America saw Brooks Marks grow up on ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.’ Now he’s in New York, on a new Bravo show.

Sometime-Utahn Brooks Marks clearly didn’t care for the question: “What do you think of the phrase ‘nepo baby’?”

He answered politely but tersely. “I honestly don’t have many thoughts about it,” said Marks, offering nothing more on the subject.

Whether he likes it or not, Marks has seen that phrase applied to him. A 24-year-old fashion designer and influencer, Marks became nationally known through his occasional appearances on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” — in which his mother, fashion icon Meredith Marks, is a cast member.

Now, in a move that’s sure to invite more criticism around the “nepo baby” label, Marks is one of the stars of a new reality series, “Next Gen NYC,” which premieres Tuesday night on Bravo. Among the 10 New Yorkers featured on the show, four of them are the children of cast members from different “Real Housewives” franchises. Some of the others are the offspring of other famous folk.

“What’s so great about the show is that it captures authentic friendships,” Marks said in a virtual interview from New York, which is now his primary residence. (Marks, who recently graduated from New York University, said he still visits Park City to see his family, particularly in the winter.)

“We are a group with tons of different dynamics, and we all are very career-oriented,” he said of the show’s cast.

The show, he said, will give viewers a different perspective of him than they’ve seen on “Real Housewives.”

“What everyone has seen to date is just excerpts on social media, or quick TV moments from the features I’ve done on my mom’s show,” he said. “This time, it’s more about myself personally, revealing the curtain. Showing the ins and outs of the development of my clothing line, my modeling journey, the hustle of my work at [his mother’s company], and living my day-to-day life in New York City with this great group of people.”

For the most part, Marks said, the cast members of “Next Gen NYC” had previous relationships before filming began. Some, it’s noted in the first episode, met while attending BravoCon, the annual gathering of fans meeting the stars of Bravo’s reality shows.

“We all knew each other in one way or another, whether it was through a mutual friend or whatnot,” Marks said. “I thought before filming that we all had very close friendships. But it’s wild how much closer they become through this process of filming a TV show. There’s a whole new layer of loyalty added to it, and trust and support. We all leaned on each other in different ways than we have before.”

In an early episode, Marks says to one of his friends, “I literally hate confrontation more than anything.” It’s a statement that makes a viewer think that Marks has never watched a Bravo show, let alone been on one.

“Transparently, I don’t really feel that this show is built off of confrontation,” Marks said. “It’s built off of letting the viewer be a fly on the wall in New York City, as we’re all navigating this crazy city in our 20s.”

Of course, he added, “there’s going to be conflict and whatnot. People are going to butt heads and disagree on things. What’s really great about his group of friends is that we’re all there for each other through it, and we guide each other through it and make sure that we can all go to bed at night with it resolved.”

Having Meredith Marks as his mother has helped him handle confrontation, he said. “I’ve learned how to disengage. Something my parents have always told me is to be true to myself and 100% authentic, and that’s something that I’ve carried with me and everything that I’ve done.”

His parents, Meredith and Seth Marks, appear in previews for the new show. In the first episode, viewers often see Brooks’ sister, Chloe. (That’s not a spoiler; she appears in the show’s trailer.)

“People can say whatever they want about me, but don’t do that about my sister,” Marks said. “That’s how you’ll get me to engage.”

Marks added: “I know that family conflicts arise within every family, and I know there are tons of people that have siblings that they don’t speak to anymore. I hope that seeing my sister’s and my relationship, and how close we are, can inspire people to reconnect with their siblings, and lean on them for support.”

When Marks was asked if there was anything he learned from his time in Utah that he could apply to living in New York, he laughed and said, “Honestly, no.”

New York and Utah, he said, “are so vastly different. When I’m in New York for extended periods of time, and I go to visit my parents in Park City, the silence makes it impossible to sleep. You get used to how loud it is in the city very quickly.”

Meet the ‘Next Gen NYC’ cast

Ariana Biermann • Fashion designer; daughter of Kim Zolciak-Biermann (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”).

Riley Burruss • Former intern, taking year off before law school; daughter of singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”).

Ava Dash • Model; daughter of music mogul Damon Dash and fashion designer Rachel Roy.

Emira D’Spain • Content creator, former beauty director at Paper magazine, first Black transgender woman to model for Victoria’s Secret.

Shai Fruchter • Works in the fashion industry.

Gia Giudice • Recent college graduate, taking gap year before law school; daughter of Teresa Giudice (“The Real Housewives of New Jersey”).

Brooks Marks • Fashion designer; son of Meredith Marks (“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City”).

Georgia McCann • Billed by Bravo as a “Gen Z it-girl,” works as “a brand and events creative strategist.”

Hudson McLeroy • Investor; sometime boyfriend of Ariana Biermann (see above).

Charlie Zakkour • Crypto trader and private investor, regular in New York’s club scene since age 14.