Nepo babies will never know the joy of making it on their own

Did you know that Bruce Springsteen’s son, Sam, is a fireman? Fireman Sam Springsteen. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not. Good on Sam: the child of a star, doing something useful for a living. Brooklyn Beckham-Peltz, the daddy of all nepo babies who has just launched his own brand of hot sauce, could learn a thing or two.

Beckham junior, son of David, might also take a leaf out the books of other celeb offspring who are doing something useful. The daughters of Richard Branson and Roger Taylor have both worked as doctors. Brian May’s son is a physiotherapist. And Alvin Stardust’s son is a headmaster: ‘Education wasn’t a pathway that was understood in my family,’ says Stardust junior.

I’m jaded enough to assume that the children of the rich and famous – no matter how meritocratic and proletarian their parents took pride in being on their way up – will do something easy and effete for a living.