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what’s going on with Brooklyn Beckham?

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jallyj · 12/08/2025 10:37

so he’s done a vow renewal after only getting wed in 2022 and none of his siblings or parents were there, just seems to have been organised by his billionaire wife’s parents. It looks like a very deliberate fuck you to his family. What can they have done to deserve such shocking treatment? It’s bizarre. And let’s hope the marriage to the (reportedly prickly, hard work) billionaire works, so he doesn’t have to come crawling back to Mum and Dad………

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14992137/Nicola-Peltz-Brooklyn-Beckham-share-pictures-butterfly-themed-vow-renewal-afterparty-parents-took-centre-stage-guestlist-included-Harvey-Weinsteins-ex-amid-family-feud.html

Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham share pictures from wedding party

Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham shared pictures from their vow renewal on Instagram on Monday, which took place at her family's estate in Westchester County on August 2. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14992137/Nicola-Peltz-Brooklyn-Beckham-share-pictures-butterfly-themed-vow-renewal-afterparty-parents-took-centre-stage-guestlist-included-Harvey-Weinsteins-ex-amid-family-feud.html

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Squeezingintomyjeans · 12/08/2025 20:27

Coffeeishot · 12/08/2025 13:18

But if you think that what else should she have worn/done to be more sophisticated ?

Possibly a dress that didn’t show her fake boobs - I can’t see her in a nice matching pastel suit but there’s something in between that and what a PP accurately compared to a nightie.

JudgeJ · 12/08/2025 20:32

ShanghaiDiva · 12/08/2025 12:10

king Charles is also an adulterer so I don’t think the bar is set very high.

He was half of an adulterous couple when he was married the first time round.

Yellowstonemaddnesa · 12/08/2025 20:37

@upandleftthenright but isnt posh the same ?
How can all their DC have no drive

Yellowstonemaddnesa · 12/08/2025 20:44

Oh no I love the mums dress much more simple fabric beautiful.

lifeonmars100 · 12/08/2025 20:44

Bathingforest · 12/08/2025 18:45

This in a nutshell. Two boring, vain , empty individuals who just threw money around, without modelling anything to their children.

I always remember when she "wrote" her autobiography "Learning to Fly" she was unembarrassed to declare she had never read a book in her life. I guess she meant read for pleasure as I assume she would have had set texts at school. I don't think that education is especially valued in their household which seems to result in them all trying to go down the influencer route. I would love to have their money and property but on balance I am happy to have my books and many interests

EachandEveryone · 12/08/2025 20:48

Yes I really thought they would be different with Harper but there she is 13 going on 30 flogging her mothers make up.

Squeezingintomyjeans · 12/08/2025 20:49

Bruisername · 12/08/2025 18:36

I don’t like the way the beckhams push their kids into the spotlight. For Brooklyn in particular it’s made him a figure of fun and escaping to the states and being with someone who doesn’t care about his name must be liberating

we don’t know how his relationship with his parents was before he met Nicola - perhaps he felt stifled and controlled but not protected and he gets the opposite in his marriage

i hope for his sake that his marriage works tbh as I do feel sorry for him

I’m not sure ‘doesn’t care about his name’ is quite true, it’s the most interesting thing about him by a long shot whereas nobody had heard of her before they met.

Yellowstonemaddnesa · 12/08/2025 20:50

@lifeonmars100 maybe she has literacy issues but an odd thing to declare

gingercat02 · 12/08/2025 21:10

HelenHywater · 12/08/2025 17:34

I feel sorry for him. I don't particularly like Jamie Oliver, but isn't one of his daughters a nurse? The Beckhams should have brought their children up in the same way - to have a career and a job and not to be reliant on their parents' (or in-laws') money.

Davina McColl's eldest daughter is an NHS dietitian, I trained her, she is a gorgeous woman. Not divulging any secrets, its all over Davinas insta

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 12/08/2025 21:19

gingercat02 · 12/08/2025 21:10

Davina McColl's eldest daughter is an NHS dietitian, I trained her, she is a gorgeous woman. Not divulging any secrets, its all over Davinas insta

And one of Ulrika Johnson's daughters is a Norland Nanny.

Richard Branson made sure his children had careers, even if they did end up working for his company. Holly was a doctor.

The Beckhams only have themselves to blame.

Seabubbles · 12/08/2025 21:35

lifeonmars100 · 12/08/2025 20:44

I always remember when she "wrote" her autobiography "Learning to Fly" she was unembarrassed to declare she had never read a book in her life. I guess she meant read for pleasure as I assume she would have had set texts at school. I don't think that education is especially valued in their household which seems to result in them all trying to go down the influencer route. I would love to have their money and property but on balance I am happy to have my books and many interests

Ugh that horrible bitchy book. She also said she named Harper after her favourite book "To Kill a Mockingbird" Bull

CosmicEcho · 12/08/2025 21:54

LidlAmaretto · 12/08/2025 19:39

Imagine starting out at something and having millions of people take the piss. If your dad’s mate helps you onto an electrical apprenticeship or whatever, nobody shouts nepotism or says oh aren’t you shit at electrics (yes because you just started). Gordon Ramsay is literally his dad’s mate and helped him with cheffing
Of course most parents, if they had contacts in the types of areas their kids wanted to go into would help them as much as they could. Nepotism can only get you a foot in the door. Once you get there you have to work hard to be accepted and then still demonstrate you have the talent. No one is going to give an ex footballers son, or even an actors kid £££ if they don't have any talent or draw crowds or are just simply awful/crap/dont do any work. The difference is that the Beckham's haven't given their kids a foot in the door. They have thrown money at every single whim they have without instilling any work ethic. It was 'Heres a few thousand quid for you to publish your book of shit photography with zero effort from you'. IMO its why the kids are useless at everything. They have the doors opened but they surely must have been told by their parents that that is all they need. When people talk about nepo babies, yes they are irritating because they have a foot in the door that others don't but once they have an established career at least they have worked on it and established themselves. And many have proved excellent in their own right.

Of course, I’m only going with my own opinion but it does seem that the Bekham children have been indulged rather than guided.
I’m sure the Bekhams thought they were doing the best for their kids but it does no favours in the long run. Instilling a work ethic is what pays in the long run.

Treeshadebreese · 12/08/2025 22:02

I think he’s lost his way in life, a bit vulnerable almost like he’s being brainwashed, under the influence of some sort of cult.

Bruisername · 12/08/2025 22:17

He also has dated older women, and his brother is also in a relationship with a much older woman (who looks a lot like his mum!)

I wonder if they have been brought up too fast and haven’t really been treated as children or if they just have mummy issues

I thought they had kept their kids out of the spotlight well until harper was born and it seems like they were desperate for a girl and then wanted the world to know! She is their last educational hope - I hope they don’t jeopardise it by taking her out of school too much to attend their events

brooklyn gets criticism for having no proper job but I’m not sure what the brothers do? Is one a model? It seems like they’re bringing them up to be influencers now

SandyLanes · 12/08/2025 23:01

jumpingthehighjump · 12/08/2025 11:43

Your first paragraph illustrates exactly what went wrong!

I hope it's just a rumour that VB wanted the first dance with her son because that would be really crass and pathetic.

same thing happened at my friend’s wedding. His now ex wife danced the first dance with her dad. We all found it bizarre.

hellohellooo · 12/08/2025 23:06

Sidebeforeself · 12/08/2025 10:52

He’s just following the money. As rich as Mummy and Daddy are, the PILs are far richer so he’s making his choice quite clear.

💯

YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt · 12/08/2025 23:21

If he’s the sort of person to dump his parents just to bed in with his richer in-laws more then more fool him. I suppose it may all be happening subconsciously rather than a conscious decision. If there’s a combination of FIL being controlling and Nicola being a daddy’s girl then Brooklyn may have a fear that if he doesn’t cosy up to them either the cash gets cut off or she divorces him.

seems like the vow renewal is almost a way of starting a new life without his parents. Whole set of new “wedding” memories and photos without them.

lifeonmars100 · 12/08/2025 23:39

user1471538283 · 12/08/2025 15:21

And this would have been taken with the best photography equipment money could buy I bet. And yet still he couldn't take a half decent photo of one of the biggest land mammals on earth on safari! I've done better in a zoo with my phone. ..

I have just remembered this: In 2017, Beckham announced that he would pursue a photography degree at Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York.[17] He failed to complete the first year of the four year course and subsequently abandoned his degree. So he's packed in football, modelling, photography (or displayed no natural aptitude or willingness to work at any of these) and had a dabble at being a so called chef. No wonder being married is so all-consuming for him, he seems lost and with no other purpose in life

lifeonmars100 · 12/08/2025 23:46

EachandEveryone · 12/08/2025 20:48

Yes I really thought they would be different with Harper but there she is 13 going on 30 flogging her mothers make up.

I find the way that her dad seems to be a bit over affectionate towards her rather disquieting, admittedly that is only in photos I have seen on the dreaded Mail's sidebar of shame so who knows really

Branster · 12/08/2025 23:54

@lifeonmars100 I must confess I find all the hand holding and stuff a bit weird as the daughter is a lot older now, not like a 5 year old, it's in a lot of photos.

BluntPlumHam · 13/08/2025 00:38

The problem they’re having is that they are nowhere near as interesting or marketable as David and Victoria. They’re living in their shadows and that’s irksome for Nicola most probably. Take the first wedding for example, both David and Victoria looked drop dead gorgeous and totally stole the show probably unintentionally. David B is likeable, has fame and wealth. Brok and Nic just have wealth. Which you would think would be enough, just go off the grid!

Borisssss · 13/08/2025 00:53

Heresmycontroversialopinion · 12/08/2025 16:44

Why do none of these people produce scientists or teachers or some other useful type of human being?

Gary Barlow's son recently qualified as a Dr. As did one of Richard Bransons daughters. I think between the Olivers and Ramseys there is a marine, nurse and police officer.

sofaRunner · 13/08/2025 01:24

Borisssss · 13/08/2025 00:53

Gary Barlow's son recently qualified as a Dr. As did one of Richard Bransons daughters. I think between the Olivers and Ramseys there is a marine, nurse and police officer.

Gary Barlows daughter is a physio or something similar & Carol Vordermans daughter is literally a rocket scientist!!

Borisssss · 13/08/2025 01:43

My prediction is that N P-B is already pregnant. BB has spoken about wanting lots of kids in interviews. She's 30. That would give them some 'direction' for a few years - doing all the interviews / SM etc as if they were the first humans to have replicated.

I also think that Cruz GF Jackie Apostle - also 30 might even pip N P-B to the first Beckham grandchild post. That would be interesting - would BB cut his parents out of being grandparents and his siblings out of being aunt/uncles?

I think for D&V media exposure with their DCs has arguably paid off hansomely for them. DB has finished his career years ago but he is the most prolific brand collaborater - just raking it in. VB has been hammering away at her 'design career' for decades - bank rolled by DB (think she only turned a profit for the first time in v decades recently). She needs DB profile to boost her own and it has worked. Its not unreasonable that she sees that her DCs could have lucrative careers as no doubt they were courted by brands etc.

However having watched the Beckham NF doc - in all its polished glory - I still sensed a sadness around VB .... DB totally and repeatedly humiliated her and she must have been reeling with betrayal trauma whilst trying to style it out. DB has had his cake and eaten it - all of this would have been sensed, seen, heard by BB who is a bit out there on his own with the sibling age gap - and the oldest DC is often in the front line and buffer to absorb marriage shit. I suspect he was parentified by VB discharging on him (you can physically see her lean on him etc).

Ironically I think N P-B has the same needy, sad, disatisfied emotional energy as VB that BB sub-consciously sensed that as 'familiar' and 'home' - and consequently trauma bonded to her in the cliched psycholgical process of "re-enactment' where he is desperately trying to heal his own childhood trauma and purpose of trying to assuage his mother's deep pain that he experienced in early chilhood but playing it out with N P-B who undoubtable has her own deep emotional wounds and needs which are different and this will untimately go to pot. Simillar psycho drama process going on with H&M IMHO. BB is punishing his parents for lots of things that that he might never have considered if he hadnt met someone with deep insecurity and a need to alienate, control and possess another. A folie a deux.

Lazytiger · 13/08/2025 02:16

I do agree. The narrative they are good parents is spun from them being a close family. It is not the same thing and ‘close’ is looking more like ‘controlling’. All those photos of VB draped over Brooklyn were weird. He was not her husband. No wonder the new wife wanted to put some distance between them. Thankfully VB she is now back to draping herself over DB which is nauseating but not grotesque.
The girl in particular has been pimped to the Daily Mail since she was a child. I am a daily sidebar of shame scanner (don’t necessarily bother to read many) but recall the sickening word ‘sweet’ was always put before the child’s name. She was 7 or 8 and trolls were calling her fat, yet she kept appearing weekly. If that is good parenting then Katie Price is mother of the year!

They have let all of their children down baldly and spoilt them rotten.
Last year we twice saw their Bentley in West London. First Posh driving (very polite thanked us for pulling over) then the following week we recognised it again and DH saw DB(picking his nose on the Westway 🤣). The car had a very distinct number plate that clearly referenced a birthday of one of their children. This was a car that would be £250k+. I had a chuckle when VB said she didn’t think it was right to buy children a house (becuase Brooklyns in laws have bought them several). Those kids are spoiled with money but have nothing to offer the world but their souls.
Now their PR parenting is coming home to roost and their wish to be among the elite has backfired spectacularly.
Of course it could just be massive PR stunt to get Brooklyn and his wife in the papers - but it is damaging brand Beckham so probably not.

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