{"id":130543,"date":"2025-05-25T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130543\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:42:11","slug":"people-are-only-just-realising-eastenders-star-molly-rainford-is-a-nepo-baby-would-you-have-guessed-her-famous-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130543\/","title":{"rendered":"People are only just realising EastEnders star Molly Rainford is a nepo baby – would you have guessed her famous dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

EASTENDERS star Molly Rainford is a familiar face on telly after landing a role as Queen Vic’s pretty barmaid.<\/p>\n

The star has won a legion of fans playing Anna, the daughter of Cindy Beale.<\/p>\n

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Molly Rainford is a regular on our TV screensCredit: AFP\"Three<\/a><\/p>\n

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She is currently a regular in EastEnders, playing Anna Knight – pictured with Colin Salmon and Michelle Collins playing her onscreen parentsCredit: BBC\"Tyler<\/a><\/p>\n

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Molly met her boyfriend Tyler West when they both starred in StrictlyCredit: PA<\/p>\n

But talented Molly has been working in showbiz for over a decade, and first shot to fame as a finalist on the sixth series of Britain’s Got Talent <\/a>in 2012. <\/p>\n

Molly became BGT’s youngest-ever finalist at the time, at age 11 performing Ave Maria in the final and finishing sixth.<\/p>\n

Following the show, she won a scholarship<\/a> at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, gifted by Simon Cowell<\/a> and Sony Music.<\/p>\n

After finishing school, Molly went on to star in the lead role in CBBC series Nova Jones and released two EPs, including her single Commitment.<\/p>\n

It set her on the path to stardom and she continued to win big opportunties. <\/p>\n

Talented singer Molly played the lead in Nova Jones, in the CBBC comedy about the life and adventures of a galactic pop star. <\/p>\n

She later joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2022 and came runner up with dance partner Carlos Gu.<\/p>\n

And talent runs in Molly’s family.<\/p>\n

She grew up in Essex living with her dad Dave Rainford and mum Sarah.<\/p>\n

David is a former Chelmsford City FC midfielder and was an assistant football manager.<\/p>\n

He started at Colchester United and returned to the team during his senior career in 1997.<\/p>\n

EastEnders’ Molly Rainford chats to the Sun’s TV Mag<\/p>\n

He also played for Slough Town, Heybridge Swifts, Bishop’s Stortford and AFC Hornchurch.<\/p>\n

From 2012 to 2013, Dave was assistant manager for Chelmsford City after joining the team in 2008, and he now works for the Premier League in a top job.<\/p>\n

Some EastEnders<\/a> fans have just figured out who her famous dad is, and took to Reddit to discuss it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a lot of nepotism,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n

Another rushed to defend Molly, writing: \u201cNone of it is nepotism – it isn\u2019t family connections that have helped her out she was just lucky enough to have been given a massive opportunity at a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n

One more said: \u201cYou keep believing that, you\u2019re telling me she got into eastenders for her acting talent?! Everyone knows it\u2019s her dad that helped.\u201d<\/p>\n

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David now has a top job at the Premier League\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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He previously played for Chelmsford City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTENDERS star Molly Rainford is a familiar face on telly after landing a role as Queen Vic’s pretty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,428,77,209,57631,427,430,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-130543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eastenders","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-longtail","12":"tag-molly-rainford","13":"tag-section-tvsoaps","14":"tag-soap-stars","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568294998070512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}