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Dr. Oz Gives Update on Granddaughter After She Faints at White House
UPDATED April 20: Daphne Oz has shared an update on her daughter Philomena Jovanovic, days after the 11-year-old fainted in the White House after her grandfather Dr. Mehmet Oz was sworn in asPresident Donald Trump's administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
"Thank you to everyone checking in on Philo after her big day in the Oval Office," the MasterChef Junior judge wrote on Instagram April 20. "We are so grateful it was nothing serious, and she bounced right back—with a trip for some delicious Navy Mess soft serve for good measure!!"
Daphne thanked "the incredible White House team and medical staff who were so kind" to her daughter as well as to Trump, who she said "went out of his way to make both our children feel comfortable in a stressful situation."
"He was exceedingly warm, caring and generous," she added, "as he spent personal time with each of them at the Resolute Desk and gifted them treasures to take home."
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Good thing there was a doctor in the house—the White House, that is.
Moments after Dr. Mehmet Oz was sworn in as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Oval Office, a commotion occurred when Dr. Oz’s granddaughter Philomena Jovanovic, 11, the eldest of his daughter Daphne Oz’s four kids, fainted.
In footage from the April 18 event, the president was speaking to reporters when he was interrupted by a stir on the other side of the office. As a woman shouted, “Philo fainted, Philo fainted. Dad, go!” Dr. Oz—who shares kids Daphne, 39, Arabella Oz, 34, Zoe Oz, 28, and Oliver Oz, 25, with wife Lisa Oz—rushed over toward his family.
As members of the press, who were told to leave the room, made their exit, Daphne—who also shares kids Jovan Jovanovic, 9, Domenica Celine Jovanovic, 7, and Giovanna Ines Jovanovic, 5, with husband John Jovanovic—could be seen helping her daughter out of the office.
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Though the scene was tense, the White House later clarified that Philomena was doing well.
"A minor family member fainted during Dr. Oz’s swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office,” a spokesperson said in an April 18 statement to People. “We are happy to say she is okay."
While Daphne—who followed in her dad’s TV footsteps, hosting the daytime cooking show The Chew for seven seasons from 2011 to 2017 before making her debut on MasterChef Junior in 2022 as a judge—was quick to be by her daughter’s side, she has also been vocal about the benefit of having a family so deeply entrenched in the world of medicine.
“I don't know what I would do without a doctor on call all the time because I'm so used to it,” the cookbook author told Parade in 2020. “Both of my grandfathers are doctors, my dad, my uncle. So everything gets a call.”
Beyond Dr. Oz, read on to learn more about who else is part of President Donald Trump’s second administration.
(Story originally published Friday, April 18 at 1:42 p.m. PT)
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