Actors, famous musicians, and a former morning show host. Barron Trump may be the son of a former President, but some of his NYU classmates have parents who are just as famous.
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00:00Actors, famous musicians, and a former morning show host,
00:03Barron Trump may be the son of a former president,
00:05but some of his NYU classmates have parents who are just as famous.
00:09In December 2023, Chance Combs got some much-needed good news.
00:13She'd been accepted to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
00:16Just a month prior, Chance's father, Sean Diddy Combs,
00:20had been accused of sex crimes by several different parties, including his ex, Cassie Ventura.
00:24On her Instagram story, Chance shared a video of her reaction to her NYU acceptance email.
00:29She and her mom, Sarah Chapman, were in the car together when she learned that
00:33she was headed to the Big Apple after graduating from Sierra Canyon School in Los Angeles.
00:37But before she got her high school diploma,
00:39Chance had something else to celebrate — her senior prom.
00:42Her date was Branson Bailey, the younger brother of singers-slash-actors Chloe and Halle Bailey.
00:47Like the Bailey sisters, Chance became interested in pursuing an entertainment career.
00:52However, in a 2023 V Magazine interview, she revealed that her main focus was acting.
00:57Making music wasn't on her radar, but she hoped to move behind the camera someday.
01:01She shared,
01:02"'Acting has helped me evolve more as a person,
01:04and it's helped me step out of my comfort zone."
01:07Diddy introduced Chance to the world she wanted to be a part of by
01:10taking her as his date to the 2022 Oscars. She told E! News at the event,
01:14"'Probably Zendaya is one of my biggest
01:16inspirations and someone that I really want to work with in the future."
01:22Deacon Phillippe has two famous parents,
01:24Cruel Intentions co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe,
01:27and at least one of them is a Kamala Harris fan.
01:30When Taylor Swift endorsed Harris on Instagram, Witherspoon liked the pop star's post.
01:34The actor also praised the veep during a 2020 appearance on the SmartList podcast.
01:39Witherspoon gushed,
01:40"'She just represents so much to women out there.'"
01:42Deacon hasn't weighed in on the 2024 presidential election,
01:45but the budding musician did give off some Trumpian vibes in his
01:49The Buzz music video. He wore a suit with his blonde hair slicked back,
01:52and was filmed cruising around NYC in the backseat of an SUV,
01:55while acting like he was taking important phone calls.
01:57When Deacon started attending college at NYU in 2022, he lived in the dorms,
02:02which is where he recorded his first album. The following year, he moved into a two-story
02:06West Village apartment and gave TikToker Caleb Simpson a tour of his crib.
02:10It wasn't quite as opulent as Baron Trump's digs,
02:13but it did have a spacious living room and a spiral staircase.
02:16Ryder Robinson, the son of actor Kate Hudson and the Black Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson,
02:21is also hoping to turn his love of music into a career. For Hudson,
02:24it was difficult to adjust to her oldest son being away at college. She told Access Hollywood,
02:29"'I'll have a moment where I'll just start crying because something,
02:32well, it will hit me that he's just not here.'"
02:35Ryder was already performing with a band called The Codependents before he left home,
02:39and his fans included his famous former stepfather, Matt Bellamy. The Muse frontman
02:43posted some photos of Ryder performing at the Mint in Los Angeles and wrote in his Instagram
02:47caption,
02:48"'Very proud of my boy.'"
02:49Ryder isn't just a talented musician. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Hudson praised his acting
02:54chops, saying,
02:55"...I would say he's probably the funniest in our family."
02:58The Bride Wars star backed up her claim on Instagram. She couldn't contain her laughter
03:02as she filmed Ryder doing a dead-on impression of Harry Styles reacting to a fan's sign.
03:07In March 2021, former Good Morning America host Amy Robach celebrated her oldest daughter,
03:13Ava Mackintosh, receiving an acceptance letter from Tish. Her Instagram post about
03:17the happy news included a throwback photo of Ava dressed in a ballet outfit.
03:21The mom was thrilled that her daughter would be attending classes so close to home,
03:24but then a few years later, Ava decided to study abroad in Berlin for a few months.
03:28Robach wrote in the caption of a TikTok video of her daughter's emotional departure,
03:32"'I'm so excited for her, but my heart is still aching.'"
03:35Like many of her Nepo baby brethren, Ava worked hard on turning her passion into
03:39a career while she was studying. In May 2023, she released her debut album,
03:43A Place to Come Home To. While she was celebrating, her mom was lying low.
03:47Robach had lost her job over her secret relationship with T.J. Holmes,
03:51and the two anchors were still generating a steady stream of scandalous headlines.
03:54They later began telling their side of the story on their podcast,
03:57Amy and T.J.
03:58During one episode, Robach recounted a discussion she had with Ava about her relationship with
04:03Holmes. Robach recalled,
04:04"...She thought it was such a quick decision, that it was just an abrupt thing I just leapt into,
04:08and I said that, no, I thought about this."
04:12In 2023, Darius Rucker's son, Jack, started classes at NYU. The Hootie and the Blowfish
04:17frontman told People,
04:18"...you're just so proud of your kids and reaching those milestones."
04:21He also spoke about what he planned on doing as a new member of the Empty Nestor Club,
04:25and it seemed that he was missing his kids already. Rucker added,
04:28"...I better spend time playing a lot of golf and traveling around,
04:30and probably traveling to the city that they're at, so I can see them."
04:33Jack is a songwriter who has hit the studio with his dad. Darius told a
04:37Philadelphia radio station in 2024,
04:39"...He's kind of like a Post Malone kind of guy. We're cutting some songs,
04:42but I don't know what we are going to do with them."
04:44Jack found another talented collab partner at NYU, Deacon Phillippe. Together,
04:49they've recorded the tracks 8, 5, 18, and The Buzz, which Darius proudly promoted on Instagram.
04:54The two students, who share a love of music, don't just have a productive working partnership.
04:58On YouTube, they describe themselves as close friends.