About this episode

The episode discusses family estrangement among celebrity children, the implications of sharing children's images online, and offers parenting advice.

Suri Cruise has dropped her megastar dad’s surname and it’s starting to look less like celebrity gossip and more like a new wave of family estrangement. We unpack why the adult children of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise are making their distance official, the PR strategy that helped both men quietly sidestep the conversation, and why mothers are still so often blamed when children cut contact with their fathers. Plus, a genuinely chilling warning about school photos, AI deepfakes and the new risks of sharing children’s images online. Is this the moment schools and childcare centres start going analogue? Also, a 13-year-old Australian piano prodigy, Meghan Markle’s dessert rule and Monz solves dinner with four life-changing words: Chook. In. A. Bag. Reccos: Monz recommends  Chicken In A Bag for dinner  Amelia recommends  Just Crazy by Andy Griffiths , and DEAR: Drop Everything And Read. Stacey Natasha Sholl’s beautiful Mamamia essay, A Letter To The Siblings Of Kids With Additional Needs. Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now…

People in this episode

Hosts: Monz, Amelia

Topics covered

• family estrangement
• celebrity gossip
• school photos
• AI deepfakes
• parenting advice
• children's safety
• dinner solutions

Keywords

• Suri Cruise
• Brad Pitt
• Tom Cruise
• AI deepfakes
• school photos
• parenting
• family
• dinner ideas

Sponsors

Very Peri

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mamamia

Products: Chicken In A Bag

Books & works: Just Crazy, A Letter To The Siblings Of Kids With Additional Needs

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