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Tony Hawk Says 7-Month-Old Grandson Ronin Knows His House Is ’the Fun Place’

Tony Hawk reveals that his 7-month-old grandson Ronin, the child of his son Riley Hawk and Frances Bean Cobain, thinks of his house as 'the fun place' and calls being a grandfather 'a blast' during an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.

"It's been a blast," he tells PEOPLE while promoting his fun new partnership with Pilgrim’s chicken nuggets. "They asked me about doing a collaboration to show that eating chicken is not so boring and how to incorporate that into what I do, so I actually ended up doing some of my tricks that I've created through the years and adding some Pilgrim's flair to them." He was expecting a "fun experiment" — which it "absolutely" was, says Hawk — "But there was a moment where I was like, 'Oh, I have to actually remove these nuggets from the microwave mid-trick and come back into the ramp with them.'

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