Bill Bellamy and Kobe Bryant.Photo:Rodin Eckenroth/Getty, Dia Dipasupil/Getty
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty, Dia Dipasupil/Getty
Bill Bellamyis opening up about the sweet gestureKobe Bryantdid for his son.
Appearing on Tuesday’s episode ofThe Jennifer Hudson Show, the actor and comedian, 58, shared a story about the time his sonBaron, 17, met the late NBA legend when he was working as a ball boy for the LA Clippers.
“It was Kobe’s last home game playing the Clippers and so I’d seen Kobe and I was like, ‘Hey man, can you meet my son?’ He was like, ‘You got a son?’ I was like, ‘Yeah you got to see my little guy.’” Bellamy explained.
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Kobe Bryant and Bill Bellamy at a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the LA Clippers in 2016.Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty
Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty
However, Bellamy revealed that after the game it was becoming difficult for his son to meet Bryant due to the many reporters around him.
“This is what’s so crazy cause I was getting frustrated because Kobe had so many people around him because it was the last game, all the different reporters and I’m standing there with my son and I’m starting to get impatient,” theCousin Skeeteralum said.
He then joked, “You know I’m starting to feel myself ‘cause I’m famous famous.”
(L-R) Baron Bellamy, Bailey Ivory-Rose Bellamy, Kristen Bellamy and Bill Bellamy.Kristen Bellamy/Instagram
Kristen Bellamy/Instagram
“So I was like, ‘Oh man Kobe not gon' do it or whatever.’ And I will never forget, ‘I was like come on Baron let’s go home,’ ” Bellamy continued. “Soon as I said that Kobe said, ‘Hold up hold up,’ and he brought him over, took a picture.”
Referring to the throwback picture on the screen of Bryant putting his hands on Baron’s shoulders, Bellamy said, “You can see the picture, it’s a cute little picture.”
Bellamy added that it was “such a genuine moment” and he’s glad the meeting was able to be captured.
Bill Bellamy shares a photo of his son Baron and Kobe Bryant on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’.Jennifer Hudson Show/YouTube
Jennifer Hudson Show/YouTube
Bryant and his13-year-old daughter Giannadied in a Jan. 2020 helicopter crashthat also claimed the lives of seven others.
In addition to Baron, Bellamy shares daughter Bailey Ivory-Rose, 20, with his wife Kristen.
And elsewhere during his appearance onThe Jennifer Hudson Show, Bellamy revealed that he tries to scare off the boyfriends of his daughter, “who’s about to be 21.”
“I’m old school, we interrogation at the door,” the father of two said, before adding that he’d ask his daughter’s suitors, “Do you have any felonies?”
source: people.com
