From Fox News · Lori Bashian · · 1m 20s
Judd Nelson, 66, spotted and barely recognizable
The Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson turned up in West Hollywood with a long beard, and he still wants nothing to do with the Brat Pack.
In brief
The Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson turned up in West Hollywood with a long beard, and he still wants nothing to do with the Brat Pack. Judd Nelson has spent forty years rejecting the Brat Pack label, calling it a myth built by one 1985 magazine article. Originally reported by Fox News.
A rare sighting
Judd Nelson, now 66, was photographed out in West Hollywood this week, riding a motorcycle with yellow rims and accents.
The beard threw people
He had grown out long hair and a long beard, tucked under a gray baseball cap or a black helmet depending on the shot.
Camo pants and flannel
The outfit was deliberately unglamorous: camo pants, a red and blue flannel, a long black coat and black sunglasses.
How the label started
Writer David Blum coined "Brat Pack" in New York Magazine in June 1985, riffing on the Rat Pack, after The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire shared a cast and a year.
Nelson never bought it
He told US Weekly in 2024 the nickname painted his generation as entitled and unprofessional, when in his experience everyone showed up on time and knew their lines.
“They kind of portrayed my generation of actors as being entitled and irresponsible and unprofessional.”
He skipped the documentary
Andrew McCarthy's 2024 film Brats gathered the group to reflect on the name. Nelson refused, saying he does not even know who is in the Brat Pack.
“How can we be experts on something that didn't ever really exist?”
The headline
Judd Nelson has spent forty years rejecting the Brat Pack label, calling it a myth built by one 1985 magazine article.
