Wake up everyone, there’s a brand new surprisingly tall celebrity son to gawk at! Respectfully, of course. Our latest candidate is Naomi Watts’ son Sasha Schreiber, who revealed his surprisingly tall status when he towered over his mother at her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
While the 18-year-old’s actual height is unknown, he certainly didn’t get the tall genes from his mother, who is five foot five. His father, the actor Liev Schreiber, is the more likely culprit, standing at six foot two.
But this is hardly our first foray into the world of surprisingly large celebrity sons.
Cast your minds back, if you will, to this time last year.
Sometimes you think there are two news stories so disparate you could never possibly find a commonality between them. But for one magical week in November 2024, all anyone could talk about was oversized 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.
Then, mere hours later, Donald Trump arrived on stage at his election night party with Melania Trump and their son Barron. And suddenly two stories became one.
Barron Trump, who is 18 years old and inexplicably 2.06m tall (six foot seven), dwarfed his father Donald, who is pretty tall himself, at six foot two. While his mother Melania was a model, she isn’t exactly a giant, standing at a reasonable five foot eight.
The New York University student (presumably there on some sort of basketball scholarship) captivated people across the nation with his height, just as Daniel Barlow captivated the UK.
In comparison, Daniel Barlow is six foot two, which isn’t quite as towering as Barron, but does stand significantly taller than his former Take That star father Gary, who is a short king at five foot seven.
Then a brand new surprisingly large son presented himself: Gabby Logan’s son Reuben Logan, who recently played in Scotland's U20s rugby squad at the 2025 Six Nations (no doubt because of his advantageous height).
But why do we care so much? And why does it give us such a thrill when someone has a surprisingly massive son? Clearly there’s a market for it — you need only look to family favourite film Twins, released in 1988 and starring Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, for proof of that. There was also a height-flipped version of Twins released in 2003 called Tiptoes, in which Matthew McConaughey has a brother who is a small person, but I think McConaughey would agree it’s best if everyone just forgot about that.
According to scarily large son Alex Williams, 28, it can be quite daunting being taller than everyone else in your family. “I’m six foot nine and tower over my parents,” he told the Standard.
Because I’m an IVF baby my parents joke that someone swapped the test tubes
“I was 6ft at like 10 or 11 years old so at that point I was like oops, we tall!” Alex says. “Towering over friends and family had a lot positives and negatives, at first I’d say more negatives as I didn’t embrace my height the way I do now. My mum jokes that I’m the milkman’s kid — an old person joke.
“Lots of the family say, ‘We don’t know where you came from or joke about adoption. And because I’m an IVF baby my parents joke that someone swapped the test tubes.”
Similarly to Alex, Barron Trump, Reuben Logan, Sasha Schreiber, and Daniel Barlow’s height certainly makes them stand out. As for whether or not they actually enjoy the attention, that remains to be seen.
