About Tommy Riles

Tom Riles is a husband, father, and original founder of Life of Dad, the largest community of dads in the world. Riles is also the long-time audience warm-up comedian for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in addition to hundreds of other TV shows in Los Angeles. Riles started the Life of Dad community from a hospital room as his daughter was awaiting open-heart surgery at only three days old. His daughter is now a healthy nine-year old, while Riles and his wife, Lucy (who also started Life of Mom), have helped to raise over $1 Million for congenital heart defect awareness and research.

Tobey Maguire – Celeb Dad of the Week

Bottles up for Tobey Maguire, Life of Dad's first "Celebrity Dad of the Week!" Celebrity Baby Scoop spotted Tobey picking up his 4-year old daughter, Ruby, up from school last Friday in Santa Monica.  Tobey and his wife also have a 1 1/2 year old son, Otis.  Tobey was once spotted changing a diaper in [...]

By |2011-02-16T13:36:35-08:00February 16th, 2011|Blog|3 Comments

Babs and Darth Vader from Superbowl Commercial

What does Babs have in common with Darth Vader from the Volkswagon Superbowl commerical?  Here's a picture of Darth Vader... And here's a picture of Babs... Well, the answer is that they both had life-saving congenital heart defect surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. This week is Congenital Heart Defect [...]

By |2011-02-10T05:25:51-08:00February 10th, 2011|Blog|6 Comments

Baby Laundry: Let Them Do It Themselves

Do you ever get sick of doing your baby's laundry day after day?  The solution is simple, let the baby do YOUR laundry.  Train your baby to sort, wash, fold, and even iron your clothes.  On a day like Superbowl Sunday, don't you just want to relax?  Then this is the perfect day [...]

By |2011-02-08T03:19:15-08:00February 8th, 2011|Video|0 Comments

Superbowl Sunday Baby!

Last year, my wife was very pregnant in early February.  I think any dad-to-be secretly hopes that his baby isn’t born on Superbowl Sunday.  Our daughter, Babs, did indeed wait a few more weeks, and arrived the weekend of the Academy Awards. This means that Sunday was Babs’ first Superbowl.  [...]

By |2011-02-07T15:21:16-08:00February 7th, 2011|Blog|5 Comments

Dogs: The Real Babies of Beverly Hills

My wife loves “The Real Housewives” of any city.  She is the main reason I started the spoof web series, “The Real Housedads of Orange County.” Last Tuesday, I took her to dinner at Lisa Vanderpump’s  (one of the housewives of Beverly Hills) restaurant, Villa Blanca.  The hip joint [...]

By |2025-08-11T20:48:39-07:00February 3rd, 2011|Blog|3 Comments

The Year of Awesome – February 2011

At the beginning of January, I named this year “The Year of Awesome.”  I wanted to do something each month that I had never done before, and would remember forever. Last month, I launched my first spoof reality series, “The Real Housedads of Orange County.”  Thanks for all the support [...]

By |2011-02-02T13:53:47-08:00February 2nd, 2011|Blog|0 Comments
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