Kelly Clarkson’s daughter is cementing her place in the family business.
On Wednesday, April 2, Clarkson’s 10-year-old daughter, River Rose, joined her mom on the set of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
While her younger brother, 8-year-old Remi, stole the show last year singing Frank Sinatra tunes, River had other plans in mind.
River wasn’t just a member of the audience. Instead, she shadowed one of the show’s producers, Alex Duda, becoming the “mini producer.”
Fully prepared with her own headset and clipboard, River stood behind the producer podium alongside Duda and helped her mom navigate the taping of the episode.
“My daughter is here today,” she told the audience before noticing that River was dressed identical to Duda.
“Oh my God, you have a mic and everything. You’re so fancy,” Clarkson gushed. “Oh, my God, I love it. You’re like a little mini producer. They didn’t even plan it, but look, you have to come out. Show them what you look like.”
In addition to the matching headsets, River and Duda also happened to wear similar outfits with dark leggings and light pink sweaters over white collared shirts — something they didn’t intentionally plan. “They just happened to wear the same thing,” the host told the audience.
“So she’s been to all the meetings this morning like an adult,” Clarkson, 42, said as she continued to brag about River. “Yes, she’s very professional.”
In a snippet of the upcoming episode, Clarkson is seen talking with her guest, comedian Whitney Cummings, who shared that River knows how to push her mom’s buttons.
“OK, so I was interrogating River earlier,” Cummings shared. “I said, ‘What’s the thing that annoys your mom the most?’”
“What do you think it is?” Cummings asked Clarkson.
“Is it when she calls me Kelly?” Clarkson asked as Cummings enthusiastically confirmed Clarkson got it right.
In response to Clarkson, River shared her quick wit, saying, “Mommy should be in break.”
“I got a leader. She’s gonna rule the world one day, y’all,” an impressed Clarkson told the audience. “All right, we need a quick break, apparently.”
In 2023, while a guest on Today, Clarkson admitted that she hoped her kids, both of whom she shares with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, wouldn’t want to get involved in the music industry.
“I mean, I’m not going not push,” she said at the time. “I’m not the parent — whatever you want to do, it’s hard for me to sit here and go, ‘Don’t do this because it’s a hard industry,’ because I’m in it. But, I do think kids that grow up in it, it’s hard for them not to be inspired by it or want to be a part of it. So I kind of understand it if they do.”
“But also,” she said, half-jokingly, “be a teacher, or a doctor, or anything else.”
It seems like the television industry may be more River’s vibe.
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