Top 10 Times Nepo Babies Didn't Beat the Allegations
Turns out these nepo babies CAN'T get away with everything. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most notable relatives of prominent people who have yet to make their own independent mark.
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00:00North just can't wait to be king.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most notable relatives
00:07of prominent people who have yet to make their own independent mark.
00:10But it's okay to acknowledge it.
00:13Number 10.
00:14Brooklyn Beckham.
00:15David and Victoria Beckham.
00:16As the eldest son of power couple David and Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn was first poised
00:20to have a football career like his father by signing as a youth player with Arsenal.
00:24I did football for like 15 years, since I was like 2, but like I had a lot of pressure
00:31on me as well, cause you know, and every time I made a mistake everyone was looking at me
00:36like, oh my god, like he made a mistake.
00:38However, after that and modeling both didn't pan out, he turned to photography.
00:42I prefer black and white portrait photography, but I don't really like taking pictures of
00:48pretty faces, I like old, you know, interesting faces.
00:52Brooklyn's name got him to jump ahead of seasoned professionals to work with Burberry,
00:56causing outrage from photographers.
00:57He then attempted to get a degree in the subject, but soon gave that up.
01:01Around this time, Brooklyn signed a publishing deal and released a book of his photographs,
01:05which to mention the elephant in the room, wasn't well received.
01:08What you have in this photo of Brooklyn's that I'm just gonna highlight these empty
01:13spaces, they're not negative space, they're just empty spaces that serve no purpose.
01:19Next on his agenda was cooking.
01:21Despite having no training, Brooklyn developed a show about his chefing exploits, which was
01:25also criticized.
01:34When someone takes over as a dictator, they usually position their relatives into positions
01:38of power and influence.
01:39Well, that's exactly what Muammar Gaddafi did when he controlled Libya.
01:43One of his most interesting nepotism acts was installing his son, al-Sadi, as a footballer,
01:49even making him captain of the national team and president of the LFF.
01:52One of the more bizarre things to happen during this time was that only his name could be
01:56mentioned by TV commentators.
01:58All the other players were mentioned by numbers only.
02:01Gaddafi's influence also allowed al-Sadi to play in Italy.
02:04However, a failed doping test and his apparent lack of skills meant he wasn't successful.
02:09As such, he only made a couple of appearances over four years there.
02:12According to one teammate, he was like a 13-year-old among us.
02:16He tried to give 100%, but physically, he just couldn't match us.
02:20When sport dried up, al-Sadi was handed various governmental positions.
02:24After the fall of his father's reign, al-Sadi was eventually locked up in 2014.
02:34In 2021, he was released.
02:40Getting into comic books can be really hard, so you can imagine the outrage when someone
02:44skips the queue based on their name.
02:46We have written a Spider-Man comic book.
02:49It's coming out in September.
02:50In 2019, Marvel began promoting a four made from webbing.
02:54Fans immediately got excited that they were set to announce a fourth edition to Sam Raimi's
02:58trilogy.
02:59Instead, it was a countdown that led to the announcement that Henry and his filmmaking
03:02father, J.J. Abrams, would co-write a Spider-Man comic story called Bloodline.
03:06Yeah, I mean, Spider-Man in general has been one of the most interesting superhero characters
03:12to me.
03:13How when he gets stronger, his problems get bigger.
03:15But his enthusiasm deflated and largely morphed into frustration.
03:19There's speculation that J.J. had little to do with it beyond lending his name, leaving
03:22most of the creative work to his son.
03:24To make it worse, the story wasn't well-received by many Spidey fans.
03:28The only good news is this comic is an incontinuity, so everything about it can be flushed down
03:33the memory hole like it never existed right where it belongs.
03:36Number 7.
03:37Olivia Jade Giannulli, Lori Loughlin, and Mossimo Giannulli
03:42As the daughter of actor Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, Olivia
03:46Jade was able to use her fame to gain celebrity through social media.
03:55But then in 2019, a far more serious form of nepotism came to light when the Varsity
04:00Blues scandal was announced.
04:07Wealthy parents had bribed a service to get their offspring into college through fraudulent
04:11means.
04:12Olivia Jade and her sister were recipients of the service.
04:15Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 to make their daughters seem like competitive
04:20rowers to the University of Southern California.
04:23Well, the college admissions scandal took another turn this week with federal prosecutors
04:26releasing the photographs that Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli allegedly took of their
04:30daughters on a rowing machine as part of a scam to get them into USC.
04:34Loughlin was sentenced to two months in jail and Giannulli got five months.
04:37To this day, it's hard not to associate Olivia with her nepo background.
04:50Number 6.
04:51Shet Hanks, Tom Hanks, and Rita Wilson
04:54In 2023, when Tom Hanks was asked about the nepotism in his lineage, he dismissed the
04:58term and described acting as the family business.
05:01This is mostly true since all of his children have performed on screen at some point.
05:05Some have been successful, like Colin.
05:07Shet, though, is another matter.
05:19His career has struggled due to various personal issues and controversies.
05:23On top of substance problems, there were abuse allegations from an ex in 2021.
05:27That same year, Shet mocked people who had the COVID-19 vaccine and dismissed the disease
05:32severity.
05:33Also in 2021, he released the rap, White Boy Summer, which was accused of being rather
05:43problematic.
05:44To make matters worse, the song was co-opted by extremist groups.
05:53Number 5.
05:54Joe Kennedy III, The Kennedy Family
05:56If you're a Kennedy in politics, one thing is guaranteed.
06:00Winning elections in Massachusetts, well, except if you're Joe, apparently.
06:09The family has held some of the biggest governmental positions, including the presidency with John
06:13F. Kennedy.
06:14Joe seemingly followed a similar path to his great-uncle by becoming the U.S. Representative
06:18for Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District from 2013 until 2021.
06:25Yet, in 2020, he ran for the Democratic nomination in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate election.
06:34Joe, who was criticized for not explaining why he ran, ended up losing to Ed Markey,
06:39becoming the first Kennedy to lose an election in the state.
06:42Although his political career didn't end there, in 2022, Joe became the U.S. Special
06:47Envoy for Northern Ireland.
06:58Number 4.
06:59Hayley Beaver, The Baldwin Family
07:01The Baldwin family is one of the most influential groups in Hollywood.
07:05As a result, they produce several nepo babies in various entertainment industries.
07:09One of them is Stephen Baldwin's daughter, Hayley.
07:15She started working in the modeling industry and also married singer Justin Bieber in 2018.
07:23In 2023, when social media was awash with criticism about nepo babies, Hayley decided
07:36to walk outside with a t-shirt that had the term written on it.
07:39Luckily, a photographer happened to get a snap.
07:42However, the critique of the stunt was brutal.
07:45Some even stated Hayley wasn't famous enough to be considered a product of nepotism.
07:49Yikes!
07:50Let's go through some tweets together.
07:52The funniest part is no one even mentioned her in the nepo baby discussion.
07:56I need Lily Rose Depp to do this, she'd actually slay.
08:00It's giving nothing.
08:01At the 96 Academy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel even took shots at her for the nepotism label.
08:07Number 3.
08:08Max Landis, John Landis
08:10As the son of controversial filmmaker John Landis, Max would follow his father in both
08:15capacities.
08:24As a teenager, he sold his first script, an episode of Masters of Horror, which just happened
08:28to be co-written with and directed by John.
08:31Next was an episode in Fear Itself.
08:42While John didn't direct it, he did helm another episode of the show.
08:46Max's creation also never aired.
08:47From there, he continued writing, making a YouTube channel, and acting occasionally.
08:53But in 2013, the wheels of his career began falling off after accusations of misogyny
09:06during an interview.
09:07Then in 2017, he was accused of assault.
09:10In 2019, 8 Women came forward with stories about Max's abuse, causing his management
09:14team to drop him.
09:28Number 2.
09:29Jaden Smith, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith
09:32In 2006, Jaden was cast as his father's character's son in The Pursuit of Happiness.
09:38However, this wasn't the first big dose of nepotism for being the child of Will and
09:42Jada Pinkett Smith.
09:43All of Us, a show co-created and co-produced by the couple in 2003, saw Jaden appear in
09:48a recurring role.
09:59After some more acting in the Smith's co-produced 2010 film Karate Kid, Jaden starred alongside
10:04his father in the 2013 sci-fi movie After Earth.
10:15It was critically panned, with Fury notably directed at the nepotism.
10:19The reaction was so bad that both father and son won Golden Raspberry Awards.
10:23Over the years, Will has rebuked accusations that Jaden was cast in The Pursuit of Happiness
10:27due to nepotism.
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10:48Number 1.
10:49Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis
10:53In 2022, Lily-Rose drew the ire of the public by downplaying the advantages she received
10:58as a nepo-baby and applied the expression with sexist.
11:17Of course, people pointed at her famous acting parents, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis,
11:21and made an exasperated sigh.
11:23She had risen in the catwalk ranks due at least in part to her mother's connection
11:26to the fashion world, so others, namely model Vittoria Charity, were livid.
11:31Depp also compared her life to those who become doctors like their parents, seemingly equating
11:35nepo-babies' experiences to the years of training medical professionals undergo.
11:44Lily-Rose has acted over the years, just like her mom and dad.
11:47In 2023, she walked back her comments, admitting that her childhood was different from most.
12:00Which nepo-baby beat the label and made a name for themselves?
12:03Let us know below!