Ice-T and Coco Austin’s daughter Chanel is ready to steal the spotlight from her famous dad.
The 66-year-old rapper/actor and his 45-year-old wife shared a joint post on Instagram on Friday, showing off her 8-year-old daughter on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
‘Behind the scenes on Law & Order, someone is trying to take Dad’s job,’ Coco said from behind the camera, as she focused on her adorable daughter sitting at a desk at the beginning of the video.
Ice-T has played Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the hit crime drama since its second season in 2000.
The clip then shows Chanel exploring the sets, watching scenes on a monitor, and even getting hands-on experience operating a camera under the guidance of a crew member.
Ice-T and Coco Austin’s daughter Chanel is ready to steal the spotlight from her famous father
The 66-year-old rapper/actor and his 45-year-old wife shared a joint post on Instagram on Friday, showing off their 8-year-old daughter on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
He also took a seat behind Mariska Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson’s desk while using a phone.
In a fun touch, the desk nameplate was replaced with a handwritten sign that read ‘Captain Chanel’ instead of ‘Captain Olivia Benson.’
“Oh no, @babychanelnicole is taking over @nbclawandorder,” Coco wrote. “Watch out directors, cameramen, and even Olivia Benson’s commercial! Don’t forget about this girl! She does it all!”
Chanel’s day on set comes after the couple revealed she got an agent in January.
“You know Chanel and Ryan Buggle (who plays Noah, son of Olivia Benson, played by Mariska Hargitay) have the same agents. We didn’t even know. She just got an agent,” said Coco, 44. People.
“Chanel wanted to be here tonight. She’s mad at us right now,” Ice-T, 65, added. “She looked at the nanny like, ‘Really? Really?'”
According to her Instagram, the young woman, who walked the runway at New York Fashion Week last year, is signed to the Zuri Agency.
When asked if his daughter would ever make a cameo on his hit show, the rapper happily told People, “Hell yeah!”
‘Behind the scenes on Law & Order, someone is trying to take Dad’s job,’ Coco said from behind the camera, as she focused on her adorable daughter sitting at a desk at the beginning of the video.
Ice-T has played Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the hit crime drama since its second season in 2000.
The clip then showed Chanel exploring the sets, watching scenes on a monitor and even getting hands-on experience operating a camera under the guidance of a crew member.
He also took a seat behind Mariska Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson’s desk while using a phone.
Chanel’s day on set comes after the couple revealed she got an agent in January; pictured in September 2023
It comes just four months after Chanel walked the runway at the Rookie USA fashion show as part of New York Fashion Week.
Chanel was one of 100 children who walked the runway during the 13th annual event benefiting nonprofit Moms for Moms NYC.
Coco documented her little one’s first NYFW experience on her Instagram Story, telling her followers they were “ready to see Chanel walk that runway.”
The proud parents sat in the front row with their close friend, rapper Treach, while Chanel modeled two kid-sized looks.
She also captured images of Chanel looking like a pro as she had her hair and makeup done backstage.
In August, the star, who does not employ nannies, revealed that the key to good parenting was providing “parental guidance, not necessarily parental control, but guidance to help them understand.”
“We are the parents. I think the important thing is that we are Ice-T and Coco. Our way of raising children is very different than the normal, conventional couple from Oklahoma,” Ice-T (whose real name was Tracy Marrow) explained to People.
“I’m a fucking rock star, it’s different. We’re like the Osbournes. We have a different dynamic in our house. But it’s not detrimental. That’s the main thing. It’s us.”
It comes several months after she walked the runway at the Rookie USA fashion show as part of New York Fashion Week.
She also captured images of Chanel looking like a total professional as she had her hair and makeup done backstage.
The hip hop legend also fathered two adult children: son Tracy Marrow Jr., 32, and daughter LeTesha Morrow, 47, from previous relationships; the family photographed last year.
The Law & Order: SVU actor and Tarzana-born, Albuquerque-raised bombshell makes sure to monitor and keep tabs on little Chanel’s activity on Instagram, where she’s already amassed 444,000 followers.
“It’s fun and she likes doing it. If it wasn’t like that, we definitely wouldn’t do it,” Ice-T clarified.
‘Now, at some point, Chanel might say, ‘Mom or Dad, I don’t want to be on social media,’ and we’ll stop. But she’s a normal kid. She wants to do her TikToks and her Reels.’
The hip-hop legend is also a father to two adult children: son Tracy Marrow Jr., 32, and daughter LeTesha Morrow, 47; from previous relationships.
