To feel sorry for Brooklyn Beckham?

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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...😅)

Yup.

Small wonder BB feels he needs to be in the spotlight, literally at all costs (somebody's losing money somewhere to fund his ridiculousness).

Growing up, the Beckham kids must have felt that the best way to gain parental approval was to be as photogenic & media-compliant as possible. A ghastly lesson to teach children.

Am I sorry for them? Nope. That's a generosity of spirit too far. Growing up monied doesn't automatically make you a bastard, but it doesn't half help.
The Beckham variety of 'rich' appears to be the type that has "enough money to travel the entire world, & see none of it."
Pass me the sick bucket.

Brooklyn Beckham is not a child, he’s a man who pushes himself into the limelight - which he really doesn’t have to do despite what people are saying, but he does because otherwise he wouldn’t be able to be talentless and rich and bag a billionaire wife. He’s fair game for criticism as much as the next person. No reason at all why this thread should be removed.

Or you could just hide it if you can't handle "mean" comments about spoilt rich people seeking fame with no talent?

I keep wondering how he ended up with DB original face while his younger brothers got the more handsome, tuned-up version of their father's face.

That's the real mystery

Couldn't agree more.

Romeo Beckham is trying to make his way as a professional footballer. The name may get him noticed among all the other young hopefuls but he's still got to put in the hard work and if he's rubbish he'll soon be dropped. The name will only get him so far.

Stella McCartney's ridiculously famous and wealthy parents meant she got door-opening opportunities that most people couldn't even dream of. But she made the most of them. She worked for a Savile Row tailor to learn technical skills and completed a design course at Central Saint Martins. She got her toe in the door because of who her parents were - all those connections and money no object - but she also bothered to learn her trade.

So I can't feel that sorry for Brooklyn Beckham flitting from career to career looking for something he can actually do. Plenty of kids of rich/famous people do 'ordinary' jobs or live away from the limelight.

Dopey looking !

There is this huge pressure that people should know who they are and what they want.
It's different for everyone. Some have a very strong drive to prove themselves to be someone. Others don't.
Some people discover later in life Some people only realise that they are on the right path for them through considered appraisal and genuine reflection.
Judging people and making assumptions is unfair he didn't ask for this life. He might be following a similar fame hungry path as his parents and not succeeding in the eyes of the media. I do think thats wrong I know we all admire the underdog but his vacuous life...perhaps must be awful....remember the Onnasis girl...poor thing she was rich but so sad.

Lovely. 6 pages of how talentless and gormless BB is. Honestly who cares? He's just another 23 year old trying to find his feet. What's with the onslaught?

Oh and we're commenting on his looks too. Seriously?!

Exactly.

If celebs don't want to be dissed discussed purely for being celebs, the onus is on them to remove themselves from public life, not removing the public's right to rip the piss out of them.

You’re mixing up DB and BB

I don't follow the Beckhams as I'm not really interested in them but what are the other kids doing with their lives are they the same as brooklyn? I know the girl is only still quite young probably still at school. I do remember one of the boys doing some modelling a few years ago.

This.
She can't sing looks grumpy. Has that bored sounding accent. Stayed with Beckham even when he was shagging other women.
Her clothing line was a flop.
She married a rich footballer.
Not much to live up really.

Feel sorry for him? Good lord, NO!

I remember when David and VB started having kids. I was soooo disappointed that they used them endlessly in publicity shots. I honestly thought that... given they both came from very ordinary backgrounds... they would have more sense and they would try and instil good values and money sense into them. But no. Every opportunity they used them for publicity, and I went off them then. Well... it's come back to bite them on the arse with Brooklyn I feel.

Last time I saw anything about him, he was in a £1million McLaren. His parents are a couple of right tits if they bought that for him.

He's such a waste of space, I do wonder if DB & VB think that perhaps they got it a bit wrong? Probably not as Cruz is currently working on some new music material .... he's in a music studio paid for by Mum and Dad!

As for VB's talent, I don't doubt she has some as a fashionista, but her company is just a vanity project, and continually has huge cash injections to prop it up.

Stella McCartney has worked hard, but do you know who modelled for her degree final show at St Martins? Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Yasmin LeBon! My friend was in the same year as her, no other graduates that year got a look in by the media (usually they did in those 80s heydays), it was all about Stella McCartney's show, overshadowed all the other talented new designers.

I don't feel sorry for BB as a person, but I think this thread is fairly horrible tbh. Multimillionaires have feelings too

@LittleBearPad apologies I did mix them up.

He is ridiculous, I’m sorry but he is.

He decided he was going to be a professional photographer, got into (was bought into) an excellent college and dropped out because he couldn’t be arsed to actually do the work … why would he when there was a book deal waiting for him and David Attenborough.

His book came out and it was an absolute joke, my 7 year olds have taken better photos on my phone. Someone (his parents!) should have stopped that mockery of a book from being released.

Then he decided he was going to be a professional chef but he can’t be arsed to actually put the work in so he does online videos with mummy and daddy’s famous friends … I remember seeing one of his videos and it was something ridiculous like “a bacon sandwich”. It’s almost like he’s taking the piss out of himself! The sad fact is he’s actually being serious.

The recent video of him getting into an expensive car and someone pretended they didn’t know who he was and asked what he did for a living to be able to afford such a car … he said “I’m a chef”. Cringe!!! No Brooklyn, you’re not a chef love, you post videos of yourself on social media. Go to culinary school, work in the business for a few years and then maybe call yourself a chef.

irritating lazy little twat that he is.

I stand corrected on VB's business. I am not very engaged with this sort of information.

I wasn't impressed with BB wedding as it was ostentatiously wasteful. I find the whole celebrity thing just awful anyway.

He asks for this life every time he throws himself into his next media spotlight.

Although I take your point about the "poor little rich girl" trope.

I've never moved in the high-octane circles this thread's mainly about, but spent some time around an ex-pat family connection with a lot of trustafarians in my generation of the family. One of them is a cousin - she & her friends are driftless, clueless, & prone to personality disorders & identity crises. None of them seem as happy as you might imagine yourself to be, if in possession of an unearned income sufficient to provide a good life with no job.

You made me do a wierd snorty giggle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think VB is talented. Not necessarily at singing but she's very good at brand building and that's the world she operates in. Would DB still be enjoying the kind of profile he has (and the money that has generated) without her? I doubt it. He had the talent as a sportsman, but she knew how to generate wealth from it long after he stopped playing.
I also think that whether the design business generates profit doesn't have any relevance to whether she's good at design. Sometimes talent doesn't sell. Or the business might be indirectly profitable in that it provides access to income streams that would otherwise be closed to her?

If I was Nicola Peltz parent I would be viewing BB as a starter husband. The parents are so rich that she will be cushioned from any consequences of a failed marriage regardless. I'd be there are prenups in place.
But BB seems to have been blinded by his wife's family wealth and influence if stories about his distance from his own family are to be believed. And if that is true, then I certainly have very limited sympathy for him - DB and VB strike me as very loving parents who have absolutely done their best by their kids. And to me he is certainly coming across as ungrateful and spoilt - he has blown so many opportunities that he only has because they could support him.

Should NP gets bored of him, he is unlikely to see her parents for dust and will need his own mum and dad.

Kettricken.... I agree. I know a very rich family, (came into money with a sale of a Co) known them for decades. Basically, everything you could do wrong with bringing up kids, they have done!

The kids are all 30+ and parents still shell out money on them all the time. One of the kids is the same age as my DD (who has now worked her way up in her career for 10 years). He hasn't yet had a job!! He washed up at a pub aged 17 but gave it up after two shifts as he 'hated it'. So he is pratting around on the golf course and at the gym, Ma and Pa bought him a flat in the most expensive area of a city near me, he has had a vanity project for about 6 years now, he makes about £500 a year lol.

All the kids (maybe bar one) are the most entitled snobby idiots imaginable.

VB is not a successful fashion designer,her business is propped up by DB money.It hasn’t made a profit in years..Its a vanity project😏

The Ramsays seem to have the best approach - encouraged them to work hard at school, weren't overly exposed to the limelight and all the grown up kids now seem to have a purpose in life that is not reliant on being funded by their parents riches.

I feel sorry for BB as he seems to be a bit of a drifter with no real purpose in life