{"id":38755,"date":"2025-04-21T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38755\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:29:14","slug":"cbb-viewers-gobsmacked-as-chesney-hawkes-reveals-hes-a-secret-nepo-baby-and-has-connection-to-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38755\/","title":{"rendered":"CBB viewers gobsmacked as Chesney Hawkes reveals he’s a secret nepo baby and has connection to the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

CELEBRITY Big Brother’s Chesney Hawkes dropped a bombshell on his co-stars as he revealed he was a secret nepo-baby.<\/p>\n

The musician was discussing his own childhood and upbringing during the family shopping task in which he reflected on life growing up as the son of a “rock-and-roll” dad.<\/p>\n

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Chesney Hawkes has revealed he is a secret nepo-babyCredit: Eroteme\"Chesney<\/a><\/p>\n

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He is the son of Tremeloes band member Len HawkesCredit: Alamy\"Portrait<\/a><\/p>\n

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Len was a close pal of The Beatles George HarrisonCredit: Corbis – Getty<\/p>\n

Chesney<\/a>, known for his hit The One and Only, is the son of musician Len Hawkes<\/a> and actress, Carol Dilworth.<\/p>\n

Len is best known for being a member of the Tremeloes, a successful band who secured a number one hit in 1963 with the track, Do You Love Me.<\/p>\n

The band went on to score a string of 13 top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart between 1967 and 1971.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the Diary Room, Chesney told Big Brother<\/a> of an incredible link to The Beatles<\/a> with his father Len being a close pal of George Harrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They hit it off after meeting one another during a recording session in the 60s.<\/p>\n

Chesney said on the ITV<\/a> show: “My parents were rock and rollers, my dad’s a rockstar, my mum was an actress and a game show host.<\/p>\n

“It was like parties all the time and celebrities over at the house. <\/p>\n

“My brother and sister and I just watched in awe at the debauchery in front of us.”<\/p>\n

Adding of some of the famous faces he would see at their home during one of the wild celeb-packed parties, Chesney said: “Gerry Marsden was slumped at the bar.<\/p>\n

“Radio 1 DJs, Mike Read, wearing a dress if I remember rightly.<\/p>\n

Chesney Hawkes reveals heartbreaking reason he signed for CBB and says sorry to fans for cancelling tour dates to do show<\/p>\n

I was sitting there with my dad and Eric Clapton and George Harrison<\/a> came up to us and said to my dad, ‘go on then introduces us to your famous son’.<\/p>\n

“There are all my uncles these guys.”<\/p>\n

Chesney went on to carve out an impressive career of his own thanks to his legendary hit single.<\/p>\n

His CBB stint coincides with the release of his latest album, Living Arrows.<\/p>\n

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Chesney with his family as a childCredit: Getty\"Chesney<\/a><\/p>\n

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He is currently in the CBB houseCredit: Eroteme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CELEBRITY Big Brother’s Chesney Hawkes dropped a bombshell on his co-stars as he revealed he was a secret…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[1456,4080,312,1389,77,2535,307,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-big-brother","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-big-brother","11":"tag-children-parenting-and-family-life","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-rock-music","14":"tag-section-tvreality","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376905239357636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755","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=38755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}