Channel 4 Picks up new Studio Ramsay Format: Born Famous

Channel 4 announced today that is has picked up a new four-part factual series from Studio Ramsay that will see the teenage offspring of some of Britain’s most successful self-made celebrities given a unique opportunity to see how their lives could've been different.

For one week they’ll each be invited to live the life they would have lived had their parents not found fame. They will be sent to the communities their superstar parents grew up in, to discover what their own lives would be like today and question how different it is being young in modern Britain from when their parents were growing up. Their "alternative life" will be mapped out by a team of social mobility experts to give them true depiction of what life could've been.

Jack Ramsay, son of TV chef Gordon Ramsay, will live in Bretch Hill, Oxfordshire where his father lived as a teen before he found success; Phoenix Chi, daughter of Spice Girl and America’s Got Talent judge Mel B, will spend time in Hyde Park, Leeds; Bethany Mone, daughter of millionaire Ultimo founder Michelle Mone, will travel to the East End of Glasgow and Ria Ince, daughter of former Manchester United and England football captain Paul Ince, immerses herself in Dagenham, Essex.

Each privileged teen will be paired with a local teenager to discover how their lives would have turned out if their parents hadn’t had the opportunities that came their way, while confronting feelings of privilege, class and celebrity and uncovering the realities of social mobility in 2018.

Born Famous was commissioned by Channel 4 Education commissioning editor Emily Jones and will be executive producers Chris Brogden and Helen Cooke.

Emily Jones said: “There is a myth that talent will out whatever the circumstances. Using extraordinary access so some of our most successful celebrities, Born Famous is a novel way to explore the degree to which we’re all in denial about how hard it is to be young today.”

Helen Cooke added: “We’re hugely excited to be making this inspiring series which shows some of our biggest celebrities in a way you have never seen, through the eyes of their teenage children. It promises to be compelling TV as the famous teens come to terms with their own privilege, whilst delivering searingly honest accounts of what it is like for young people growing up in Britain today.”