Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child snubbed by his other children at red carpet event

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Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated Season 2 of Fubar with his kids — but one was seemingly snubbed during the event.
While all five of the actor's children attended the red carpet premiere of the action series Wednesday in Los Angeles, the 77-year-old posed with them in two separate groups.
Arnold first took photos with Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher Schwarzenegger, whom he has with his ex-wife Maria Shriver.
Katherine's husband, Chris Pratt, also appeared in the pictures. The family of six smiled for the cameras while surrounding the former governor.
Arnold then posed with his son Joseph Baena. He had the 27-year-old with his family's housekeeper, Mildred Baena, following an affair during his marriage to Shriver.
While none of his other children took photos with their half-brother, Arnold and Joseph didn't appear to be bothered by it.
The actor smiled and proudly posed alongside his look-alike son and later spoke about the possibility of working with Patrick, 31, who recently starred in Season 3 of The White Lotus.
'Well, it could be in the future. I don't know,' he told Extra. 'If there's a good script, you will, of course, think about that, but right now, just let him go and do his own thing. He's doing it very well. He's on a good ride right now. He's very popular. People come up to me now and just say, 'Hey, here's my contact.' And I say, 'Well, thank you… What do you want me to do with this?''
''No, no, no it's not for you…,'' Arnold added. ''Give it to Patrick.''
The interviewer, Terri Seymour, then floated the idea of the father-son duo working with his son-in-law, Pratt, 45. 'Could easily be… Who knows,' Arnold replied.
In 2011, Shriver, 69, filed for divorce from Arnold following 25 years of marriage after finding out about his affair. Just this year, the author opened up about that 'brutal' moment.
In her new book, I Am Maria, published in April, Shriver detailed that the news of Arnold's infidelity came after she had just lost both her mum and dad.
'I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness and anxiety,' she penned. 'I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified.'
Shriver added, 'As I sat on my hotel room floor in the dark, alone with tears streaming down my face, I thought to myself: Maria, this doesn't have to be the end of you.'
Looking back at that difficult time in her life, Shriver concluded, 'I've also had to come face-to-face with other misguided beliefs — about ageing, about being alone. I used to believe that if you didn't have a partner, you must be unworthy and unlovable. I've learned that nothing could be further from the truth.'
This isn't the first time that Joseph has been seemingly snubbed by his half-siblings. The same thing happened at the first season premiere of Fubar.
Meanwhile, in 2023, a source told Page Six that Joseph has a good relationship with Arnold but isn't close with the other children.
'The other kids don't love Joe,' the insider alleged after the event.
'It's a shame as he's a really good kid, and Arnold has always treated him like all his other kids — very fairly. But for whatever reason, the other kids take [the affair] out on Joe.'
In March, Joseph got candid about choosing to go by his mother's surname.
'I think the main thing is I'm trying to do things on my own,' he told Good Morning Britain.
'My family is very big in supporting from afar and not being so hands-on, I really appreciate that. I think it's really important growing up as a man to do things on your own. To figure it out, that's what I've been doing,' he added.
These days, Joseph is also following in his father's footsteps as he is starring in the upcoming film Gunner.
'I've been working really hard,' he shared, 'It was such an honour to be on the same film as Morgan Freeman, as Luke Hemsworth. Luke is amazing, they're both amazing actors.'
Meanwhile, his half-brother, Chris, also 27, debuted his drastic weight loss in May.
'It was a big process,' he said while at the Beacher Vitality Happy & Healthy Summit in Los Angeles, per People.
'I started in 2019 when I was living in Australia. I was on this big trip. I made it a big [deal] like, 'Oh, I'm going to go out and do all this stuff, be in Australia,' and I just saw how much my weight was prohibiting me from doing the everyday activities.'
It was a long journey for Chris, who had tried to lose weight for many years.
'I was doing meal delivery things in high school, and I remember feeling like a weirdo when I was bringing weird lunches to school,' he recalled. 'It's not an overnight thing, but it took a lot of trial and error.'