Celebrities and their offspring take cover — Julie Burchill is coming for you. In tomorrow’s Spectator, the Brightonian firebrand blasts the culture of nepotism which she claims “has never been so shameless and so widespread, and the SADs — Sons And Daughters — are everywhere”.
Her targets range from young models with familiar surnames — Rafferty Law and Lottie Moss — to the late Peaches Geldof. Keira Knightley, daughter of playwright Sharman Macdonald, also finds herself in the firing line. “She’s a creature of contradictions, that one,” writes Burchill, “forever banging on about how she’s just an ordinary sweary bird down the pub — and yet, by her own admission, asking her parents if she could have an agent at the age of three.”
The column should make an amusing read for Spectator chairman Andrew Neil, who has been employing Milo, son of his former editor Boris Johnson, on the Middle East edition of Esquire — of which he is also chairman.
