Brooklyn bloody Beckham though

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Bloody hell, I'm loving it

You?

However once he got to a certain age, Brooklyn could have said no.

Exactly, he could have changed his surname, as Duncan Jones did, and then carved out a professional role for himself in some field based purely on his skills!

Same. Brooklyn's provided us with a welcome distraction from the Trump shitshow.

No, that's wrong.

Lady plus first name is the daughter of a marquess, a duke or an earl. It's wrong to talk of Lady Victoria Starmer, she's Lady Starmer.

Lady plus surname would be the others, including wives of men like Beckham who have been knighted (lord knows why in his case).

A lot of people don’t seem to understand how hard it can be to firstly recognise and then escape a controlling family

I’m listening to Katherine Ryan’s podcast on it all … interesting

She maybe a 'richer girlfriend' but it's her daddy's dollars, not dollars she worked for. Never been a fan of VB but at least she and DB have earned their own money, methods may be distasteful but it isn't their parents' money.

Duncan Jones didn't change his surname, his surname has always been Jones.

People seem to not realise the power imbalance between the parents holding all the financial power in the household and the children who had to live by their rules all their lives. They've been conditioned so that they had to tow the line. How was someone in that kind of environment make their own way? Not easily. It was lucky that Brooklyn got a rich wife, that enabled him to break free.

Also, in the most devious way, D and V didn't encourage any of their children to have a proper education/career because as a result they will stay in the family "business". This is what happens in a controlling parent/child relationship.

So the dress wasn’t a last minute emergency and it Looks like the dance story isn’t true either-magazine article at the time stating that Brooklyn and Nicola had a dance, then there was a mother and son/daddy and daughter dance as per USA protocol and that the Marc Anthony thing was that Brooklyn had invited his mother up to dance 🤷‍♀️

Another recollections may vary-whilst I think his upbringing and public eye as a child was shit and would undoubtably had an impact, this very public shitting on your parents is all quite distasteful and should have been based on provable facts. When elements of his story are called into question because of previous interviews/sold rights to weddings, then it calls into question his whole narrative IMO. This could have been more powerful without the pettiness and what does he mean that his mother danced on him? a lap dance?

Pavlov’s dog syndrome?

Going NC with your parents is a fad, it’s like declaring yourself as trans five years ago. It’s a way of getting attention and making yourself feel a bit special. They’ll all grow out of it.

I did laugh a little at the “bringing women from his past” statement. He was with Nicola when he was 20! How many serious “women from his past” can he have had? Come on!

I do wonder if he would be quite as willing to go NC with his parents if he hadn’t married a billionaire?

You sounds like my abusive mother who would say shit like that as she lacks accountability and empathy.

I bet NPB had at least 3 wedding dresses for the day - I’ve seen at least two from the day so assume VB’s (slip dress style which she seems to do for every occasion) was for evening reception.

Weirdly I wasn’t expecting to believe BB but I do!!

Nicola is a successful actress in her own right.

David of course was very talented but VB has never had any talent. None.

Move on?

Christ on a bike. What's the matter with you?

This is a great article, and this bit rings so so true

I honestly think the Beckhams are now so lost to this commercialised version of family life that they probably long ago lost the ability to comprehend how weird and potentially corrosive it is

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/20/brooklyn-peltz-beckham-inc-disaster-david-victoria

The epitome of 'children should be seen and not heard'.

As someone who is NC I can tell you with absolute certainty that I didn’t do this to seek attention or to make myself feel “a bit special”. In fact, if anything, it made me feel like an absolute weirdo who couldn’t do something so basic as to maintain a relationship with my abusive parents. I tried to hide the fact that I was NC, such was my embarrassment and shame around the situation. To suggest that someone would alienate themselves from their entire family on the basis of seeking attention is not only very wrong but, frankly, dangerous thinking.

Apart from a handful of baby / toddler photos , you will find very few pics of Duncan Jones with Bowie. He was never paraded around like an accessory.

I imagine it’s been almost impossible for the Beckham children to consider a ‘normal’ life as part of their futures

I thought it really odd when Harper did that appearance and said she wanted to build a brand like her mum did

it was such an odd choice for a girl her age and shows how they are already moulding her. Would have been less odd to day she wants to go into fashion etc

What utter crap.

What does she say ?

But NPB told Vogue that she’d had a year of fittings and design consultations with the team at Valentino to make her wedding dress….