To think people are missing the main point that Brooklyn Beckham is trying to reveal ?

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Firstly I know the goings on of this family are not important news and there are more important things to worry about in the world .
But I’m finding it surprising that people are fixating on things like the wedding dress and the dancing . There are a couple of points in his statements when he is clearly saying what I have always believed- that David and Victoria are not a couple as they like to portray . I’ve always thought David’s disdain of her is quite obvious in the way he talks to her and that she appears lost and soulless but intent on preserving the brand .
BB says “ 'The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.”
Then - “ media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.'”

To me it seems obvious what he is hinting at ?

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Firstly, I don't understand why this was breaking news on GMB. Secondly, why did he have to put a statement out about it all. Why couldn't he just live the life he wants with his wife? Can you tell I have no idea what was going on, if it wasn't 'breaking news' I'd still be non the wiser now !

I think this is a possibility.

I don’t think, OP, that BB is saying they are actually “not a couple” and I don’t think they are “not a couple”.

Not a “perfect” couple, as they portray, yes. But I think they are very much a couple; whether that includes extra-marital affairs, who knows.

There are people who insist that David has affairs. Obviously I have no idea. But Brooklyns statement has caused a total ruckus and it didn’t even ssh very much. I don’t think he could ever or would ever expose their affairs / cheating in this way.

Although yes, he may well hint at it.

I didn't but then I've never met them 😂😂

I think most people know they are not a “devoted couple” and realise they have a fantastic marketing team

That the subtext of his statement is that they are not a couple !!

Really? I thought he was saying they were just an unhappy couple - who perhaps have been a bit too focused on brand ie bussiness rather than family and parenting.

He's a nepo baby who seems lost TBH and new wife is inherited money and neither may realise how hard success actually was for his parents to acheive given their backgrounds - but others in similar place did more to protect their kids from glare of fame - so he may have a point.

He does seem to want to be done with them and this public statement does make that very clear.

So Brooklyn Beckham has gone the full Prince Harry by trashing his family in the most public way possible, despite claiming that what he really craves is privacy. This is always a big mistake. In a few years' time, after the inevitable divorce, he'll have to go crawling back to Mummy and Daddy and beg them to reinstate his allowance so that he can continue to live the celebrity lifestyle that he's always known and loved. He obviously has no special talents, so like Harry, when all the dirt has finally been dished, he'll have nothing left to fall back on. My sympathies are entirely with David and Victoria. No marriage is ever perfect, all families are complicated and bringing up kids is hard, even - and perhaps especially - when you are blessed with great wealth and your ungrateful children have never needed to occupy themselves with life's everyday problems. Brooklyn has enjoyed the spoils and now he's well and truly shot himself in the foot. And it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke!

I think a lot of people are focused on how much money they have, so any amount of shitty child hood in their view is acceptable if it means a life of luxury. It’s not a view I can comprehend, and I grew up poor. There also seems to be some who feel parents can do anything and the child can’t complain as the parent owns them. Again not something I can comprehend.

but it explains why so many dysfunctional families about.

i think it’s fairly obvious the beckham life isn’t as portrayed and I actually think in this Victoria controls the public image very strictly and expects them all to go along with it, and David is too much of a coward or too disinterested, or it’s in his own interests so just goes along with it. I think she’s in charge and he enables her.

runours have it he shags about, and she clearly is fully aware of this, but they portray the happy family for the cameras. The kids to me, the boys, seem a bit messed up, none of them come across as well adjusted, Brooklyn probably the most adjusted, and he said he grew up with crippling anxiety.

it doesn’t look like a family, more a business. And they are the product they sell.

Curiously this is the second time they’ve been accused of leaking to the press and planting stories, which does make me wonder if Megan markle was right.

Yeah I see the parallel but I think this is very different to Harry , and I do beleive Brooklyn. Harry just talked make up shite.

The comparison with Prince Harry is because they are both who they are because of who their parents are.
At least with Prince Harry, he'll always be that little boy to some of us.

Neither seem to have grasped that as standalone individuals they don't have much going for them.

He seems very young for his age and naive. He seems to be very into the 24/7 together idea of a relationship and lots of show on social media.
A nearly 30 yr old marriage will never look like that. Lots of wealthy couples spend limited time together, having multiple properties makes that easier. I imagine they can easily go weeks without seeing each other if they choose, him in USA, then her in Paris.
I doubt Brooklyn and Nicola will still be together at 50 but if they are their relationship will look very different to how it is as newlyweds.

But he’s not, he’s a middle aged liar.

Duck me

They should be sacked then because it’s full of grammar mistakes.

A middle aged liar of no consequence.

I don't really give a monkeys about the Beckhams.

But there isnt a main point its all he said she said .Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors whether thats a dysfunctional couple or whether its a woke spoilt brat who has spent to much time on social media learning words like boundaries

The very idea that Brooklyn Beckham has the wit or intelligence to write a nuanced message is nothing short of laughable. He's as thick as mince and if he really thinks that vacuous wife of his sees living out her days with him then, well, I rest my case.

I agree @Hopingforaholiday. I hope he gets on with his life and is happy and if he doesn’t want contact with his parents, so be it. But it won’t surprise me if in a few years, he misses his family, despite their faults.

He's not hinting, he is actually saying it.

It's not unusual for people to have a public face, especially those with a high profile. I know plenty of quite ordinary people who present a different picture to the world to how life is indoors on their own. It's their protection.

However Brooklyn can't really say his home life was terrible and there's no doubt his parents loved him. Who has perfect parents?

It's a bit much to turn against them so publicly, he knows how the media will lap this up and make more of it. He's behaving like a petulant teenager. I can remember thinking my family were bloody hypocrites when I was a youngster but I wouldn't have gone to the newspapers. I wasn't happy but they didn't abuse me.

They are a couple and a partnership. It might not be one many of us would recognise in the traditional context.

The only course of action for someone who is in the position he claims he is in is to ignore the provocation. The answer is always to grey rock.

Maybe they tried to do it as though he had written it (when I was taught to draft witness statements was taught to do it in witnesses own words)

I don't know anything about him, but how can someone who has never met him declare he is 'thick as mince?'
I'm guessing he's had had the best education money can buy.
He has had aot of opportunities to move in famous and wealthy circles but actually his family's fame will have stopped him pursuing a normal job/life etc.
And his family gave not protected him from fame to allow him this option.

He might be 'thick' or intelligent, how would you know?

He wouldn’t have been able to be anonymous after his parents paraded him in front of the world from when he was a baby. Thats like saying members of the royal family could live like ordinary people if they wanted to.

You mean uninterested. Disinterested means that you are not influenced by consideration of personal advantage.

@BillieWiper

What I don't get is what was stopping him from just quietly doing a normal job, getting an education and acting and being just a regular person. If all the trappings of celebrity and publicity etc weren't his thing.
He could've just said at 16, I'm going to get an apprenticeship, I'm going to use a diff. surname to make sure there's no favouritism and I want to try and save up for my own little flat, slowly build my career and have a family with a normal young woman. But he didn't because he didn't like the idea of having to do any hard work.

I'm not sure if its as simple as that. People tend to go into similar professions, or at least similar ambits, as their families. You do get exceptions but by and large children tend to be steered into jobs which are within their scope of knowledge. If you have two barrister parents and one of their children decides to become a mechanic it tends to cause friction.

Add onto that that Beckham Inc is a huge multimillion dollar machine. Add on the fact that the parents are at the very least control freaks, if not downright narcissists. Add in the fact that all of Brooklyn's friends would have been deliberately curated to be from celebrity (or at least very wealthy) background so he wouldn't have encountered many "normal" people. And add to that that his parents would have highly disapproved of him having a 'civilian' job so he wouldn't have got any help with it.

It's not impossible to break away from that sort of environment but it's hard. And that is basically what he's trying to do now in his own slightly cack-handed way.

I do have some sympathy for these people, despite the money. It must be horrendous to grow up in that environment.