Uh Oh, Tiger Lily (Maybe) Set To Become Child Actor

This could well constitute “troubling news”: Tiger Lily, daughter of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates and adopted daughter of Sir Bob Geldof, has apparently made a shortlist of young actresses in line to star in the latest cinematic adaptation of the popular Eloise books.

Even though being a child actor isn’t necessarily the curse it once was, here’s hoping Tiger Lily is from the Frances Bean Cobain school rather than the Drew Barrymore-aged-8-to-16 school, and has only inherited her parents’ looks rather than their party MO.

Tiger Lily and 10 other young actresses were shortlisted after the movie’s producers scoured schools in Britain, the US and Canada.

Hollywood actress Uma Thurman has already been cast to play the nanny in the film.

“Eloise has to be sassy, streetwise and extremely lovable, although she has a naughty side,” an unnamed source close to the film told the Daily Mail newspaper.

Final auditions for the starring role will be held next week, the paper added.

Eloise in Paris is based on the famous 50s children’s books by Kay Thompson.

Casting Tiger Lily in the role would be an improvement on the dreadful existing film and TV versions of the character, but we’ll believe all this when we actually see proper quotes rather than just “sources”.

In any case, we can’t see Sir Bob letting Tiger Lily hit Studio 54 for her 12th birthday – if his other daughters are any indication, that sort of shit is strictly for those aged 15 and above.