 This creates, what Entourage creator Doug Ellin has referred to as an auto-perspective angle in which the audience can assume one or the other in reference to Johnny's actual parentage.During Season Six, Johnny mentions his insecurities to the executive producer of "Five Towns" saying, "It could be my own insecurity about feeling my mother loved Vince more than she does me", alluding that Johnny's mother is Rita.It is believed that Johnny was born shortly after his parents left high school, thus explaining the age gap between himself and Vince.