‘It’s ridiculous to be ashamed. But I realise where I came from.’ (Picture: Matthew McQuillan / Channel 4)
The term ‘nepo baby’ has been bandied about a lot over the past few years.
Disgruntled discussions have subsequently followed from people expressing their annoyance about those who are born into privilege – particularly with famous parents – who might use their well-known relative to get a leg-up in their own careers.
Derived from the word ‘nepotism’, famous so-called ‘nepo babies’ include the likes of Hailey Bieber, Brooklyn Beckham, Zoe Kravitz, Jack Quaid, Maude Apatow, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lily Allen and many more.
So what happens when one of these nepo babies decides to test how society treats someone differently if they were born with a famous connection? That’s what Mel B’s daughter Phoenix Brown – who Metro chatted to with recently – wanted to find out in her brand new documentary.
Phoenix is the daughter of Melanie Brown, otherwise known as Spice Girls legend Scary Spice, and Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzar.
The 25-year-old performs as a DJ, having played her first festival earlier this year shortly after appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox with her mum.
Phoenix is keen to front more documentaries in future (Picture: Flicker Productions/Channel 4)
Her mum is Spice Girls legend Mel B, aka Scary Spice (Picture: Tim Roney/Getty Images)
In a new venture, Phoenix recently decided to front her own documentary for Channel 4, titled Born in the Limelight – Nepo Babies: UNTOLD.
Not only did this programme include her exploring what it means to be a nepo baby from her own personal experience and from speaking to others, but it also involved a bit of deception… as Phoenix put on an art show under the guise of becoming a serious artist.
‘The word “nepo baby”, it’s such a big word to just have such a small definition for. So we wanted to make it about nepo babies and celebrities, but we also want to tie it into a bigger picture,’ Phoenix said, explaining how they wanted to highlight ‘inequality in the arts world and in other aspects of the world’.
‘So it gave people some room to have a question in their head and not judge straight away, like we usually do when we hear the word nepo baby.’
As the daughter of a globally famous popstar, Phoenix has experienced her fair share of attention on the internet, sometimes from people who don’t have kind things to say.
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While she hopes that this documentary results in viewers not judging nepo babies as fast as they might have done instinctively, she admitted that she does understand why people might not like her when they find out that she has a famous parent.
‘I’ve never really related to the word “nepo baby” in the sense of when they call me that in the press,’ she shared.
‘When we did more of a deep dive on the word nepotism and how it bleeds into everyone’s lives one way or another in certain aspects, I was like, “Yeah, I …read more
Source:: Metro
