Good to see the children of the rich and famous doing real jobs?

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13850955/Jamie-Oliver-daughter-graphic-posts-social-media-work-nurse.html

OK I know she shouldn't have done the below but I actually find it refreshing that the children of of the rich and famous do real jobs and don't take advantage of nepotism. So many of the children of celebrities seem to become models or singers (though you haven't heard their music) it beggars belief.

I am glad some celeb offspring aren't too posh to do important jobs that maybe involve tough clinical conditions.

You think everyone training to be a nurse has wealthy parents?

I think a lot of children of the rich and famous do ordinary jobs. It's just you don't hear about them. I mean in reality there's a lot of rich and famous people with children yet the number of those children attempting celebrity careers isn't that big (relatively).

On the subject are there many "nepo babies" that achive success in their chosen non-ordinary career? Whilst no doubt all nepo babies are advantaged by their parents by the fact they get their foot in the door to get roles or gigs. But if they are mediocre or talentless they surely don't become independently successful unless they have actual talent. They just end up being famous doing nothing other than being the celebrity's child and embarrassingly failing at things (mostly thinking of the two Beckham boys here) and get called influencers.

Other ones i can think of are Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's children all got breaks (because of who their parents are in acting or music and modelling) but I don't think any have achived success, Jaden tried acting and absolutely got the roles because of Will Smith - he wasn't great and his acting career went nowhere. Think Willow is a DJ - she's possibly successful but don't know enough to comment only read an article where she was trying to justify her career and saying it wasn't down to who her parents are. (There's a third but I know nothing of him.)

I reckon Sofia Coppola got awards because deserved them. Whether she'd have ever manged to gain recognition or funding at the very start without Francis Ford Copplola I can't say. Bet there massive amounts of incredibly talent filmmakers out there who don't get the break they deserve.

I'm rambling,.sorry!! Will stop now before I head down a rabbit hole.

The Beckham kid is the best example of this I think!
The one that got all those terrible photos published?

@mids2019 I do wonder if stopping it is a good thing. The kids of medics know what they are getting into, so I wonder if they are more likely to stick it out once in the NHS.

What's daisy has posted isn't really that bad, I've read worse in the many health care professionals diary like books that are published.

I see everyone already covered the stuff I was rambling about as I wrote my long winded post 🤣

I've heard similar stories from friends too - she simply needs a slap on the wrists for over sharing and to carry on, they're used to posting everything. Good for her for doing a real job.

LinkedIn and the people I've worked with before got me my last two jobs, nepotism is human nature, we want to work with people we feel we know as it's less scary. Agree it's an issue for recruitment but there are all sorts of networks.

I'd rather have Jamie Oliver's daughter doing silly things as a relief from her studies as a nurse than see Elizabeth Hurley's son posing beside his mother.

I'm only able to stay in teaching because I'm mortgage free due to family money (although, not Jamie Oliver levels of money!)

Now that I'm a parent, I do feel guilty that I haven't built up any significant savings for my own kids, though.

Good for them, and I hope she sticks at it. But nepotism is rife everywhere, unfortunately. In every walk of life, that is. Try getting a medical-related placement, which was until recently a must for those applying to medicine? Near impossible, but all the doctors' children got it no problem, even during covid. I don't have anyone medical in the family and when the niece applied, I was running around begging my colleagues to find a doctor who would help. One colleague found one and the niece and I were on a phone call to him to beg for a shadowing experience. He said - 'Why don't you go to the army first or try working in a bar or somewhere else to make sure you definitely want to study medicine'? Basically, discouraging. His own children? No, no army for them, no bar work after school (to quickly forget all the relevant subjects) - they went straight into med school, having previously 'shadowed' daddy.

Pretty awful pressure for Daisy that she has journalists scrutinising her social media and making a story out of of a minor over share. Imagine the horror of seeing that story as a 21 year old.

I think celeb children doing 'normal jobs'' might be a rarity. I think a lot are effectively unemployed or partially employed but can flesh out their status with tags like model, influencer, blogger, socialite etc. I think the relatively untalented offspring of celebs are often too posh to do a mundane job.

Lily Collins, not the worst actress, but you have to ask in the extremely competitive world of acting whether old Phil pulled a few strings. To start his daughter's career genesis?

Ahh Damian, always pouting as if his life depends on it. Hard to imagine him doing anything else given how he has presented since his teens.

I have long wondered about the kind of education having rich parents could afford. Life at Harvard, without a care in the world aside from studying...

We probably only see the nepo babies though, aspiring models etc. There must be many who choose regular routes.

But they can't resist slapping themselves all overcsocial media, telling how they doing 'real' jobs.
Sadly, she cannot be dealt with by NMC as she is still a student

@El12

Seen this. You are meant to go through some really gruelling admin to get school kids to do we in a hospital. Consultants seems to invite their mates children in fairly frequently as hoc.

This Beckham book of photography?

This is hilarious 😂

I think the Mail doing this is absolutely dreadful. That girl has done nothing to put herself in the public eye and to highlight her like this is just plain old nasty.

She won’t be the first or last of her generation to cross social media lines and I hope this is taken into account when disciplining her.

I feel desperately sorry for her and her parents who seem like decent people

I think she’s recognising that they are poorly paid and perhaps some who would love to go into nursing make a decision to get a better paid role when they’d rather nurse.

What is Brooklyn Beckham doing these days? I always think of him when it comes to talentless nepo-kids.

In some way I feel sorry for the children of talented famous people as they grow up in the shadow of their star-parent and statistically they will be unlikely to ever achieve what their parent did. There are some cases where those good genes are passed on - families which churn out generations of good actors or singers - but usually it seems that the children don’t inherit the same talents. I feel sorry that no-one seems to have told them this and they carry on in their entitled way, oblivious to their own mediocrity. But then I remember that they could “just” have a really nice life living of the earnings of their parent and I reserve my sympathy for those who really need it.

Anna Wintour's son, Charles Shaffer, works as a doctor with a specialty in psychiatry.

Was your niece accepted?

I was watching a celebrity version of a game show the other day.

They CLEARLY gave the celebrity easier questions and fixed it.

Made me think of nepo babies, celebrities, many people with fame or money are deliberately given the easy version of life, the fixed version so they win.

Do they know this deep down? Are they aware?

Lots of A list celebs seemed to be wavibg their kids off to college last minth including Adam Sandler and Chris Martin so at least some of them are working hard and getting into college. It must be weird to be on courses and sharing halls with them.

i was talking to an american studentvlast week who told me she was a dorm buddy with Teresa Guildiuces daughter from RHNJ she had no gossip (i tried) but apparently shes finished a degree in law.

I want that for my children. I think about winning or making a fortune and then my kids and grandchildren inheriting and getting to live that life. It must be great