Carnie Wilson still sings Beach Boys songs with her father, Brian Wilsonamid his battle with dementia, she tells exclusively Us weekly.
“We sang a few Beach Boy songs for him over Easter,” Carnie, 55, told us of the holiday she spent with her father, 81, and daughter, 18. “He couldn’t get over it [it]. He said, [Lola’s] Great. She’s gorgeous. I mean, she has a beautiful voice and she just keeps going. And that’s what she wants to do.”
Brian’s wife, Melinda Wilson, died in January at age 77 and the family has since filed for guardianship of Brian. Representative Lee Ann Hard And Jean Sievers will serve as co-conservators to “ensure that there will be no extreme changes” to Brian, his household or his family, the filing says.
“He is very well cared for,” Carnie said of her father. “He lost his wife. It was not easy. But his family is around him. His children are around him. And he went to the Laker game. We’ll look at the Dodgers. He wants to attend plays. He wants to go to Musso and Frank’s on Hollywood Boulevard and eat their famous Thousand Island dressing.”
Carnie says her dad likes it when the family sings Beach Boys songs together and even shouts out some of his favorite songs.
“We love singing ‘Surfer Girl’ and ‘In My Room.'” Sometimes a little bit of “California Girls,” his favorite song, and sometimes we do “Be My Baby,” his favorite song of all time by the Ronettes. she said. “And yes, I like to sing his songs to him. I think they mean a lot to him.”
Carnie is a product of her childhood, where she spent 35 years as a musician and member of the band Wilson Phillips. She will also be the host Sounds delicious with Carnie Wilsona show in which she cooks her favorite dishes alongside other celebrities.
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“Music is in our blood,” she said. “And my maternal grandmother was a really good cook. So I remember that’s where the food part comes in.”
She added: “I pray to her today that she will be with me when I do this. She’s somehow always in the kitchen with me.”
Sounds delicious with Carnie Wilson Premieres Tuesday, April 16 at 8:30 p.m. ET on AXS TV. Sugar Rays Mark McGrath will be your first guest.