{"id":2425371,"date":"2026-05-20T20:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2425371"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:32:53","slug":"brooke-shields-shares-discomfort-over-daughter-rowan-henchy-joining-next-gen-nyc-dont-be-the-thrower-upper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brooke-shields-shares-discomfort-over-daughter-rowan-henchy-joining-next-gen-nyc-dont-be-the-thrower-upper\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Shields shares discomfort over daughter Rowan Henchy joining \u201cNext Gen NYC\u201d: &#8216;Don&#8217;t be the thrower upper&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brooke Shields admitted she had misgivings about her daughter Rowan Henchy joining the Bravo reality show <em>Next Gen NYC.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I got very nervous that it might affect her or somehow hinder a career that she wants to have in broadcast news and journalism,&#8221; Shields told <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 23-year-old daughter of Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy, is set to star on season 2 of the reality series following kids of celebrities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/brooke-shields\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Brooke Shields;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brooke Shields&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Brooke Shields<\/a> is all about her daughter Rowan Henchy exploring new horizons, but she was admittedly uncomfortable about her upcoming venture into reality television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This has been a really difficult journey for me because I would say to her, &#8216;We&#8217;re not a reality family. That&#8217;s just never been our MO,'&#8221; Shields told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/brooke-shields-why-renaming-new-show-youre-killing-me-11978467\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly's Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A with AMC's Acorn TV;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A with AMC&#8217;s Acorn TV<\/a> in New York City on Monday. &#8220;And I got very nervous that it might affect her or somehow hinder a career that she wants to have in broadcast news and journalism. That&#8217;s what she studied at university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 23-year-old daughter of Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy, is set to star in the upcoming second season of Bravo&#8217;s <em>Next Gen NYC<\/em>, a reality series that follows children of celebrities and their attempts to make their own marks in the world away from their parents&#8217; shadows. Rowan will join the returning regulars from season 1, including Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Emira D&#8217;Spain, Brooks Marks, Ava Dash, Gia Giudice, Georgia McCann, Charlie Zakkour, Shai Fruchter, and Hudson McLeroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rowan, along with Liam Obergfoll and Kendall White, will serve as the show&#8217;s new additions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Cast of Bravo&#8217;s &#8216;Next Gen NYC&#8217; season 2<br \/>Credit: Bronson Farr\/Bravo<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iJKtFJcHNfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Previews for the new season show brief appearances from Shields;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Previews for the new season show brief appearances from Shields&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Previews for the new season show brief appearances from Shields<\/a>, who shared how she&#8217;s come around to accepting her daughter&#8217;s casting during Monday&#8217;s conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;Look, I will do one, maybe two episodes for you, but nobody&#8217;s putting any words into my mouth and I don&#8217;t want them to let you put any words into your mouth and I don&#8217;t want you to try to morph into somebody with bad behavior just because it&#8217;s going to create ratings,'&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Be the girl holding back the hair for the person throwing up. Don&#8217;t be the thrower upper.&#8217; And she was very grounded in it and I&#8217;m very proud of her because she is using it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But Shields gave her daughter some advice that emphasized Rowan think beyond her starring on the latest season of the series. &#8220;It&#8217;s Bravo and Peacock,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;So I said, &#8216;If this is a world you want to be in, parlay that. Find out who those executives are, send them a thank you note, talk to them, make sure you are the professional in the room because you&#8217;ll have a better chance having a second shot at something if you are a pro.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Considering how Shields has been able to flourish after beginning her career at a young age, it&#8217;s more than just wise words from a mother to her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Said career includes her most recent project, her new Acorn TV series, <em>You&#8217;re Killing Me<\/em>, on which Shields pulls double duty as the star and executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>You&#8217;re Killing Me<\/em> follows bestselling novelist Allison &#8220;Allie&#8221; Chandler (Shields) as she forms an unlikely partnership with aspiring young writer Andrea &#8220;Andi&#8221; Walker (Amalia Williamson) to solve murders in their small New England town \u2014 all to the chagrin of local police detective Jack Kerrigan (Tom Cavanagh).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shields revealed that she approached showrunner Robin Bernheim, whom she worked with on projects like <em>Mother of the Bride<\/em> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/brooke-shields-when-calls-the-heart-season-13-return-11823147\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:When Calls the Heart;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;When Calls the Heart&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>When Calls the Heart<\/em><\/a>, and they decided to create something together.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Brooke Shields and Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A with AMC's Acorn TV on May 18, 2026Credit: Gregory Pace\/Shutterstock\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fU1.sPwFyPgkoIWUxL5c_w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/87e404f8360ebb4687ca782eb7037f14\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Brooke Shields and Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A with AMC&#8217;s Acorn TV on May 18, 2026<br \/>Credit: Gregory Pace\/Shutterstock<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I love being on a series. I loved <em>Suddenly Susan<\/em>. I adored<em> Lipstick Jungle<\/em>. I love that kind of consistency. I&#8217;m happiest work-wise when I&#8217;m on a set,&#8221; Shields added. &#8220;And so I went to [Bernheim] and I said, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t we create something that we can pitch?&#8217; And this genre of the mystery world is very popular at the moment so we kind of were jumping on that bandwagon a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shields shared that she was interested in exploring the relationship between Allie and Andi, a relation similar to what she experiences with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/all-about-brooke-shields-daughters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:her real-life daughters;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;her real-life daughters&quot;}\" class=\"link \">her real-life daughters<\/a> \u2014 Rowan and Grier, 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I was really interested in the dynamic between these two women being generationally very, very different, but then sort of learning from each other,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have two daughters that are not dissimilar to the Andi character where they&#8217;re always making fun of me. So I thought it would be refreshing to see that on camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shields also shared that having the extra leverage as a producer really shaped the way everything came together, inspiring her to use her voice more in her career moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think that, especially within comedic situations, you can&#8217;t worry about looking silly, you can&#8217;t worry about being safe \u2014 something has to electrically happen and there&#8217;s got to be an electricity to it. And that was really good for me too after years of people never being interested in my opinion: having an opinion,&#8221; Shields told EW. &#8220;And doing this show as an executive producer, I&#8217;d never been this active as an exec before and everything from casting to editing to graphics to&#8230; I mean, it was exhausting, but at one point they said, &#8216;You know what? You&#8217;ve been doing this a long time. We trust your instincts.&#8217; And that was just a revelation to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The premiere episode of <em>You&#8217;re Killing Me<\/em> is now streaming on Acorn TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/brooke-shields-admits-discomfort-over-daughter-rowan-henchy-joining-next-gen-nyc-11979638\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Brooke Shields admitted she had misgivings about her daughter Rowan Henchy joining the Bravo reality show Next Gen NYC. &#8220;I got very nervous that it might affect her or somehow hinder a career that she wants to have in broadcast news and journalism,&#8221; Shields told Entertainment Weekly&#8216;s Gerrad Hall during a live Q&amp;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[344726,344724,403907,339234,351270,28097,403906],"class_list":["post-2425371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-acorn-tv","tag-brooke-shields","tag-chris-henchy","tag-daughter","tag-entertainment-weekly","tag-reality-show","tag-rowan-henchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Brooke-Shields-shares-discomfort-over-daughter-Rowan-Henchy-joining-Next.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425373,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425371\/revisions\/2425373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}