what’s going on with Brooklyn Beckham?

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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

Tbh I think it’s fairly common for young men to go all in with their first love at the expense of their family. I remember it happening so much when I was early 20s. The beckhams have been (posh especially) borderline hysterical about marriage (before marrying him at about 23 I think she’d been engaged twice, even changing her surname to double barrel with one of them!) and also seems to have an obsession with her children being well mannered and kind. It strikes of parroting maybe what her own parents told her when she was a child.

its easy to forget beckhams were peak late 90s and that was 30 years ago. A lot of the stuff they said or did was hugely outdated but gave them success and they haven’t been able to drop it or move on. You can see the same with princess andre and peters manager still bashing out the naughties formula for her.

the house of beckham is savage and bitchy but I suspect broadly tells a true story- they were very money focused (how 90s) came into fame well paid but not rich, and saw how much money could be made together. Simon fuller an absolutely savage money man atick
in the 9s was allegedly behind a lot of David’s deals.
It states that David has done pretty well for someone who, in world famous footballer terms wasn’t even that talented or successful. It’s also easy to forget how shortlived the actual fame was, particularly for Victoria.

they’ve made some poor financial decisions and some good ones have been brokered for them (David lucked out with Miami) and have largely relied on tax avoidance and taking money that was easily given.

it also paints a picture of DB generally fairly disinterested in her and VB swinging between screeching matches and distancing herself.

it also seems quite clear, from the book as well as in retrospect from what we’ve seen, that they weren’t massively present when the boys were little, both off taking seperate opportunities all over the world, and that the boys likely grew up in a pretty unhappy tense household.

My wild speculation, without any basis, is that maybe Brooklyn has a drug habit they don’t like, and they have put foot down, maybe cut him off financially to stop it, and he’s sulking, so cut them off. Anyhow, no real basis for it aside from him being wealthy without purpose!

I don’t believe that David had a baby with harpers teacher btw. The child would be about 10 now and there is no way that whole situation would just disappear into oblivion. There would be a person involved, a person with access to social media. Even if they are quiet now it would be a short term ticking time bomb.

Is DB the one who only wears a pair of trainers once?

Depends how much he paid for her silence and what the injunction says. Maybe the injunction is there until they're 18.

We know he's used them before.

I think it’s likely they are users of drugs- if you check out some of NPBs social media there are a few tell tale smudges on her nose and she often takes a photo that gives that glazed shiny look. I also think she does a lot to stay thin, and as an (very) ex partier in that sort of circle that’s a pretty common way to do so.

instinctively I’d guess that is a party habit, not a serious problem.

being a bit of a partier might go some way to explain BBs sweaty shiny vacant look and lack of focus and motivation. Nothing serious, just losing a lot of your 20s to hangovers (i speak from experience 😆)

when he speaks to camera on social media, he’s not bad really. Gentle, fairly confident and fairly natural. That’s harder than people think, most of us would be stammering and rambling and squeaking. His demeanour when he does none party posts makes me think there is no serious problem.

I haven’t heard that rumour! I would imagine he’s very careful and uses injunctions and makes deals with the press

maybe the payoff for the press of not pursuing the affair stories was that they could photograph the kids!

Brooklyn is very plain looking and always comes across as very bland and not particularly bright. Nice enough but I think she’ll end up dumping him.

You can’t take an injunction out on a baby- or indeed a minor. That’s what I mean, silencing the mother would only buy them a short time.

I’m not saying I know anything about them but I can’t believe he doesn’t have other children if he has been the serial shagger some reports say.

I do recall back in 2013-14 being told by someone in PR ‘everyone know they were going to divorce’, there were also press pictures of VB staggering drunk and hanging onto ‘another man’ at the time. Nothing happened of course.

Later I heard ‘the brand was is at risk’, ‘Simon Fuller’, ‘open marriage’ but PR people aren’t the most reliable so….

Maybe the beckhams were invited but didn’t go.

As soon as I see a ‘vow renewal’, I feel a split up is imminent.

I actually thought about doing one a few years ago after a major thing, just the two of us on beach in Portugal, then I thought ‘I don’t want to split up’ 😁

That’s what I mean though- it isn’t 2005 anymore. The tabloid don’t have the power they did and can’t protect celebs from the rest of the world.

even so, no tabloid was going to be interested in photos of the kids in exchange for a scandalous high earning scoop.

the Beckhams have devalued photos of their children by posting them on social media for free. This is modern life but doesn’t change the fact that no one is interested in paying for photos (or exchanging time for silence) of harper Beckham.

i actually suspect that if true they haven’t reported it because in 2025 it would be utterly scandalous to expose a young child like that, and having a child of an affair isn’t particularly of public interest.

But either way, I don’t think it’s happened. the child would be walking around now, and all these people at the school allegedly know about it, it wouldn’t be a secret.

Why no baby as yet? Fertility issues aside.

She’s dated high profile men before & interesting to look there re: break ups.

I suspect she has an eating disorder which is contributing to this

Doesn’t feel obvious to me if so. Her mother was a model & so she’s naturally slender? Her whole circle of friends look similar. I think poss not in her plan, perhaps why MM didn’t have children with Trevor E. Starter marriages.

There is a comment in the airmail WhatsApp’s about the Nicola burger being “only lettuce for the girls” she is very slender indeed (she looks incredible) and is absolutely in no way any different to her rich highly eating disordered palm beach California set. Very common and likely well managed, but might mean she isn’t keen on pregnancy

Family values? Is that why he (allegedly) cheated?

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies, but has anyone mentioned BB tattoos yet? He has 100 tattoos and 70 of them relate to NP and her family (inc her Grandmother). That's quite a collection (and commitment). He is clearly absolutely smitten and I don't think in a healthy way.

If they ever go their separate ways he may well regret those inkings.

It's interesting also that Geri Haliwells daughter BlueBell has 9* GCSEs and is reading literature at university.

Mel Bs eldest daughter Phoenix is a DJ, but also helps her mum raise awareness of Domestic Violence and her second daughter Angel(?) I think did well in school and is studying art of some kind.

Geri and Mel B were considered perhaps the more 'common' of the Spice Girls, whereas VB curated her image as the refined one. VB was also middle class, her dad owned a Rolls and ran a successful business, so she grew up seeing entrepreneurship.

But Geri seems to have emphasised education when raising her child and largely kept her out of the limelight (and I notice in the pictures I have seen of BlueBell she is dressed quite conservatively) and Mel B has also kept her children based, down to earth and helped them develop their interests.

I don't know about the children of the other SG.

How is it that Victoria Beckham arguably the most successful Spice Girl with the most successful husband and longest marriage, has not achieved these things with her own children? Why is BB's only focus seemingly his wife?

David came onto Nicole. Victoria was busy b1tching about her and BB overheard.

i made both of these up but it’s perfectly possible like thousands of families before them a single event or overheard conversation started the rift and they took offence?

we will never know (until one of them gives their own version of events in an autobiography!) but it astounds me that so many people on MN seem so sure what must have happen and are so vile about VB as a MIL or NP as a DIL or BB whilst having No idea about any of the facts.

Both VB and DB grafted. Do you honestly think she just got on a stage and pranced about with no rehearsal etc?. And do you think he just got on a pitch and kicked a ball around? They both chose high risk careers where failure is common.

i don’t give a stuff about them but we can’t say they didn’t work hard to get to where they are.

Stockholm syndrome - he’ll be plain old Peltz soon perhaps.
Although Nicola is getting lots of attention by marrying a Beckham so perhaps she’ll allow him to keep his name.

Geri is pretty bright & then look at Bluebell’s father. Geri more articulate than VB I think and keen to improve herself as she sees it, education/tutoring part of upper middle class circle she’s wanted to become a part of.

geri and VB are both from leafy Hertfordshire but I think just really different. Geri was a child of an immigrant which might explain her drive and whilst a massive attention seeker, is clearly reasonably clever both academically and practically.

I think saying VB came form a middle class family, whilst probably true, indicates something that isn’t really there- to me her background is typical 90s Hertfordshire.
Her dad had his own business selling electric parts or something and the rolls Royce story is told over and over again as if it indicates they were billionaires.
They were clearly comfortable but the mum doesn’t seem to have worked at all and they didn’t have a profession. Victoria doesn’t seem
to have done much apart from attend theatre school. If it wasn’t for the very lucky break with the spice girls she would’ve been a beautician or worked in a shop, 100%.

Yes, VB was engaged to an electrician before I think, although had drive & ambition beyond him I think. There’s every chance she’d have repeated her parents lives possibly with her own successful business of some kind in parallel.