Celebrity offspring that have become/became more famous than their parents?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe some children (e.g., Bush) enter an industry to do right by the dream of the parent.

Yes, though I think Bush Sr. was mortified we never got on board with Jed and the eff up son meandered his way in there.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe some children (e.g., Bush) enter an industry to do right by the dream of the parent.

Yes, though I think Bush Sr. was mortified we never got on board with Jed and the eff up son meandered his way in there.

*Jeb.

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Robert Downey Jr

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Ben Stiller
Ron Howard

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe some children (e.g., Bush) enter an industry to do right by the dream of the parent.

Yes, though I think Bush Sr. was mortified we never got on board with Jed and the eff up son meandered his way in there.

Given how things turned out, I think many of us are feeling that way.

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Anonymous wrote:I am reminded of kids who breathlessly informed their parents that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings

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Anonymous wrote:I am reminded of kids who breathlessly informed their parents that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings

At least no one has said Stella McCartney.

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Anonymous wrote:I am reminded of kids who breathlessly informed their parents that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings

At least no one has said Stella McCartney.

Someone did!

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Anonymous wrote:Ashley Judd

Nope!. As a member of the duo, The Judds, Naomi has won multiple grammy, country music and american music awards.

In country music, Naomi is more famous, sure. I just think that Ashley is more mainstream famous.

Ashley has been out of the public eye for twenty years.

She has not, she worked steadily until the pandemic and her accident.

At what? Honestly, I've been a fan since Sisters, but I only know of her for her political activism for the last many years.

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Mira Sorvino

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Anonymous wrote:Dakota Johnson

Not sure about this, her parents were pretty huge back in the day.

No way Dakota Johnson is more famous than her parents.

+1

I don't think Dakota Johnson is more famous than Melanie Griffith even now. Not even close to it in MG's hey day.

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Anonymous wrote:Ben Stiller
Ron Howard

No way. Both of his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, were a famous comedy team and household name since the late 1950s.

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Miley Cyrus
Robin Thicke
Allison Williams
Nicole Richie
Enrique Iglesias
Gigi Hadid

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Anonymous wrote:Ben Stiller
Ron Howard

No way. Both of his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, were a famous comedy team and household name since the late 1950s.

PP but Ben Stiller was the biggest comedy star in the world for awhile. He is definitely more famous than his parents. It doesn’t mean they weren’t famous themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL at all the kids in this thread.
Reminds me of a few weeks ago when someone wrote “Enrique Iglesias’s father, who was apparently also a singer…”

Kate Hudson, Zoe, Keifer, Dakota

OMG did someone really write that about Julio Iglesias??? Now I feel old - thanks kids!

No way are Kate, Zoe, Kiefer, and Dakota more famous than their parents were are their peak. Now get off my lawn.