Stop Calling Ben Platt A Nepo Baby, You Meanies!

Ben Platt, seen above in a blouse even Ruth Buzzi might have been embarrassed to wear, along with the darlingest meemaw-approved high-waisted pants, has just about had it with you poors calling him out for being a wealthy Nepo Baby, so knock it off. 

As you may recall, last year "New York" magazine published a story on Hollywood Nepo Babies, which explained the obvious: the sons and daughters of wealthy Hollywood stars and execs have it real easy when it comes to breaking into showbiz. How easy is it for them? Easy as a dead whore, I'd say, but what really rankled said nepo babies? The article named names. 

This included Ben Platt, an arguably insufferable performer and singer whose vibrato is so out of control that he sounds like Woody Woodpecker on his best days (and on his worst, Anthony Newley). But I digress. When recently asked about his status as a Nepo Baby - given that his father, Marc, is one of the richest, most successful producers of the past two decades - he went straight into petulant bebeh mode: "We're going to skip right over that, if we can," he snapped at the "Rolling Stone" interviewer. 

Theatre Queen, please. Only a father would have cast a rode-hard, 40 year-old looking man in the lead teenage role of "Dear Evan Hanson." I joke, of course, because Ben's only 29, yet now, he's acting like a toddler. And I know, I know, he's won two Tony Awards for Lead Actor in a Musicale, he's been cast in countless TV shows and movies. He has talent to burn. Which is exactly what he should do with it. 

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