Thomas Skinner is waltzing on the ballroom floor on Strictly Come Dancing, but his daughters have already tasted the bright lights of Hollywood.
The 34-year-old businessman, who rose to fame on The Apprentice, has forged his own career on the small screen and now his and wife Sinead’s twin girls are making their feature film debut.
Thomas signed his daughters to a talent agency just days after their birth, and they landed a role in George Clooney’s new Netflix blockbuster Jay Kelly before their first birthday.
It’s claimed the tots Roma and Darla are featured in a scene where George cradles them in his arms as he steps out of a taxi.
A source told The Sun: ‘Thomas is a proud dad and isn’t ashamed he’s leaning into the nepo craze. Not many parents can say their kids have appeared in a movie, never mind a George Clooney one.
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‘Regardless of the money involved, what a brilliant thing to be involved in.’
The film, which stars George as fictional movie star Jay Kelly alongside Adam Sandler as his manager Ron, started shooting in spring 2024, when Thomas’ girls were around 10 months old.
Meanwhile, Thomas – who previously admitted he missed the birth of his daughters – has been at the centre of a media storm in recent weeks, having admitted to having an affair just a few weeks after getting married.
He walked out of a BBC press event for Strictly after picking up a journalist’s phone during roundtable interviews, and earlier this week it was also reported that Thomas had allegedly not paid back a £50,000 taxpayer loan provided during Covid in 2020.
Thomas is facing fierce backlash, and it has been revealed that former Royal Marine Burly Daniel Gilbert – who was hired to protect actor Spider-Man star Tom Holland – is providing security for the Strictly star.
Pictures obtained by The Sun showed Thomas with Burly at Kempton Park Racecourse with his pro Strictly partner Amy Downden as the pair filmed a clip for the dance show.
Burly was seen with the Spiderman actor, 29, at the BMW Golf Championship in Surrey last year, while he has also previously worked on Love Island All Stars in South Africa, taking care of presenter Maya Jama.
Thomas had alleged he received death threats following the recent controversy, while the screenshot he shared – and later deleted – didn’t include any handle name or identifying features beyond the text message blocks.
He also wrote online: ‘Life ain’t easy. I’ve been kicked down and called every name under the sun recently and probably some of it I deserve, as yes I ain’t always right.
‘Certain people are doing everything they can to ruin me. Mainly Faceless accounts giving it large and abusing me, hypocrites making everything political.
‘Now I see people are fuming that I’m on Strictly…. and the funny thing is that the majority of them got “be kind” wrote in their bios. You couldn’t make it up.’