Brooklyn Beckham

It was Tolstoy who said that each unhappy family were unhappy in their own way. I don't know enough about them to comment knowledgeably, however both sides seem to use social media to put their side. It's an unfortunate side of fame, I suppose

I m not too sure why we have another thread on this as I really can’t see how it could be lighthearted

I ve always thought Victoria Beckhams has a mental health problem she seems to needs to be in control of everything , she obviously has an eating problem and is very very controlling over her intake of food, she always looks incredibly miserable, rarely smiling. David seems much more normal whatever that is

I ve no knowledge of who’s right and who’s wrong in this debacle but all of them seem to live totally by social media and everything down to the last fart is public knowledge
Now there is a totally broken family which is sad for everyone

Really? Can’t you see this young man was pushed into the spotlight his entire life ….his parents needed the family brand to work for THEM not for their children .I,m not a fan of Beckham or his wife and you can see from photographs through the years that any photo session VICTORIA has to be the centre of attention and her kids are just accessories.
The daughter is the same age as one of my Gra daughters and often dressed in gowns more suited to a 25 year old.
Their “perfect family” is all an act for their own benefit .
Hes better out of it for his own sanity

I couldn't care less what is drone does. he has failed at every career he has tried and lives off his parents and in-laws.

I simply do not understand why the sad family breakdown involving this nonenity should warrant even one line in the newspapers, let alone the ludicrous space it is getting at a time when the world is imploding and the power of life and death rests in the hands of mad men..

Brooklyn and his wife are too spoiled and too young, why get married when you haven’t even figured out what you want to do with your life?
Children playing at being grown ups.
They need to grow up and get a life that doesn’t depend upon others paying for it.

I wouldn’t like their money or their life for all the tea in China.
David has always seemed normal but the children have been in the spotlight most of their lives, the daughter particularly, she doesn’t seem to have had a childhood.
She is trotted out constantly wearing clothes suitable for a woman many years older and is being brought up in her mother’s image, sad really.
Their lives though and it doesn’t matter what we think.

Absolutely agree MOnica it's ludicrous the amount of media space and time given over to this self serving family.

They are not a family, they are a brand. It may have worked when people were more gullible but I hope we can now see these people for who they are.

Years ago at a creative writing class I was castigated for writing something honest about Victoria Beckham. I couldn't understand how people didn't see through it.

Now those same people are baying for blood.

We helped create them by making them the focus of our attention. What for?

I guess it takes our minds off the Orange kamakazi one for a few minutes

I am disgusted at the way the two camps are behaving, scoring points off each other through social media posts.
It is undignified.

I am also disgusted at the press for printing such tripe.

I don’t read the articles as I don’t give a tinkers toss about the family, seeing the headlines is enough.

I will just add for all their money the Beckham boys are incredibly poorly turned out, they always look scruffy and unhealthy, the dreadful tattoos don’t help.

I thought all bases had been covered in the other thread. My husband, like many I imagine, when scanning the news online the last couple of days has been prone to sweary words of "not another bloody article about the Beckhams it's not news!" he's probably right, they're just a family playing out a very public rift, situations that affect umpteen families throughout the land and every other land, but it's even in the serious newspapers! I thought some of Marina Hyde's thoughts on the matter were quite salient. Here's her take and as a journalist she's probably better informed than the rest of us.

"Brooklyn Beckham has been commodified since he was a foetus. The story of Victoria's pregnancy was sold by his parents. When he was born, David and Victoria sold the first pictures of him. They sold intimate looks around their home and nursery. They sold their wedding, staying up till 3am on the night of the big day, deciding which pictures would be featured in OK magazine. They sold everything - mostly back then to OK! It's proprietor Richard Desmond wrote in his autobiography about spending what he felt like every Friday evening at Victoria's parent's house where they would plot and plan the next feature, a huge cheque was always involved and the Beckhams wanted the limelight all of it! so much"

But as time went on, David and Victoria acquired more sophisticated advisers who understood the rapidly morphing potential of controlling image and brand, and built a vast and diversified empire for them off the back of it. When social media came along the Beckhams channelled their business through its pipes" She states as she's written before "they were past masters at not simply just turning to their children and telling them they loved them, but photographing them, tagging them and sending the message of love via social media. Alchemically lucrative but an accident waiting to happen"

"I honestly think the Beckhams are now so lost to this commercialised version of family life that they probably long ago lost the ability to comprehend how weird and potentially corrosive it is"

I imagine much of that is what Brooklyn in his words expressed about "The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships"

As everybody concludes, as in most family dynamics there are always two sides

That's Marina Hyde of the Guardian no less.

Also agree probably a diversion from the increasingly unwieldy Orange Peril

BlueBelle

I guess it takes our minds off the Orange kamakazi one for a few minutes

Funniest line ever🤣

I don’t think is overkill to start a thread just about the Beckhams when the other thread was more generally about celebrity estrangements.
This may not be as important as other burning political issues but is still worth discussing.

Brooklyn is being driven by his wife just like Harry!

Judging from a video posted yesterday ( yes I watched it)
there is certainly no love lost between MiL and DiL, it was cringing to watch. VB certainly wanted to be the dominant player.

I don’t agree ‘Lemsip’ I think Brooklyn is the product of the press and given away as a baby to be used, praised, adored and abused, in every way possible, and they as a family will reap what they sowed!
No one to blame but themselves, let’s hope Brooklyn and whatever her name is, morph into the background and get on with their lives without any more press intervention. Just as I wish that for Harry and Megan. If he’s sensible he will let it all die down and stay away completely from the media, however it’s all he’s ever known so I doubt that will happen and the very public war will probably go on and on.

lemsip

Brooklyn is being driven by his wife just like Harry!

Well that didn’t take long. 🙄

I think sons tend to take the line of least resistance when they marry and if their wife doesn’t get along with the MiL they tend to just agree with the wife. Not all am sure but enough for me to see this pattern when on this site or talking to friends. Daughters I believe would try to mend bridges if the husband didn’t get along with the in laws or at least would arrange to see the parents without the husband being there.
I could be totally off beam with this but so many cases I have heard of tend to follow this formula.

Why do some people always blame the wives?
Havea good look at the parents of both Harry and Brooklyn Beckham….pushing any child in the direction you think he should take is wrong.
Support them on what they WANT to do don’t line up “careers” in things they have no interest in and let them choose who they want to spend their life with without criticising and causing friction .
I,ve watched children I know be pushed into university they didn,t want and end up after a year in a mental health crisis
Then they left unimoved thousands of miles away and are loving the life they chose .
Don’t we all just want our children to be happy and fulfilled?

So far we have Harry and Meghan, Adam Peaty and Gordon Ramsay’s daughter and now Brooklyn Beckham and whatsername.

I wonder who will be next? Making a cottage industry out of gripes against your family is the way to go and a nice little earner.

merlotgran

So far we have Harry and Meghan, Adam Peaty and Gordon Ramsay’s daughter and now Brooklyn Beckham and whatsername.

I wonder who will be next? Making a cottage industry out of gripes against your family is the way to go and a nice little earner.

When you have little talent for anything else, perhaps?

Oh, sorry, Adam Peaty, you are talented and, of course, got where you were as well with the dedication of your mother when you were young.

It’s made me think about Charles and Dianna. Both emotionally failed on many levels by their parents. She benefitted from good therapy. I don’t recall either of them blaming their parents for the psychological and emotional difficulties in their adult lives

I’m not saying childhood experiences don’t influence us, I’m saying as we move through adolescence into adult life, part of growing up is realising that this is the first time mum and dad did this - they’re doing their best

Iam64

It’s made me think about Charles and Dianna. Both emotionally failed on many levels by their parents. She benefitted from good therapy. I don’t recall either of them blaming their parents for the psychological and emotional difficulties in their adult lives

I’m not saying childhood experiences don’t influence us, I’m saying as we move through adolescence into adult life, part of growing up is realising that this is the first time mum and dad did this - they’re doing their best

This is very true. Looking back at my own dear parents, both now departed and much missed, I can recall things they said or did that would not go down well today, but they gave me a warm caring home, an education, and loved me as best they could.
We are not born parents, for most we learn as we go along and is a hellishly steep learning curve.