Genetics making lawyers lolmax - but two boring parents are indeed likely to make for boring children. Never marry a lawyer.

Unless you’re a child of the Beckhams where you won’t be good enough to be a pro footballer and won’t be any good at singing and will need to rely on your parents’ cash to do a bit of photography and cookery before marrying the daughter of someone even richer.

Where would the BBC be without nepo babies?

Exhibit A supporting the contention that be nepo babies are bad:  Jack Whitehall

What else can she say? She's a nepo baby herself 

Brooklyn Beckham is your archetype nepo baby 

you feel for him in a way, there seems to be an expectation that he should do something in the public eye but he doesn’t appear to have any discernible talent 

then I remember all of his unearned money and supermodel wife (or whatever she is) and I pretty quickly stop feeling sorry for him

Exhibit A supporting the contention that be nepo babies are bad:  Jack Whitehall

Not only is he himself a nepo baby courtesy of his dad, he then reverse-nepo'd his dad into his unfunny travel series in a kind of nepo-Ouroboros

I find it an annoying phrase because it's used indiscriminately. 

I tend to agree that acting falls into the same category as sport.

Would anyone deny, for example, that Drew Barrymore, of that famous dynasty, is a superb actress? 

I’m against the death penalty but I’d struggle to vote against anyone who pays money to see Jack Whitehall do standup being gassed like badgers.

you feel for him in a way, there seems to be an expectation that he should do something in the public eye but he doesn’t appear to have any discernible talent 

he should have had adults advise him against the publication of "what I see"

On the other hand, Anjelica Huston daughter of the legendary film director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Key Largo; The African Queen; Moby Dick) is responsible for a film called Agnes Browne, without which would surely not have to suffer the utter abomination that is Mrs Browne's Boys.

Would anyone deny, for example, that Drew Barrymore, of that famous dynasty, is a superb actress?

TBF her dad Michael rather blotted his copybook. 

I love Drew B almost unreservedly but she's a massive fvckup.

Barrymore D's problem is that the peak of her career was ET.

That's just cruel.

So you are going with Poison Ivy? 

G Paltrow objecting will probably increase the use of the phrase in the pub. it is an ugly phrase 

And didn't an anonymous artist that Madonna was plugging on social media turn out to be her son?

You know that people that reach the top of sport largely get there through being more talented and hardworking than anyone else (although of course parental support in the early years helps).  Frankly given the right opportunities huge numbers of people could be great at acting, we have  all  met "norms" who we instinctively know would be great actors, it is however all about getting in front of the right people, so nepotism is obviously a very real thing in the acting world. Daft to claim otherwise.

I didn’t know Drew Barrymore had famous parent(s)

"Frankly given the right opportunities huge numbers of people could be great at acting, we have  all  met "norms" who we instinctively know would be great actors,"

And yet that bloke down the pub doesn't. Can't imagine why.

Dont understand what you are saying Bertha.  Soz

If you think nepotism isn’t a thing in the arts allow me to present Exhibit A Laurence Fox.

I quite like Jack Whitehall and have paid to see him live.

we have  all  met "norms" who we instinctively know would be great actors

Presumably in the same way we "know" somebody would be a "great writer" because you liked some offhand turn of phrase in a rof post.

i wouldn't generalise about nepotism in the arts 

the skills levels required for, say, elite ballet dancing or opera singing will rule out many nepo babies

Some people have immense privilege in life 

This can be you are the kid of a famous person or went to some ridiculously expensive school 

Or similar that you are born in a certain country 

Happy for those with privilege to be insulted for it