Ice-T’s daughter hijacks Law & Order: SVU set

Ice-T’s 8-year-old daughter Chanel is following in her father’s footsteps on the set of Law & Order: SVU.

The rapper, 66, and his wife, Coco Austin, shared beautiful photos of Chanel’s visit to the long-running theater on Instagram on Friday, August 2.

Chanel looked right at home in the montage as she sat behind the camera, in the director’s chair and at the desk of the show’s main character Olivia Benson, played by. Mariska Hargitay.

“Oh no @babychanelnicole is taking over @nbclaworder!!” Austin, 45, joked in the caption accompanying the post. “Watch out for directors, cameramen and even Olivia Benson’s location! Don’t sleep on this chick! He does everything!”

While narrating the video, Austin warned Ice-T (real name, Tracey Lauren Morrow) to stay vigilant if she wants to keep her gig.

“Behind the scenes, Law and Ordersomeone is trying to take my father’s job,” he joked.

In the photo section, a desk name plate with the words “Capt. Olivia Benson” instead of the handwritten version, which read, “Capt. CHANEL.”

Commenting on the post, Hargitay, 60, got in on the fun in a funny way. He wrote, “Thank God, someone is holding the fort!!!”

Currently airing its 25th season, Law & Order: SVU it was first shown in 1999 as the very first episode of the show Law and Order franchise. Ice-T joined the show in season 2.

Away from the small screen, Ice-T married Austin in 2002, adopting Chanel in 2015.

Talking to Us Weekly In June 2024, Ice-T joked about being a protective father to his daughter.

“I have already shown him a small plot that I made for his boyfriends to make him cry in our yard,” he said. Us. “He says, ‘No, no. Nah, dad, you won’t do that.’ I said, ‘What about a girl who likes the same guy you like?’ [Chanel said], ‘Oh, he can get it.’ That’s my daughter.”

The actor is also the father of an elder daughter, Tesha Marrow48, and the eldest son, Tracy Marrow32, from a previous relationship and has spoken openly about how different it is to raise a child later in life.

“I think the difference with Chanel and my other kids is that I know this kid a lot,” Ice-T explained in the May 2023 episode of the podcast, “That Time With Daymond John.”

“I had mine [first] daughter when I was in high school. I was tearing up and running, so it was there for the sake of it,” he said on the podcast. “I wasn’t there. My son … happened when I became Ice-T. You know, I was never famous, this was a new thing, so that bothers me [at the time]. Chanel, I’m free. I’m on a cruise.”