There have been children of… and plugged in all their lives. That they become a labor category is a matter of the networks and their obsession with blacklists. Boomers are retiring, Generation X is struggling to connect, Millennials are trying to survive, and Generation Z is looking for scapegoats. And here we have the baby grandkids. Dad’s children, children of nepotism… This is the name given to second-generation celebrities in Hollywood, which has now, with the same doses of adoration and hatred, found translation in Spain.
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But the show must go on and so must business. The Oscars gala awarded the old nepo baby Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh – “Dad, mom, I won an Oscar” – and served to present a new generation: the children of Brendan Fraser, the Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek’s daughter and François-Henri Pinault, Jennifer Connelly’s son…
In Spain @thenmarina accumulates chapters and views of the grandchildren of being around the house. What used to be descendants of artists – the Merlo, Bardem, Flores…– are now children of… The lists multiply to the point of confusing the surname with the talent and putting Tamara Falcó and Bad Gyal in the same bag. Attributing to the drama of the actor Eduard Farelo the glitter-glitter of the daughter on the Primavera Sound stage singing Zorra is like thinking that The rising was the pass of Bruce Springsteen’s son to the New Jersey fire brigade.
Among the children of… there are races of resistance and of insignificance. Among the latter, the majority credit a pose on a magazine cover when they turn 18 and earn a living adding likes to Instagram accounts. And their parents are not responsible for this like…
