Surprisingly large sons: why we’re obsessed with tall celebrity children

Sometimes you think there are two news stories so disparate you could never possibly find a commonality between them. But for one magical week towards the end of last year, all anyone could talk about was surprisingly oversize sons. First, Gary Barlow’s son went viral after a family photo of the Barlows showed Daniel, aged 24, towering over his father, aged 53. Of course you’d never have thought anyone could possibly link it to the US election, even if they really wanted to. In fact, the relentless memes about his height were actually quite a nice respite from all the politics.