Wow Brooklyn Beckham's statement doesn't hold back!

[Totallybannanas]

Has anyone seen his recent statement on Instagram? I actually feel very sorry for him.

They’re both very active on insta…

The beckhams were near me. They stood for hours in our local M&S signing autographs for kids, with smiles on their faces on their way to the food department. I know I was there. I saw a nice couple with their DCs. They didn’t have to do that. Maybe they were abusive, maybe they humiliated him. But we have only one side of the story.

I do too but this won’t help his anxiety nor plastering himself on social media

I agree with every word.
My IG page threw up an old photo the other day of David and Victoria leaving a famous restaurant (maybe The Ivy) with a brand new tiny baby Brooklyn and a hoard of photographers clicking away. Obviously BB won't remember that but it highlights how his parents chased the fame from the start of his life.

I haven't always had a lot of time for Brooklyn and do wish he'd live quietly and with a proper trade behind him (go to culinary school) rather than trade on his surname. But I do wish him well. Dave and Victoria, less so!

Harper is still a child of course, but as far as I know Romeo and Cruz aren’t fully independent yet so I doubt they’ll be speaking out (can’t blame them).

He has mentioned brand beckham, used the word facade etc so it includes them both. He did say he was only addressing some of it though. But maybe his mum was worse. It’s not always fathers that are the worst. My MIL was far worse than FIL.

I think one thing that prompted him to issue this statement is that recently he’s had a lot of the public against him eg when he posted anything on his social media, he was getting bombarded with comments from people telling him to make up with his parents and people slating him for being a spoiled boy who didn’t appreciate what his parents had done for him.
So I reckon he was sick of that and thought he couldn’t go on like that, so he wanted to set the record straight.

Maybe they knew they were in public and the behaviour you saw was completely different from how they are behind closed doors.

You saw a teeny tiny snapshot of their public life. It’s completely different to their 26 year old adult child speaking out!

Maybe but Goldenballs apparently teflon.

Good for him to air his side.

Now Brooklyn and his wife need to stay away from the media, forever.

DB had fame and fortune while his kids were young. He still dragged them all over the world to further his name which left little stability/education for the children.
The 4 kids are trapped in the brand because of the greed and ego of their parents.
Their sham marriage and brand is a gilded cage and I think all the children will eventually follow Brooklyn.

Assume the same as you. The Beckham name presumably trademarked, copyrighted or whatever. If Nicola and any children took the name (and even kept it post a future divorce), maybe the worry was she’d have a legal claim to profit from it or use it in ways that could ‘damage the brand’.

But I don’t follow how his delay in signing away rights lost them money. Were they wanting to take a cut of his earnings, due to owning rights to the name?

Yes of course but we still only have his side of the story. There are usually 3 sides. A’s, B’s and the truth somewhere in the middle.

Possibly, maybe him and Nic did it after a few glasses of the Screaming Eagle thousands of dollar wine they were posting about.

My mum is lovely outside. Once we got indoors she was a totally different person. It was like living with Jekyll and Hyde.

The Beckhams have an image to keep up.

That is part of the brand though, and let’s be honest, anyone can be nice for a short time.

Be less naive.

I met a famous musician once, he seemed nice. It turned out he was a rapist and also liked very young girls.

You sound incredibly naive.

Maybe Brooklyn and Harper are in touch - who knows. They’d want to keep it low key.

I kind of read that differently - their children had to wait for their parents to receive their adulation. Nice to your ‘fans’ but not so nice for your kids.

Brooklyn interviewed in a half a mill pound car on chef career recently, He came across well but who paid? Without Mum & Dad Romeo & Cruz couldn’t have top models & sports cars, so…

Plenty of people said similar about Jimmy Saville and look how that turned out...

No.

He probably would have had some GCSEs, a job and a few girlfriends before settling down. Quietly.

As it is, his parents were marketing him before he was even born.

Very true about Saville. I hadn’t thought of that.

Why naive? @TakeTen there are generally their side, your side and the truth somewhere in the middle. Not always I grant you.

Yep.
My friend works backstage at a venue that deals with a lot of famous people, many of whom are gorgeous on stage but a very different story off it. People will always show what they want you to see and the thought that the Beckhams were going to be anything other than "on" in M&S is hilarious.