What is going on with Brooklyn/Harper Beckham?

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/harper-beckhams-devastating-gesture-after-37292907.amp

AIBU to feel sorry for Harper? If BB has an issue with his parents it shouldn’t mean that he also stops talking to his siblings. It’s equally as sad if the parents did choreographed the letter/visit.

I mean Beckham is his name it’s weird to say he should give it up.

He clearly hated himself being used by his parent to promote themselves, the constant roll call to appear at yet another event to show themselves as such a wholesome family. On top of an upbringing that’s clearly caused him some issues.

He tried to ask them to follow and respect his boundaries then had to ask legally then had to publicly do so and yet they still keep fishing and poking.

He wants his name, face and financial opportunities to be controlled by himself rather than his mum and dad and that’s completely normal as an adult.

Why should he drop his own name? It is his, not just theirs.

Family estrangement is never this simple.

Maybe slightly off-topic but I think the posed group photos are starting to look very strange now. I don’t know if it’s since BB dropped his bombshell earlier in the year so now it’s more open and obvious how strained and fake those posed ‘perfect family’ shots are. Or if it’s before that, since they’ve added girlfriends (who look scarily like Victoria 😳) which somehow just looks a bit gruesome, these two young women being blended into the family and made to turn up and pose…

I mean I’m sure they’re happy to be on the payroll (!) but there’s something so controlling and odd about two young women being co-opted into big family photo sessions to mark yet another of David’s marvellous achievements! I have a close family and in-laws who’ve been welcomed as part of the whole family so you could say it’s nice and it’s no more than that… but the impression given is that these two women have nothing better to do with their lives than put on their future mother-in-law’s nighties, pose on a staircase looking pouty and miserable and then go and have yet another evening of saluting David’s amazingness.

It is very strange.

Yes I find the ‘drop the name’ odd - or do we think VD have successfully trademarked themselves🙄

and tbh even if he did become Brooklyn Peltz it’s not like people wouldn’t go on about ‘he only met his wife because of his parents’.

would people only be happy if he married Sonia from the mini mart and got a job as an electrician?

It’s strange these girlfriends don’t have jobs or friends or family commitments of their own that stop them saying how high the second they shout jump.

The pay must be good 😅

Isn’t Cruz’s girlfriend his manager? For his music career I mean. I find the age gap a bit much - if it was the other way round I think people would be a lot more critical

and Romeo’s girlfriend is a model and dj? Which is very vague and I guess has mixed time commitments

It really does. Children grow up being made to feel responsible for whether or not dad loses his temper and/or mum has an emotional meltdown. The same children are then assigned roles and tasks to ‘fix’ things, as if they (the kids) were responsible for it in the first place.

And the family mantra is ever present: don’t discuss this outside of the immediate family. Don’t tell anyone.

Brooklyn broke the code.

I’ve no idea. But being his “manager” and his gf plus the age just stinks. Surprised they like that.

Also how is his music earning enough for a manager who can afford to only be his manager and have such free time.

Indeed!

I assume they make some money through sm and some brand endorsements

Cruz Beckham's girlfriend, Jackie Apostel, is known for her fashion sense, while Romeo Beckham's girlfriend, Kim Turnbull, is a model and DJ who blends various music genres and has performed internationally. Both are often seen accompanying the Beckham brothers at events.

this is what AI told me 🤣

It’s all VD’s PR seem to have left to work with lately - ‘Ooooh, Brooklyn should drop his surname / name, yadayadayada’ - and it’s all sounding a little bit desperate.

Everyone is entitled to use the name on their birth certificate, or change it, to suit themselves.

Why not argue that Victoria should drop the Beckham name and separate herself from her errant son? It’s a really lame argument , right? They’re not like royal titles or styles fgs.

Anyway I think he’s Beckham-Peltz now. It’s very low stakes stuff really.

Brooklyn peltz beckham according to his instagram.

I actually like these men taking their wives name very new very not becoming man’s property. Very respecting of their wives.

Everyone just adding a second surname.

Peaty Ramsay as well.

Yes. But double barrel names can be a pain!

I know a couple that merged their name

Beltz?Peckham?

All this modern 'no contact' stuff is utter bullshit unless there has been outright abuse, harm, physical or sexual abuse/neglect.

It’s not modern is it really. People used to just move and disappear before emails and mobile phones. Before we could track everyone’s locations.

Hell some soldiers used to let their loved ones often wives even think they were dead while living with a brand new family else where.

It’s just you know about it now in the world of everyone being contactable 24/7. People can’t just ops lost contact lost my address book anymore. Sorry didn’t receive your letter and some never spoke again. But now with online you can find everyone to remind them hey I emailed you! I texted you!

I remember seeing this photo when the rift story first broke and it still blows my mind somewhat.

1: Who takes a toddler into the West End, presumably well past their bedtime to see Mamma Mia?

2: Why is there no car seat?

3: Why have they ensured that Brooklyn is right by the window where the paps have full access to take his photo?

4: Brooklyn's poor distressed expression 💔. And for what? So Brand Beckham could get themselves in the paper.

Waiting for photo approval.

I always wonder if DB was disappointed that Brooklyn couldn’t make it as a footballer and made that felt, but didn’t have the same expectations of the other boys because he’d dealt with it by then.

Correction, all this awareness of how we can walk away from dysfunction and toxicity is to be applauded.

Exactly. I’ve found that in general people who dismiss it are often pretty toxic and dysfunctional themselves and they hate that they’re made to face up to their own issues by people in their lives saying enough is enough.

That show Footballers Wives was based on brand Beckham and it just sums them up perfectly!

Look at this shitty stuff from V&D. They’re coming across as really nasty now.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15905313/Nicola-puppeteer-KATIE-HIND-Beckhams-fear-Brooklyns-wife-trolling-advert.html

‘How the Beckhams fear Brooklyn's wife is behind his trolling advert’

What kind of people blab this crap to their PR people to give to the MailOnline? It’s unhinged. Someone said it upthread: it’s a narcissistic unravelling.

I’m not even going to bother archiving it.

Have you seen the articles planted by the Beckhams in the mail today? 😱. They’ve got their attack dog the journalist Katie Hinds ripping Brooklyn to shreds for them. The comments are horrific, how can they do this to their own son? They don’t give a fuck about his mental health, it’s insane the hatred they are trying to throw his way.
How can the grandparents stand back and watch this?

Them going for his wife was the thing that really pushed him into the estrangement.

it’s like they really don’t understand he has his own mind because they only see their kids as maniputable props

Although I wonder if they have done it because they know that’s the one thing that would make him clap back and it’s obviously now harder to do that ‘because of the advert’

i hope he takes the high ground and just ignores