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Topics: Aliens, Machine Gun Kelly, Music, Parenting
Dan Seddon
Topics: Aliens, Machine Gun Kelly, Music, Parenting
Pop-punk artist Machine Gun Kelly believes he could have some alien blood in his genes.
While appearing on US talkshow Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last weekend, the 35-year-old (real name Colson Baker) began his surprising existential reflection after receiving a compliment from Cohen about his youthfulness.
"It's a weird thing, dude. I don't know if my age... I don't know if it exists," he stated.
Then came the UFO chat.
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"I just don't know many facts about my life. Like my skin, if it rips open, it heals really quick," the musician revealed. "There's just things where I'm starting to be like, 'Who's my dad?'"
Well, conventional wisdom says MGK's father was James Colson Baker. The musician was born in Houston, Texas to a pair of Christian missionaries and lived in far-flung countries like Egypt (learning Arabic before English), Kenya and Germany throughout his childhood, before traversing US states such as Denver and Ohio.
MGK previously told Interview magazine his dad was 'extremely religious and extremely strict, and wouldn’t even let me hold my pen the way I wanted to hold my pen'.
Except now he seems to think James Colson Baker wasn't his father, and he has genetic roots in outer space.
Asked by Cohen if he thought he might be from another planet, the talkshow guest answered: "Yeah, I've asked my mom, 'Was there any period of time you went missing, like off the Earth? Was there ever like a tall slender creature?'
"She told me she felt like she got abducted at one point."
People on social media were naturally confused, with one writing: "The next time someone asks me, my age I’m gonna straight up say I don’t know.
"My mama may or may not have had a affair with an extra terrestrial being. Beats saying you’re in your 30s good God."
Another quipped: "He doesn’t have a birth certificate? That would help."
In more Earth-bound news, the star apparently turned down the opportunity to audition for period vampire horror Sinners for one key reason.
Released back in April to the tune of almost $366m (£271m) in global box office takings, the film is set in the year 1932 and orbits identical twins Smoke and Stack, who come home to Mississippi after building a reputation as ruthless members of the Chicago mob.
Their vision is to operate a brand-new juke joint (or music venue), but on opening night, their joy descends into hell as a pack of vampires show up.
In a July episode of The Pat McAfee Show, MGK explained that the film's casting director expected him to recite a racial slur during his screen test, and that's where he pulled the plug.
“Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that," he said. "The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition - it's the one that's in the house, so he's the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family."
MGK seemed to be referencing the KKK member eventually played on screen by Peter Dreimanis, who is turned by the Irish bloodsucker Remmick (Jack O'Connell).
"I wouldn’t [say the n-word]," noted MGK. "I have a lot of aspirations to be in movies, it just hasn't panned out that way. It'll align. The angels will put something in the works."
To be fair to the guy, his Hollywood aspirations have been fulfilled on several occasions.
In 2018 he portrayed the character Felix in Netflix's super popular Bird Box, and two years later he was credited in both The King of Staten Island and Project Power - the latter starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.