Revealed: Johnny Depp's son Jack has a secret job as a BARTENDER
Published: 00:35 GMT, 8 December 2024
Hollywood legend Johnny Depp's reclusive son has been working in secret at a Paris restaurant, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.
Jack, 22, the spitting image of his father, is rarely seen in public and keeps a low profile despite his celebrity genes – his mother is French singer actress Vanessa Paradis, 51.
Jack has lived in the shadows of his A-list family and unlike his sister Lily-Rose – currently starting in Dracula smash Nosferatu – prefers to stay in the background.
But MailOnline has discovered he has been working in a trendy Lebanese restaurant called L'Area in the French capital's hipster Bastille quarter.
The venue - with its exposed roof rafters and mosaic floor - is popular with music and fashion industry types and is also a haunt for movie stars including Matt Damon and Matt Dillon.
One recent review read: 'Excellent! Always a warm welcome and delicious experience at this cosy restaurant. Good food and a wonderful host.'
Jack – who was named after his 61-year-old father and grandfather – has been working shifts behind the bar and also in the downstairs kitchen rustling up a mean mixed mezze.
Pictures of him working at the restaurant are on the venue's social media and there is also footage of Lily-Rose, 25, preparing cocktails behind the bar.
Jack spent two years working in L'Area before leaving, but owner Edouard Chueke expects him to return later next year.
Mr Chueke told MailOnline: 'Jack is a great guy; he keeps out of the limelight, but worked here behind the bar and in the kitchen.
'He was a good employee, he left a few months ago but I expect him back later next year. Good staff are hard to find.
'I've been running this place for 15 years and it's very popular with the fashion and music crowd, but also film stars come here, and Jack's mum Vanessa Paradis and sister are regulars.
'Lily was mixing caipirinhas behind the bar and really getting into the swing of it, she was enjoying herself.'
Vanessa has always tried to keep her children out of the spotlight when they were younger and in a 2007 interview with Belgian media underlined her aim.
She said: 'Now I indeed keep them away from the cameras because I don't want our children to be forced to share in our fame against their will.
'They didn't ask for that. Not yet. The day that they will decide for themselves to do things that might bring them into the spotlights, then I won't stop.'