To think this article on Brooklyn Beckham is utterly ridiculous?

[CallaLilli]

It makes ES Magazine look like literature!
www.tatler.com/news/articles/october-2015/the-posh-girls-pin-up-brooklyn-beckham

[Sparklingbrook]

Yes, I have never seen Davina's DC or Holly willoughby's or Fearne Cotton's.


But then there's people like Tom and Giovanna Fletcher who really I should not like at all for splashing everything everywhere but I quite like them.

[QueenPotato]

He's 16. So he's suddenly legal. Which means there are options that three months ago there would not have been. So that's diverting. Hot. Ready. Legal.

This IS disgusting. The fact that it happens to girls too shouldn't mean we cant express our revulsion here and now. This sort of shit should be called out every time.

EXACTLY. It's not OK – the fact that some adult men see girls that way too, and that them turning 16 gets covered in the press too, does not make this OK.

Also, while I agree it happens to girls, I doubt something this extreme and direct would get printed in Tatler, the DM etc. "All grown up" applied to 16yo girls is smirking, sexualised code for "Oh loooooook, this girl has grown some tits and hips and now we can see her as a sex object!" And that's bad.

But "Hot. Ready. Legal." is even worse. It's just blatant, aggressive objectification that enforces on BB the position of being "Ready" for whoever wishes to lech over him, without him having a say. Awful and unforgiveable.

[Clare1971]

Do any of you use twitter? - maybe you could comment on Rivkins twitter feed.

[Roussette]

I wonder if BB chose to allow this article, or whether D&V just realised what that stands for encouraged it. I honestly thought that both of them had more sense, I thought we weren't going to have their kids shoved in our faces, so disappointing and TBH it's coloured my view of them big time. I suppose it's all about Brand Beckham and dosh, what a big shame. They must be so driven by money and are now pulling their kids into the whole machine, modelling, articles about them etc etc

Whereas I admire those that let their kids be kids and protected from the press.

[SettlinginNicely]

How can it be money driven? They have so much already compared to what this can bring in additionally. It has to be more about attention.

[Screaminlikeabanshee2]

What does this boy do now? I read on here somewhere that he's very academic, is he still in school?

[Cerseirys]

D&V

[PrimalLass]

Here is her Twitter: twitter.com/annabelrivkin

[BeeRose30]

There's already an opposing article here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11960170/Brooklyn-Beckham-Tatler-article-Not-hot-ready-and-legal.html

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Good, I liked Rebecca Reid's response.

[MrsJayy]

Well Rebecca said a lot of what we said in her article but thats fine im glad she wrote it get it out there that a young lad is not there to be leered at.

[stopfuckingshoutingatme]

I saw something similar in ES Magazine and I very nearly complained to the Ed- as this was a few months back when he was still 15

disgusting - YUK

[Cerseirys]

ES Magazine inevitably features some talentless tyke on the cover, and then in the fawning article accompanying it, surprise surprise - Mama and Papa are famous!

[Rebecca2014]

Am I wrong to feel bit bad for the writer? I am sure she didn't mean to come across as a pervert and I am sure she will be embarrassed.

[regenerationfez]

Yes but that is what editors are for, surely? To be a second opinion and point out inappropriate content?

[tictactoad]

Glad I'm not the only one who's bemused by the hows and whys of the no doubt pleasant but really rather ordinary Beckham minor suddenly becoming media crack.

Awful way to write about a child though. Maybe his parents will finally have a rethink about touting their family to the publicity machine.

[MrsJayy]

No i dont feel sorry for her at all she probably thought she was sharp witty and current she just came across as a letch.

[timelytess]

Oh, that's a nasty article. Who even thinks like that?

[PrimalLass]

She is Executive Editor of Tatler.

[PrimalLass]

Or was at one point, not sure about now.

[PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange]

My niece aged 14 loves BB, Since Harry styles broke her heart by leaving 1D. I could imagine this story being ok in a school type newspaper written by pupils for pupils. This is however creepy.

[PrimalLass]

www.cewuk.co.uk/events/event/annabel-rivkin-founder-bee-works

[regenerationfez]

Christ on a bike! That explains the complete lack of checking then! Unless, as some have said, it was endorsed by the Beckhams in their insatiable quest for publicity and Tatler were so starstruck they failed to point out that sexualising a child is a tad inappropriate.

[Cocolepew]

What a load of crap? Did someone actually get paid for that?
Brooklyn must practice his Beiber Pained Look™ in the mirror every night.

[Hanwillls]

Poor posh, I'd hate for my son to be subjected to this.

I think he is above average looking to be honest, a 6 or 7 out of 10.