Robert De Niro, 81, shares how he bonds with baby daughter Gia

Robert De Niro, 81, has spoken about life with his baby daughter during a radio interview in the UK.

The Hollywood legend shares Gia, 20 months, with partner Tiffany Chen, 45.

De Niro joined BBC Radio 2 Breakfast to discuss his Netflix series Zero Day, telling host Scott Mills he had asked his agent to find him work in New York so he could stay close to home, which resulted in his first TV role.

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The actor then spoke about his own viewing habits, which is when he touched on life with Gia.

"I don't watch as many movies as I should, I try to watch films, especially that I'm into," he explained.

"I just wanna keep up, but I watch current events if you will news stuff like that.

"Now I watch with my little girl, The Wiggles and Ms Rachel."

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When Mills asked him if he watched popular Aussie TV show Bluey and Hey Duggee, he said he'd "look for them".

"The Wiggles and Ms Rachel, I didn't know of them until I started seeing them and my daughter loves to watch them… but they're great!" De Niro added.

De Niro spoke about the joy of new fatherhood with People.

"She's such an adorable baby. So sweet," he said.

"[When I] look at her, everything else goes away. So it's a great joy and relief to just be with her in the moment."

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De Niro said his older children "all get a big kick out of her".

"The grandkids even," he continued. "She's their aunt – [and] they're about to be teenagers."

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De Niro has six other children – Drena, 56, and Raphael, 47 with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott, Elliot, 25, and Helen, 12, with ex-wife Grace Hightower, and twins Aaron and Julian, 28, with former girlfriend, Toukie Smith.

In Zero Day the actor plays respected former President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is "charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyberattack that caused chaos and thousands of fatalities across the country".

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