what’s going on with Brooklyn Beckham?

[jallyj]

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

In some ways I can relate to BB & NP and H&M as my husband has more or less gone NC with his family in recent years. But I do know what happens to him as a child and experienced the way they treated him and the fallout him putting up boundaries caused.

But I also know that there is also a desire for repair and reconciliation and DH would never do anything to embarrass his family or make a resolution more difficult. So I do question the motive behind doing things like this.

Although considering neither has any real career now it likely is just a PR stunt to keep them relevant in public eye.

This sums up my view. I always had a soft spot for Brooklyn because my lovely nephew was his spitting image during their teens - so every time I saw BB, I “saw” my nephew strange I know.

But I just think he’s a sad sap. Looking at the renewal photos - he just looks like a hanger-on amongst her family and their friends. The minute they split up, which probably won’t be long unless she gets pregnant, he’ll be out in the cold. I think David and Victoria will welcome him back but the relationship with his brothers is probably irreparably fractured.

NP does come across as a spoilt princess. That awful Lola movie “written, directed and starring” her, ie fully financed by her/her father, was so dire I couldn’t even finish it.

The pair of them are just aimless time wasters.

It’s all about the brand.

He’s grown up with unhappily married parents who stay together as they are worth more together than apart. It was probably a dysfunctional and unreal upbringing. No grounding in reality.

Now he’s trying to recreate his own brand. He’s got a controlling wife and no real direction in life. He’s deeply unhappy and affected by his childhood.

Same as Harry!

meh, whatever happens he'll live off the trust fund/inheritance/hand outs and can spend his life looking for himself/holidaying in St.Barts/Aspen. Nice work if you can get it.

I don't think it's a clear comparison at all. Harry's issues with his family are bound up in centuries of tradition and expectation of how Royals must live their lives and behave. It's an institutional issue more than a relatives one. With Brooklyn, he just got the short straw on having famous parents.

Someone announcing the first dance made a fuss over Victoria, saying she was the most beautiful one there etc or something, which got a reaction - and then she danced with Brooklyn before his new wife

I feel sorry for David and Victoria. They love their daffy and clueless son - obviously. And now, he's ensnared in a far more controlling family. Nicola doesn't seem that nice, and he is easily manipulated.

This was Marc Anthony who is a close friend of Victoria's. I can't remember what I read but it wasn't done maliciously, maybe him being a little over the top about his pal?

David in particular is really strong on family values, so it must be hitting him like a ton of bricks.

😂😂. Nothing says family values like shagging the kids nanny behind your wife's back!

But that's the whole point - if he had just used their connections to get started nobody would have made a big deal out of it. If he had just leapfrogged all the other talented candidates to get a place at the prestigious art college he studied at in NY (which itself he undoubtedly only got into because of his parent's connections), it would still have been unfair for other people who didn't have that, but within the bounds of 'normal' nepotism.

If he'd finished his degree, done an apprenticeship, then got a normal photography job at a magazine or something and after ten years then published his first book of photos, fair enough. It's the arrogance of dropping out of school, not having any work experience but still thinking your holiday photos are worthy of a book deal that grates on people.

Same with cooking, nobody expects him to be at mcdonalds flipping burgers, but if he'd used his parent's connections to get some work experience with Gordon at one of his restaurants, then done a course at culinary school, then a job as commis chef and worked his way up, it would be more understandable if he then got a tv show.

To use your analogy, it's like your DC doing 2 weeks as an electrician's apprentice with your mate and then saying 'Yeah think I've learned everything I need to now, I'm going to set up my own business.' In which case, yeah, everyone you know would be laughing at him.

The Beckhams weren't just content with him having a leg up to the first step of his career(s), they wanted to skip all the steps in-between as well and go straight to established star.

When lots of people who have talent AND education AND experience often never get there of course people will have something to say when someone who has neither jumps over them.

I literally said in my post that I’m not saying they didn’t work hard. Especially David. Just that not as hard as having to become a successful chef. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The difference between the Ramsey kids and the Beckhams always fascinates me. Very similar celeb lives but the Ramseys appear to have grown up and launched into adulthood pretty well. Their son has been a Marine for a while now.

I wouldn't say VB's background was middle class, it's more upper working class. Her dad did well out of a business selling parts to electricians but probably isn't part of a m/c social circle. Their money bought them a better standard of living but their outlook is very insular. Upthread, pp mentioned VB's dislike of education and didn't encourage it for her kids. She's previously boasted about never having read a book so it's safe to assume her parents were similar.

I think it's the dangers of immense fame and wealth. The kids are not taught that they must go out and make a living and find their own way. They just piggy back off their famous parents. Same with Blue Ivy, Beyonce's daughter. Won't have to do anything for herself because at the age of 12 she's a dancer for her famous mum. I feel there will be a very much 'don't you know who I am' attitude.

Footballers have to work equally as hard as chefs if they want to play at the very highest level. It's about discipline and commitment. There's so much fitness training and skills building involved in being a footballer. Beckham would spend hours and hours every day on top of his other training practising his free kicks. That's why they were legendary!

The difference between the Ramsay’s / Oliver’s and the Beckham is huge.

The two chef families - it’s just Dads job, not the entire family’s identity. Vice versa for the Beckham.

For what it’s worth, I think the Beckham kids are an example of when mum and dad become ‘best friends’ with their kids, as opposed to parents. No boundaries, can’t say No, partying from a young age and all about the fun. Add in the millions are it’s a recipe for disaster.

It must be hard to be a child in a family where looks seem to be prized above everything else. So utterly superficial.

I do actually think DB is a genuinely very handsome man, but the way VB fawns over him and treats him like every other woman in the world just be dead jealous of her, can’t be a great thing for the kids to grow up around. IMO, I can see why Romeo has done modelling, he’s got the bone structure which looks really striking on a man (disclaimer: I still don’t think he’d have had any success if it wasn’t for the Beckham name - I’m just pointing out that he has the sort of face that can work quite well in fashion photography.) The other three kids are very ordinary looking. Perfectly pleasant but you wouldn’t notice if they walked past you in the street, they don’t stand out as being good (or bad) looking.

it can’t be easy growing up in an environment where curiosity about the world, discussions about worthwhile topics etc aren’t valued and where it’s all about make up, clothes, the gym, the latest tattoo….

A pp mentioned the photos on a a SM showing all the holidays, yachts etc and pointed out that the children have likely never learnt anything about all the exotic places they’ve visited. I suspect that absolutely true. It’s all about the photo opportunities: another beach, another yacht shot, another fancy restaurant. It all just feels so crass and superficial.

The only point of renewing your wedding vows is if you have broken them and want to make a new start imo. Find another excuse to have a party. These empty talentless two just want some attention.

The biggest difference between the Beckhams and the Olivers and Ramsays is surely the mum role within the household. While Jools Oliver and Tana Ramsay both dabbled in spin-off projects from their husbands' businesses, they have largely stayed out of the limelight to raise the kids. Who knows how the Beckham kids would've turned out if both parents hadn't been equally famous.

But Harry met had loads of people, had long term relationships and seemingly was very included in others families after his mother died (schoolfriends/Middletons) - I think it would be a very close call as to which were the most fucked up the Windsors or the Markles in this case.

But the parallels I see in both of these couples are a heady symbiotic mix of grandiose, delusional, arrogant and entitled behaviours, a searing ambition with zero talent which needs the publicity from the others family, a 'useful idiot', as well as a documented nasty bully, alienation and isolation from friends and family, the obsession (very well known narc trait) with their exeptional pure love story. The only difference is that N P-B is very 'close' to her own family ... which might well be very toxic and enmeshed but she's under their spell and it butters BB bread.

This is my general sense of it all too, although of course I don’t know anyone involved. Ice always had a bit of a soft spot for the Beckhams. The peltz family all seem pretty vile.

My theory is, there is no feud. It’s all made up to keep people interested and ultimately, in the long run, make more money.

Yes I agree flaunt my money flaunt flaunt
Hope it comes out that he goes anon to homeless shelters to work with no papps But I figure thats not going to happen.....

That would go completely against the close knit family image the Beckhams have traded off for the last 25 years though, so I can’t see it being manufactured.

I think this is very harsh - all of them including Brooklyn are still very young. One of the luxuries of being born into money is that you have time to grow into your career and life decisions. I think it’s kind of mean to call them all failures. Aren’t two of them still teenagers??

I have some sympathy for the children of famous people. They are wildly privileged but they have their own issues.