Dr. Phil: I'm Going To Be A Grandpa!

Dr. Phil McGraw made a big announcement on his show today (October 6), People reports. The TV doc brought his family onstage to announce that his 30-year-old son Jay and his wife, Erica McGraw, 31, have a baby on the way! This will make Dr. Phil and his wife Robin first-time grandparents.

Dr. Phil says he got the exciting news during a recent trip to Europe.

We were actually vacationing with the whole family and were in Elba, Italy. Jay and Erica had discreetly gotten several home pregnancy tests the day before in France, and they sat us all down in Elba and said they had some exciting news! 'We are pregnant!'" The good doc went on to say, "The day before Robin had said to me, 'I just get the feeling that Erica is pregnant.' I swear she is some kind of mind-reader, but I guess women know these things."

The 59-year-old Grandpa-to-be couldn't be happier about the news: "I was stunned and thrilled. I did not see it coming at all." Phil's gorgeous wife Robin said she can't wait to be a grandmother. "This is my dream come true! I have lived to be a grandmother, and now I am. Phillip will be putty in this child's little hands!"

The good doc gives Jay and Erica the parenting stamp-of-approval: "I think Jay and Erica were totally ready and will make the best parents a child could ever want. I plan to be the typical doting grandfather that gets to do all the fun stuff and none of the tough stuff."

Phil, Robin, Jay and Erica were photographed above at the Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Erica, formerly known as Erica Dahm, is an identical triplet who posed in the December 1998 issue of Playboy magazine with her sisters.

Congratulations to the McGraw family!