Brooklyn Beckham sends parents legal letter

[Downunderduchess]

I saw in the media that Brooklyn Beckham has had a legal letter sent to his parents requesting that they stop trying to make contact with him. I didn’t realise the talk of him falling out with them was real, thought it was just gossip. I think I was a bit shocked by it. Of course I don’t know them but they always seemed like a lovely close family.

I’m sure there is truth in him wanting to break out on his own from the controlling Brand Beckham set-up, but he has walked right into an even worse situation, now completely reliant on this extremely wealthy, image-conscious family who are not his own.

How long before his wife - who seems an absolute madam - tires of her new puppy, Brooklyn?

I’d have more respect for him if he went off grid and did something useful. As it is, he’s just married into an elite, American version of his previous privileged life, sponging off someone else’s mum and dad, and ‘social media influencing’ like mummy taught him. Cry me a river!

I know of a few couples who live like this. I remember being at a social event where the man at the centre of a self-made love triangle (he was the only one benefitting from it) was there with both wife and mistress (who worked with him). Wife knew he put it about and stayed with him until he fell in love with a new, younger lover for whom he left her. I think he was finally faithful to the last woman because he got seriously ill and she became his nurse.

The texts leak from NP on wedding really do show someone extremely difficult & spoilt. Verruca Salt on steroids, even allowing for any peak Bridezilla. Ex Anwar Hadid’s fam were apparently really concerned about her & fam’s controlling behaviour. The make-up artist on Last Airbender apparently had much to say on her - not good.

Apparently B wanted to stay on at Parsons but found USA isolating. No real support network His A levels were decent ish. It’s a shame if so.

If you grow up as rich as BB, and marry into a family as wealthy as the Peltz, there is little incentive to work, in the traditional sense. You can't upskill and make mistakes along the way, without the eyes of the world on you. It's almost impossible to learn those initial skills.

No one starts out an expert on anything. Between the criticism and the lack of incentive (already rich), it leaves the offspring of rich dynasties in a bind. Particularly the male offspring, the women can have a few children and that's a sufficient role for them to be left in peace.

Exactly & sometimes the boys descend into drugs etc as a result. If Dad’s a self made billionaire, how can you compete?

And who’s feeding it all to the papers?
I’m reading Tom Bowers’ book about the Beckhams and dysfunctional doesn’t begin to describe everything from their lifestyle to behaviours to their lust for publicity at all costs, including the exploiting the lives of their children from the day that they were born.
Nothing surprises me about what’s going on.

A full time mistress is one thing - culturally & stereotypically the French & Chinese at this for years - but has DB been sexually incontinent for the last 5 years? I doubt it.

I agree with you to an extent. I think it shows us that it perhaps isn't always great to born into this kind of "privilege". The fact that he was walked out of his family into what is potentially a similar set up speaks volumes of the harm that his upbringing might have caused him. It is very common to find yourself in a similar situation that you were in as a child. I hope NP is good for him and that they are good together. Whatever he has gone through I commend him for at least attempting to find a way out and to marry as a means of creating the kind of family that he might feel he missed out on.

Prince William did the same, but he played a blinder in finding Kate who seems an amazing choice for his companion, providing incredible stability for their children because she had that input into her from a young age (I sound like it but I am not a royalist. I'm just describing what I see). Kate ticks all the boxes - intelligence, steadiness, loads of common sense and seems to be a fantastic mother. Peltz is an actress so to some extent will be driven by the narcissistic demands of her profession. I know it is none of my business, but I am interested to see how this all plays out.

Spot on. It's incredibly performative. It reeks of the parents trying to control their image and wanting to be seen as doing the right thing. Except it isn't the right thing if he's asked to be left alone. 'We are not the issue. Brooklyn is'. Loving parents just don't do that. It shows the beckhams are likely not attuned to what's been going on for brooklyn and that in itself is highly problematic.

The lust for publicity is the biggest issue IMO. Although are they savvier than we think, is VB? Was the last doc really a promo to sell her business?

I think that’s fair enough. If I could do the same (my family lives outside the UK so legally I think it would be meaningless), I would.

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors. People who don’t know what my family has done think they are absolutely the loveliest and oh, they clearly love you very much and it’s such a shame you are so difficult. But they don’t know the real story. They don’t know I was sexually abused as a child and when my mum found out, she literally wasn’t bothered. It was like I’d informed her that my car broke down. A minor inconvenience she didn’t want to hear about. They don’t know that she tried to facilitate contact between a convicted paedophile and my then young children (not the same one, she collects them!), or that she’s facilitated contact with other children who he actually abused. They don’t know she’s spread all sorts of false stories about Dh and I to detract from anyone hearing the real story. If she was a celebrity, the PR machine would definitely be in full spin!

I have total compassion for anyone dealing with a parent who doesn’t respect their boundaries. No one is owed a relationship by anyone. If he wants to walk away from his family, they should respect that, even if they think it’s foolish. My family’s constant harassment and stalking in the years since I’ve gone NC has certainly not helped me to warm to a relationship with them again. 😂

If it’s true it kind of makes me feel better about my relationships. I don’t know if they’ve done anything ‘wrong’ but if you can’t be perfect with millions in the bank then what chance do we stand? He does seem to have his head turned by a richer family. The Beckhams do appear to be good parents (if sickly sweet) and I suspect he will return to the fold at some point but what do I know?

There is a lot of talk that DB is a prolific cheater and VB accepts it - I think it’s naive to ask why she would stay with him. She loves him, loves their family and most importantly, loves Brand Beckham. They both make each other stronger, particularly DB to VB. she will know this as she is savvy.

re affairs there has been so much chat about a certain blonde opera singer (google
this - the coverage was weird as was her statement…), a very skinny English fashionista who was big in the 10s and allegedly a teacher…!

I feel sorry for Brooklyn. He was in every newspaper from the day he was born and is famous just for having grown up in the public gaze. I don’t doubt D&V love him but they’ve done all the children a huge disservice in publicising and monetising them from such a young age. Perhaps he’s looking back now as an adult wondering WTF his parents were thinking when they arranged all the pap shots and put their kids all over social media.

Thing is the Beckham document made it seem like David would be very hard to live with even with the heavy edits. You can’t really ever understand what their lifestyle was like for the children. What you can say though is that they absolutely had enough money that they didn’t need to monetise the kids and they still did it. There are plenty of a-listers whose kids are heavily protected so it can be done.

If he’s truly sexually incontinent would she stay despite obvs perks? If she adores him, as she seems to, wouldn’t he/his cheating eventually destroy her? I don’t see how he could make her stronger if this is the case (?)

She’s feisty, no mug, seen slapping DB in private by a journo when Loos story broke.

I wonder if s fear of poverty drives DB? He was clearly unhappy VB’s business apparently haemorrhaging money in recent past.

Funny at first I was all he’s an idiot but the more I thought about it, I think you are right.

he was the first born child of exceedingly busy parents who chose then to have 3 more children off him. His 1-1 parental time must have been very low. They had their last child when he was 13 when he probably needed his parent’s full attention.

it is known he was raised by his grandparents a lot of the time whilst his parents were away. He was moved counties multiple times, having to move schools and friends and different school systems. Must have been pretty difficult for a young kid who wanted stability.

his parents were obsessed with putting him social media so he grew up in the spot light. Everything he tried got scrutinised and he was marked as a failure. He’s clearly not super bright and as a result has struggled to find something as a career. If he had been raised anonymously like many children of celebrities are no one would care what he was up to. The children all seem to be a prop for the parents.

his parents seem to expect him to be at their beck and call (no pun intended!) which is weird now he’s a grown adult living in another country. Perhaps he doesn’t want to rush back so he can photographed at a party so he was be stuck on his parent’s instagram. He’s not a child anymore.

perhaps Nicola’s family are just simply stable and nice and he enjoys being In Their company without any expectations being put on him.

so I can see there is more to this than meets the eye.

@PinkPanther57 father peltz is a heavyweight ruthless business man. I wouldnt like to go up against him and cross his beloved daughter.
Sometimes unpleasant in laws pick on the wrong dil.

Well, absolutely, 100 per cent.

I can't stand influences who pimp out their children but at least those kids only have their mum taking their photos on her mobile.

When Brooklyn was a child he was regularly stalked by packs of grown men taking his photograph and his parents activity allowed and even encouraged it. I have an old magazine with pictures of the first Harry Potter premiere back in the early 2000s and a toddler Brooklyn is attending and walking the red carpet with all the cameras flashing. That is complete exposure on the part of his parents.

I met him once, when he was a lot younger. He did not endear himself to me, that's all I'm saying on the matter. He was the sort of child who gives you the urge to clip them round the ear.

He hasn't had a normal upbringing he was thrust into the limelight from being born (before even!) and then he never really seems to have found his way. He's laughed at for having no talent or career, he's literally known for being someone's kid and there's nothing he has done off his own back. There's parallels with Prince harry really. Then he's married into another uber rich family to carry on his life of luxury without any real direction.

Something has clearly happened and brand Beckham doesn't like that it is throwing negative press their way. It's all about how they look and the £££££. I don't like any of these people and don't understand the interest in them or how they have managed to get where they are. David beckham could play football and had the look, vitoria beckham was never a looker and in a girlband even though she really can't sing or dance. It amazes me they have got where they have really.

I don't buy into their perfect family image never have, it's a brand. I imagine the beckhams have many many NDA's protecting their brand, you'll never know what has gone on.

It’s undoubtedly due to who Brooklyn has married. She’s vile & has encouraged him to cut off his family. Brooklyn isn’t very bright unfortunately & extremely gullible.

'she can't really sing or dance'

Victoria trained at Laine's, and you don't get offered a place there unless you're very good. It is pretty much the top performing arts college in the UK for musical theatre.