Amanda Holden whinging about her daughter being called a nepo baby

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Amanda Holden's daughter is now a model

Amanda is whinging saying that no-one should call her a nepo baby, she earned her modelling contract by herself

The kid is a nepo baby sorry 😭😭😭 - but what's so wrong with that?!

Just own it. Amanda bringing attention to it has just made it worse imo

Yanbu - the kid is a nepo baby
Yabu - the kid isnt a nepo baby and achieved this contract all by herself, no-one should ever call her a nepo baby ever!

I'd say it was Neil Morrissey who launched her career. She got the Wild at Heart part, while dating him. I liked her in that.
Oliver Reed was given a helping hand via nepotism. I'm very glad he was.

There's always been a whiff of desperation from AH 🤑
Her daughters gorgeous though

The lack of awareness around privilege is particularly revolting

It's interesting that lots of people dont like accepting any sort of advantage because it takes away from their effort or hard work....when actually both things can be true.

Most nepo babies probably had a head start to have the opportunity to be on tv/be an influencer/model/singer/actress etc. That doesnt necessarily mean they are not suitable for that job, or not pretty, or talented, or hardworking ....but it means they probably had contacts and by-passed some of the usual, harder, entry routes.

The same in a lot of MN threads where people earn eg 150k and insist its all from hard work, drive, taking opportunities etc...when I'd guess a lot (not all) of people in very highly paid jobs had some advantages - having natural talent at something, good/private education, supportive home, the opportunity to go to uni, and sometimes just being in the right place at the right time. None of that means they are not hardworking or driven, or took risks, but that they had advantages over others that might not have had that background.

I dont earn anything like that... but my first minimum wage job (in a department store) was because my friends mum was a department manager...and my current job came from visiting a friend who worked for the company and someone offered me an (entry level) job

True, though. See also 'ballet girls'.

The latest Mrs Trump….

Now that is a whole load of suffering…

Add Kate Moss's daughter to that list, she has the glow of youth and is slender but not model material in any way

Absolutely she wouldn't. She looks like her father, not her mother.

She is a nepo baby, of course she is.

That doesn't mean she isn't talented or successful under her own steam, though.

Consider Michael Douglas or Lilly Allen. Both very clearly had enormous help and facilitation from their families and connections but no one would suggest neither have talent or have worked hard.

Brooklyn Beckham on the other hand...

All of life is a struggle of nepotism

@Fizbosshoes

I dont earn anything like that... but my first minimum wage job (in a department store) was because my friends mum was a department manager...and my current job came from visiting a friend who worked for the company and someone offered me an (entry level) job

It's an interesting point actually. There's a huge amount of low-level nepotism involved in the world of work which oils the wheels and people don't bat an eyelid if its blue collar work: if you get your school leaving son a job with the local plumber or you get your daughter shifts with your mate the hairdresser it doesn't attract the same level of opprobrium.

Obviously the stakes are a lot lower than if you're Amanda Holden's kid, but its absolutely normal for people to use their connections.

Find me someone who, if offered a golden opportunity to get their child a plumb job, would throw up their hands and shriek: "Nepotism!".

To be fair to Amanda that is what she said. In the article which has caused these nepo-baby headlines she says “'When I was young, I got a job in a fruit and veg shop as my mum knew the guy. If you know someone can help your child get in somewhere, you'll do whatever.'

My view is that law was much easier to break into without contacts. My academic results were good enough but not outstanding, and I gradually worked my way into it with work experience and applying selectively to the right firms. No contacts at all, no-one had even been to university before in my family.

@FeliciaFancybottom ,it looks like many don't.

From what I remember of AH she was a pretty young actress married to Les Dennis.

Lilly Allen. Lily Allen (note spelling) had a limited amount of talent.

I'm not really sure it helped her career much tbh. He was just a game show host after all. I think she's got a lot to thank Simon Cowell for! She was hardly known (apart from her affair with Neil Morrissey) before BGT

@ConnieHeart ,he wasn't just a game show host. Les Dennis - Wikipedia

Of course she is! But what's the issue just own it!

If anyone of us could help our child out we would..

Let's be honest it IS that foot in the door that helps. There will be plenty of girls as or even prettier than her. Whoever awarded her the contract knows that her being Amanda's daughter in turn helps them.

Not just her but in everyday life. I personally know of someone who's child is studying law, has a relative who has his own firm, said relative is helping by offering work experience/taking child to court with them, has offered a job once child graduates. Not to say the child is not intelligent but other kids who are equally if not more intelligent are quite likely not to get the same opportunities.

Anyone would do the same. I certainly would and don't see the issue with it. The only issue is pretending that it didn't happen or it didn't make a real difference, acknowledge that the foot in the door is what made it happen as without it you can be the best but you may never get to where you want to be.

I do think it's a shame that often life seems to be who you know and not what you know. And that there will always be many that never get to achieve what they'd like to simply because they don't know the "right people".

Lilly Allen is the epitome of Nepo baby. She has had unfair advantage for ok ability.

You need talent to do modelling?

Fair enough, I will take the correction. She was more successful than I had realised.

What do you expect Amanda to say? 'DD only got the job because of me'?

@Goldenbear

Lilly Allen is the epitome of Nepo baby. She has had unfair advantage for ok ability.

Of course she is that was the entire point of my comment. As is Michael Douglas. But that doesn't mean she isn't talented (which I accept is subjective).

FWIW I think tons of people use family connections as a leg up into showbiz but showbiz is brutal and if people can't cut it they are spat out fairly quickly by the machine.

Well that's the concept of nepotism, the talent is absent, someone has an unfair advantage based on who they know, not their ability.

Again, the young woman has chosen a ‘journey’ which is based on her body and looks. So she’ll get opinions on those. There are plenty other ‘journeys’ she could have chosen.

Being ‘young’ is also irrelevant.

What difference does it make if Louis can dance or not? He was a manager of pop groups therefore good at spotting talent, apparently