The Baldwins, and their seven children, land reality TV show
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Actor Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are to lift the lid on their “wild and crazy” life with seven children in a reality TV show.
The upcoming show, simply called The Baldwins, was announced as it was revealed Baldwin will face an involuntary manslaughter trial within weeks over the fatal shooting on the set of his neo-Western film Rust.
“We’re inviting you into our home to experience the ups and downs, the good, the bad, the wild and the crazy,” he said in a teaser video the couple released for the show, which will hit screens in 2025.
“Home is the place we love to be most.”
The video showed the couple trying to wrangle their children – Carmen, 10, Rafael, eight, Leonardo, seven, Romeo, six, Eduardo, three, María Lucía, also three, and Ilaria, 21 months – together for a family photo.
Hilaria also revealed they were “done having kids”.
Baldwin – who also has daughter Ireland, 28, with ex-wife Kim Basinger – previously hinted in an episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast that his family was looking at a reality TV debut.
“That reality show [possibility] has all been so we can stay home and just work from home,” he said.
“I’m desperate to try to work from New York.”
The Baldwins have seven children together. Photo: Getty
‘Crazy’ lives of the Baldwins
The announcement of The Baldwins comes as he is due to face a New Mexico court over the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The involuntary manslaughter trial is set for July.
The Oscar-nominated actor has pleaded not guilty, and could face up to 18 months in prison if convicted.
Last month, a judge tossed out Baldwin’s bid to dismiss the charge, paving the way for an unprecedented trial of a Hollywood actor for an on-set death.
Hutchins was shot with a live round after Baldwin pointed a gun at her as she set up a camera shot on the Rust set near Santa Fe.
The 30 Rock actor maintains he did not pull the trigger, an assertion that has become central to the case.
Business and entertainment lawyer Tre Lovell said many of the differences in the prosecution and defence cases were factual disputes – and that was the type of case juries were meant to decide.
Meanwhile, Baldwin’s wife is also no stranger to controversy.
Her real name is Hilary Hayward-Thomas and for years, she claimed she was born and grew up in Mallorca, Spain.
She also spoke with a Spanish accent, even apparently “forgetting” English words.
On a podcast, Hilaria claimed she moved to the US when she was 19 to attend university in New York, implying she had moved from Spain.
But the yoga instructor and entrepreneur was exposed on social media in 2020, when it was revealed she was born and raised in the US.
Hilaria took some months away from social media, before returning in early 2021, saying she had used the time “listening, reflecting” after criticism of her Spanish accent.
“My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both. The way I’ve spoken about myself and my deep connection to two cultures could have been better explained – I should have been more clear and I’m sorry,” she wrote.
She said she was born in Boston and her family now lived in Spain.
“I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough,” she said.
“I think people ask sometimes about how I speak. I am that person that, if I’ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I, you know, tend to mix them.”