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 ?

I was just pondering that Pail and Linda McCartney had done well in bringing up their children, when I realised that they weren’t a brand in the same way. The music is - that is the product.

But they still did well as the ch who are exceptionally rich and would never need to work do seem semi normal and happy .

I actually think that was tacky of him to leave them in coach. I have no objection to children not being given everything on a platter but letting your family fly cheaply while you fly in luxury is a bit off. Why not fly coach himself if he feels so strongly about it?

Stella had a huge leg up, though. I've never thought she was particularly talented and she comes across as fairly obnoxious.

What do u think is the most important thing that everyone has missed in this sad drama?

One thing that I think is the most interesting in this - he doesn’t seem to want to be famous. He’s happy with his rich wife and doing their own thing. He’s given up trying to become famous in his own right, he’s not doing his cooking or photography or anything else like this. He’s just quietly living a wealthy life.

And he’s not sold this story. He’s not monetised his family split. He’s not done a celeb interview or spoken out on a platform that would pay him. He’s not talked to a journalist or written a book.

We only know about the drama because the Beckhams can’t just be quiet. We only know he wasn’t as various special occasions because they stuck those private moments all over social media for the brand.

Someone needs to tell Victoria and David to shush. He’s got his knighthood now, the several years long campaign worked. He can ease off and perhaps if they didnt drag their other children to photocalls it wouldn’t be noticeable who’s not there.

He earned the money that let him buy a seat in first, though. His kids didn't. That's his point.

I believe him. After going NC with my father there was so much pressure to reconcile from family and so many rumours amongst family and friends that I ended up having to publicly set the record straight, or at least my side and view of the situation. I couldn't imagine being in the public eye my whole life and having what would feel like the world discussing my choices. I can totally understand why he made the statement he did in the way that he did.

Essentially Brooklyn seems to be saying that while everyone called him a nepo baby, he didn’t want to be a nepo baby, he wanted to be idle rich and anonymous. And he cares more about his wife’s feelings than his mums.

No I haven’t given it that much thought .. it was just something that interested me as I thought the press hadn’t really looked at that angle .
Thankfully I get out plenty - just been to the gym and now going out for dinner - so I don’t feel the need to be nasty to strangers on the internet !

Surely that's true of any parent, though? Not just GR. I assume this must have been when his kids were of the age to earn, if not then that is very odd. Even if they were, I still think that is quite cheap of him. I don't like him anyway, he is a nasty man with a piggy red face. He can get in the bin lol.

The one he married into isn't any better.

Really? I am genuinely shocked people think they are a solid couple. It's very well known in many social circles that they sleep in separate beds and David in particular will shag anyone he likes (check out reddit for this) and they have an open marriage. His body language alone around Victoria is pretty obvious that he despises her, it's really quite sad.

It's absolutely obvious. The term 'married in name only' applies to them.

Headlines? Why on Earth would the Beckhams want headlines saying they ruined his childhood, his mum danced with him in an inappropriate manner at his wedding, his dad only wanted to reconcile if it was for the cameras and their marriage is fake?

@Gahr he may leave them in coach on planes but they are not living in coach jn his London houses /Cornwall etc and where ever else...they lead incredibly privileged lives for the occasional indignity of being on coach !

Up to a point. Stella and Mary have certainly ploughed their own furrow and they seem reasonably grounded and resilient.

But no door in the world would ever be closed to the children of a Beatle. I know nothing about fashion so not really in a position to judge whether she's genuinely talented or not, but you can bet that the mentorship and support and connections they would have got would have ironed every kink and sorted every problem, one way or the other. You still need to work hard and be committed, but you're not having to push too hard against the system are you?

And didn't the son (James?) turn into a bit of a fuck-up?

Couldn’t agree more. All 4 children have been used to promote brand Beckham. Harper is a 14 year old girl ffs. Many ‘A’ listers go to great lengths to keep their children out of the public eye, I wouldn’t even know their names, let alone faces.

Ridiculous - most families want to sit together - didn’t he want to sit and travel with his children? How off making so
petty point - loads of parents work hard

if he didn’t want them to have the luxury they could of sat together in economy - look at the money he splashed on that recent wedding!!! No similar reasoning used there

did you know? Parents spend their income on kids

I should hope not, after all he chose to have them. I don't have a problem with kids of wealthy people having comfortable lives. I do object to them being constantly pushed into the public eye. And Hollie is a particularly boring influencer and seems quite obnoxious, so I wouldn't say her flying coach has made her down to earth!

Exactly!! Thank you, you made my point better than I did. Also, a couple of his kids are very small. Did he stick them in coach with the 'staff'? What about Tana? Obnoxious wee man he is.

Good point, as I said I don"t follow them very closely, didn"t someone once say that no publicity is bad publicity?
I doubt many younger people would have serious interest in DB and VB now, BUT many would be interested in their model handsome son"s "anxieties" about his upbringing? It is just PR and business moves we are seeing here, it always saddens me that the public get obsessed with the celebrity thing, it is the money that attracts interest because most people know they will never have that.

What is a "solid couple" though? It's not uncommon for people who have been married for 20+ years to no longer fancy each other much, to have affairs and to basically stay for the kids/the money/the perks/the infrastructure of the marriage. They "make it work" for whatever reason and are content enough to stay.

Obviously the Beckhams have a lot more at stake, financially and reputationally, than Joe and Rita from number 22. But I'm not sure they are that different.

I always find it bizarre when people are surprised that a celebrity marriage or family implodes. Just under half of all marriages in the UK fail. If you've got two independently very wealthy people who have people throwing themselves at them and a smorgasbord of social options it shouldn't be that surprising.

Yes but I doubt lee who works in Aldi would have met and married Sharon who works in Aldi, if they hadn’t both worked in Aldi?

He's always seemed a bit lost to me.
First trying to be a footballer, then a photographer, then a chef...
I can well believe that all those "jobs" were pushed by Brand Beckham.
He doesn't seem to have had natural talent in any of those areas.
I think in pushing his failed "jobs" V&DB have held him up to ridicule in the press/SM over the years.
Hard to take as young person.

I believe James made a couple of albums that were pretty good? The Beatles connection won"t make you a rock star though because there has to be a big audience buying the stuff for that, the days of a band like The Beatles coming through are long long gone in the rear-view mirror (do we still have them or is it AI now?)
In fact the Beatles were a one-off really, and they were very heavily promoted back in the day by the BBC I heard, to the point of ignoring other artists, I know a few people (most are musicians) who don"t like or rate The Beatles and never listen to them, I knew someone many years ago who used to teach guitar and play pubs/clubs, one time they were doing early Beatles stuff in their set and he said that learning the songs and chords wasn"t difficult but the thing was the vocal harmonies, no one could touch or properly replicate what the Fab Four did with the vocals he said.