Blairite ‘nepo babies’ are the worst of the lot

When the singer Lily Allen found herself flak-catching recently, she was quick to point out she was the OK kind of nepo-baby, because: ‘The nepo-babies y’all should be worrying about are the ones working for legal firms, the ones working for banks, and the ones working in politics, if we’re talking about real world consequences and robbing people of opportunity’. But Allen misses the point. People feel cross about the showbiz nepo babies – those who have made it thanks to their parents’ fame – because being an actor, model or TV presenter seems far cushier than being a lawyer or a politician. In those jobs, you have to at least turn up at an office and get yelled at just like a regular person. If an entertainer’s child also becomes an entertainer, the back-scratching seems amplified to an insulting degree, as we’re aware of how highly-paid such people are.