Sarah Beeny gave her refreshing verdict on the ‘nepo baby’ discussion as she spoke about her sons’ successful band that they started with her husband.

The TV star, 53, spoke on the White Wine Question Time podcast, hosted by Kate Thornton, where she said that her teenage sons all worked really hard to get into music.

The band – named The Enтιтled Sons – formed in 2022 are made up of Sarah’s sons Billy, 20, Charlie, 18, Laurie, 16, and Rafferty, 15, and their father Graham Swift.

Speaking about constant nepo baby accusations in this day and age she said: ‘They do work really hard. I often think, they had an opportunity and they took the opportunity. In life you should just take the opportunities you have. 

‘A couple of years ago, they entered a compeтιтion to play at Glastonbury and won it. And I think that kind of like made them go, oh, gosh. 

‘When they did get to Glastonbury, it was amazing. They had to get extra security because there were so many people who came to watch. I was standing like a big sort of fan girl at the back, giving it Kris Jenner.

Sarah Beeny gave her refreshing verdict on the ‘nepo baby’ discussion as she spoke about her sons’ successful band that they started with her husband

The band – named The Enтιтled Sons – formed in 2022 are made up of Sarah’s sons Billy, 20, Charlie, 18, Laurie, 16, and Rafferty, 15, and their father Graham Swift

Kate then added: ‘I felt a bit sorry for them (the sons), Sarah, because they’re kind of damned if they do and they’re damned if they don’t. And, and they were trying to get ahead of the labels. 

‘But you know when you look at family businesses, for example, like doctors, generations of doctors, nobody goes, oh, Nepo doctor. They just go, that’s a family business. 

‘Now, I know music isn’t your business, but fundamentally, if you come from parents who are aspirational, ambitious, hardworking, you would hope that some of that manifests itself in your kids, right?’

Sarah replied: ‘You know, the тιтle, Johnson and Sons has been put outside shops for generations and everyone’s gone, oh, great. 

‘And if you had like a, I don’t know, an electrical business and your sons entered it, which would be quite normal because they’d have been around, you know, electronics all their life. And they joined, everyone would go, oh, that’s lovely, that’s wonderful. What a lovely family business.

‘But for some reason, I mean, I’m not in the music business, I guess I’m in business and the media, but I kind of think, well, if you wanted to be an electrician, you’d take the opportunity… 

‘You’d be in your holidays, you’d be going and helping your mum or dad when you were 6 or 7. So they’ve been around this kind of world because that’s the world I’m in for always telly and that kind of thing. 

The TV star, 53, spoke on the White Wine Question Time podcast, hosted by Kate Thornton, where she said that her teenage sons all worked really hard to get into music

Speaking about constant nepo baby accusations in this day and age she said: ‘They do work really hard. I often think, they had an opportunity and they took the opportunity’

‘And so it is odd, isn’t it? But I think, you know, ultimately, in my opinion, it just means they have to be twice as good. And I’m like, well, you just have to be twice as good, don’t you?’

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It comes after recently Sarah opened up on how she navigated ‘bumps’ in her 22 year year marriage to husband Graham during her devastating cancer battle.  

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2022 and underwent gruelling chemotherapy, as well as a double mastectomy.

During the process, Sarah was supported by artist husband Graham, 51, and their four sons, but in a new interview admitted that things were not all ‘plain sailing’. 

The Property Ladder presenter told how Graham had been her rock throughout her ill health and ‘stepped up’ when she needed to, but without going too far with his ᴀssistance.

She told OK! magazine: ‘There are bumps along the way in life and marriage – it’s not all plain sailing. But during my cancer treatment, Graham was absolutely as I’d expected him to be – great, because he’s a good man. 

‘I don’t have a husband who will come in with tea trays, I don’t have a butler! But I don’t want one, I’d find that annoying. Whenever he’s needed to step up, he’s stepped up, and that was one of those times.’

The star went on to say that she encouraged her partner to open up to others if he was himself struggling with everything that happened as she confessed that she didn’t have ‘any space’ for her husband not to be strong.

She said: ‘A couple of years ago, they entered a compeтιтion to play at Glastonbury and won it. And I think that kind of like made them go, oh, gosh’

She shared: ‘We had a conversation once. I said, ‘I know you might not be OK all the time, but don’t talk to me about that please. Can you talk to my brother or someone else?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I know.’ I think he did talk to my brother and some friends. He knew I didn’t have any space for him not to be OK.’

Amid the chat, Sarah reflected on the past five years, which saw she and her family move from East Yorkshire to a sprawling estate in Somerset in which they built and renovated their countryside mansion. 

Amid the build, Sarah received her cancer diagnosis, with the past few years also seeing the broadcaster continue her television work and also embark on a four month tour with her musician sons’ group – The Enтιтled Sons. 

Last year, Sarah documented her health battle in her documentary Sarah Beeny vs Cancer.