Michael Jackson’s children are fast becoming web celebrities, thanks to the several videos leaked and going viral on YouTube.
Jackson, who died in June last year, had largely kept his children—Prince Michael, now 13; Paris, 12; and Prince Michael II or Blanket, 8—out of the public eye, famously even covering their faces with masks and veils when they would go out.
These days, however, two of the youngsters have become prominently seen in reportedly up to nine video clips already uploaded on the Net. This puts them, in a manner of speaking, on the ‘spotlight’ albeit in a very different way. Prior to this, their only other official public appearance had been at the Grammy Awards this year where their father was commemorated.
Their grandfather, Joe Jackson—who, by the way is not the children’s legal guardian under Michael Jackson’s will—resumes spinning his own publicity machine by speaking with celebrity website, Popeater, saying the family is upset by the leak. And acting like a vigilant guardian, he insists they want to adhere to his late son’s wish to keep the kids out of the spotlight.
In the same interview, Joe Jackson reportedly pointed out that it wasn’t the kids that uploaded the clips on the web. In fact, Reuters also ran a story that claimed the account owner of French-language fansite, KingofPop-Kids.com, where many of the clips had been initially posted, pointed to Jackson fans being responsible for hacking into family web accounts.
In this regard, Joe Jackson said they are still trying to find out who these hackers are.
From a CNN report, the videos had been up for two weeks in April before the elder Jacksons were able to have them pulled off; by then, however, other viewers had republished them, thus resulting in “hundreds of thousands of views.”
Representatives of the Jackson family still have not made any comments.
Apart from the furor caused by one of the first few videos to come out, containing other Jackson kids—Michael’s older brother Jermaine’s kids Jafar and Jermajesty (yes, Jermajesty!)—being very violent and the former even brandishing a stun gun ordered online, the newer videos of Paris and Blanket are much less controversial and shows the kids just being kids.
In one clip, Paris busts out a short rap, and in another, comes close to the camera and says, “Monkey, please help.”
Blanket’s videos, on the other hand, show him reenacting scenes from “Star Wars,” swinging a pretend lightsabre, calling out Mike Mazowski (from “Monsters Inc.”) and even singing.
Most responses to the video are positive, with fans saying pleased to see the kids being “normal” and just happy.
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