Would you want your son or daughter to become hugely famous and wealthy?

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Do you honestly think anything good can come from being a celebrity?

I look at the lives of celebrities (legit ones with a talent, and then the other ones who are just well known) and think it looks very miserable a lot of the time.

One of my dc is a talented musician but I would hate them to become famous. The industry is absolutely riddled with drugs. So many die young, so many are troubled, so many just cannot cope with the fame. And even if they can cope, they never get any privacy or a moment's peace.

I think it's a weird ambition to have your most precious loved ones.

You know, not that many musicians die young 😆 it’s not like being a ww2 bomber pilot, and I wouldn’t say it’s more riddled with drugs than the city or advertising.

Very few people are so famous they never get a moment’s peace. In the main people maintain their celebrity to maintain their careers - they go to places they will get photographed when they want that and avoid it when they don’t. The few ultra famous people don’t tend to hang around places they get bothered.

It would be weird to especially want it for your kids, but I don’t think many parents would even have thought about it.

Do you read the Mail? I get the feeling you might have read too many All that Glitters: My Rock and Roll Hell type articles. They are 90% bullshit.

Yes. Want my son to be a successful rock star and buy me a big ass house. 😲🤑

I wouldn't want them to be celebrities. But wealth - unless it is ginormous wealth - makes life easier.

I often think celebrity is a choice to some extent. Loads of actors/musicians etc fly under the radar when they want to and don't expose their children to any of it.

One of my dc is starting to get noticed by professionals for their talent. It is a bit scarey tbh!! Wouldn't want them to change!!

Someone I knew as a child has become a very elite sportswoman. I could imagine her becoming a household name in future.

At moment she can still walk around the community she grew up in without being mobbed but.. will she miss that freedom if it went? She seems so young to have all that pressure & attention. I hope that in her sport there's lots of financial planning & support to deal with fame & public criticism (should be).

I've got a friend whose son IS very famous and successful and wealthy. She never tells anyone who her son is. Several young women I know are friends with his sister. (They don't live a massive distance from me.) My friend loves her son being so famous. It's brought financial security for life to the family.

Not sure how I would feel if my own became super famous. They are talented, and have successful careers though, and are in happy relationships, with their own homes, and are happy.

If they were famous for something impressive like reversing climate change, some great environmental worthy project e.g. like Attenborough or bringing about some moral reform of our politics.
Definitely not for being on a 'love island' or 'towie' type thing.

My best friends son is very famous. He is lead singer in a very very well known band. He is a household name. I find it incredibly odd. We also seldom discuss it. I remember when he was born, him growing up, the shit he used to do.

Now I see fans and interviews and media pieces. The adoration. When we talk about our kids it’s never in the way folks would imagine. She will talk about a girlfriend. Or a location he is in, or he is coming round for tea. We talk about him like he’s not hugely famous. I guess for us because he’s not. He’s just him. We both act like it’s perfectly normal. And we have been friends for over three decades, before he was even born.

I don’t think about it often, but sometimes I see something on the tv, or Spotify tells me about their tour, or I see an interview mentioned, their song on the radio, or someone at work says they are going to see them live, and I am a little thrown by it. I never mention I know him. But he is still him when I see him, and he still just treats me like his mums best friend who he’s known forever and I treat him just like she treats my child.

i had a party for an event for my child last year, and he obviously came, and her friends and some of ours couldn’t get past that he was there, because she also doesn’t tell folks she grew up with him and knows him.

As said, it’s odd. I can’t even begin to explain it. Its something that just happened and it’s like we all never caught up with it and just act like he isn’t famous.

Would I wish it on someone, I don’t know because it doesn’t work like that, it simply comes with success.

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I have always thought that DS2 would go far.
I just hope it's not in the back of a Police car (I put the odds at 50/50)
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Wealthy, sure. Famous, absolutely not. I would absolutely loathe to be famous.

@Summersolargirl

My best friends son is very famous. He is lead singer in a very very well known band. He is a household name. I find it incredibly odd. We also seldom discuss it. I remember when he was born, him growing up, the shit he used to do.

I wonder if it's the same famous young man I know? One of my friends who I mentioned further back who has a famous son; HE is in a very well known band too. Interesting.

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How many bands and their lead singers are household names these days?
Then again, maybe you're not talking about someone young. Is your best friend's son Bono?

Oh dear, I just googled and Bono's mother is dead.

One of my friends became very famous and then the public turned on her. She did nothing wrong.

I wouldn’t wish what she’s been through on anyone.

@User2145738790 I'm guessing it's One Direction tbh. They were normal kids raised in normal homes.

Funny you say that just before I flicked over to this thread, I was looking at some photos on Facebook that a friend had just posted going out for a meal with his 2 adult children. His daughter became 'famous' by appearing on Love Island. I've never asked him about it. He's never spoken about it.

It could be. I forgot pop groups are called bands as well.

No, I want them to be free to leave their house and buy a pint of milk, and everything else that being anonymous brings.

As far as jobs go, being in a rock band has got to be a great thing, surely. You need the personality to cope with the pressure but some people thrive on that. I think they'd have the time of their lives. Life is for living (but I would advise them to stay away from social media).

I wouldn't hope for any of them to become celebrities, but I'd be delighted for them if any of them became hugely wealthy.

Yes, I know "money doesn't bring happiness" but it doesn't half make life a damn sight easier.

My DH is well known. He doesn’t do drugs nor drink, many people who are well known don’t do drugs.

We moved very rurally years ago as the press attention was awful and we didn’t want our DC growing up with zoom lenses watching their every move. I have come to hate the press tbh.

We never had a choice in whether our DC followed in their dads footsteps, that was up to them and two of them have. It’s easy to control press attention, you put the word out where you’ll be and when, otherwise you live under their radar. The drawback is that you have a few close friends that you trust.

We’re often out and about in our motorhome and have lost count of the times that DH is told he looks like X person when he is actually X person 😂. It’s easy to play down that type of situation.

His daughter became 'famous' by appearing on Love Island. I've never asked him about it. He's never spoken about it.

I'm not surprised he doesn't talk about. I'd be utterly ashamed and embarrassed if one of my children appeared in such brainless trash, and wouldn't talk about it either!