To think people are missing the main point that Brooklyn Beckham is trying to reveal ?

Duck me

But he’s not, he’s a middle aged liar.

He seems very young for his age and naive. He seems to be very into the 24/7 together idea of a relationship and lots of show on social media.
A nearly 30 yr old marriage will never look like that. Lots of wealthy couples spend limited time together, having multiple properties makes that easier. I imagine they can easily go weeks without seeing each other if they choose, him in USA, then her in Paris.
I doubt Brooklyn and Nicola will still be together at 50 but if they are their relationship will look very different to how it is as newlyweds.

The comparison with Prince Harry is because they are both who they are because of who their parents are.
At least with Prince Harry, he'll always be that little boy to some of us.

Neither seem to have grasped that as standalone individuals they don't have much going for them.

Yeah I see the parallel but I think this is very different to Harry , and I do beleive Brooklyn. Harry just talked make up shite.

I think a lot of people are focused on how much money they have, so any amount of shitty child hood in their view is acceptable if it means a life of luxury. It’s not a view I can comprehend, and I grew up poor. There also seems to be some who feel parents can do anything and the child can’t complain as the parent owns them. Again not something I can comprehend.

but it explains why so many dysfunctional families about.

i think it’s fairly obvious the beckham life isn’t as portrayed and I actually think in this Victoria controls the public image very strictly and expects them all to go along with it, and David is too much of a coward or too disinterested, or it’s in his own interests so just goes along with it. I think she’s in charge and he enables her.

runours have it he shags about, and she clearly is fully aware of this, but they portray the happy family for the cameras. The kids to me, the boys, seem a bit messed up, none of them come across as well adjusted, Brooklyn probably the most adjusted, and he said he grew up with crippling anxiety.

it doesn’t look like a family, more a business. And they are the product they sell.

Curiously this is the second time they’ve been accused of leaking to the press and planting stories, which does make me wonder if Megan markle was right.

So Brooklyn Beckham has gone the full Prince Harry by trashing his family in the most public way possible, despite claiming that what he really craves is privacy. This is always a big mistake. In a few years' time, after the inevitable divorce, he'll have to go crawling back to Mummy and Daddy and beg them to reinstate his allowance so that he can continue to live the celebrity lifestyle that he's always known and loved. He obviously has no special talents, so like Harry, when all the dirt has finally been dished, he'll have nothing left to fall back on. My sympathies are entirely with David and Victoria. No marriage is ever perfect, all families are complicated and bringing up kids is hard, even - and perhaps especially - when you are blessed with great wealth and your ungrateful children have never needed to occupy themselves with life's everyday problems. Brooklyn has enjoyed the spoils and now he's well and truly shot himself in the foot. And it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke!

That the subtext of his statement is that they are not a couple !!

Really? I thought he was saying they were just an unhappy couple - who perhaps have been a bit too focused on brand ie bussiness rather than family and parenting.

He's a nepo baby who seems lost TBH and new wife is inherited money and neither may realise how hard success actually was for his parents to acheive given their backgrounds - but others in similar place did more to protect their kids from glare of fame - so he may have a point.

He does seem to want to be done with them and this public statement does make that very clear.

I think most people know they are not a “devoted couple” and realise they have a fantastic marketing team

I didn't but then I've never met them 😂😂

I think this is a possibility.

I don’t think, OP, that BB is saying they are actually “not a couple” and I don’t think they are “not a couple”.

Not a “perfect” couple, as they portray, yes. But I think they are very much a couple; whether that includes extra-marital affairs, who knows.

There are people who insist that David has affairs. Obviously I have no idea. But Brooklyns statement has caused a total ruckus and it didn’t even ssh very much. I don’t think he could ever or would ever expose their affairs / cheating in this way.

Although yes, he may well hint at it.

Firstly, I don't understand why this was breaking news on GMB. Secondly, why did he have to put a statement out about it all. Why couldn't he just live the life he wants with his wife? Can you tell I have no idea what was going on, if it wasn't 'breaking news' I'd still be non the wiser now !

Click on something else then

Very much so and it is no leap to believe it.
James O'Brien was talking about this on LBC this morning, he said 30 years ago he was writing a silly gossip column in the Express and published a silly story about her wedding the day after it. He said she phoned him up in high dudgeon to complain about it, the next day on her bloody honeymoon!

Seems all of a piece with her reported obsession with the brand and total control of the narrative. I don't think the happy marriage fakery has ever really fooled that many people.

Such a miserable way to live. Imagine going on fancy holidays with a husband with whom you have a relationship of mutual contempt and posing for lovey dovey photographs that are purely for public consumption..

I think the “inauthentic relationships” part was a warning shot to his parents - leave me and my wife alone, pack it in now or I’ll spill the lot!

Mmm - Brooklyn may have very valid points, but the simple truth is that Brooklyn has limited obvious talent, and would not have met his nepo-baby wife , had it not been for his parents millions.
He would do better to shut up and make his own way in life

Many children have it worse.

well I didnt quite get that so I appreciated the OPs post. And i dont think it would be as easy as you make out to quietly walk away at 16 for him. It would be hard enough for anyone, but the life he describes, being part of a brand, would be nearly impossible. is parents did not keep out of the public eye. At 16 he was recognisable. Where is a 16 year old like that meant to go? How does Brooklyn Beckham go about getting an apprenticeship, particulary against his parents wishes! It's entirely possible also he didnt know it was weird until he was away fromit. It makes sense that now he is away from it then he can speak out, but sadly I think he has swapped one guided cage for another and i feel sorry for him. Just because he is rich doesn't mean his life didnt suck.

We’ve all known since 2004 that their marriage was a sham.

What I don't get is what was stopping him from just quietly doing a normal job, getting an education and acting and being just a regular person. If all the trappings of celebrity and publicity etc weren't his thing.
Some celebrities have offspring who live their lives away from the spotlight, but I think BB probably has never been anything other than DB and VB's PFB.

I'm more surprised that you've started ANOTHER thread about it and now it's in active with all the others

Obviously their family relationships were not normal, too much focus on how they were portrayed in the media.
I pity both sides but Brooklyn has different position here - they are his parents and bear more responsibility.

I don't think anyone's missing the jist of what he's trying to say. It's plain as a sledgehammer to the face.

What I don't get is what was stopping him from just quietly doing a normal job, getting an education and acting and being just a regular person. If all the trappings of celebrity and publicity etc weren't his thing.

He could've just said at 16, I'm going to get an apprenticeship, I'm going to use a diff. surname to make sure there's no favouritism and I want to try and save up for my own little flat, slowly build my career and have a family with a normal young woman. But he didn't because he didn't like the idea of having to do any hard work.

Now he's cosseted by the Peltz billions, he can finally 'speak his truth' and continue to never have to do any hard work. Safe in the knowledge that if his parents cut him off financially he'll still be loaded for life.

I thought everyone viewed them as brand and most people were aware enough to know celebrities and those in the media are rarely as they are portrayed, so I can’t see why people would have thought otherwise.

I also think that just as a result of his upbringing, Brooklyn will have a very different and distorted view of what things like control and privacy actually are. His life has no reflection on what most his age have experienced but his perception will be genuine to him, even if not to others. That doesn’t necessarily make it true or false.

Agree. He may not have chosen it but has willingly used his name and parentage more than once to open doors and grease wheels. His photography would not have been published on its own merits, for example. I doubt he would ever have met his wife, let alone married her, without being a nepo baby. If he really meant any of what has been published in his name it would not be all over the media but private. The public nature is afar more aggressive stance towards his family and their “work”. He is vying for media space with likes of Prince Harry but frankly who cares about what is fundamentally a domestic dispute over a vacuous brand and the way they chose to raise their dc,

Oh yes, I hadn't noticed that.