Worried your kids are growing up too fast? Thinking that you should spend more time with them? Sylvester Stallone has a solution: sign up for a Paramount+ show in which you, your three daughters and your wife (who could easily pass for another sister) allow the cameras, Kardashians-style – or more accurately, Osbournes-style – into your home. This is genuinely the reasoning that the ultimate action hero gives when he is asked why on earth he, as an Oscar nominated screenwriter, twice Oscar nominated actor and the only American to have starred in a Box Office Number One movie in six consecutive decades, is turning his boxer’s hands to reality TV. At the age of 76.
I was ready, at this point, to lambast this show as a brazen, ‘what’s a nepo baby, man?’ attempt to supercharge the potential influencer earnings of Sophia and Sistine Stallone (who co-host a lifestyle podcast) and Scarlet (who acts in her dad’s show Tulsa King). But within about two minutes, I was beaming from ear to ear and did not stop for a long time.
