Macaulay Culkin’s eldest son with partner Brenda Song intends to marry a girl “just as pretty as London Tipton” one day.
On the season 27 finale of “Hot Ones,” Culkin relayed an amusing anecdote about how he’d put on his fiancée’s Disney Channel sitcom, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, on TV for their two sons, Dakota, 4, and Carson, 2. His eldest, it turns out, is fond of his mom’s character London Tipton, the ditzy Paris Hilton parody.
“My kids have no idea that me and Brenda are famous,” Culkin shared. “They see momma on TV because when she’s not around I put on Suite Life. I showed them some Suite Life and you know what Dak said? He goes, ‘Someday I want to grow up and marry a girl just as pretty as London Tipton.’ I’m like yeah, yep.”
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Other than that, though, the two “are thoroughly unimpressed that we’re on TV,” Culkin noted. “I don’t want them to get mired by all that kind of stuff. I’m not intending to raise a nepo baby.”
Culkin shared the anecdote while discussing best practice etiquette surrounding celebrities (His personal rule? “Don’t follow me to the bathroom”), noting that these days, his definition and perception of fame has shifted as a father.
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“I’ve been famous like virtually my entire life,” he said. “I take my kids to school. And the other kids go, ‘That’s Dak and Carson’s dad.’ I’m dad famous there. And I wanna keep that up, even if it’s just temporary. I’ve never felt more famous — like, more complete famous, than that.”
Both Song and Culkin got their start in Hollywood as child stars, with Culkin breaking out for his role as precocious kid Kevin McCallister in the beloved Home Alone franchise. Their eldest son, Dakota, bears a striking resemblance to a young Culkin, and that has not been lost on the young tot, too. Culkin revealed last year that Dakota has seen the first Home Alone film, and, well, “He thinks he’s Kevin.”
“I’m like, ‘Do you remember going down the stairs on the sled?’ He’s like, ‘Mmhmm, yep. Sure do,'” Culkin recalled to E! News. “I’m like, ‘Do you remember when he had yellow hair?’ And he’s like, ‘Uh huh, yep.'” His son also believes he “fought the burglars,” played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, himself.
Watch Culkin’s full interview on Hot Ones above.
