absolutely love kids," he told Entertainment Tonight in 2016. "I love family. So, one day, I very much look forward to that."
