Brooklyn bloody Beckham though

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Bloody hell, I'm loving it

I think what BB has said about his parents is far more personal than anything Harry has said about his.

BB begged his mother to stop using him in PR. He finally, as a last straw, told them to stop writing about him and to communicate with him only through lawyers. And they went to the press with that.

What else did anyone expect him to do than what he's done?

He hasn't accused his grandfather of racism. He hasn't accused his brother of abusing his own children. Other than farming Tiktok likes, he hasn't sold his story about his brother getting a bigger bedroom to the press. He hasn't broken the confidentiality of a barmaid he shagged in the garden of a pub. He hasn't thought what a wheeze it would be to go to a fancy dress party as a Nazi. He hasn't compared killing people to playing a game of chess, while breaking all the unwritten laws of the armed forces. And Nicola, unlike MM, hasn't said or done anything other than try to rescue some dogs, has she?

Adding to the cacophony of voices on here. I think BB feels that he was abused by his parents, in a sense. They exploited him for their monetary goals and didn't put his or his siblings needs first as any parents ought to. He says he has felt anxious most of his childhood, that's very sad and telling.

They used him and wanted to continue using him.

People saying he should give up his name are wrong. It's his bloody name, his mother shouldn't financially try to milk it. Sure he met his wife because he too is rich thanks to the Beckham brand but he shouldn't have been exploited for his family's riches.

On that note, I do feel sorry for Harper, she is roughly my dd' age. Those dresses 😱. Victoria missed a trick and should have designed tween and teen style dresses that are just a little more age appropriate and modest. She really missed a trick as it would been popular as prom or coming of age style dresses. I wonder what it must be like at Har[er's fancy private school this week.

No he isn’t. If I was him I’d do it as publicly as possible as well, out of a desire for vengeance as well as justice. Team Harry too.

And it is NOTHING like prince harry and Meghan. Those 2 were SO rude and Meghan particular acted so bitchy towards the RF.

I feel sorry for Brooklyn.

I can imagine that Harper will want out and join her brother and his wife in America as soon as she is old enough.

Why do I even care?
Well you said yourself - Enough to comment on the thread and declare yourself a David lover. So not exactly unbiased lol.
Not everything's about money, even if you think it is - sometimes your peace and wellbeing means more, and as with Harry, I think he sounds the same. Had no choice being brought up in the headlines and scrutinised/photographed everywhere he goes, no chance of a "normal" life.
We have no idea about his relationship either, bit off to say she wouldn't have cared if it wasn't for his name.
You sound incredibly shallow.
Though yes, let's just make out it's her "telling him what to say" 🙄 Always the woman's fault with some, isn't it.

Yes we've only heard his version so far, it will be interesting to see what happens.next, if anything does

Would it? I don’t follow any influencers using their dc there’s still loads of art / photography/ fashion / comedy / birds and surfing (whatever other stuff people look at bar parents using dc)

This is a discussion forum and discussions involve opinions. So unless you are a member of the Beckham or Peltz family you don’t know anything either.

I completely see how posh pushed ‘brand Beckham’, she fought tooth and nail for her husband and the public image they have. Nothing else mattered. Sir Dave’s the same isn’t he? He was obsessed with getting knighted. They’ve made a fortune but look at the cost.
Children really shouldn’t be accessories- this should be a stark warning to all the ‘family influencers’ out there.

Sadly it looks like Beckingham Palace have their media agents all over the internet, including MN, already. :(

Exactly my point.

I'm sick of people comparing Brooklyn to Harry. Both come from highly influential families who have moulded them from childhood. Harry lost his mum when he was 12. Had to watch his awful dad bring that woman into a house his mother should have been in. And that's not supposed to affect him? Please stop blaming Harry and Brooklyn - I'm pretty clear what has gone on with Charles and his mistress - but we don't really know what has happened with Brooklyn and the Beckhams. It's really not right to compare the two and keep blaming young men for the paths they were dealt.

I think there are differences here.
B&N have been silent on the matter for a year at least.
They didn’t both sit down with Oprah and do a tell all with N taking the lead in the discussion.
They have not given accounts which are instantly, and provably, untrue.

I’m not sure I believe the story about the dress. If I had a choice of an Italian couture dress from Valentino or a frock gussied up by that talentless cow VB, I know which one I’d choose.

Given that half of MN is NC with their parents or in laws, you’d think there’d be massive sympathy on here.

Really?

Or just different opinions?

He says he has felt anxious most of his childhood, that's very sad and telling.

It’s understandable, he’s a figure of ridicule in a lot of the papers & often on here. Every venture is mocked etc. I would never push my child into the pubic eye, imagine reading the things people say about you as a teen or young adult?

I'm actually quite impressed. 1) He stood up for his wife. How many men just shrug and let their wife deal with the shit? 2) He potentially threw away £100m+ in inheritance to do so! I wonder if the Beckhams just assumed he would never dare do something this because they themselves are so enamored with £££. So they thought they could pretty much do what they liked and he would have no choice but to toe the line. Well, they just got burned.

I actually assume that he tried to resolve the situation in private for a long time. This is the first time he has spoken out in public and it comes after a prolonged smear campaign against him and his wife in the media. If his parents had respected his wife and his wishes for distance / peace it might not have come to this.

People going on about how he wouldn't have done it if his wife wasn't rich: 1) His wife is not that much richer than him at this moment in time. Her father is, but old Peltz won't hand his money to Brooklyn, that's for sure, and Brooklyn certainly knows that, too. He also 100% signed a prenup, so he won't see a penny of her inheritance. 2) I think that being finally happy and secure (yes, including financially secure, even if not on the scale of his parents or in-laws) just accelerated the process. Of course Brooklyn waited until he was financially independent. The mind boggles that anyone would expect otherwise. It is very hard to escape financial control unless you have some money of your own!

I think financial control is also the reason his siblings haven't broken away yet. Although I have some hopes for Cruz. When he explained his (awful) song lyrics he too tried to make the point about image mattering more to some people than others. Though if Cruz steps away in a few years, I expect he will do it in a more low-key way. The oldest sibling is often the one who has to make the biggest effort to break free. The parents will be more cautious with the younger siblings.

Finally, in my opinion, none of what his parents have given him (including his wife, as people like to point out for some reason) justifies his dysfunctional upbringing and the frankly really weird media campaign against him and his wife. I used to think that the Beckhams are basically good parents and their very obvious bad decisions (parading and occasionally humiliating their children in the media for clicks) was just because they genuinely didn't know better. Now I think maybe they are full-blown narcissists after all.

It's perfectly possible for several things to be true simultaneously...... DB & VB used their children as part of Brand Beckham and were playing at happy families. Also, BB is spoilt and only married into a wealthy family because of who his parents are. That is to say, there are faults & mistakes on both sides.
I recently read the Bower book, and the senior Beckhams don't come out of it well. Both parents, but especially VB, were constantly travelling, so the kids were brought up by nannies & grandparents and didn't see much of their parents. One assumes that has had an effect. Just a sad situation for everyone.

The thing is no one can deny the Beckham kids have been trotted out for photo ops since the day they were born. I’d find it mentally exhausting, especially as an introvert (which Brooklyn strikes me as, despite his high(ish) profile).

I think he made the statement as an unambiguous statement to his parents that he means it when he says he wants to be NC. It’s sad but who knows what the dynamics were behind closed doors. At least it was a written statement and not a stupid appearance with Oprah or the like. Good luck to him, he’s not much older than my son so I guess there’s a little maternal protectiveness going on my end, visualising if it were my son.

Another article said that he had already had the first dance, and his wife had danced with her father, etc. This was later in the reception: VB had arranged for a singer, and it was then she danced with BB.
Which is right? We don’t know.

The post didn’t read like anything else BB has ever posted in his life. Much more articulate. He had help writing it.

I feel like he probably shouldn’t have posted this. He’s young and I think he’s going to realise he’s made a mistake in the next few years. He could’ve just brought this up at home and not told the world.

Chances are, he is going to split up with his wife in the next few years simply because they’re young & stats say 50% of marriages end in divorce. I think then he’s going to have to crawl back to his family as he will have no one else.

I assume his family would forgive him, as you would with your kids but the damage is done. It didn’t need announcing to the world.

I mean it’s good for gossip, but that’s about it!

Hilarious about Victoria dancing inappropriately and stealing the first dance. It’s typical MIL controlling behaviour (apart from the dirty dancing. Haven’t heard of any other MIL’s doing that 🤣).

Do you know then personally as that’s a bold statement. Good parents do not in my opinion tell the world that the name they gave their son is where they had sex.

Yeah a lot of accusations in that statement but none of them sound particularly convincing for some reason, or at least not convincing as a reason for such an extreme statement/accusation. “Dancing ON me”!!?

None of us will ever know the truth of what actually went on, but I think the main lesson to take from both Harry & Brooklyn cases is if you raise kids in a messed up fish bowl celebrity environment they’re liable to get pissed off and have issues when they reach adulthood. One reason I oppose the monarchy - it’s so fucked up how as a nation we actually celebrate getting to gawk at those poor kids on the front pages of newspapers etc a dozen times a year. And yet if some mum posts a nice picture of their kid on FB that’s an abuse of that child’s right to privacy.

It really surprises me the comparisons people draw between the Sussexes and BB. There are 2 English husbands and 2 American wives who have some sort of fallout with their respective families and thats' where the similarities end.

I rather see Meghan en par with Victoria. They are cut from the exact same cloth. Nouveau riche and fame hungry. Meanwhile, Nicole is an actual heiress, rich beyond imagination, she doesn't need to hustle or pimp out her family like any common or garden SM influencer. She has an excellent relationship with her parents and is a great catch for BB, he married up, Harry married down socially. Yes, Meghan and Victoria are very similar.