Throughout the year, we’ve watched as Brooklyn Beckham became fully estranged from his parents and siblings. The whole thing has been bizarre, and it’s been wild to see how much of it has played out publicly. Brooklyn is a 26-year-old man, and he’s been married to Nicola Peltz for three years. They renewed their vows this summer because they wanted to redo everything since Victoria Beckham reportedly ruined their 2022 wedding. Brooklyn didn’t invite anyone from his family to this year’s vow renewal, and he’s reportedly gone no-contact with his parents and siblings. This has caused “Beckham sources” to openly theorize that Brooklyn is Nicola’s “brainwashed hostage,” and there’s significant irritation in the Beckham camp that Brooklyn won’t simply divorce his wife and come crawling back to them. Last week, Brooklyn and Nicola also skipped David Beckham’s knighthood investiture, and they didn’t even post any congratulations online. So what will end this Cold War stalemate? Well, the Mail’s Alison Boshoff has an exclusive about what Brooklyn and Nicola want: a public apology.
What would it take, one wonders, to reunite the Beckham family? The answer, as I can exclusively reveal, having spoken to sources close to Brooklyn and Nicola, is truly staggering. They would settle for nothing less than a substantive and public apology from his parents, Victoria and David. The root of their issues with the Beckhams is the way Nicola believes she was treated, which they characterise as a ‘one-sided media war’.
A source says: ‘Things got really so bad. There is nothing which Brooklyn or Nicola did that would have deserved this treatment. It is hard to understand the intensity and the escalation [of the media stories]. It seems that they thought they could heap abuse on Nicola without any consequence. They did not let up. There was a public trashing which kept on going. Someone should have told them to stop because it was not in their best interest to do this to their own son, but nobody did. It matters what was written. It seemed as if things were being said without any regard being paid to the impact on Brooklyn. He is loyal to his wife.’
The source adds: ‘There is an obvious first step which would be a public acknowledgement [by David and Victoria] of what they did, and an apology. It cannot be a performative thing. There is no realistic chance of a reconciliation without that happening first.’
In May and June this year it was reported that the Beckhams felt that they had ‘lost’ their son to Nicola. It was said that they referred to him as ‘the hostage’ and felt she was ‘controlling’ him. Naturally that was hurtful to their smitten son Brooklyn, who came to believe the deluge of negativity was authorised, directly or indirectly, by David and Victoria themselves. It can be revealed that the Peltz-Beckhams actually blame one of David and Victoria’s closest aides for allegedly briefing the media with ‘anti-Brooklyn’ and ‘anti-Nicola’ nuggets throughout this year.
A source said: ‘There was a steady stream of stories intended to demonise and upset them, much of it untrue or out of context. The attacks on Nicola in particular and her wider family appeared to be constant.’
But what is the reason for that dislike of Nicola and the Peltz family? One source said: ‘Nicola is very pretty, very feminine, very refined and very accomplished. She has a real career of her own which Brooklyn respects. Also her family have more money than the Beckhams. It is an unfortunate mix.’
The “hostage” stories were particularly unhinged, and if those stories were in any way authorized by Victoria and David, I agree that Brooklyn and Nicola deserve a public apology. The apology needs to be as loud as the disrespect. But it goes to the larger questions I’ve had about this rift at the heart of the Beckham family: did David and Victoria really believe that their campaign would somehow convince Brooklyn to leave Nicola? Did they really think “unleashing the British tabloids on their son and his wife” was going to do anything other than cause pain and misery, and push Brooklyn even further away?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Victoria Beckham’s Instagram and Nicola Peltz’s Instagram.
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- Cruz Beckham, Jackie Apostel, Romeo Beckham, Harper Beckham, Victoria Beckham and David Beckham attends “Victoria Beckham” World Premiere at the Curzon Mayfair in London, England. UK. Wednesday 8th October 2025,Image: 1044313180, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NORESTRICTIONS, Model Release: no, Pictured: Victoria Beckham – World Premiere, Credit line: James Warren/Bang Showbiz/Avalon
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- Sir David Beckham and Lady Victoria Beckham poses for,Image: 1050263647, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng/Avalon
Beckham never looked happier wearing that long awaited medal and being sir beckham
It’s Sir David not Sir Beckham. Victoria gets to use Lady Beckham, though.
English titles are weird.
No how is expressed his dreams have finally come true
Look. Even if they didn’t start a media campaign against him- they never released anything defending him or his wife or asking for the stories to stop. And it’s been intense and awful
Who is this source saying that the root of dislike is bc Nicola is very pretty? LOL. She is v pretty. So is Victoria. So are the men in this family. They’re all very very pretty. I can’t imagine that is the root of the dislike bc that sounds silly. Money maybe only in that Brooklyn and Nicola are financially independent from his parents which can change things. Either way, a son being called a hostage to his wife is gross and I wish the Beckhams had spoken out against that misogynistic reporting. As of now, it does seem like Brooklyn and nicola think it came from them.
So the Beckhams hate the Beckhams because Nicola is “very pretty, very feminine, very refined and very accomplished.” And because Nicola’s family has more money than David Beckham’s family? This statement is tacky as hell. Neither Beckham family has clean hands. And this feud makes no one look good. Just stop.
Well if Chuckles had just treated them kindly and not gone to the press…… Oops! If the Beckhams had not gone to the press with so many nasty stories and handled it like adults and sat down with Brooklyn and Nicola and discussed whatever was the problem we wouldn’t be here hashing it out in the press.
Except that the only problem is Nicola Peltz’s insatiable thirst for attention. Posh & Becks have zero motive for pushing a familial squabble into the public eye, especially after they risked ridicule supporting their son’s multiple failed attempts to leverage the family name into a media career.
@Malenia, Excactly !!!!!
wait…didn’t this start because Brooklyn didn’t want to be around his ex-girlfriend that was dating his brother or something? Suddenly it’s the parents that were heaping abuse on Nicola, whose saintly reputation precedes her…
A public apology is just never going to happen. Maybe a private rapprochement, and some insta posts where they’re all together and smiling, but if the Beckhams do an apology post or w/e then pigs will be flying.
I hate to say it, but is this a Gen Z thing? Public apologies?
I don’t think it’s a GenZ thing. If you publicly trash your child, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the child demand that you undo it publicly as well.
Oh come on, the Beckhams relentlessly pimped out their own children including being the ones to organise and initiate those career opportunities when Brooklyn was literally still a minor, so they could exploit him to get more fame and media attention for the family.
I seriously doubt Brooklyn while still a minor was the one going out chasing major photography deals, or applying to elite art schools that he clearly didn’t want to attend. Just pushy pushy pushy parents who’ll do anything for a headline good or bad.
Where are they in the top photo? A closet with a bed and a bad paint job??
I was thinking hotel room. Which, come to think of it, could be the same thing. 😉
the root of dislike is bc Nicola is very pretty? Are they serious? Lmao ! (Not saying she isn’t but that’s ridiculous) Sorry, but this makes everything that comes from the Peltz Camp unbelievable.
I think Nicola is the problem. She seems very insecure and threatened by him being close to his family. I imagine Victoria could have caused some problems too being called out to dance first at the wedding etc but this all seems to have started with the wedding. I think there is some kind of power play over Brooklyn and “who loves you more” stuff going on which is sad. As for the tabloid stories, I don’t think the British press is very easy to control. It seems to be an animal of it’s own, which Victoria and David know very well. Sometimes the less said the better to get you to drop out of the limelight. David was at one point the most hated man in England and Victoria has always gotten a bad rap for everything from not smiling enough to being too thin to staying with David after the supposed cheating with Rebecca Loos to now this.. Maybe they just thought loving him and giving them space would be enough to calm this down? I don’t know but I don’t think Nicola is the innocent party here. She seems like Daddy’s little princess who is not used to having to share..
Excactly! The British media wrote every 2 months, for 2 decades, how the beckhams are going to divorce, for sure! Backed by allegedly very credible sources LOL . 27 years later, they are still together. I don’t believe for a second, that the beckhams would use the same awful media, who wrote relentlessly negative about them for more than 2 decades, to use it against their firstborn. No mother would do this. Think what you want but they love their children.
Pretty (check), rich (check, thanks Dad), refined (um?), very accomplished (huge stretch).
We have no idea what went on between them but most of the stories sound like they’re coming from team Peltz. I don’t think Victoria ruined her wedding because it didn’t sound like she was really involved in the organization in the first place.
I think they threw their son under the bus so the press wouldn’t bring up David’s affair, his tax dodging and his taking money from the middle east while claiming to support gay rights. They want positive press about his knighthood.
They forced the children while still very young to participate in a fake happy families pr stunt the day David’s cheating was exposed, which imo is really emotionally abusive.
The press has been writing about them for almost three decades — there was zero reason for them to sacrifice any of their children. They weathered the cheating story, they weathered the divorce stories and they weathered all of the ED stories. They gained nothing from this year of back and forth.
This story bums me out. It is all so misogynistic. Can we have a moratorium on the Daily Mail for a while?
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I do believe that the Beckhams made a deal with the tabloids to attack Nicola. I just don’t like that the DM is writing this story as if they weren’t involved in this smear campaign.
It feels like a connect the dots template that they were given permission to use. And that permission happened with the first story that was never shut down.
Back in the day, before H&M, I probably would have sided with the parents (I’m older too) . But now I have a different perspective, especially after seeing what H&M went through, and my own daughter’s experience not being warmly welcomed by her in-laws. Now the side that leaks the most, is the side I’m most suspicious about. Also, liking their son’s posts on Instagram, but not his posts including his wife, is just juvenile behaviour. How is that loving & accepting? There’s probably plenty more we don’t know about. This is not about Nicole being “insecure”. My son in law had to stand up for my daughter, after his family’s condescending remarks went too far.
*Tin-foil tiara theory*. At one point David and Victoria did insinuate/say something to the press but since then the press has been churning out its own narrative and propaganda about this situation, with little to no leaks from House Beckham. As we all have witnessed over the decades, the British press is a well oiled machine, able to crank out lie after lie, half-truth after half-truth in order to manipulate its readers and influence them in any way they wish. It’s as if the British press is the neck, the British public the head and as we know the neck can turn the head anyway it wants.
Everything in this is written like something that could come from a comment section so I can believe that. Truly the source can just be another DM journalist. The whole thing has been written like the Sussex storyline and that’s bc the tabloids journos already have the template. The time to shut it down would have been at the beginning when Brooklyn was being called a brainwashed hostage. But it wasn’t shutdown and so now the tabloid writers can just pick it up again whenever.
Can I say both sides here seem delusional? What exactly has Nicola “accomplished” that isn’t down to her being a nepo baby of a terrifying fascist billionaire?
I don’t believe these stories. Neither David nor Victoria strike me as cruel. I do believe that Nicola felt judged and looked down upon because I think British rich behave very differently from American rich. I think this was how she perceived things, but I don’t think Victoria and David would intentionally act in a way that made her feel that way. What I think they failed to do is validate her feelings. Given their upbringing, I think they probably told her to get over it and toughen up. I hope they reconcile.
Agreed. I don’t see this as some campaign that the Beckhams have against their child and his bride. This to me looks like Nicola acting like a spoiled brat.
I mean, this passaged: “Nicola is very pretty, very feminine, very refined and very accomplished. She has a real career of her own which Brooklyn respects. Also her family have more money than the Beckhams. It is an unfortunate mix.” It made me literally laugh out loud at my desk.
So clearly written or suggested by Nicola and so…delusional. Does she really think that the Beckhams resent her because she is “very accomplished”?! Lordy. The self-importance is strong in that one.
This is utterly made up fanfiction. The mail doesn’t have sources. They write it so people believe it and say, of course this came from her because she’s so awful. This is rinse /repeat of the Sussexes.
I do believe the Beckhams senior would leak. David had to get that medal somehow. Deals done.
David Beckham is also currently involved in a very messy lawsuit with a member of his own family, who is accusing him of human rights violations and of inflicting emotional harm on and exploiting a young child.
This is a convenient distraction.
Since it’s a family member, I’m going to assume that the alleged venue is someplace in the UK. In the UK, you can only sue a public authority for human rights violations. Therefore, I don’t believe this, especially since there are actual costs consequences for frivolous lawsuits in the UK.
Peltz is a textbook example of a grandiose narcissist, and Brooklyn is an ideal prey. Not very smart, without personal accomplishments, under pressure from an accomplished dad, and therefore easy to manipulate. It’s very obvious. Plus, add to the fact that he is a spoiled billionaire brat, and you have a deadly combo.
I am not a Beckham fan in any shape or form, nor am I defending them because I am sure they weren’t happy with this marriage, and I am sure tensions were high, but I don’t think they are the source of toxicity here.
People like to compare these two to Harry and Meghan, but this is a vastly different situation.
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Whatever one thinks her to be, it still doesn’t mean she is brainwashing her husband and taking him hostage. That’s where this all started. And it was gross. I don’t know her and I’m not here to defend everything about her but that was a gross narrative put out by the Sun.
Or could it be a child who was raised alongside his parents. He was there during the chaotic times from the beginning. Maybe Victoria saw him as her emotional human. They probably became equally overprotective and stunted his growth. He in turns has to break away from the smothering. He meets a girl who’s fearless, powerfully rich and not afraid of his parents. She saves him, he saves her from her probably overbearing parents as well.
Love wins
This could be about Harry and Meghan…his family has trashed her for years…would they apologize publicly? No. But they will knight the man who allegedly orchestrated or participated in the trashing of his son’s wife. Hmmm
On a side note, I was very impressed with Victoria’s documentary. I was very surprised to learn she was a theater kid who struggled with her appearance. Also, it was fascinating to watch her break into the luxury fashion industry, even if it hasn’t been completely successful.
But yes, very misguided parenting.
I have seen the daughter-in-law/mother-in-law rivalry play out too many times in my actual life. Both sides are awful. Mothers of sons seem to especially relish blaming the DIL for any changes her son goes through, while the DIL love separating their husbands from their families of origin.
As always, the press is the problem. Portraying a successful woman as a demon and a kind man who loves and defends his wife as a hostage is exactly the attitude the press takes towards HuM. Add a large dose of narcissistic parents, and you have a storm of outrage and clicks. Children should never demand an apology from their parents for their repugnant behaviour, should they? In the right-wing press, those in power, the parents and the king or the right-wing president are always right. Free people are always wrong.
I don’t know what the Beckham’s feel personally, but unless it is a direct quote, I won’t believe any trashing came from them. Not because they are perfect people, but I think they have historically and consistently shown a great deal of love for their children, and I don’t believe they would willingly harm or hurt them. And an attack on the wife would harm Brooklyn. They are very careful what they do. They had a documentary come out FFS, and did not avail themselves of the opportunity to engage. The statement that seems to have come from Brooklyn and his wife, went through the media rather than directly to his parents, and regardless of the outcome, has served a purpose, which is to get their opinion or side out there. I think it is pathological. I think if you ask a spouse to choose you instead of trying to fix things up with his parents (if possible) because you love your spouse (unless they’re crazy) you don’t really love your spouse. You love yourself. I don’t think Nicola has ever been told no. Or had to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune. But she is “pretty, accomplished, feminine……” That is what Nicola is used to hearing, and what she wanted to hear. I think having a redo on a marriage and deliberately not inviting the Beckhams, while posting lots of pictures was enormously hurtful and unmindful of the hurt. I’m amazed by it. And Mark Anthony reportedly stupidly praised Victoria and called her up to dance with her son. His mistake, his faux pax. Why not invite him over and roast him over a spit? If that is what ruined the wedding, why is he not vilified? What is the truth behind Nicola not wearing Victoria Beckham for her wedding? If one wants to start blaming, there’s plenty to go around.
There are a lot of comments almost the same as this. Interesting. The Beckhams have a social media strategy, that’s for sure.
Convenient that most of their demands center around something that would give everyone an attention boost and keep them in the news cycle. FWIW, I’m of the opinion that public apologies only make sense for corporate or political action where the public at large was harmed. This kind of family drama? You solve it at home behind the scenes. I don’t know who the villain is here, if there is one, but I can tell you who is actually benefitting substantially more from headlines.