Jamie Oliver's son, Adam Sandler's daughters: ‘nepo babies’ are taking over showbiz. What about the rest of us? | Arwa Mahdawi

Oliver’s 12-year-old is getting a TV show; Sandler’s teenagers star in his new movie. That doesn’t leave much for the ‘normies’

The year is 2223. You’re back home after a long day at work (work still exists in the future, I’m afraid) and flick on your virtual reality entertainment centre to unwind. A hologram of Jamie Oliver’s great-great-great-grandson appears before you; he’s chirpily demonstrating a recipe for a pukka insect-based dish. You change the channel and come across Phil Collins’s great-great-great-grandaughter in a sitcom called Emily in Mars. You change the channel again and are confronted with a film directed by a Coppola.

I obviously don’t know what the future is going to look like (I would be very rich if I did), but the way that things are going it seems that generational fame has become the new generational wealth. “Nepo babies” have been a hot topic for a while now but the issue received renewed interest this week after it was revealed that Oliver’s 12-year-old son has landed a cooking show on the BBC. This news broke shortly after comedian Adam Sandler’s decision to cast his two teenage daughters in his latest film, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, raised some eyebrows.

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