Lauren Graham (left); Carlos Valdes and Mae Whitman in 2023. Photo:
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Mae Whitman‘s Up Here costar Carlos Valdes is reportedly the father of her baby son, Miles.
The actress’ longtime friend and Parenthood costar Lauren Graham appeared on the Monday, March 10 episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert where she revealed that the father of Whitman’s baby is Valdes. As Shepard, 50, and Graham, 57, talked about their mutual close friend Whitman, 36, the Gilmore Girls star noted that she’s a big fan of Valdes, 35.
“I’m envious of your relationship with Mae,” Shepard began. “Really?” Graham asked.
“First of all, it’s the sweetest relationship. It really is special,” the actor continued.
“It really is,” Graham replied, adding, “I still get a little thrill when she’ll text me back because it’s not a given. And she’s a mom now, and she’s working and she’s in Ireland.”
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The two went on to profess how much they love Whitman, with Shepard saying he wants to meet Whitman’s baby son Miles “so bad.”
“I’m trying to think the last time [I saw her],” Graham continued. “They’re in New York now. Carlos, her baby daddy, is on Broadway in Hadestown, which I feel happy to plug because he’s fantastic in it, Carlos Valdes.”
“He’s really great,” Graham says of her TV daughter’s partner. “And so they’re in New York for the next while and then she got this job in Ireland. So she’s in Ireland with the baby.”
A rep for Whitman and Valdes did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on their relationship status.
Whitman and Valdes welcomed their first baby together, son Miles, back in August 2024. Whitman revealed at the time that she’d named her son after her best friend Miles Heizer, who costarred as her brother Drew Holt in Parenthood.
The pair previously played loved interests in the short-lived Hulu series Up Here.
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Earlier this month, Valdes spoke to PEOPLE about starring in Hadestown and revealed that he’d also recently welcomed a baby.
“Not a lot of people know this, but I’m a dad, a relatively new dad,” he said. “And it’s my personal preference that I don’t share more beyond that, but being a Broadway dad… let me tell you, it’s not for the faint of heart! This life is pretty unforgiving when it comes to balancing it with parenting.”
Valdes noted he’d turned to fellow Hadestown alum Jordan Fisher for advice on balancing the play with being a parent. The To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You actor was Valdes’ predecessor in Hadestown and offered him some “invaluable” advice about how to approach the role of Orpheus.
“We had our little sentimental ‘passing of the torch’ conversation and one of the many things he imparted to me in that conversation was that as dads, we have a superpower in playing Orpheus because we can allow the fruits of that experience color our approach to this very childlike character in a very natural and informed way,” Valdes said. “And since I started in the show on Jan. 14, he could not be more correct.”
“I’ve really put a lot of my own personal experience as a dad, and as a fan of my child, into Orpheus’ own naiveté of looking at the world,” he added. “So I’m very grateful to Jordan for extending that wisdom.”
