A TEEN’S TAKE: Raheem D. Allen on being on TV
“Being able to turn on the TV and see my face (on the ‘The Allen Brotherz Reality Show’) brings a mix of emotions. It seems like almost every day someone says, ‘Hey, didn’t I see you on that show last night?’ And it makes me the happiest person in the world to know that people actually enjoy what I like to do.”
Age: 15
School: Baton Rouge Magnet High School, sophomore
Parents: Dewey Allen and Kimberly Dumas
FAVORITES:
Book: “I Am Rick: Zane’s Destruction,” which Allen wrote. It is available on Amazon.com.
TV show: “The Allen Brotherz Reality Show,” his father’s and uncle’s show which airs on Fox 44 at 12:30 a.m. Sundays.
Movie: “Transformers (series), Batman (series), Spider-Man (series).”
Music: Comedy, hip-hop
Hangout: Movie theaters, Mall of Louisiana
Role model: “No one. My inspiration is myself.”
Extra: Allen enjoys “helping my great-grandmother and being a role model for my little brother” as well as filming, editing, writing. “I am interested in reading and writing fantasy literature, because I like to go on adventures. I like to be creative and create the worlds that are inside of my head for other people to experience. In literature, I can become whomever I want and do things I cannot do in real life.”
William Taylor
Assistant People editor