Home and Away star Bec Hewitt’s daughter appears to be following in her famous mother’s footsteps, but not everyone is happy about it.
Mia, 19, was pictured on the set of ‘s second longest-running TV series in Palm Beach for the first time on Monday – 26 years after it made her mum a household name.
However, a Channel Seven spokesperson exclusively told Daily Mail that n tennis legend Lleyton Hewitt and Bec’s daughter has been working on the show for well over a year.
‘Mia has been a casual wardrobe assistant for the last 1.5 years and is a part of the Home and Away family,’ they said in a statement.
Bec, 41, rose to fame playing beloved character Hayley Smith Lawson from 1998 to 2005. She exited the series when she fell pregnant with Mia.
When images of the aspiring musician working on-set surfaced on Monday, reactions to her summer gig were mixed.
Home and Away star Bec Hewitt’s daughter Mia has been working on the set of the long-running soap for one and a half years
‘I bet she didn’t even have to interview,’ one reader commented.
‘Privilege much,’ added another.
‘No special treatment, except for her actually being there in the first place,’ reasoned a third.
Meanwhile, someone else slammed the ‘nepo baby’ label, saying: ‘Good on her for wanting a job. Kids can’t pick their parents.’
Nepo baby is a slang term for someone who has achieved success in a career similar to their famous parents, and is thought to have benefited from their family’s connections.
The increasing presence of ‘nepo babies’ in film and TV, on catwalks and on social media has come under fire, with critics claiming it leads to less opportunities available to previously unknown artists.
Mia’s role, which appears to be holding a large umbrella over the cast members to shield them from the elements, is not the first gig she has had.
She landed herself a sought-after retail job at the Christian Dior fashion boutique when she was just fifteen.
When images of the aspiring musician working on-set surfaced on Monday, reactions to her summer gig were mixed
In 2019, Mia accompanied her mother to Paris Fashion Week dressed in Christian Dior
She also accompanied her mother to Paris Fashion Week dressed in Christian Dior in 2019.
While most teenagers work retail jobs, most do not sit in the front row of Paris Fashion Week dressed head-to-toe in designer threads.
Mia, who holds a Diploma of Branded Fashion Design from Torrens University, has since redirected her creative pursuits to the stage.
Her high-profile family has lived all over, from the Bahamas to Melbourne, but relocated to Sydney in 2023 and purchased a $10 million mansion in the Hills district.
Mia started up a folk-rock duo with her friend Claudia Ros called Father’s Favourite
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Mia Hewitt follows in mum Bec's footsteps as she steps onto the Home and Away set
Mia started up a folk-rock duo with her friend Claudia Ros called Father’s Favourite and in recent photo dump shared to the band’s Instagram, the teen rockers labelled themselves ‘The Queens of King Street’.
The main road in Sydney’s Newtown is the beating heart of the suburb’s eclectic live music, arts, and foodie scene that’s beloved by starving artists and the LGBTQ+ community.
But starving artist, Mia is not.
When the young performer wraps up her gigs in dive bars around Sydney’s Inner West, she most likely returns home to her parents’ $10.3million Glenhaven’s Estate.
When the young performer wraps up her gigs in dive bars around Sydney’s Inner West, she most likely returns home to her parents’ $10.3million Glenhaven’s Estate
Mia poses at her ‘house’ party on her birthday two weeks ago
Newport, Rhode Island: Mia Hewitt (L) pictured with her parents Lleyton and Bec Hewitt and siblings Cruz and Ava at the Tennis International Hall of Fame induction in 2022
Mia and her bandmates are traipsing around the Inner West playing gigs, dressed up like their bohemian rock idols
Her parents bought the resort-style, coastal estate with a six-bedroom residence on the quiet from former Parramatta Eels great Nathan Hindmarsh and his interior designer wife Bonnie Hindmarsh, last November.
The two-hectare property features vast open-plan living areas, a separate office, a guest cottage, cabana, swimming pool, storage barn, tennis court, and its own private jetty.
Lleyton’s net worth is rumoured to be over $20 million from his tennis career and various sponsorships.
The stunning home is one of more than half a dozen multi-million-dollar mansions in the family’s property portfolio, which spans Burleigh Heads in Queensland, the Bahamas, Kenthurst in Sydney’s north-west, Palm Beach, Adelaide in South , as well as a pair of luxury apartments in Melbourne’s St. Kilda.