Nick Cannon Didn’t Want Any of His Kids to End Up on TV Like Him
Nick Cannon has amassed a fortune thanks to his career in the entertainment industry. Despite how lucrative his career’s been, however, he wouldn’t want his children following in his footsteps.
Nick Cannon feels being in the entertainment industry would come too easy for his kids
Cannon knew what it was like growing up in the entertainment industry. He had his start in the classic Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That before moving on to bigger things. Since then, he’s built himself a lucrative acting and music career while also developing his own popular sketch comedy show Wild N’ Out.
But although Hollywood has been good to him, Cannon wouldn’t want to see his kids follow in the same footsteps. Back in 2014, Cannon wasn’t against his twin children, which he shared with Mariah Carey, pursuing acting careers. Still, he hoped they’d develop passions that led them to a different path.
”I don’t want my kids to be on TV, that’s the only thing [I don’t want them to do],” Cannon once said according to Contact Music.
Cannon expanded his family considerably since then. The actor is currently a father of 12 children now, including his twins. Not too long ago, however, Cannon showed that his views on his children’s futures hadn’t changed all that much.
“Out of all my kids, I’m like, if they want to be in entertainment, that’s fine, but that’s almost easy,” Cannon said in a 2023 interview with Business Insider India. “I want you to do something that’s challenging, go outside of the box, so you can see effort and perseverance and those things, because they’re a nepo baby. There’s advantages to a kid. You’re just like, ‘Oh, this is natural.'”
What Nick Cannon would prefer his children to do
Cannon rattled off a few occupations he’d want his children to have when they got older. Some of them couldn’t have been any further from their dad’s entertainment career.
”A nuclear scientist,” he suggested. “Can I get one of those? Can I get a heart surgeon in the family?”
He also liked the idea of his kids being involved in sports due to the challenge and work ethic involved.
“That’s why I love… to see my kids try sports, because it has nothing to do with anything. It literally is however much work you put in, how hard you go, that’s how you’ll succeed in that space. They can learn all of those cool principles through having fun with their friends,” Cannon said. “I’m hoping for a few athletes. I hope I can be that dad on the sidelines somewhere rooting for them. But, again, if they want to be accountants or equestrians, I don’t care.”
It was also noted that Cannon encouraged his kids to get into music. However, this was a different kind of music than what Cannon, as a hip-hop artist, specialized in. The Drumline star confided that he bought his kids musical instruments to tinker with.
“I wish I would have learned theory and all the musicality at a very young age, because then I would be such a better musician even today,” the rapper said. “So I’m giving them that gift. I’m like, ‘Look, you’re gonna get the lessons. You’re gonna know how now you can do whatever you want to do. You get to impress the girls, or you can make a career out of it.”
But despite Cannon’s wishes, it seems a few of his kids are already headed down the acting path.
“My kids, especially Moroccan and Monroe, they’re hams,” he revealed to E! News. “They love attention. They love performing. My son is fascinated with cameras and directing and making little movies. They definitely have the bug.”
