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For years, actuality TV has stuffed a distinct segment as soon as occupied by sideshow acts in touring circuses.
A brand new collection is coming quickly — one within the vein of Octomom, Jon & Kate Plus 8, and even the disgraced Duggar household’s time on display screen.
However this one has a star twist.
Are you able to observe Nick Cannon as he juggles having 12 youngsters by six totally different girls?
They need to actually name it ‘Unfastened Cannon’ (however they’re cowards)
Transfer over, Nadya Suleman. Dodekadad is coming to Netflix.
(That’s not the present’s title. Selection studies that the working title is Cannon’s Home of Playing cards, which is … uninspired.)
The upcoming actuality docuseries threatens to “pull again the curtain on the whole chaos, headline-making drama and heartfelt moments that include elevating 12 youngsters by six totally different mothers.”
The teaser continues: “All whereas managing his booming profession and complex private life.”
His profession is booming? That’s new info to many.
“Get an inside have a look at how Nick Cannon navigates his wild, blended households with humor, vulnerability, and his real dedication to being a gift father,” the blurb claimed.
“From million-dollar conferences to midnight diaper runs,” the teaser threatens.
The press launch needs individuals to “assume Kardashian-level glam meets relatable, messy trendy parenting.”
In keeping with the premise: “That is fatherhood, fame, and household.”
Cannon’s estimated internet value is within the tens of hundreds of thousands. That’s lots, however arguably doesn’t quantity to Kardashian glam. Until the blurb is referring to Rob.
Typically, a actuality TV collection seems like a reward for dangerous habits
The information of Cannon’s new actuality collection got here on Wednesday, Could 13.
You will have seen lots of information from varied tv upfronts this week.
Wednesday was Netflix’s.
Cannon’s new gig is more likely to flip heads and earn scorn.
It isn’t simply that he’s a Trump supporter with a historical past of antisemitic scandals. It’s additionally that individuals are actually uninterested in Cannon making dangerous selections that influence his household and appearing prefer it’s cute.
The remainder of us so usually overlook Cannon’s litany of youngsters, to the purpose the place some wrestle to imagine that he doesn’t mess up his personal youngsters’s names once in a while.
He has 15-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, with ex-wife Mariah Carey. Cannon lately admitted to a sexist double-standard on the subject of them courting. (To be truthful, he wouldn’t need his daughter courting a man like him, proper?)
With Abby De La Rosa, Cannon has twins Zion and Zillion, plus one other youngster named Lovely Zeppelin.
With Brittany Bell, he has Golden Saigon, Rise Messiah, and Highly effective Queen. With Bre Tiesi, he has Legendary Love.
With LaNisha Cole, he has Onyx Ice. With Alyssa Scott, he shares Halo — however they had been additionally mother and father to Zen, who died at 5 months previous in 2021.
No matter critics might say about Cannon himself, we want his youngsters the perfect. With life, with their upcoming actuality TV fame, and in lots of circumstances, with their identify change filings as adults.