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To feel sorry for Brooklyn Beckham?

595 replies

Ridelikethewindypops · 28/01/2023 09:32

I just do feel a bit sorry for him. He's completely out of touch with the real world obviously, but he's so young and so gormless. But seems so determined to be famous in his own right, despite no specialist skill set. I wonder do famous parents ever encourage their children to go to uni and get a real job? Or is that not an option? There are plenty of fulfilling jobs he could do, teaching, nursing, even volunteering ( as he clearly doesn't need the money)
I feel bad for him as he gets mocked online, but he still seems determined to put himself out there.
Money aside, I do feel sorry for the children of spectacularly talented parents, it must cast a long shadow. ( I repeat, money aside...😅)

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silverclock222 · 28/01/2023 13:23

I do feel sorry for him, he.is just a kid. Also hard working parents seriously? One mime artist and one brainless pain in the backside who played football and kept fit. They were lucky that's it.

Mercurial123 · 28/01/2023 13:23

maddy68 · 28/01/2023 13:18

I dint understand why he's getting so much vitriol. He's just a famous kid trying to do something with his life.

😆

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:24

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 28/01/2023 13:18

Kid? He’s 24

Because he is trying to fast track himself to be an expert without doing the work and any human being, no matter what job they do, will only get respect for working towards it.

ilovemydogandmrobama2 · 28/01/2023 13:24

Not sure the Beckams are hyper rich so would warrant a philanthropic type organisation that one of their privileged off spring could run?

But yeah, being an Instagram Influencer doesn't seem like a great career choice.

Outfor150 · 28/01/2023 13:24

x2boys · 28/01/2023 13:19

In the second team ,the first team he played for was part owner by Daddy...

And I think he only ever played once.

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:25

silverclock222 · 28/01/2023 13:23

I do feel sorry for him, he.is just a kid. Also hard working parents seriously? One mime artist and one brainless pain in the backside who played football and kept fit. They were lucky that's it.

😂

darjeelingrose · 28/01/2023 13:25

Insofar as he is shockingly uneducated apparently, and has no self awareness, I do feel sorry for him. However, those two aspects probably prevent him from being too sad about things himself.

martinisforeveryone · 28/01/2023 13:26

BigBoysDontCry · 28/01/2023 12:51

The problem is that he didn't want to be a photographer or a chef, he wanted to be a celebrity photographer or a celebrity chef.

The thing is, if he'd done the training, he could have been a celebrity whatever.
No doubt his parents' names and wealth got him into Parsons, which is extremely prestigious and a big tick for anyone's CV in the art world and an internship with Rankin, the same. If he'd stuck to it, or alternatively a proper culinary course and then restaurant training. He'd have had an easy 'in' to a high profile career where he could pick and choose how much work to do and still keep a public profile.

Mary McCartney learnt her craft and is a photographer (and cook) who's benefited from her name, but proved herself in her field. Stella similarly. The likes of the Roux family, or Jack Stein start with the name, but learn the trade thoroughly. Perhaps Buddy Oliver will keep on too, he's been doing his own cooking shorts. One of the Ramsay daughters did the same. Without their fathers they wouldn't have done it, but given the chances they actually delivered a decent end product.

Brooklyn's brother, Romeo, may not have got a go at professional football without his father's introduction, but at least he's serving some time at a junior level with a team's 'B' side, doing the hard yards, not wanting to be in Man U's starting 11 or throwing in the towel.

I understand that BB may not have found his real calling yet, but without some work ethic and staying power he's not likely to. I remember Jack Ramsay doing a programme where he went to live with another family for a short while. The lifestyles couldn't have been more different. Obviously that was for TV and was brief, but in the Marines he'll no doubt have had a lot of stick for his famous name and face, but it's a path he's chosen for himself and he's following it on his own merits. At the end of the day, that's what's going to bring fulfilment in life, having skill(s) that you've worked on and achieved rather than flitting from one thing to another and being ridiculed on social media.

DrManhattan · 28/01/2023 13:27

100% cringe

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:28

darjeelingrose · 28/01/2023 13:25

Insofar as he is shockingly uneducated apparently, and has no self awareness, I do feel sorry for him. However, those two aspects probably prevent him from being too sad about things himself.

I do think there is something extra though, so maybe they should be protecting him a bit more. He is a major parenting fail.

jtaeapa · 28/01/2023 13:30

Whether you like them or not, DB and VB are extraordinarily successful and talented. VB was mega famous in the Spice Girls - it’s ridiculous and catty to say she’s untalented.

so…they could buy their kids a private education or the “best” education. But…neither DB nor VB are known to be highly intelligent. So why would you expect their kids to be able to do “anything” with that education? They’d have needed a good IQ, the ability and time to work hard, and a natural interest - if, say, they were to become doctors, mathematicians, whatever.

I would question the morals of journalists who write mean articles about BB. I mean, it’s not actually news - it’s just trashy bullying. He couldn’t help who he was born to and he’s been in the limelight since he was a foetus.

karamazing · 28/01/2023 13:31

It is a bit like the Sussexes. Fame-obsessed kids with warped perspectives who never grow up. He may be 24 but he may never reach the maturity associated with his real age.

StalkedByASpider · 28/01/2023 13:32

silverclock222 · 28/01/2023 13:23

I do feel sorry for him, he.is just a kid. Also hard working parents seriously? One mime artist and one brainless pain in the backside who played football and kept fit. They were lucky that's it.

I'm not a fan of the Beckhams or their lifestyle particularly, but in fairness to DB, he has worked his arse off. He's done a shitload for charities, particularly children's charities, and a lot of it is done on the quiet.

I think he's a genuine guy who, while enjoying all the glamour of a certain lifestyle, also does a ton to help others. Lots of footballers with his money retire and sit on their arses. He hasn't done that. Credit where credit is due.

Choccyp1g · 28/01/2023 13:36

Bertha21 · Today 10:26
To me it seems like he has many opportunities but either finds studying to hard. Or doesn’t know what he wants to do in life. Maybe financially his parents have made the mistake of supporting him a bit to much. Now at a very young age he has married. We possibly know how this will end. His wife seems to have a job and make money. What does he do when she is working? It’s not great that their families apparently no longer get on if that’s true!

He could move to a pig farm in Wales.
"Mochyn with Brooklyn"

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:37

martinisforeveryone · 28/01/2023 13:26

The thing is, if he'd done the training, he could have been a celebrity whatever.
No doubt his parents' names and wealth got him into Parsons, which is extremely prestigious and a big tick for anyone's CV in the art world and an internship with Rankin, the same. If he'd stuck to it, or alternatively a proper culinary course and then restaurant training. He'd have had an easy 'in' to a high profile career where he could pick and choose how much work to do and still keep a public profile.

Mary McCartney learnt her craft and is a photographer (and cook) who's benefited from her name, but proved herself in her field. Stella similarly. The likes of the Roux family, or Jack Stein start with the name, but learn the trade thoroughly. Perhaps Buddy Oliver will keep on too, he's been doing his own cooking shorts. One of the Ramsay daughters did the same. Without their fathers they wouldn't have done it, but given the chances they actually delivered a decent end product.

Brooklyn's brother, Romeo, may not have got a go at professional football without his father's introduction, but at least he's serving some time at a junior level with a team's 'B' side, doing the hard yards, not wanting to be in Man U's starting 11 or throwing in the towel.

I understand that BB may not have found his real calling yet, but without some work ethic and staying power he's not likely to. I remember Jack Ramsay doing a programme where he went to live with another family for a short while. The lifestyles couldn't have been more different. Obviously that was for TV and was brief, but in the Marines he'll no doubt have had a lot of stick for his famous name and face, but it's a path he's chosen for himself and he's following it on his own merits. At the end of the day, that's what's going to bring fulfilment in life, having skill(s) that you've worked on and achieved rather than flitting from one thing to another and being ridiculed on social media.

He took someone else's place in Parsons that year and that is the problem. Who really cares what he does. The parents are friends with Gordon Ramsay, why is he not sweating up a storm washing dishes to start as an apprentice in one of his many restaurants? If he was any good. There are many youngsters who would dribble at getting that menial position to work their way up. So I agree with you, the work ethic is not there.

As for his brother, you are right, he might have been noticed more because of the name, think in that scenario it is ok; he will be either good enough or not, I think that is fair because he has a skillset.

DaveyJonesLocker · 28/01/2023 13:38

I think when things come too easily to someone they don't develop as fully. We need to struggle and work for things to truly succeed in life I think.

I do feel sorry for him a bit. It isn't his fault he had everything handed to him on a silver platter and he is trying to make something for himself.

Pensatucky · 28/01/2023 13:39

Lightningrain · 28/01/2023 12:46

There are some awful comments on this thread. How would the people commenting on his looks feel if people were saying these things about your early 20’s DS? He can’t help how he looks or how academically gifted he is.

Finding a career and your path in life is hard enough for anybody without the big expectations and having to do it in the public eye. I worked in three completely different and unrelated jobs in my twenties before deciding what I actually wanted to do and nobody judged me for it.

From the bits I’ve seen of the family on social media they seem genuinely supportive of each other. I’m sure I read years ago that at least one of the boys had normal teenage Saturday jobs.

Yeah it was Brooklyn “working” in a coffee shop. That lasted all of a week apparently - just enough time to make sure he was photographed and said pictures put out into the press. A PR stunt, like everything else they do.

Intrepidescape · 28/01/2023 13:39

There are people out in the world that don’t need to work. They have trust funds and live off the interest of years of investments. I don’t feel sorry for those people. I don’t think about these people.

I do think of the poor people stuck in social housing and substandard private rentals who are breathing in black mould spores and struggling to pay the heating or buy food.

Yet, here you are feeling sorry for someone who has had every possible advantage in life. Who has married someone who has her own trust fund and will eventually inherit an estate worth billions.

InsomniacVampire · 28/01/2023 13:39

mrstumblet · 28/01/2023 09:39

Have name changed as possibly outing to those who know me!

Having worked with the family over the years I can safely say sadly Brooklyn isn't really university material. Despite their education the boys are rather like dad in that way.

The children see being famous as successful and having been part of it from day one they want to emulate that.

Lots of people who go to uni are not 'university material' if you mean Oxbridge dudes sitting on University Challenge. Which does noe mena there would be no degree out there that BB could succeed in and enjoy- or aletrnative form of education via apprenticeship or something that would give him an actual job/trade that is not an influencer or whatever he claims to be atm.

viques · 28/01/2023 13:42

KettrickenSmiled · 28/01/2023 10:36

😂😂😂😍

Bussteward, you brilliant little fool: FFS stop posting while I get the patents sorted. You have talent, young padawan, but need a mentor to take care of copyright & .... percentages.

Have pm'd you a contract, don't waste time reading it, you need to sign & return asap before PP steal all your ideas. Obvs I'm getting the thread pulled now, so stop timewasting & crack on with it, I will definitely make you a millionaire, trust me.

Yours
Crookin' With BrooklymTM

I hope things don’t sink so low for him that he hits rock bottom and is forced to sell his body on the streets

Hookin’ with Brooklyn

HowDoYouOwnDisorder · 28/01/2023 13:44

he kind of brought it upon himself that time when he was asked a court his amazing ££££££ car, and was asked what sort of job he does to afford that kind of car (interviewer did not know who he was)

he said he earned it being a chef

(instead of nepo baby 😁)

guy was impressed

then came the backlash

EmmaDilemma5 · 28/01/2023 13:45

I suspect he lacks both the intellect to complete a degree and the motivation.

He'll find his way, just hopefully doesn't turn into drugs and alcohol.

Pensatucky · 28/01/2023 13:45

His wife got a prenup before they married too. Clearly she already knows what a talentless man-child he is

The “marriage” won’t last 5 minutes

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:51

InsomniacVampire · 28/01/2023 13:39

Lots of people who go to uni are not 'university material' if you mean Oxbridge dudes sitting on University Challenge. Which does noe mena there would be no degree out there that BB could succeed in and enjoy- or aletrnative form of education via apprenticeship or something that would give him an actual job/trade that is not an influencer or whatever he claims to be atm.

He wants to be a chef, but without the apprenticeship, so he is he not even capable of that, forget university. He is damaging his 'brand' and will never be taken seriously now, even if he turned into the best chef ever. At least his father could play football, at least his mother rode the biggest PR machine at the time and got lucky. He could indeed do a trade but he won't and perhaps isn't able for it.

aonbharr · 28/01/2023 13:52

Pensatucky · 28/01/2023 13:45

His wife got a prenup before they married too. Clearly she already knows what a talentless man-child he is

The “marriage” won’t last 5 minutes

I wouldn't say she is all that clever either. Daddy did the pre-nups.

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