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		<title>Kid Actor From &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; Is Now 41 Years Old &#038; His Famous Parents Are Icons</title>
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		<title>Kid Actor From &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; Is Now 39 Years Old&#8230;And His Parents Are Famous</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with you all, ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in The Bodyguard movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but... </p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with you all, ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in <em>The Bodyguard</em> movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but now dude is a 39-year-old man, and we had NO clue his step-mother and his dad are very popular Old School legends!</p>
<p>Aside from starring in <em>The Bodyguard</em>, he had roles in other known films and TV shows as well, including <em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</em>, <em>Sugar Hill</em>, he was the voice of one of the kids in the animated movie, <em>Bebe&#8217;s Kids</em>, and more. He also made a name for himself in TV shows, such as the Disney series <em>Lizzie McGuire</em> and <em>Mackenzie Falls</em> and also in <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager</em>. All along, he managed to build his own brand without being buried in his famous parents&#8217; shadows.</p>
<h2>&#8220;FLETCHER&#8221; FROM BODYGUARD&#8221; ALL GROWN UP</h2>
<figure style="width: 459px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/30/38/48/303848fd2a257766fe7f1716fa2626b4.jpg" width="459" height="548" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">DeVaughn Nixon, the former child actor who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son in &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; film</figcaption></figure>
<p>Lil&#8217; &#8220;Fletcher&#8221; &#8211; whose real name is DeVaughn &#8211; ain&#8217;t so &#8216;little&#8217; anymore.</p>
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<p>After spending much of his childhood as a kid actor, DeVaughn briefly stepped away from acting to devote his time to his studies. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in television production and business finance. He also had a brief stint as a mortgage broker, before returning to his passion of acting.</p>
<p>Today, at 39 years old, DeVaughn&#8217;s still doing his thing in the acting world. Some of his more recent work include the popular John Singleton created series, &#8220;Snowfall,&#8221; where DeVaughn has a recurring role as the character, &#8220;Kane.&#8221;</p>
<p>As far as we know, DeVaughn is single has no kids as of yet, and he&#8217;s very close to his legendary parents.</p>
<h2>DEBBIE ALLEN&#8217;S HIS STEPMOM &amp; HUSBAND/NBA LEGEND, NORMAN NIXON IS HIS DAD</h2>
<p>So, all this time has passed, and most of us never knew we were watching actress/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen&#8217;s, step-son, and her NBA hubby, Norman Nixon&#8217;s, kid, DeVaughn Nixon,  on the big screen with Whitney back in the day.</p>
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<p>Debbie&#8217;s been DeVaughn&#8217;s stepmom ever since he was 1 year old in 1984, when she married his dad, Norman.  As a result of their lengthy union, DeVaughn is very close to both his biological mom (who isn&#8217;t a celeb and stays out of the public eye) <em>and</em> Debbie. We&#8217;re sure Debbie and Norman are very proud of DeVaughn, who looks like a spitting image of his Pops by the way.</p>
<p>As an homage to his pops, DeVaughn portrayed Norman Nixon in &#8220;Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty&#8221;</p>
<p>Also, speaking of the beloved Whitney..see the fun facts DeVaughn posted about his time with her, Bobby Brown and more below&#8230;</p>
<h2>FUN FACTS ABOUT DEVAUGHN NIXON</h2>
<p>As reported by <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/devaughn-nixon-dad-norm-nixon-hbo-showtime-lakers-pilot-1202737411/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>, Devaughn Nixon will be starring as his father, Norm Nixon, in an upcoming series about the NBA legends successful run with the Lakers a.k.a. the Showtime Lakers:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;The Untitled Showtime Lakers Project is based on Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>DeVaughn witnessed Whitney and Bobby B. falling in love back in the day and paid homage to both of them on Instagram in a now deleted post:</p>
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<blockquote><p>DeVaughn Nixon: &#8220;This video says it all! Lol&#8230;witnessed when these two first fell in love! Regardless of what anyone says they had a true bond! I miss her!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>He looooves his &#8216;aunt&#8217; Phylicia (Debbie Allen&#8217;s sis&#8217;)&#8230;.</p>
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<p>DeVaughn is still close to his former uncle-in-law &#8212; whom he refers to as his &#8216;uncle&#8217; &#8212; Ahmad Rashad (Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s ex-husband), and sometimes hangs out with his uncle&#8217;s good friend, Michael Jordan.</p>
<p>Well damn&#8230;we must say that DeVaughn Nixon comes from quite a talented blended family. With an NBA legend for a dad, an acting/dancing/directing legend for a stepmother, a legendary actress for a step-aunt (Phylicia Rashad) and an NFL legend for an ex-uncle-in-law (Ahmad Rashad), he had no choice but to soak up some of that greatness and make it his own. Good to see the brotha doing well.</p>
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		<title>Debbie Allen Shared The &#8216;Real Reason&#8217; Lisa Bonet Abruptly Left &#8220;It&#8217;s A Different World&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When Debbie Allen took over Different World as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according... </p>
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<p>When Debbie Allen took over <em>Different World</em> as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according to Debbie.</p>
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<p>Here is what Debbie Allen said was the real reason behind Lisa leaving <em>Different World</em> below:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I first took over the show [<em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em>], one of the first things I did was meet with Lisa Bonet and she secreted to me that she was pregnant.</p>
<p>She had married Lenny Kravitz, and you know&#8230;I guess Bill had his feelings about that because he was possessive in a way. I mean they were his on-camera wife and children, but they still were his. I mean, the way he was with Phylicia [Rashad] (Debbie&#8217;s sister) too, I mean, that&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother story.</p>
<p>So I said, &#8216;Well Lisa we have to go tell him &#8230; Honey, put some shoes on, don&#8217;t come up there with a bare foot&#8230;get your best dress, let&#8217;s comb your hair and let&#8217;s go up there to see him, let&#8217;s tell him together.&#8217; So we got dressed, we went up there, and oooh&#8230;he [Bill Cosby] could see us coming! He saw us a mile away, he could see us coming (laughs). And he sat there and looked at us; and I said, &#8216;Well, we have some things that we want to tell you.&#8217; He said, &#8220;What is it? Are you pregnant?&#8221; And then we were like, &#8216;Oh my God.&#8217; Then he said well what is so different about it? He looked at me, he said, &#8216;You were pregnant, your sister was pregnant, and so now what?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>And I explained to him how I wanted to use it [the pregnancy] on the show because that would be a great thing. To see a girl who&#8217;s [this] upper class kid, having a baby, not married because she didn&#8217;t want to be married&#8230;and the girls could root for her. I was explaining all that we could do. Well, honey I was just blowing smoke and didn&#8217;t know it (laughs). He listened to it.</p>
<p>We started talking about stories and then immediately &#8212; maybe about two or three weeks later &#8212; he was like, &#8216;You know what Debbie? No. She&#8217;s pregnant, <em>Denise Huxtable</em> is not pregnant, Lisa Bonet is pregnant,<em> not</em> Denise. So no&#8230;no you can&#8217;t have it, no we&#8217;re not gonna do it, no.&#8217;</p>
<p>So he took her [Lisa Bonet] back, I was so mad at him, I wanted to take her, but I understand, he just wanted her back. So she left us [the <em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em> cast] to go back home [to the &#8216;Huxtable&#8217; house], she ended up getting married on the show, and whatever else happened over there.</p></blockquote>
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Apparently, Cosby had a creative vision for the show, and Lisa&#8217;s pregnancy seemed to somehow have I guess it was difficult for him to interrupted that process. I wish they could have figured out a way to make it work, just like they did when Phylicia Rashad became pregnant. Although Bill did reportedly blame Phylicia&#8217;s then-husband, Ahmad Rashad, for &#8216;ruining the show&#8217; because he&#8217;d gotten her pregnant back then. That was also a unique and somewhat odd reaction to Phylicia&#8217;s pregnancy, but again, Cosby obviously had a vision in mind and anything outside of that creative process was seemingly an issue for him at that time.</p>
<p>All of these years, we&#8217;ve been hearing rumors about Lisa Bonet&#8217;s &#8216;attitude&#8217; causing tension between she and Bill Cosby, which may still may true as well. But it&#8217;s good to get a first-hand account from Debbie Allen, as to why Lisa actually disappeared from<em> It&#8217;s A Different World</em>, and ultimately from <em>The Cosby Show</em>.</p>
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		<title>Child Actor From &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; Now A Grown Man&#8230;And Has Famous Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 22:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with you all, ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in The Bodyguard movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but... </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure style="width: 563px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/aa/07/3c/aa073cf8f693dc58f6a014db0b87ffd9.jpg" width="563" height="293" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Whitney Houston with the child actor who played her son, &#8220;Fletcher&#8221; in &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; film, 1992</figcaption></figure>
<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with you all, ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in <em>The Bodyguard</em> movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but now dude is a 37 year old man, and we had NO clue his step-mother and his dad are very popular Old School legends!</p>
<p>Aside from starring in <em>The Bodyguard</em>, he had roles in other known films and TV shows as well, including <em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</em>, <em>Sugar Hill</em>, he was the voice of one of the kids in the animated movie, <em>Bebe&#8217;s Kids</em>, and more. He also made a name for himself in TV shows, such as the Disney series <em>Lizzie McGuire</em> and <em>Mackenzie Falls</em> and also in <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager</em>. All along, he managed to build his own brand without being buried in his famous parents&#8217; shadows.</p>
<h2>&#8220;FLETCHER&#8221; FROM BODYGUARD&#8221; ALL GROWN UP</h2>
<figure style="width: 459px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/30/38/48/303848fd2a257766fe7f1716fa2626b4.jpg" width="459" height="548" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">DeVaughn Nixon, the former child actor who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son in &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; film</figcaption></figure>
<p>Lil&#8217; &#8220;Fletcher&#8221; whose real name is DeVaughn, ain&#8217;t so &#8216;little&#8217; anymore.</p>
<figure style="width: 411px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/40/7a/36/407a3672c3d8445ccc5f025f63b76ace.jpg" width="411" height="466" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">DeVaughn Nixon, the former child actor who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son in &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; film</figcaption></figure>
<p>At 37 years old, he&#8217;s still doing his thing in the acting world. He&#8217;s currently starring in the new sci-fi series, &#8220;The Haunted.&#8221; As far as we know, DeVaughn is single has no kids as of yet, and he&#8217;s very close to his legendary parents.</p>
<h2>DEBBIE ALLEN&#8217;S HIS STEPMOM &amp; HUSBAND/NBA LEGEND, NORMAN NIXON IS HIS DAD</h2>
<p>So, all this time has passed, and most of us never knew we were watching actress/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen&#8217;s, step-son, and her NBA hubby, Norman Nixon&#8217;s, kid, DeVaughn Nixon,  on the big screen with Whitney back in the day.</p>
<figure style="width: 563px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/92/46/b292463da805336d08fd7fccd4663a80.jpg" width="563" height="403" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Stepmom &amp; biological Father of actor, DeVaughn Nixon: Actress/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen, with retired NBA legend husband, Norm Nixon</figcaption></figure>
<p>Debbie&#8217;s been DeVaughn&#8217;s stepmom ever since he was 1 year old in 1984, when she married his dad, Norm.  As a result of their lengthy union, DeVaughn is very close to both his biological mom (who isn&#8217;t a celeb and stays out of the public eye) <em>and</em> Debbie. We&#8217;re sure Debbie and Norman are very proud of DeVaughn, who looks like a spitting image of his Pops by the way.</p>
<figure style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://instagram.fatl1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-15/e35/s1080x1080/104158981_617757148841199_2921706095765708966_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fatl1-2.fna.fbcdn.net&amp;_nc_cat=103&amp;_nc_ohc=p9JWS_vnEA8AX-iYH7s&amp;tp=1&amp;oh=3f5ec9ea7ae3cbbb4458dc701f1b3e83&amp;oe=6049FCF3" width="1080" height="1080" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Debbie Allen (top, right) with her stepson, actor DeVaughn Nixon (bottom, right); her husband, Norm Nixon (bottom, left), and their children.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Also speaking of the beloved Whitney, see the fun facts DeVaughn posted about his time with she and Bobby Brown and more&#8230;</p>
<h2>FUN FACTS ABOUT DEVAUGHN NIXON</h2>
<p>As reported by <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/devaughn-nixon-dad-norm-nixon-hbo-showtime-lakers-pilot-1202737411/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a>, Devaughn Nixon will be starring as his father, Norm Nixon, in an upcoming series about the NBA legends successful run with the Lakers a.k.a. the Showtime Lakers:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;The Untitled Showtime Lakers Project is based on Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>DeVaughn witnessed Whitney and Bobby B. falling in love back in the day and paid homage to both of them on Instagram in a now deleted post:</p>
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<blockquote><p>DeVaughn Nixon: &#8220;This video says it all! Lol&#8230;witnessed when these two first fell in love! Regardless of what anyone says they had a true bond! I miss her!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>He looooves his &#8216;aunt&#8217; Phylicia (Debbie Allen&#8217;s sis&#8217;)&#8230;.</p>
<figure style="width: 414px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e8/bb/48/e8bb48ddbd81222d91c9f60715333be4.jpg" width="414" height="349" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Phylicia Rashad with her nephew, DeVaughn Allen, who starred as the kid in &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; film with Whitney Houston</figcaption></figure>
<p>He&#8217;s still close to his former uncle-in-law, who he refers to as his &#8216;uncle,&#8217; Ahmad Rashad (Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s ex-husband), and sometimes hangs out with his uncle&#8217;s good friend, Michael Jordan.</p>
<p>Well damn, we must say that DeVaughn Nixon comes from quite a talented blended family. With an NBA legend for a dad, an acting/dancing/directing legend for a stepmother, a legendary actress for a step-aunt (Phylicia Rashad) and an NFL legend for an ex-uncle-in-law (Ahmad Rashad), he had no choice but to soak up some of that greatness and make it his own. Good to see the brotha doing well.</p>
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		<title>Debbie Allen Tells The Real Reason Lisa Bonet Left &#8220;A Different World&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When Debbie Allen took over Different World as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according... </p>
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<p>When Debbie Allen took over <em>Different World</em> as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according to Debbie.</p>
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<p>Here is what Debbie Allen said was the real reason behind Lisa leaving <em>Different World</em> below:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I first took over the show [<em>Different World</em>] one of the first things I did was meet with Lisa Bonet and she secreted to me that she was pregnant.</p>
<p>She had married Lenny Kravitz and you know&#8230;I guess Bill had his feelings about that because he was possessive in a way. I mean they were his on-camera wife and children, but they still were his. I mean the way he was with Phylicia [Rashad] (Debbie&#8217;s sister) too, I mean, that&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother story.<br />
So I said &#8216;Well Lisa we have to go tell him.&#8217; So I said &#8216;Honey, put some shoes on, don&#8217;t come up there with a bare foot&#8230;get your best dress, let&#8217;s comb your hair and let&#8217;s go up there to see him, let&#8217;s tell him together.&#8217; So we got dressed, we went up there and oooh he could see us coming! He saw us a mile away he could see us coming (laughs). And he set there and looked at us and I said &#8216;Well we have some things that we want to tell you.&#8217; He said, &#8220;What is it? Are you pregnant?&#8221; And then we were like &#8216;Oh my God.&#8217; Then he said well what is so different about it? He looked at me, he said, &#8216;You were pregnant, your sister was pregnant, and so now what?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>And I explained to him how I wanted to use it [the pregnancy] on the show because that would be a great thing. To see a girl who&#8217;s [this] upper class kid, having a baby, not married because she didn&#8217;t want to be married&#8230;and the girls could root for her. I was explaining all that we could do. Well honey I was just blowing smoke and didn&#8217;t know it (laughs). He listened to it.</p>
<p>We started talking about stories and then immediately&#8230;maybe about two or three weeks later he was like &#8220;You know what Debbie? No. She&#8217;s pregnant, &#8216;Denise Huxtable&#8217; is not pregnant, Lisa Bonet is pregnant<em> not</em> Denise. So no&#8230;no you can&#8217;t have it, no we&#8217;re not gonna do it, no.&#8221; So he took her back, I was so mad at him, I wanted to take her, but I understand, he just wanted her back. So she left us [the Different World cast] to go back home [to the Huxtable house], she ended up getting married on the show and whatever else happened over there.</p></blockquote>
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Cosby had a vision and I guess it was difficult for him to interrupt his creative vision for something outside of his control. I wish they could have figured out a way to make it work, just like they did when Phylicia Rashad became pregnant, although Bill did blame Phylicia&#8217;s then husband Ahmad for ruining the show because he got her pregnant. That was a unique and somewhat odd reaction to her pregnancy, but again, Cosby obviously had a vision in mind and anything external interrupted that for him.</p>
<p>All of these years, we&#8217;ve been hearing rumors about Lisa Bonet&#8217;s attitude causing tension between her and Bill Cosby and that still may true, but it&#8217;s good to get a first hand account from Debbie Allen, as to why she actually disappeared from<em> Different World</em> and ultimately from <em>The Cosby Show</em>.</p>
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		<title>Beautiful: Debbie Allen Celebrates 97th Birthday Of Her &#038; Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s Mom</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; Actress/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen (70) and her big sister a.k.a. everyone&#8217;s favorite TV mom, Phylicia Rashad (72), have a lot more to celebrate, other than the fact that they are legendary in their own rights. In fact, these two ageless... </p>
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<p>Actress/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen (70) and her big sister a.k.a. everyone&#8217;s favorite TV mom, Phylicia Rashad (72), have a lot more to celebrate, other than the fact that they are legendary in their own rights. In fact, these two ageless queens are celebrating <em>their</em> queen- their mother, Vivian Ayers, and thanking the Higher Power for her 97th orbit around the sun.</p>
<h3>Debbie Allen’s B-Day Tribute To Mom</h3>
<p>In a heartfelt online message, Debbie shared the photo of below, and showered their Moms with well deserved praise on her July 29th <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheRealDebbieAllen/posts/10163919631580504">birthday</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Happy birthday, Mom! At 97 you are still the greatest inspiration of our lives!”</p></blockquote>
<p><figure style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" src="https://scontent.fatl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/116393101_10163919630225504_3602329505374714557_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;_nc_sid=8bfeb9&amp;_nc_ohc=-jFcy_Fn9OwAX9SzBM-&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fatl1-1.fna&amp;oh=0c385fccc8c3263b2d0c6f618855bb19&amp;oe=5F4EFE72" alt="" width="960" height="640" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Debbie Allen with her and Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s mom, Vivian Ayers (97) [Facebook]</figcaption></figure>The <em>Fame</em> veteran also tagged her message with the names of her husband and other family members, including their children.</p>
<h3>Phylicia Rashad On Valuable Parental Lessons She Learned From Mom</h3>
<p><iframe title="Phylicia Rashad Interview with Bill Boggs, 1987." width="858" height="644" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EzRIrGXnfng?start=279&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>In addition to Debbie’s admiration for their Mother, her big sis’ has long held that same adoration for mama Vivian as well. In an 80’s throwback interview with <em>Bill Boggs TV</em> (video above), the “Mrs. Claire Huxtable” actress proclaimed:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I will not raise my children differently than my mother raised me. &#8230; My mother gave us aphorisms to learn as children.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There are two lessons that stuck with <em>The Cosby Show</em> matriarch the most:</p>
<blockquote><p>“One is, &#8216;The inner reality creates the outer form.&#8217; I learned this when I was in grade school, I was very young. And the other is, &#8216;The Universe bears no ill to me, I bear no ill to it,'&#8221; said Phylicia Rashad.</p></blockquote>
<h3>&#8220;My Mother Always Made Us Believe&#8230;&#8221;</h3>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/02/b6/30/02b6301ff7d767e54dc88bf9ea9c6ba4.jpg" width="563" height="458" /><br />
In a prior interview with <a href="https://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-debbie-allen-phylicia-rashad-20180517-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LATimes</a>, Debbie Allen also spoke about how Vivian raised the famous high-achieving daughters to support each other, as opposed to competing against one another:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We grew up with not a lot of money. We grew up with racial segregation. We grew up not being able to go to ballet class or downtown to a restaurant or to a movie,” said Allen, who opened the L.A.-based Debbie Allen Dance Academy in 2001. “And so my mother, Vivian Ayers, always made us believe that we were part of a universe that welcomed us and wanted our creativity and was waiting for us to do something good. And so we’ve been doing that forever.”</p></blockquote>
<h3>Hilarious! That Time Debbie &amp; Phylicia &#8216;Punked&#8217; Their Mom</h3>
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<p>Mama Vivian did a helluva job raising her two babies, just look at the results of her life-lasting lessons. Happy 97th birthday queen&#8230;job well done! #Salute</p>
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		<title>Debbie Allen Praises Big Sis&#8217; Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s Surprising New Move With Drake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2018 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Round these parts, we loooove us some &#8220;Claire Huxtable,&#8221; just as much as we looooooooove us some Phylicia Rashad. Apparently, Drake loves him some Ms. Rashad too, just as much as he loves the legendary Sade. Debbie Allen and fans... </p>
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&#8216;Round these parts, we loooove us some &#8220;Claire Huxtable,&#8221; just as much as we looooooooove us some Phylicia Rashad. Apparently, Drake loves him some Ms. Rashad too, just as much as he loves the legendary Sade. Debbie Allen and fans are now excited about the way Phylicia and Drake have just collaborated and we must admit, it&#8217;s a pretty cool thing to witness.</p>
<h2>What Phylicia Rashad &#038; Drake Are Up To</h2>
<p>In a highly anticipated video for Drake&#8217;s latest single, &#8220;In My Feelings.&#8221; Well&#8230;it&#8217;s highly anticipated for young folks, but some of our fellow Old Schoolers are probably reading this and saying, &#8216;Who the hell is this song in popular demand?&#8217; That&#8217;s an understandable question, given the fact that Drake&#8217;s new single targets the generation that was born years after &#8220;Claire&#8217;s&#8221; daughter, &#8220;Denise,&#8221; made her son, &#8220;Theo,&#8221; that jacked up yellow button down &#8216;Gordon Gutrell&#8217; shirt. </p>
<p>Anywho, the song, &#8220;In My Feelings,&#8221; has been in hot demand for a couple reasons: (1) Because it&#8217;s supposedly about a real life anonymous love of Drake&#8217;s, whom his fans have started a viral search to find on their own. (2) Because a viral, yet possibly dangerous #InMyFeelingsChallenge was started by popular Instagrammer, Shiggy. The challenge is for people to jump outta their cars, in the middle of the street, highway, etc. to dance and rap the lyrics to &#8220;In My Feelings.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Cosby Show&#8221;-star-turned-&#8220;Empire&#8221;-actress accepted Drake&#8217;s invitation to star as &#8220;Keke&#8217;s&#8221; mother in the video and &#8220;Power&#8221; actress, Lala Anthony, will be playing &#8220;Keke.&#8221; </p>
<p>Part of the video is shot at a home in New Orleans, LA.. In the comical video clip below, Phylicia is seen snappin&#8217; at Drake, when he rolled up to the house unannounced, to beg for &#8220;Keke.&#8221;  She tells him, “Carry your a$$ on home now,&#8221; among other things. Check out the clip here:</p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/BmBv3WZn_tk/</p>
<p>As y&#8217;all can see, Lala is beyond grateful to have been able to star alongside the legendary Ms. Rashad, which she expressed in her caption:</p>
<blockquote><p>“@lala Can we all just take a moment and take in the magic that is Ms. Phylicia Rashad @phyliciaayersallen_rashadfp  “and don’t forget to go when u leave ” “this is NOT a Taye Diggs movie sir” THIS WAS A DREAM. SHE IS A LEGEND????I kept telling her this video is gonna be BIG..LOVE U Ms Phylicia ?? &#038; @champagnepapi ”u blind as a bat” laughs for days!! link in my bio ? @karenaevans #inmyfeelings #inmyfeelingschallenge #nola”</p></blockquote>
<p>Full video:<br />
<iframe title="Drake - In My Feelings" width="858" height="483" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DRS_PpOrUZ4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>In addition to Lala&#8217;s and Phylicia&#8217;s features, Drake also included Shiggy in the video and New Orleans transgender bounce legend, Big Freedia. The latter move was a good one for Drake, because he caught a ton of flack for excluding Big Freedia from his prior &#8220;Nice For What&#8221; video, even though he sampled Freedia&#8217;s vocals in that song.</p>
<h2>Debbie Allen Gives Props To Her Big Sis&#8217;</h2>
<p>As soon as the news went public about Phylicia appearing in the highly anticipated video, her lil&#8217; sister/infamous director, actress, and choreography, Debbie Allen, took to social media to praise her:</p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl__n_6F8JK/</p>
<blockquote><p>“@therealdebbieallen That’s my big sister #PhyliciaRashad in Drake’s “In My Feelings” video!!! Let em have it Lish!?????? #inmyfeelings @champagnepapi @lala”</p></blockquote>
<p>Props to Phylicia Rashad for still breathing life into her many memorable roles. Also, big ups to Drake for respecting the Old School legends and introducing many of his younger fans to the greatness of Ms. Rashad.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When Debbie Allen took over Different World as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according... </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Debbie Allen took over <em>Different World</em> as the director, her stint with Lisa Bonet as a part of the cast didn&#8217;t last very long, but it wasn&#8217;t because of her doing, it was because of Bill Cosby&#8217;s decision, according to Debbie.</p>
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<p>Here is what Debbie Allen said was the real reason behind Lisa leaving <em>Different World</em> (see full video interview below):</p>
<blockquote><p>Debbie Allen: &#8220;When I first took over the show [<em>Different World</em>] one of the first things I did was meet with Lisa Bonet and she secreted to me that she was pregnant.</p>
<p>She had married Lenny Kravitz and you know&#8230;I guess Bill had his feelings about that because he was possessive in a way. I mean they were his on-camera wife and children, but they still were his. I mean the way he was with Phylicia [Rashad] (Debbie&#8217;s sister) too, I mean, that&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother story.<br />
So I said &#8216;Well Lisa we have to go tell him.&#8217; So I said &#8216;Honey, put some shoes on, don&#8217;t come up there with a bare foot&#8230;get your best dress, let&#8217;s comb your hair and let&#8217;s go up there to see him, let&#8217;s tell him together.&#8217; So we got dressed, we went up there and oooh he could see us coming! He saw us a mile away he could see us coming (laughs). And he set there and looked at us and I said &#8216;Well we have some things that we want to tell you.&#8217; He said, &#8216;What is it? Are you pregnant?&#8217; And then we were like &#8216;Oh my God.&#8217; Then he said well what is so different about it? He looked at me, he said, &#8216;You were pregnant, your sister was pregnant, and so now what?'&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>DA: &#8220;And I explained to him how I wanted to use it [the pregnancy] on the show because that would be a great thing. To see a girl who&#8217;s [this] upper class kid, having a baby, not married because she didn&#8217;t want to be married&#8230;and the girls could root for her. I was explaining all that we could do. Well honey I was just blowing smoke and didn&#8217;t know it (laughs). He listened to it.</p>
<p>We started talking about stories and then immediately&#8230;maybe about two or three weeks later he was like &#8220;You know what Debbie? No. She&#8217;s pregnant, &#8216;Denise Huxtable&#8217; is not pregnant, Lisa Bonet is pregnant<em> not</em> Denise. So no&#8230;no you can&#8217;t have it, no we&#8217;re not gonna do it, no.&#8221; So he took her back, I was so mad at him, I wanted to take her, but I understand, he just wanted her back. So she left us [the Different World cast] to go back home [to the Huxtable house], she ended up getting married on the show and whatever else happened over there.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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Cosby obviously had a vision and it seems that it was difficult for him to interrupt his creative vision, for something outside of his control. Unfortunately, they couldn&#8217;t find a way to make it work, in the same manner they did when Phylicia Rashad became pregnant. Well on second thought, that didn&#8217;t work out too well either, because years later, Bill did publicly blame Phylicia&#8217;s then husband, Ahmad Rashad, for ruining the show because he got her pregnant. That was a unique and somewhat odd reaction to her Phylicia&#8217;s pregnancy, but again, Cosby obviously had a vision in mind and anything external interrupted that for him.</p>
<p>Anywho, all of these years, we&#8217;ve been hearing rumors about Lisa Bonet&#8217;s attitude causing tension between her and Bill Cosby and that still may true, but it&#8217;s good to get a first hand account from Debbie Allen, as to why she actually disappeared from<em> Different World</em> and ultimately from <em>The Cosby Show</em>.</p>
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		<title>Kid Actor From &#8220;The Bodyguard&#8221; Now A Grown Man &#038; His Parents Are Famous</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with y&#8217;all ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in The Bodyguard movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but now... </p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a surprising Old School fun fact we wanted to share with y&#8217;all ILOSM family. Remember the kid who played Whitney Houston&#8217;s son, &#8220;Fletcher,&#8221; in <em>The Bodyguard</em> movie? He was a 10 year old youngin&#8217; at the time, but now dude is a 33 year old man and we had NO clue his step-mother and his dad are very popular Old School legends!</p>
<p>Aside from starring in <em>The Bodyguard</em>, he had roles in other known films and TV shows as well, including <em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</em>, <em>Sugar Hill</em>, he was the voice of one of the kids in the animated movie, <em>Bebe&#8217;s Kids</em>, and more. He also made a name for himself in TV shows, such as the Disney series <em>Lizzie McGuire</em> and <em>Mackenzie Falls</em> and also in <em>The Secret Life of the American Teenager</em>. All along, he managed to build his own brand without being buried in his famous parents&#8217; shadows.</p>
<h2>&#8220;FLETCHER&#8221; FROM BODYGUARD&#8221; ALL GROWN UP</h2>
<p>Lil&#8217; &#8220;Fletcher&#8221; whose real name is DeVaughn, ain&#8217;t so &#8216;little&#8217; anymore.</p>
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<p>At 33 years old, he&#8217;s still doing his thing in the acting world. He&#8217;s currently starring in the new sci-fi series, &#8220;The Haunted.&#8221; As far as we know, DeVaughn is single has no kids as of yet, and he&#8217;s very close to his legendary parents.</p>
<h2>DEBBIE ALLEN&#8217;S HIS STEPMOM &amp; HUSBAND/NBA LEGEND, NORMAN NIXON IS HIS DAD</h2>
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<p>That&#8217;s right, all this time has passed and most of us had know clue that we were watching actress/director/dancer, Debbie Allen&#8217;s step-son, and her NBA hubby, Norman Nixon&#8217;s, kid on the big screen with Whitney back in the day.</p>
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<p>Debbie&#8217;s been DeVaughn&#8217;s stepmom ever since he was 1 year old in 1984 when she married his dad, Norm. So he&#8217;s very close to both his biological mom (who isn&#8217;t a celeb and pretty much stays out of the public eye) and Debbie. We&#8217;re sure Debbie and Norman are very proud of DeVaughn, who looks like a spitting image of his Pops by the way.</p>
<p>Also speaking of the beloved Whitney, see the fun facts DeVaughn posted about his time with she and Bobby Brown and more&#8230;</p>
<h2>FUN FACTS ABOUT DEVAUGHN NIXON</h2>
<p>DeVaughn witnessed Whitney and Bobby B. falling in love back in the day and paid homage to both of them on Instagram&#8230;</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BD_mradqS2i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This video says it all! Lol&#8230;witnessed when these two first fell in love! Regardless of what anyone says they had a true bond! I miss her!</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A video posted by DeVaughn Nixon (@calikiddevo) on <time style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;" datetime="2016-04-09T21:00:33+00:00">Apr 9, 2016 at 2:00pm PDT</time></p>
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<p>Debbie Allen wasn&#8217;t the only dancer in the Nixon household, DeVaughn can dance like his stepmom too! Check out his Michael Jackson moves, dude is point&#8230;</p>
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A video posted by DeVaughn Nixon (@calikiddevo) on <time style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;" datetime="2016-08-29T17:32:46+00:00">Aug 29, 2016 at 10:32am PDT</time></div>
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<p>He looooves his &#8216;aunt&#8217; Phylicia (Debbie Allen&#8217;s sis&#8217;)&#8230;.<br />
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<p>He&#8217;s still close to his &#8216;uncle&#8217; Ahmad Rashad (Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s ex-husband) and sometimes hangs out with his uncle&#8217;s good friend, Michael Jordan.</p>
<p>Well damn, we must say that DeVaughn Nixon comes from quite a talented blended family. With an NBA legend for a dad, an acting/dancing/directing legend for a stepmother, a legendary actress for a step-aunt (Phylicia Rashad) and an NFL legend for an ex-uncle-in-law (Ahmad Rashad), he had no choice but to soak up some of that greatness and make it his own. Good to see the brotha doing well.</p>
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		<title>Debbie Allen &#038;Sister, Phylicia Rashad, Are Gorgeous But Check Out Debbie&#8217;s Daughter</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We all know Debbie Allen for being a very talented woman who wears many hats. She&#8217;s a dancer at heart, a director, an actress, a choreographer and dance instructor to many young people to this day. What many of us... </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><figure id="attachment_75661" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-75661" style="width: 633px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-75661" src="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1.png" alt="" width="633" height="447" srcset="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1.png 812w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-300x212.png 300w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-768x542.png 768w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-60x42.png 60w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-594x419.png 594w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-241x170.png 241w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.18.15-PM-1-323x228.png 323w" sizes="(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-75661" class="wp-caption-text">Cosby Show/Empire&#8217;s Phylicia Rashad and her sister/actress/director/dancer, Debbie Allen</figcaption></figure><br />
We all know Debbie Allen for being a very talented woman who wears many hats. She&#8217;s a dancer at heart, a director, an actress, a choreographer and dance instructor to many young people to this day. What many of us haven&#8217;t gotten a chance to know her as is a mother to her son, daughter, and stepson. It is her daughter, Vivian Nixon, that caught our attention for this article.<br />
<figure id="attachment_75668" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-75668" style="width: 513px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-75668" src="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM.png" alt="" width="513" height="536" srcset="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM.png 513w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM-287x300.png 287w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM-60x63.png 60w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM-401x419.png 401w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM-174x182.png 174w, https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-5.44.02-PM-218x228.png 218w" sizes="(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-75668" class="wp-caption-text">Debbie Allen and her daughter, Vivian Nixon</figcaption></figure><br />
Vivian is the eldest baby of Debbie and her retired NBA baller husband, Norm Nixon. The Nixon&#8217;s have been married for the same length of time Vivian has been here- 33 years- and are still going strong.</p>
<p><strong>Debbie&#8217;s Daughter presenting Her w/Gracie Award By Alliance For All Women In Media&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSXKFqj8JT/</p>
<p>Growing up in a household with two celebrity parents, it was only natural that Vivian inherited an attraction for the spotlight as well. As of today, Norm and Debbie couldn&#8217;t be more proud that their daughter decided to follow in her Mom&#8217;s and auntie Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s footsteps. She&#8217;s an actress, who <a href="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/omg-67-yr-old-debbie-allen-still-got-it-u-gotta-see-her-twerk-for-the-camera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">like her mother, can twerk and dance</a> something SERIOUS!</p>
<p><strong>Debbie Allen with her husband, Norm Nixon, and their daughter, Vivian&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/BVBaSBzjv_9/</p>
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<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/BVBUemyD8fP/</p>
<p>In case you missed our previous article, yes family, <a href="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/omg-67-yr-old-debbie-allen-still-got-it-u-gotta-see-her-twerk-for-the-camera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Debbie Allen twerks</a> and we&#8217;re not mad at her for that. Okay, let me backtrack up a bit and note that Debbie wasn&#8217;t quite backin&#8217; that thang up on nobody in Fame back in the day, but today at 67 years young, I&#8217;ll be damned if she can&#8217;t do it now. Don&#8217;t take my word for it though, check out Debbie doing her thing in the recent video she posted on Instagram&#8230;</p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/BUsquFaD0rc/</p>
<p>See?!! Told y&#8217;all Mrs. Allen can cut a rug and twerk at the same time. Anyways, back to her daughter, Vivian was recently the star of the musical, Freeze Frame, which was directed by her mother. She spoke to Pop Source TV at the time and admitted that being directed by her mom was a challenge at times, but she wouldn&#8217;t trade it for the world. Check out her clips below and get flashbacks from Fame, Debbie&#8217;s Cosby Show appearance and&#8230;well, you get the point, Debbie&#8217;s daughter can dance and she &#8216;git it from her Momma&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p><iframe title="Debbie Allen&#039;s FREEZE FRAME... Stop the Madness - Dancin Snack" width="858" height="483" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4zXeVmcQKiE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<p><iframe title="Vivian Nixon After Her Freeze Frame Performance" width="858" height="483" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4uy-F4Lun-g?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Another thing that can&#8217;t go unnoticed is that Vivian is a doppelganger of her mother and father combined. She is as beautiful as both her moms and aunt still are, with the talent and ambition to match.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s gonna be interesting watching this next generation of the Allen/Rashad offspring (<a href="https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/shes-the-daughter-of-an-old-school-80s-actress-geesh-time-flies/">Phylicia Rashad&#8217;s daughter</a> is an actress also) grow and become forces to be reckoned with, just like their parents. Of course that&#8217;s a lotta pressure on the next generation, but it is what it is- they&#8217;re gonna have to go hard or go home- a reality I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re already aware of.</p>
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