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David and Victoria’s press statement

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Williteverstopraininghey · 22/01/2026 22:27

Where is it?

Will they even do one?

Has anyone changed their initial viewpoint on the whole thing?

And lastly….Team Brooklyn or Team Beckham?

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Daygloboo · 23/01/2026 01:46

PinkPanther57 · 22/01/2026 23:13

Yes but…honestly I am not sure he has that memo. His FIL is now his business mentor apparently so perhaps we’ll see a ‘sauce’ empire.

Brooklyn Roots Hotty Hotty sauce

Daygloboo · 23/01/2026 01:42

PinkPanther57 · 22/01/2026 22:31

Some convincing arguments it’s all (mainly) a clever set up.

Whst do you mean? That sounds intriguing. Please elaborate.

BanditoShipman · 23/01/2026 01:22

FiveDogDaycare · 23/01/2026 01:08

Will he get his childhood back? They’ve sold their kids for years, the kids have added to the interest in them and therefore their wealth.

As for someone saying they’re remaining dignified. lol. Multiple affairs, Harper having to move schools because of one, fake marriage to continue their brand, selling their kids privacy, the obvious leaked stories from them to the press, David saying ‘children make mistakes’ as if he’s talking about a 5 year old etc… yeah really dignified.

Victoria will be having plenty of wine to get through and David will pop out for a massage.

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What affair meant that Harper had to move schools?

purpleme12 · 23/01/2026 01:15

PortSalutPlease · 23/01/2026 00:19

I’d suggest reading the feature that Nicola and Brooklyn gave to vogue right after the wedding. In their own words, the dress she did wear was worked on with Valentino for over a year. And they had their first dance as planned as they talk about it in the interview. Marc Anthony didn’t play until late in the evening, after there had also already been a father daughter dance.

Thanks

I hadn't looked at this. Will see if I can find

FiveDogDaycare · 23/01/2026 01:08

Ikeameatballs · 22/01/2026 22:38

I hope he’s handed back any wealth that they gave him…

Will he get his childhood back? They’ve sold their kids for years, the kids have added to the interest in them and therefore their wealth.

As for someone saying they’re remaining dignified. lol. Multiple affairs, Harper having to move schools because of one, fake marriage to continue their brand, selling their kids privacy, the obvious leaked stories from them to the press, David saying ‘children make mistakes’ as if he’s talking about a 5 year old etc… yeah really dignified.

Victoria will be having plenty of wine to get through and David will pop out for a massage.

Abouttoblow · 23/01/2026 01:04

Williteverstopraininghey · 22/01/2026 22:32

I heard this, but don’t believe Vb would allow herself to be humiliated like that, in this way and their whole’Brand’ seems weird

Why start a thread called:

"David and Victoria’s press statement"

when there hasn't been one?

LeeHarper5 · 23/01/2026 01:02

Does anyone else think there’ll be a baby added to the mix soon? That would really twist the knife they’ve plunged in VB’s back.

BB has well and truly burnt his bridges. He may have £10m in the bank but he has that because of his name and the doors that name opened up to him. He would never have been on Nicola’s radar had he been plain old Brooklyn Bloggs.

BB comes across as an overindulged brat and for that VB/DB are to blame. As a PP said, BB didn’t have to issue such a vicious statement, he could have said there’ll be no reconciliation and no further comment.

i don’t think there’s any coming back from this for BB. If I were his parent I might find it in my heart to forgive, but I wouldn’t forget and would be very wary when I was around him. If I were his siblings, I couldn’t imagine wanting anything more to do with him. You can be pissed off at your parents, you can fall out with your adult brothers all you want but Harper is still just a child and I couldn’t imagine cutting off my kid sister for something he blames his parents for.

Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors and we are all far from being perfect but it’s VB I really feel for in all of this. She must be devastated and I really hope she has some good emotional support around her right now.

BoredZelda · 23/01/2026 00:56

bobsuruncle2 · 22/01/2026 23:11

Would he have got those opportunities and income had it not been for his name I wonder?

So, it’s ok for parents to be toxic if they are wealthy, and kids just have to put up with it or give away all their worldly goods if they want to complain about it tit?

HollywoodTease · 23/01/2026 00:54

Chickadiddy · 22/01/2026 22:40

I doubt that they'll say anything to address it directly, just maybe plant more stories in the media, stuff that paints them in a good light and some dirt on the Peltzs.

But it will be smile as usual for the cameras.

I don't support either side really, but the more I see about BBs statement the more it strikes me as being particularly vicious towards VB.
And why the blanket NC with the whole family ? What have the brothers and Harper done to him?

Well one of the brothers is dating his ex. I cant see that contributing to a happy family atmos.

FlyHighLikeABird · 23/01/2026 00:47

I don't blame NP for the whole statement, but I do think that a young man would be quite unlikely to state he was the most embarrassed and humiliated by his mum dancing on him, even if he did feel like that. Most young men wouldn't draw attention to this, I feel.

It's all very 'dog bowl' as well, looks petty.

The allegations about the legal transfer of his name are more serious.

I can't think why you would do this unless you wanted to be in a media storm. He can't be that dozy he doesn't know that. Unless that's what they want.

Wexone · 23/01/2026 00:47

Isittimeformynapyet · 23/01/2026 00:45

The saying actually goes "least said, soonest mended".

So so sorry
I just have heard it the way I said it not the way you have stated

Isittimeformynapyet · 23/01/2026 00:45

Wexone · 22/01/2026 22:55

As the saying goes little said is easy mended
they will keep a dignified silence.
people can leak all they want eveything can be altered to suit a1 images etc
they won't say anything

The saying actually goes "least said, soonest mended".

TammyOne · 23/01/2026 00:43

That dress took a year to make? That Valentino is a bit rubbish. I could have run that up in an afternoon!

HelenaWaiting · 23/01/2026 00:31

Williteverstopraininghey · 22/01/2026 22:47

It’s been written by Nicola hasn’t it?

Maybe they’ve been trying to get their son away from him

If true, she really is a piece of work and he’s completely under her spell

I doubt that she knows words with that many syllables.

andIsaid · 23/01/2026 00:28

NeedlingKat · 22/01/2026 23:41

Why are you even talking about coercive control?

Not one of us has a clue, but the facts that we do know is that this is a statement from BB himself, talking about HIS upbringing, HIS issues with HIS parents, and how HE wants no further contact as a result.

But predictably, it's all his wife's fault.

Bloody hell @NeedlingKat

THANK YOU.

Finally!

We Brits always find a way to make it the woman's fault.

justasking111 · 23/01/2026 00:26

No-one ever talks about Mr and Mrs Peltz senior. If they're okay with this nightmare swirling around them.

PortSalutPlease · 23/01/2026 00:26

From the 2022 Vogue feature on the wedding:

“The Valentino Haute Couture creation that actor Nicola Peltz wore to marry Brooklyn Beckham, David and Victoria’s eldest son, and new chef, wasn’t just a dress. “It was a story,” the bride says, smiling, when I speak to the newest Mr and Mrs Peltz Beckham a few days after their starry nuptials in April.
First, there were the mother-daughter trips she made to the Valentino atelier in Rome for the fittings over the year-long design process.”

“At the reception, a jazz quartet and a 12-piece live band provided the soundtrack through dinner. Lloyiso, an up-and-coming South African singer, performed Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” for the couple’s first dance and Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” for the father-daughter dance.”

“At 11pm, the circular stage revolved 180 degrees and Marc Anthony magically appeared for a live set that opened with “I Need To Know”. Brooklyn invited his mother on stage for a dance and they were joined by David and their 10-year-old daughter, Harper.”

Nicola Peltz Has Married Brooklyn Beckham At Her Family’s Oceanfront Palm Beach Estate

The couple has exchanged vows at the Peltz family’s sprawling estate in Florida, as guests including Venus and Serena Williams, Eva Longoria, and Victoria’s fellow former Spice Girls looked on.

https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/brooklyn-beckham-nicola-peltz-wedding

Fixingmyface · 23/01/2026 00:25

At first I thought gosh perhaps there are issues. I had to go NC / LC with my own parents so understand that toxicity.

However as time has ticked on it doesn’t add up. I was quite embarassed about that with my family. Because I am the family scape goat (which Brooklyn would be too - as all the siblings are on side). And that’s embarrassing. I wouldn’t shout that from the roof tops. But maybe that’s just me

Then there’s the peltz’s. Gosh they are the definition of money doesn’t buy class. Cannot believe what I have been reading but half of it’s in lawsuits so it’s all there. So that’s a big red flag.

And the more I think about it with Victoria. She’s never had many people come out and accuse her of being awful. Our press is ruthless. We would know about that.

And the nail on the head was the smug beach walk pics. I went through all this scape goat toxicity controlling estrangement gaslighting bullshit myself. It’s deeply upsetting. I was seriously discombobulated by it all and that’s without the whole world putting their two pence in online. If it was genuine then he would be quite affected not having a happy insta worthy Sunday stroll.

So yeah. I am team Victoria. It’s a Harry move.

BanditoShipman · 23/01/2026 00:24

It wasn’t Bella, was the eldest sister.

BanditoShipman · 23/01/2026 00:24

andIsaid · 23/01/2026 00:22

one of the sisters, Bella, I think, said NP was the meanest person she’d ever met
Could you link to that? I am trying to find it and cannot.

Seems like the half Hadid sister liked/disliked a post somewhere but it could be that I am not a good sleuth!

She said Nicola was horrible and had tried to get her brother, who was a few years younger than Nicola, to cut off his family. I think it was in The Sun.

andIsaid · 23/01/2026 00:22

Williteverstopraininghey · 22/01/2026 22:52

Yes, I read he didn’t see his family for a few years and one of the sisters, Bella, I think, said NP was the meanest person she’d ever met

one of the sisters, Bella, I think, said NP was the meanest person she’d ever met
Could you link to that? I am trying to find it and cannot.

Seems like the half Hadid sister liked/disliked a post somewhere but it could be that I am not a good sleuth!

BanditoShipman · 23/01/2026 00:22

I think they should deal with it all in a similar way to how Hugh Grant did after being caught with a sex worker. Just very ‘families eh? I think everyone has dramas… our door is always open to him’, type thing.

I am Team Beckham. Obvs have no idea what went on but the bit he wrote re ‘inappropriate’ dancing ‘ON’ him was just grim. He intimated his mum was sexually dancing ‘on’him. Not sure you can come back from that, sounded really spiteful and nasty, was no need to add that bit,

The dress thing seems untrue according to the Vanity affair articles, also he had his first dance with wife ages before the Marc Jacob’s dance… very Harry and Meghan with recollections varying. I’m more inclined to believe Marc Jacob’s said V was most beautiful women in room (stupid thing to say) and N was upset.

Just feel really sorry for V, we all make mistakes as parents but coming back from the sexual dancing thing would be very difficult to forgive him for saying.

PortSalutPlease · 23/01/2026 00:19

purpleme12 · 22/01/2026 23:00

I've no idea what to think about it
I don't know who's right and who's wrong

I’d suggest reading the feature that Nicola and Brooklyn gave to vogue right after the wedding. In their own words, the dress she did wear was worked on with Valentino for over a year. And they had their first dance as planned as they talk about it in the interview. Marc Anthony didn’t play until late in the evening, after there had also already been a father daughter dance.

andIsaid · 23/01/2026 00:16

Chickadiddy · 22/01/2026 22:40

I doubt that they'll say anything to address it directly, just maybe plant more stories in the media, stuff that paints them in a good light and some dirt on the Peltzs.

But it will be smile as usual for the cameras.

I don't support either side really, but the more I see about BBs statement the more it strikes me as being particularly vicious towards VB.
And why the blanket NC with the whole family ? What have the brothers and Harper done to him?

The way it comes across to me is that the Beckhams are clannish with every member serving the clan.

BB's statement seemed quite sad to me - the fact that he had tried to keep things private, tried to see the parents before big press events, tried to keep them out of his marriage, tried to have them accept his partner, and most of all, tried to keep the rights to his own name.

That is a LOT.

It sounds like they really bullied him.

Let's see how it works out - for the best for all concerned I hope.

Oopsylazy · 23/01/2026 00:15

HRTQueen · 23/01/2026 00:07

Dignified silence 🙄 oh please their pr team is all of sm and the press pulling apart BB account of the wedding, the dress the things that are not really that important

the saddest part of his statement was him saying that he grew up with overwhelming anxiety, all he has known is performative family promotion and inauthentic relationships around him and brand Beckham was and still is priority

he knows how much his parents sell to the press, how much they crave publicity he has lived it we have seen it and his siblings are going through it he knows that better than anyone

no surprise there is no questioning of this area of the statement and it’s kept on the wedding as we all know how weddings can be big drama. what can they say oh sorry we didn’t notice we thought you liked to play along

Yes, I agree - I felt sorry for him
reading that as I can totally understand it - he has never looked comfortable in the spotlight. Right from him being a baby I thought it was disgusting the way they used him for every possible photo op and have brought him and his siblings up in the spotlight regardless of whether they wanted that or not.

I do think he should’ve just cut them off and quietly got on with his life though. But I imagine he’s feeling very angry.