Young Stars in the Making I Mini Me Me Me (Celebrity Children Documentary) I Real Stories

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- [Girl 1] I like being successful. - [Jade] I keep imagining being a celebrity. - [Sally] Child society. The loss of innocence. (children laughing) Children today very grown up. - [Jade] Successful. - [James] I wanna be my own boss. - [Jade] I don't think 11 years is too young. (children laughing) - [Narrator] Meet Lizzie, a mini model. - The King's Road is the best. But I think they should change some of the shops cause, as I live so close, I go there all the time so it gets a bit boring sometimes. - [Narrator] Mini entrepreneurs, James and Spencer. - I wanna be the one who's controlling people and I want to be my own boss. - [Narrator] Skip and Frost, mini DJs. - We're gonna be big big bigger than big, man. Trust me. - [Narrator] And Jade, a mini It Girl. - I'm down as one of the possible brides of Prince William. (upbeat music) - [Narrator] Why wait to grow up when at 10 years old you can be an instant adult? Designer clothes, a full social diary and a celebrity lifestyle they want it all and they want it now. Welcome to the adults world of the mini mes. - I think Jade's perfect for being an It Girl, really because she's very social. She loves socializing going out and seeing her friends. She's got the right sort of background, thankfully. She's very glamorous. She's perfect. - [Narrator] Jade Farmiloe Neville lives in a wealthy area of West London with her father who is a property developer and her mother, who's an actress and socialite. - [Sally] Oh that's gorgeous. - J-Lo. - [Sally What a gorgeous bottle. - [Narrator] With her packed diary, Jade is already well established on the London Social scene. - [Jade] Brittany Spears - [Narrator] When Jade is not at her 14,000 pounds a year boarding school, she can be found at lunch, at parties, in the beauty salon and always on her mobile phone. - [Sally] Yeah. After the other phone she's going at the moment and I. - It's Jade. - How'd you pronounce your name again? - She's on the other phone but she'll be finished in yeah. - Hello can you hear me? Four six five. - Oh no, I think (laughs). I could trust her but obviously. Bye. - And Jadey, who apart from S Club Juniors in Atomic Kitten? Who else do you like? - Avril Lavigne and Less Ketchup. I've always been goin to parties to parties with my mom since I was very young. So, I'm used to going with her. - We had a Christening party for her at String Valley's, where she appeared in her Moses basket with her Christening robe on. So, from those beginnings, I think she's been everywhere with me. - I do like the idea of me being a celebrity. Of course, I'm not as famous as lots of other people, but just knowing that I'm just a bit of a celebrity makes me feel good. See that smile, that's nice. - [Narrator] To be an It Girl, you have to have breeding. Jade's mother, Sally, was a debutante in the 60s, and came out into aristocratic society at 17. - This book is "Who's Really Who". I'm in this book because I'm down as one of the possible brides for Prince William. And mommy's down as the Drawing Room Temp- - Temptress. - Temptress. I don't know what that is. - Who else have you got in your section? Have a look. - Princess Madeline of Sweden, Princess Theodore of Greece, Princess Florentina Massimo. - [Sally] Who have I got in mine? - [Jade] You have got- - [Sally] I think I'm with Elizabeth Scarlet, Jagger's mom, actually. Aren't I? - [Jade] Elizabeth Hurley. - [Sally] That's good. I like being in that section. But the point is that she's in high society and I'm in cafe society so she started with a bang. Huh and there was light. If she's gonna become a socialite or actress or model or whatever she's going to do, and she's gonna be photographed, she's got to look good. She can't set foot outside the door without putting her makeup on. There's always a paparazzi around lurking outside San Lorenzo Scalini, Sambia, all those sorts of places ready to pop out and catch you out. So, I've been trying to train, Jade. Of course at the moment she doesn't need any makeup at all. She's absolutely perfect. - [Narrator] All vital training for Jade, a young lady who lunches. - Nice and shiny. Polish my diamonds. - Swell swell oh whatever. - Actually, I fancy Calvin. Or spaghetti bolognese for you. - What would you like to eat? - Short pasta with garlic, tomato and basil please. - How spicy would you like it? - Do you by chance have any carbonara? - Hi how are you? - Fine, thanks. - I think nowadays there's very much a child society with its own framework, its own network, its own momentum. And they're really sort of independent of us, the adults, the parents, and they don't need us. They can get on their little mobile phones and talk to each other and make social arrangements. - But and oh Lily needs her nails coughing. Okay, they're just not as lively as they usually are and they need the Myxomatosis jab. Okay, love you bye. - I have a phone card. - Mine mine mine is when. - She just has a bill at the end and I have pay as you go. And I've used like 30 pounds, already. - She's used like three or four phone cards right now and her dad thinks she's still on the first one. (Jade laughs) And then I met him a few months ago, okay this boy, then Hattie answered. And Hattie, thinks I fancy him. And she goes, "Okay, I'll give you Phoebe". And then and then I I have to go. - [Narrator] For these girls, it's never to young to start discussing the source of your future income. - In boys, when you see them first... Well, I like blonde or brown hair, I don't really like black. - He has to be rich. He has to be very kind. He has to be quite thin, older than me and tall. - I mean, I don't exactly want to marry someone who is poor. I don't want to marry someone who's too snobby cause they've got too much money. I want to marry someone who's like sort of in the middle. And they can't like show off their money or anything. I don't want to do that. I want them to just act normal but with lots of money. - [Interviewer] Why do you want the money? - For my clothes, shopping. - [Narrator] Next, meet mini model Lizzie. She's having a party, Vogue style. - Oh, I love it. - They're child women. They're not... They're right in the middle, between the two aren't they? - [Lizzie] What are they? - Child women. You know they're still children and they're they're they're in the cusp between children and women. It is very scary. - [Narrator] 11 Year old Lizzy lives with her parents in Chelsea, London. For her, fashion is not a matter of life and death. It's far more important than that. - Oh yum. That's scrumptious. Isn't this cool? When people look down, you want them to think, "Where did she get those shoes?. - They're important. I say the person's like shopping then down the road, see your shoes and they'll go, "Ooh, nice shoes". And they'll look up and go, "Nice clothes". And then they'll go, "Nice person". - Oh, I like this. Oh, I have to bring my mom, here. Oh, I like it. Looks matter a lot. Kings Road is the best. But I think they should change some of the shops cause as I live so close, I go there all the time. So, it gets a bit boring sometimes. And I just always have to wear the best things in the world. I like my pinks and my whites and my purples, and my blues. I love accessories. Right now, I'm wearing a ring from Fashion Week, which you can buy everything. And this is from Bubba, which is a great name. You know, Bubba. I can't stand short short skirts. I don't hate them. It's just, I don't like them on me. - [Narrator] And Lizzie's love affair with fashion comes as no surprise when you meet her mother. - [Heather] Papaya. - [Narrator] Lizzie's mother, Heather, started her modeling career at 18. At 11, Lizzie has a seven year headstart. - Elizabeth's been looking in my wardrobe since she was three. And she's been coming to my photo shoots with me, you know, since she was possibly six. So, it's bound to have influenced her. But I think it's good because they're not impressed by things. They, they take it as a, a normal daily or weekly event in the holidays to come to mommy to the studio to to watch her being photographed. - No. - What do you think Papaya? - No, no, no. - I love these. I try them on for me, darling. I've got my boots on and I don't want to go through the saga of taking my boots off again. And when, actually, Elizabeth puts them on, you know, I can see what they actually look like on me. - [Narrator] Determined to break into the modeling world, Lizzie is having a dry run with a full blown professional model party. It's a Vogue style shoot. - Well, I'm gonna have a model party, which is mostly based on Vogue because that's what I read most of the time. And it's cause this is our last year in junior school and they've all been really good friends. And they're all gonna come and be all modelly and special for a day. And just want it to be perfect. - I like that. - Oh that's so cheesy. - Can I have blush? - No, Lizze. - Yeah, I like blusha. Girl, I like blusha. I always wear blush. - [Narrator] For these girls, party time is no time for discos, boys and getting out your girls world. It's a chance to taste adulthood at adult prices. - This is gonna ruin my reputation for ever. - We'll chat to you about this idea about doing a business card or something you talk about. - I have a card with like me on the front, which I could give like new people I meet with like my number and my address. There could be like me holding a thing saying, "Call me". - Call me? That's a great idea, actually, then put your telephone number on it. - She's pretty. - Yeah, those shoes. Those are wicked. Really, in fashion these days. - That's not as nice. That looks too average. - Smart, sexy, satiable and subti pla. - Oh Louis Vuitton. - [Narrator] This is a high-end photographic studio. They've hired two professional photographers, a makeup artist and a hairstylist for the shoot. - Oh yeah, there you go. - [Narrator] And no model shoot is complete without some bubbly. - Cheers. - Cheers. (general chitchat) (dramatic music) - People have been telling me that black goes with every single thing; pink, blue, purple, yellow, everything. - [Photographer] That's wonderful. Keep that. Hold on. - It's so much easier for long hair. But long hair I recommend curls. - Have you ever done someone famous. - [Makeup Artist] Yes. - Well who? Who? Anna Kournikova? - [Woman] Who's that? - She's a tennis player, slash model, slash soon-to-be actress. - [Makeup Artist] That's a bit of mascara that I've taken off the end of the brush. - I actually didn't recognize you, darling. (Heather laughs) - Well, I did have my special touch. (Heather laughs) - You know, where's my baby gone? - [Woman] She gonna get em back? (general chitchat) - [Photographer] Straight at me. - They're child women. They're right in the middle between the two, aren't they? - [Woman] What are they? - Child women. You know, they're still children and they're they're just they're in the cusp between children and women. It's very scary. - [Heather] One of the reasons that I'm very happy to let Elizabeth do modeling is that if you keep fashion away from children, they will want it even more. If you allow them to take part in fashion, they will get it into context with their other life. - [Interviewer] Do you think there's any harm in girls wanting to look like grown up women? - I think all young young girls are bombarded in magazines of the image that they should have at that moment. And I think they adopt the image that magazines say that they should have that moment. - [Interviewer] And what do you think about that? - Moderation in moderation. - [Photographer] Some attitude, girls. - I want confidence in myself. I don't want to be scared of anything. - I don't think 11 is too young to be thinking about things because if you really want to be good at something, if you're ambitious, you wanna start as early as possible and it's alright to do that. You can never be too prepared. - [Photographer] Stare at the cameras. Chin down, a bit. - [Photographer Man] Stare at the cameras. Stare me out. - Well, it shocks me to see that they are, they know what they need to do. We think we need to tell them what to do, but they know what to do, instinctively. And they're gorgeous and they do it beautifully. And it's just frightening to think that these are our 11 year old daughters and they look so fabulous and so confident, as we want them to be. - [Narrator] Like, all her friends, Lizzie is driven by ambition. She is an expert skier trying for the British team. She hopes this will strengthen her chances of a modeling career. - Anna Kournikova's taken that route. I mean, she was, she was a tennis player, now she's done things for Enrique Iglesias and now she's just like, I don't know, she's just made like the life I really want. - [Photographer] You might get a thousand pounds a day for doing this one day. (upbeat music) (house music) - We're gonna be big, bigger than big, man. Trust me. (jungle music) - My name's DJ Frost and next to me, my brother, DJ Skip. And we're professional DJs. (Jungle music) - We got the songs for the family. It's the Megaman. My brother Dan the Man. Dan the Man. ♪Let me know please ♪ ♪ Let me know please ♪ ♪ Let me know♪ - [Narrator] DJ Skip and Frost are part of the So Solid Crew based in South London. So Solid is Britain's most successful and infamous garage collective. The boys became involved through their DJ brother. ♪So if you like me let me know ♪ ♪ Let me in da studio ♪ ♪ I got 21 seconds before I got to go♪ - I can do what some adults can do, even though I'm just a kid. - Got to be confident. - Yeah, before you do anything. - [Narrator] For Skip and Frost being the So Solid Kids is a serious business. As well as performing with the So Solid Crew, they play their own gigs from Carter to Ayia Nappa. Commanding fees of up to 200 pounds a night, each. ♪Say fast as you ♪ ♪ Hit em with the sound♪ They host their own weekly pirate radio show. And even have their own mini groupies. - One of the first time we went to the rave in Ayia Nappa, I decided to go down to the stage, yeah. I walked past. Everyone was saying, "So Solid Kids". You got smack team and you know was heavy. And then, drunk lady. I was walking past and she decided to pinch my bum. So, and I looked back. She smiled and I just smiled back at her cause like I wasn't gonna say, "Why you pinchin my bum? "Are you an idiot or something?". So I said, "Forget that, man", cause like I know what she means. She's she's she likes us, isn't it? ♪21 seconds t t t ♪ ♪ 21 seconds t t t♪ ♪ 21 seconds♪ - [Narrator] The So Solid Crew have been dogged by controversy. They've been the subject of death threats. One of the crew was jailed earlier, this year, for gun possession. And a fan was shot at one of their gigs. ♪21 seconds t t t♪ (crowd cheering) - [Interviewer] Do you ever worry about the boys association with the So Solid Crew? - When it comes to the So Solid Crew itself, as a union with all the negative press, sometimes you can't believe all the hype. I'm glad to have my two boys around So Solid Crew because there's a lot of things, as a kid on the inner city, two little boys could be doin at the age of 10 and 12 and one of them is not stayin in doin your homework and doing the DJing stuff. A lot of them they could be sneaking out smoking, doing this and doing that. They choose not to do that. They choose to look up to certain people and take the positive side of what they see. - I haven't thought of it as being a negative thing. I've just, I've just looked at it as a good thing. - Hey yo. This person coming up to the decks right now is our dad. He's gonna try and mix. But he can't. - My momma is like- - [Frost] Manager. - Yeah. She's the manager and our dad's like the person that takes us like our transport person. He's an old timer. (record scratching) He's alright on the decks though he's still got good... He can do he can scratch good, as well. - He's terrible. - Nah, man, he's good. - You're just sayin it cause the cameras. - No way, must be joking. (hip hop beat) - [Narrator] The boy's main influence is So Solid's front man, Mega, for obvious reasons. - Megaman, dad, the lead of So Solid. - Well, we hope to be like Mega, like livin- - [Skip] Good. - Yeah. - [Skip] But we are livin good but like- - I bet on it. - He's got a good lifestyle. He's livin good. Got his big chain and he's got a ring sayin Mega. He's got everything. Lexus. - [Frost] Two actually. - Lexus convertible, T T. - [Frost] All in one (indistinct). - [Narrator] The So Solid Crew's world is one of flash cars, designer clothes and bling-bling jewelry. - They're looking at us and they're saying, "Boy, we want that". But we're like 23, 24, 25 goin and they want that now. We talk about joy. We talk about the high life, having money and all that stuff. And back in the day, the music that we was involved around kind of said to you it's okay to be poor. It was okay not to have money. We don't want to drum that into our kids as normal and get me cause to be poor is a crab, you get me? As far as we're concerned and directly, if it's, if it's about wealth and all that, just give the kids what they need, man. You get me? I don't wanna be involved in an environment where they're sayin," Oh, it's okay to have nothing" cause it's not really, you know. So, let's change the cycle where we live or what we around and via the kids. - As a parent, I think it's quite important to try and train your children to deal with modern life. In my era, we were tucked away. It was closeted cloistered protected but nowadays it's different. Everybody else's children are out there and your child's got to get out there and keep up with her mates. - [Narrator] For it girl Jade, a beauty regime is critical. Her mother, Sally, made sure it was in place by the time she was 10. - We love the top to toe situation, to have your top and toes done at the same time. I think it's the height of luxury. - She's learning. - [Interviewer] What do you think she's learning? - She's learning about how to be a lady, look after herself, groom herself. - This is the serum and it feels warm. It's very (indistinct) but it will all dry, protect the hair. - One of the things I've tried to teach her a lot is to put lots of cream moisturizer into her skin. Just like me, she's got very dry skin. I send her off to school with a great big pot of Aqueous cream and I want to see it empty when she comes home. - I put eye cream on because then my eyes are not all puffy in the morning. - Tweezing the eyebrows. She is really dreading that. Because when I was young I had... My eyebrows are naturally very, very bushy like Jade's. And I know it's gonna be a big job because it's been a big job for me, all my life. She hates injections and I can't see her ever wanting to have Botox or collagen or anything like that when she gets older. So, we'll just have to hope that by then, they would have perfected ways of putting on skin creams so you don't have to have all those horrid treatments. People, especially men, I think, think that it's it's age 10 is too young for young girls to be thinking about their appearance. Her father, for instance, "Huh she's wearing makeup? Is there a (indistinct)?" I say, "It's innocent. It's fun". The only difference is, in my day, I used to sneak into my mother's dressing room and put it all on and look at myself in the mirror admire myself and then take it all off before she came back. - [Narrator] And it's not just an It Girl thing for the So Solid Kids, Skip and Frost, image is everything and trips to the hairdressers cost 200 pounds a month. - They are fussy. 100% in the mirror in the morning. Tie gotta be straight. Appearance is important to the boys. That's my boys. - You have to look good as a DJ cause they're now gonna think you're all scruffy and you ain't good. They'll think you're good at mixing but as a normal person they wouldn't think you're nice. And the girls wouldn't wanna be with you and everything like that. - Do you like it? - Yeah. I like the hair. It looks good. - Just say you're a good looking boy already. - But I am a good looking boy already. (Mom laughs) Dylan. - The social scene. Is that Evanna, there? - [Jade] Yep. - Oh, Leslie Joseph's up here, she's super. - [Narrator] Jade hopes her It Girl status will put her in the headlines. She takes the job of becoming famous very seriously. - I think it matters quite a lot to me about being successful and how successful I am. The fact that I'm 10, isn't going to stop me. Caprice, mommy and me. There's Janet. - [Narrator] Sally is preparing Jade for the celebrity lifestyle she hopes her daughter will lead. - Beautiful crystal clock for our wedding. - [Narrator] Having provided some of the saucier moments of 80s TV classic, Howard's Way, she believes she knows how the media works. - Jade has been with me when I've been pursued by the press, which is the downside of being known to the media. And she's had to run through banks of photographers, and journalists with me. And it's not, not a lot of fun for a small child, but doesn't seem to have affected her badly. Possibly because she was pretty grown up already because of all the times she'd been around with me. - I think a celebrity nowadays has an interesting life. But even though you could be famous, lots of bad things could happen to you, as well as good things. Things you didn't want it to happen, but it will happen. If you go to a party, you could get caught doing something that you didn't want anyone to know, except for the people you're with. I think it is something you have to accept that there is going to be a downside to it. It's not all gonna be good but you have to live with it. That's how celebrities life works. - Sometimes I feel sad that children today have lost their innocence so much earlier. But then on the other hand, I think it prepares them for life in the adult world much better. If they know in advance, what they want to do, they have the chance of working in, you know, relatively adult jobs and environments and earning their own money and learning the value of money. I mean, I think that's a great preparation for later life. - You know, like Nelly and all these rappers. What's his name, Ludacris. (hip hop beat) - I don't want to be working for anybody. I want to be the one who's got people working for me. You know, I want to be the one who's controlling people and I want to be my own boss. - [Narrator] Eddie and Eddie run a successful million pound limousine company in Watford. Their sons, James and Spencer plan to take over the company sooner rather than later. - You know, you could pay me like a thousand a month for the next four months and then pay me 32 upfront and a thousand a month for four months. - [Narrator] Age 12 and 13, the boys are well on their way to becoming fully fledged businessmen. - Please just tell me how much it's going to cost and I'll get out of it. - Okay cause they need to speak to him. Alright see ya. Bye. - We can make this call, can you drive? Now we have about 20 minutes. - It's one of the biggest limo companies in the country. They've all got a little mini bar, TV, some of them got two TVs and DVD player and video player. Mostly all these ones are about 50,000 pounds to 80,000 pounds. And the Boss, the Navigator about 80,000 pounds to 100,000 pounds. - [Narrator] Before that adult lives have even started, the boys have decided when they want their working lives to end. - I like to retire quite young about 40 cause that's quite young to retire. And then I'd like to, I like to have quite a lot of money to fall back on. I want to flash like my money around, if I did, you know, if you could get rich. I don't want to be all flash and, and pull up in a Ferrari. Well, I'd like to have a Ferrari, but I wouldn't really show off. I just sort of keep it kind of quiet. - [Narrator] Working at the limo yard is one of the boys, three jobs. They also work at Watford market and at the races. - I don't think 12 is too young to start looking at earning money. I personally believe you should start a lot earlier than that. I didn't think about when I was at school careers and money and it took me about 10 to 12 years of drifting around and mucking around and getting a lot of things wrong. I only learned much later on. And in the kids case, now, I'm glad that they are thinking now about money and careers. Yeah, I'm happy about that. - Yeah, I think it's good that they should, you know, want things and want to earn the money. Encourages, you know, what you see I a want nothing. You know, Spencer, comes to work to earn his bit of money and then he can buy things he wants. He buys nice things because he earns his money. So, I think it's great. They should, they should work. Well, I think good kids should work. - [Narrator] Skip and Frost are equally driven when it comes to their career. Not satisfied with achieving professional DJ status, the brothers are starting to produce their own CD tracks. They're constantly networking to make sure they get gigs, secure radio coverage and maintain a profile on the garage scene. - Hey Steppa, Skip. Yeah, did Danny Reed give you the CD yet? - You see the CD yet. Have you given it to Steppa yet? - It's funny sometimes, man, because when I hear them talkin to me, like, I'm thinking like I'm having a conversation with one of my brothers. And, again, it's not to say it's kid. This ain't Dylan. This ain't Skip. You get me? I'm talkin to an adult, here, my boy. Yeah, man. - Hyper hyper hyper. Yeah. I'm safe. Nah, I ain't got a copy. Is it heavier? - Happy to see that because when I was a youth, when I was a child, I couldn't speak to my cousins or my mother or my oldest sister on that sort of level, wherever it was. Childish things or adult things we were talking about. I couldn't even approach them then. - Couldn't even listen to their conversations. - You think when I was the age I would had a mobile phone like, "Yeah, call me man. "You know what I mean? 'Things are goin on, you get me brother? "I've got a rave and stuff". - Yeah. Waiting to come on that station. But you, but you, you ain't been saying nothing, again, I'm waiting for you to say it. - The way he puts his words to get run up, man, is kind of surprising sometimes. But, you know, that's what we expect from them now, so we've got to kind of adapt to it, as well. - Laters. Done. (upbeat music) - [Sally] Cool. Can you answer that one for me please. I don't like the sound, thank you. - Hello. - [Narrator] Saturday night in Kensington and it's Jade's 11th birthday. Home from boarding school for the weekend, she's preparing for her party at the trendy Q Bar in Central London. The role of party hostess is one she works hard at. - Forward please, people. - Oh, forward. (all laughing) - I start planning, well thinking, what I want to do a couple of months before I actually have my party. - Do this one next? - Yeah. - I thought about where I was gonna have it and then I have to decide what I'm actually going to do for it. I've had a swimming party before. I've had quite a lot of discos, cinema party, limousine party, and so this time I thought maybe I should have something different. I wanted a disco, but then I thought something more to add on to it. So, I thought people could dress up as pop stars. No, (indistinct) mine. - [Sally] Do you want a cotton ball, honey? - No, I can't get it out, mamma. - [Sally] What you can't get it out of your eye? Well, you know what you're supposed to do? You're supposed to roll your eyes around. - No, I know. I just did it. I just did it. The hard thing about being a hostess is who to invite. I find it stressful, because sometimes people just nagging me. Why didn't you invite me? But I can't invite everyone. Just- - [Sally] Oh, it looks fabulous. - [Jade] No no no. Watch and learn. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] And tonight, Matthew, Jade is going to be Holly Valence. - I've got crimped hair, outrageous makeup, a lacy top with a white screen top underneath, a mini skirt, fishnet tights and my mommy's boots. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Saturday in Watford and Spencer and James are out for a spin with their mates. Children can now hire limos for their parties at a hundred pounds an hour. But for the boys, it's tax-free corporate entertainment. - There's a power crew in here, yes. - We are getting bookings direct from children who are 12 and 14 years old. And then they put mum or dad on the phone to secure it with a credit card. So, poor mum and dad in the background are there with the money, but the kids are more and more booking these things. We're not encouraging materialism. We're just servicing a market is there. If we don't do it, somebody else is going to do it. - [Narrator] As many entrepreneurs, James and Spencer recognize that hiring out limousines to their peers is simply good business. - Kids wanna do it because you see pop stars and film stars going in em. And you say, "Oh I wanna be like them". - Whenever you go past someone in the car, they're always like looking at you. - It makes em want to see who's inside because of the windows. In the end, pop stars and film stars are just normal people just like us. It's not like they they should have any like different rules for them. I mean- - Just because they're famous- - Just because they're famous doesn't mean other people can't go in the limos. They're not superior to us. Okay, go. - Alright you got to go in the back cause the location the location of Delight FM is top secret. - Bye. - Bye. - [Narrator] Sunday night in South London when most nine year old boys are having a homework panic, DJ Skip and Frost are off to do their weekly show on an illegal pirate radio station. - Opportunities what I really fronted them. They're just takin advantage of them. You get what I'm sayin? So, it's nothing where they understand the illegal this event or the pirate part of it. They just want to play music. - [Narrator] The boys don't get paid for the pirate show. They do it for the exposure. It's all part of their plan to be rich and famous. - When I'm tired and it comes to on a Sunday and it's near six o'clock when I gotta go do my show, If I'm tired, I don't want to do it but I know I have to do it cause if we want to get bookings or anything like that, and they was listening only for that Sunday, that'd be our fault, isn't it? Cause we would have missed out on it. - [Radio Announcer] The UK's number one. - Yo yo yo London. Skip and Frost So Solid Kids back again. Each and every Sunday. Gonna have Megaman down, here, later on in the show. Uh huh. Yo yo. - Yo London. My brother, Skip, on the decks right now. Only 10 years old. - From 6:00 to 8:00 PM, the DJs play requests and MC their own lyrics, which they write during the week, after school. It's not exactly Harry Potter. ♪Yo yo you're rockin with the So Solid Kids ♪ ♪ Aka Mr. Frost and Skip ♪ ♪ Betcha never knew that we're bigger ♪ ♪ than your girlfriend's tits ♪ ♪ You ain't even ready for this ♪ ♪ Watch out♪ (all lauging) Yeah. - Boy he said that though. What was he sayin about girlfriend's what? How old eh... Ski, how old are you? - 10. - Ding ding round two. - Ding ding round two. - [Narrator] Tonight, the boys have persuaded Mega to make a special guest appearance on their show. - Alright Mega is finally inside the studio. ♪ Just gettin refrig shutterly ♪ ♪ Carry e nah nah no ♪ ♪ Bad shame then I tweet the same ♪ ♪ I wrote the game ♪ ♪ If you wanna talk my nigga ♪ ♪ All my high start shame breeds the same ♪ ♪ Not yours was sleepin when♪ - Yeah do that right now, sure. You know, and they get all these people following them and they're talkin to them and cuttin them off. And they're this and they're that and they're that and they're this. Even the raves then they'll come to me and say, "You got 40 pounds, dad? "Can I have some Skittles?". And you think. But it's nice it's nice because it brings it home and it reminds you that they're kids in in in adult environment. - [Caller] I just wanna say can you play a song for me please? - Play what? - [Caller] Umph. - We haven't got it. - [Caller] You lie. Don't get facey lil boy. - Anyway anyway. - Ladies, I know it's (indistinct) cause you call me at So Solid Kids. 30 young man come on ladies. (relaxing music) - [Narrator] Mini It Girl, Jade, has been preparing her birthday party for two months at a cost of 500 pounds. Jade is confident her planning will pay off. - What makes it really good party is lots of girls. - Yeah and they have to be hot hot hot hot. - Well, the boys at this party we don't really mix. - Blonde. - (indistinct) faces. - And Jade's trying to like make us mix together and everything. - Short skirts are very sexy. - Them not wanting to. - Be it silly. - Yeah, you have to look sexy. - They have to look very, very, very sexy. - [Narrator] Tonight is Jade's birthday party, which she has hosted in a bar in Central London. It's a themed pop star party. - It is definitely important to come to a party looking stylish. Because say, if I like boys there, obviously you've got to look like very stylish in front of them. - [Narrator] Parties aren't just about dancing and flirting. The mini me generation have another agenda. - When you go to a good party, you feel like you have to give it back. And it's nice networking. Networking is when you can meet new people and talk to them. - [Narrator] For mini DJs, Skip and Frost, Friday night means another gig. They're DJing at a gig in Roehampton university and they're on at midnight. So, at 10:00 PM the boys are getting out of bed and getting ready to leave home. - First of all we make sure they have a meal and then they have a sleep, especially if it is late at night when they've got bookings. You know, they have a sleep and then they wake up, wash their faces and they're off. - So bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. (garage music) - The boys age means that at first clubbers don't take them seriously. With every new gig they have a lot to prove and they need tonight to go well. - Being a DJ is a great life, but it's not probably something they might want to do for the rest of their life. You know, because it's about egos, being a DJ sometimes. You know, playing music, standing up on stage, doing your little thing, people looking up to you or when you're gray and you're this and that. If Skip, who's 10, by the time he comes 18, member he's still running his education parallel to his music business. He might decide to become a lawyer or politician, a doctor, you know. Still he's enjoyed himself when he's with his patient. Sayin, "I was a DJ when I was a kid. "Can you believe that or not?". (girls chattering) - [Narrator] It's been a successful night. The boys went over the university crowd and a good night just got better. (general chatting) - Even though we're kids, we'll prove to you that we're good. - And you have to take us seriously cause we're not seven we're 10 and 12. So get busy. Was that good? - [Interviewer] That was very good. - The harsh reality of life is that you can't have a perfect fairytale childhood anymore. It would just be living in Never Never Land literally to pretend to your child, that all is perfect in the world and that they can be cocooned. Because life is not like that now. Life is tough and there's a lot of bad things going on. And unfortunately I think that you have to prepare them a little bit. Kay, you ready for bed, darling? - I just watch the end. - James, you've got a lot to do in the morning, please. - But wha what if- - James James. - Come on, dad. - Good night blessed fully. - Good night gang. - Good night, dad. - Ready? All right, good. To bed then. Is Ted in? - He's under the cover. - He's under the cover, okay. Alright say goodnight, Ted. - Goodnight Ted. - Alright goodnight, til. (upbeat music)
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Channel: Real Stories
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Keywords: Real Stories, celebrity culture, celebrity kids, child celebrities, child influencers, children in music industry, children's aspirations, children's fantasies, children's networking, encouraging talent in kids, fame and fortune, fame at a young age, growing up in the limelight, kid influencers, kid vloggers dreams, kids imitating celebrities, luxury lifestyle, mini celebrities, young entertainers, young performers, youth in entertainment
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Length: 47min 18sec (2838 seconds)
Published: Thu Dec 21 2017
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