I don’t know what I was expecting when I saw that Prince Michael, Michael Jackson’s 16-year-old firstborn (yeah, you’re old), has become a celebrity reporter on Entertainment Tonight. I guess I was expecting a light-skinned bejeweled, moonwalking Gollum wrapped in a blanket reporting at all times with an umbrella over his head. But this guy? Are we sure he’s Michael Jackson’s son? (Actually, there’s a lot of debate about that question, debate which apparently I missed because at a certain point in the 90s, I got Michael Jackson fatigue and stopped paying attention to anything Jackson-related).
ANYWHOO, it turns out he’s a thoughtful and well-spoken teenager who has somehow managed to avoid acne, has a deep voice, and from the looks of it, is a normal human being. Good for him. Really. I wouldn’t trade places with that guy for anything in the world. I can only imagine what growing up as the son of Michael Jackson might be like, and how he will never, ever get out from underneath the shadow of Jackson’s legacy, both good and bad. It’s impossible to look at the guy without wanting to ask him a million questions, none of which he’s probably keen to answer.
He debuted this week on Entertainment Tonight with interviews with the Sam Raimi, James Franco, and Zach Braff from Oz The Great and Powerful. The video is below because there’s no way you’re not a little bit curious.
For most of us, this is what Prince Michael looked like the last time we saw him. He’s the one in the middle, with Blanket on the left and Jackson’s daughter, Paris, on the right.
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I refuse to believe that he has even a shred of Michael Jackson’s DNA.
Why, because Michael Jackson was gay? Pfft.
ahhh…Michael jackson gay jokes. It takes me back in time.
None of those kids have a shred of Michael Jackson’s DNA. Before he started fucking around with his face and his skin (*alleged* skin disease notwithstanding) and went all anorexic, lest we all forget Michael Jackson was a bona fide African American man.
I mean, sure, they were his kids as children conceived by means of science are still legally and technically someone’s children, but not a drop of MJ’s love puddin went into that recipe.
I wasn’t really trying to make a joke. I genuinely believe he was a homosexual. I was just pointing out that his being gay makes it much harder to believe that those are his kids (not that gay people are incapable of producing offspring, just that it’s less likely).
Well, that and the fact that Jackson was black and that kid’s white.
Being a half-breed myself, I totally agree, and came here to say just that. I realize that genetics is weird, and not all black/white babies come out looking a lighter shade of brown, but that kid doesn’t look *anything* like *any* of the Jacksons, pre- or post-surgery.
If you really think Michael Jackson stuck his black penis (appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. Michael Jackson’s DNA coded black. Don’t get it twisted) into a white woman and popped out three kids who look whiter than Lena Dunham at an estate sale in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I have three time shares to sell you in Boca.
I’m listening.
Aw, he has his father’s nose. Somewhere…
His head is grossly gigantic… doesn’t he know there’s surgery to correct that ?
With a voice like that I’m surprised he’s not Barry White’s kid.
I’m starting to get more and more behind the theory that when he started to get acne, Michael was given cyproterone to stop it and which also stopped him to from getting, well, puberty.
The last time we saw the kids was that photo? Are we blocking out the MONTHS of coverage after Michael’s death when the kids were on TV daily?