{"id":641777,"date":"2026-10-26T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641777\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:36:13","slug":"nepotism-thats-my-job-says-stallone-after-daughter-hired-as-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641777\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism? That\u2019s my job, says Stallone after daughter hired as co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/non-fiction\/sylvester-stallone-steps-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a> has made light of nepotism accusations after his daughter was hired to the cast of his TV show Tulsa King.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who plays the lead role and serves as executive producer on the series, said that it was \u201cof course nepotism\u201d, adding it was incumbent on him to ensure his children \u201chave every advantage\u201d in life.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlet Rose Stallone, 24, appears in the series as Spencer, who is hired as a bartender by Stallone\u2019s character, Dwight.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about criticism, Stallone, 80, told <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv-streaming\/2026\/10\/16\/tulsa-king-sylvester-stallone-scarlet-rose-season-4-role\/91763378007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: \u201cFirst they go, \u2018Nepotism is terrible.\u2019 I said, \u2018Oh please, you\u2019re not a good parent if you haven\u2019t performed a little nepotism. Then obviously you don\u2019t care about your kids, because they come first.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it\u2019s nepotism, you idiot. That\u2019s why we\u2019re parents. We want the best for our children. So we let them have every advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone has made light of nepotism accusations after his daughter was hired to the cast of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[314723,5123,21240,156,111,43,139,69,1177],"class_list":["post-641777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-action-films","tag-celebrity-news","tag-david-beckham","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}