David and Victoria’s press statement

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Where is it?

Will they even do one?

Has anyone changed their initial viewpoint on the whole thing?

And lastly….Team Brooklyn or Team Beckham?

It's all quite teenage. My teenager is currently embarrassed by me full stop including things like asking for help finding something in a shop. Being embarrassed and not having everything the way you want does not equal abuse.

A PP posted about terrible abuse - being locked in the garden, violent arguments between Mum and Dad. Punching of cabinets. That's abuse. If BB had posted that then I'd have every sympathy for him and - though I'd still consider it ill advised to have shared this on social media - would have perhaps understood why he felt compelled to.

The things he's shared just aren't worth blowing up an important relationship over. And there's a question if all of it is true - the dance clearly wasn't the first dance, for example.

The brand Beckham name thing sounds more controlling but again we only have his side.

I always think celebrity Godparents it’s very much like - how are they going to even say no? 😂 It’s basically just a big PR event for everyone involved and guarantees a huge Hello magazine spread for the christening. So fake.

I am sure the ‘brand’ can be controlling but this trivialises real abuse IMO & IMO you are spot on!

IF DV was ‘inauthentic’ in his relationship as Dad & husband to VB & deeply upset BB with serial infidelities & caused family instability then call it. This is understandably worse. WHY so much heat on VB about comparatively trivial stuff?

Flashing bulbs all his childhood & the ill advised photo book pushed out against his will - again - ok.

It’s upside for the recipient :) Unless it’s all usually performative? EJ has a relationship with the Bs.

Is your friend Lady Becks by any chance?

What has Elton John said anyway

To add extreme privilege & being sheltered keeps you very young for age. NP’s distress at nothing much must be exhausting if wedding text examples accurate. The dress etc, I know someone years ago who had the wrong one sent & ordered by shop & too late to change! We laughed in the end :)

About thirty six million years ago I did read VBs autobiography. I remember Elton bring referenced a lot in it but not in what contexts. And they were both in Spiceworld the movie an epically underrated film and that's a hill I will die on.

because he was closer to VB so her actions hurt more

All important points.

You’re right, people do choose to tell their stories in public all the time. But, isn’t it usually to campaign for, or achieve, something: justice, inquiries/investigations, better systems/services, public debate on a subject, to help others in similar situations?

And don’t they usually wait a while to process and get perspective on it, seek expert advice and carefully consider how to go about it (e.g. to avoid harm to themselves or others), unless it’s urgent to save lives etc.?

BB’s motivation appears to be to inform the public of his perspective during a live and emotive family relationship breakdown. It’s not clear what he hopes to achieve. He claims it’s privacy and peace. But why then fuel public/media interest by going public, surely resulting in less privacy and peace? Of course, he should talk to people he knows and trusts, therapist etc.

I guess people have different approaches to how they deal with gossip and rumour, whether in media or community (e.g. workplace). IMHO why need to explain yourself? As long as the people you care about know, who cares what anyone else thinks? As long as you’re not being libelled or slandered in a way that’ll impact your reputation/earnings, in which case you can sue. Otherwise, gossips gonna gossip. Who cares?

100% agree parents (famous or not) should think v carefully about the risks and long-term impacts of sharing photos or details of their children’s lives in public. The child can’t give informed consent. Once online, things are difficult to eradicate. Kids have much more freedom if they’re not recognised, e.g. employment. There are many famous people who share nothing about their children and avoid taking them to places (like red carpet events) where they’ll be photographed.

As for sides, I suspect most people can empathise with everyone embroiled in this salutary tale of living life via social media, including siblings, grandparents and family friends. A healthy and supportive family is one of the most precious things in life. So is privacy and freedom.

Yes, there was a plot to kidnap Victoria, Brooklyn and Romeo in the early 2000s. Five men ended up in prison for it. And when Brooklyn was a baby, someone sent his parents a doctored photograph of him with a bullet in his head. I think it turned out to have been sent by a woman who was stalking David. There are a lot of things worth criticising the Beckhams for, but giving their kids bodyguards isn't one.

I just took myself off to mail online for a nosey at the Fat Tony story a LP mentioned was on there but got distracted by their new top story, Mel Bs ex husband claims that Victoria and David couldn't remember Brooklyn's DOB and had to phone VBs mum to check 😯.

Find that hard to believe

Yes that sounds completely believable.......

Maybe they will issue a statement saying Victoria Beckham is handing over the intellectual property rights to her children’s own names to those children instead of keeping them herself.

She claimed rights to all their names when they were children (2016) and has not handed the rights over once the children turned 18.

I can’t see any world where that is the behaviour of a loving parent who has their child’s best interests at heart.

And that's the right approach. When you are as famous as them anything else is foolish and can only make things worse.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-01-23/victoria-beckham-trademarked-her-childrens-names-what-does-that-mean

But that is not true is it?

The Netflix doco explained and complained.

And they did one each!

Plus - so much of what is written now will be their PR driving conversations on blogs, SM, and so on. Enough will be said to muddy the water, and if their son is made out to be a buffoon - so be it.

They do speak, and then some.

Just in a different way.

Yes that sounds completely believable......

🤷 who knows. He was at least someone who was around then, unlike any of us.

Does it sound likely?

It certainly doesn't sound impossible. I once had a job that involved spending time around seriously wealthy people, whose children were with a nanny from birth and packed of to boarding school shortly after their fourth birthday. At least one of them had to be reminded their child's birthday was coming up, although to be fair all the ❄️ they were ingesting may have impeded their memory a bit.

Anyway I have no idea or proof if the story is true, much like the inappropriate dancing or raft if secret Beckham half siblings. And I assume you didn't either.

I didnt say it was impossible. Very few things are impossible

Many things are improbable

So does it sound likely?

I often forget my dob and my address and get it wrong, but I blame peri menopause for that.

It sounds no more likely or unlikely as the other revaluations that have come out in the last few days.

To me anyway. You are obviously welcome to think otherwise.

I forgot my child's date of birth last week and I don't have as many kids as the Beckhams 😂