At the end of 2025, David Beckham posted an Instagram carousel of his highlights of the year, including his knighthood investiture and Inter Miami winning the MLS championship (David is part owner of Inter Miami). He had family photos interspersed in the collection, and he included one photo of himself and Brooklyn. I don’t know when the photo was taken, but I suspect it was not taken in 2025. In the past year, Brooklyn grew estranged from his parents, especially around David’s 50th birthday last May. In the past six months or so, the estrangement has become a lot worse. Reportedly, Brooklyn has gone no-contact with his parents and he’s blocked them on social media. Both sides are briefing the tabloids about the situation. Brooklyn spent the holidays with his wife Nicola and the Peltz family, and they renewed their vows several months ago and didn’t invite anyone from Brooklyn’s family. So… the Daily Mirror had a big update from David’s side. Some highlights:
David posting a photo of Brooklyn on NYE: David’s choice of photo harks back to a relationship now lost. Those close to the family say relations between Brooklyn and his parents are now “non-existent”. And if David had hoped the photo to be an olive branch to Brooklyn, ultimately it was a futile gesture. It’s unclear if Brooklyn will even see the snap given he has blocked his father, mum Victoria and brothers Cruz and Romeo from his social media accounts.But friends of the Beckhams say David and Victoria will “never give up” hope of reconciliation. The New Year message, described by one source as David’s “boldest olive branch yet”, marked David setting “for the record his love for his son.”
A lingering sadness: One source said: “David and Victoria will never give up trying to secure a reconciliation between them and their son. Nothing will change that, and they live in hope. He will always be their son, and they are not going to stop putting on record their feelings.” Heartbreakingly, David also put together a montage of events of the last year, which didn’t feature Brooklyn, as his eldest son shunned the family. A source added: “David has enjoyed an incredible year work-wise with his success in the States with his football team, and his knighthood. But this is a lingering sadness for him, and has undoubtedly overshadowed things. It’s all very upsetting.”
Brooklyn still talks to his grandparents: For Brooklyn, insiders in his camp point to the fact that there are still “communication lines” between him and his grandparents, on both sides. A source said: “While things between him and his parents are over…..Brooklyn is still very fond of his grandparents.” While blocking his parents and brothers, some point to the fact that Brooklyn still follows his grandparents on Instagram. The source added: “There is a lot of love for them, and that has never faltered.”
Brooklyn dislikes his parents’ social media posts: Friends say that the Beckhams are “not expecting the situation to change” going into 2026 but will always remain hopeful. However there is still a deep unease about Nicola’s friends saying how his new wife helped Brooklyn “see the emotional abuse and toxic behaviour within his family”. It was described as “deeply unpleasant and patently untrue” by the Beckham’s friends at the time. A source said: “That was a low blow but they will always be there for their son.” For Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz, they have historically found David and Victoria’s postings to be grating. Brooklyn in particular feels triggered by the outpourings of affection. One insider has even previously labelled their posts “performative.” It’s not known what they think of David’s New Year’s Eve post, if in fact they have even seen it.
Bad blood: Nicola’s side are still upset at being painted as controlling, as well as being responsible for Brooklyn isolating himself from his own family. “It’s classic misogyny – blame the woman. In fact Brooklyn is quite capable of making his own mind up and this is very much led by him,” said a source. They added: “She is not isolating him at all. He is free to do what he wants and he loves his wife and they are happy together. They are each other’s family.”
I’m a broken record at this point but I genuinely have no idea what David and Victoria are doing here. Even if they don’t like Nicola, even if they think the Peltz-Beckham marriage will end in tears, they seem more interested in dictating the narrative rather than their eldest son’s well-being and even his own desires and needs. They give the impression that they’re still trying to control Brooklyn, or that it’s their way or nothing. I’d also suggest that David and Victoria take all of this offline and out of the tabloids – it IS performative, and Brooklyn has every right to feel that way. Stop posting Brooklyn, stop referencing him, and deal with this situation privately, with zero leaks.
Photos courtesy of David Beckham’s Instagram, Nicola Peltz’s Instagram, Avalon Red.
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So more using your son to get in the news.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Well like Chuckles all he has to do is pick up the phone and call his son. It’s as simple as that first move. Stop feeding the press and be a parent!
All that money, and they still look so basic.
Like the Windsors, the Beckhams used the media to address their issues publicly to manage their brand. This is putting it mildly where the Windsors are concerned because there is an institutional aspect not being highlighted in this analysis because the focus for this analysis is only on the members of the family. The media has now become obsessed with the Beckham saga like the are with the Windsor saga. They’ve linked the two quite neatly and as such every action or lack of action will become a narrative in the media for clicks and this will apply to the entire Beckham brood for the rest of their lives. Another British /American transatlantic ‘family drama’. The train has left the station. The toothpaste is out of the tube. 😔
That carousel did not include Brooklyn and the comments were asking why,he then added him to his story.
I dunno,,,, I’m seeing this differently. Having lived through a similar situation in my own family, I see Nicola’s handprints all over this. My family is very close, always has been. My brother, esp, had a very close relationship with our mom. Enter GF that he ended up marrying: before the wedding, she was always trying to manipulate him, inserting herself, making him do what she wanted, even if he really didn’t want to. Fair to say though, my brother is a piece of milquetoast, and bowed to the “power of the p***y”, so to speak. He’d do whatever she told him to do, and she did her best to try and separate him from us. My mom, sadly, died a little more than year after the wedding, and then my SIL went into overdrive, accomplishing the separation w/in two years. by starting up issues between my dad and them, and me and them. TLDR: I haven’t talked to my brother in about 40 yrs.
This happens in a lot of families. One spouse or the other feels threatened by the other’s closeness to their family. In my case, It wasn’t *just* her doing, not just blaming her, my brother’s spinelessness played his part, but there is no doubt who wrote to playbook.
I agree. In fact I first read about her treatment of staff and bratty behavior here, before they got married. Google has a plethora of stories about her. She pushed a nanny down the stairs for one.
Victoria and David seems to be manipulative, sorry but I’m not buying the perfect family that they’re trying to paint.
I think they’re a very tight family but obviously Brooklyn feels that is a bit claustrophobic
It’s difficult with SM. There’s a story if he doesn’t post Brooklyn and there’s a story it he does. But I’d say at this point, Brooklyn wouldn’t care if he’s not posted in the carousel. Iirc, it goes back to that Sun article in which sources referred to Brooklyn as a hostage to his American wife. It should have been shut down there imo. But it wasn’t and then sources hit back about the Beckhams being toxic. And so here we are. It’s hard bc once the tabs are involved they’re not going to just stop writing about it. But SM posts and tabloid articles aren’t doing anything beyond brand management.
Never mind comparing WanKs marriage to the Beckhams, this is from the Charles playbook just done in the first person rather than from ‘royal sources’.
Nothing says I want to heal the rift with my son like talking to the Daily Mirror about said rift.
Sorry, but I don’t see the Beckhams being at fault here. “Sources” are quoted by the Daily Mirror and other tabloids–do we really believe that the tabloids are telling the truth, and not simply making up their “sources”? Why do we instantly assume that the Beckhams are leaking to the tabloids? And what do we do with the story mentioned above (from where?) that Nicola’s friends had posted that she had helped Brooklyn understand how toxic his parents are? A lot of questions here.
Cruz called Nicola the “C” word but then deleted the post. As I mentioned, my husband’s best friend was the Peltz’s nanny (one of them) for 6 years. Nicola is confident, bratty, yes, but not a terrible person. My friend went to the wedding and he said Victoria made it ALL about her and some shady stuff went down. I never liked Victoria. She seems really vapid and annoying and not beyond jealousy
Adam Peaty’s mum posted on Instagram: ‘I won’t end this year pretending everything was fine. I lost a piece of myself this year that I will never get back and I’m not forcing a smile like it didn’t change me.
‘So no… I won’t be saying “2026 is going to be my year.” I’ll be praying that I recover next year, that my heart never has to break like this again, that I never have to survive something like this again.
‘I’ll be praying for peace… real peace., the kind that let’s me breathe without fighting for it. I deserve a year that doesn’t hurt.’
This was picked up widely in the press following her recent interview to the Fail on the actual wedding day. Unlike the Ramsey and Beckham’s this angry parent does not have PR or spokesman. However anybody with common sense knows that a parent lambasting a well-known off spring online and then given histrionic interviews to the Daily Fail will only inflame and prevent reconciliation. The tabs yum up messy celebrity family rows. They are not therapists interested in fixing the relationship and healing the breach. Talk in private and keep it off social media and don’t talk about it to the tabs if reconciliation is what is desired.
I’m sure the tabs paid Mrs. Peaty well for that. I’m on her side and frankly it would be easy for me to say “Don’t take the money.”
I agree with everything that Kaiser has said here. I mean the fact that the tabloids are feasting on this story should have been a signal to David that he shouldn’t post about his love for Brooklyn online. It is performative and a bit attention-seeking as well.
Totally agree! How hard would it be to pick up the phone and call your son directly? Call a truce, arrange to meet and have a face-to-face conversation to clear the air! Someone has to start the ball rolling toward reconciliation by getting off their high horse and just picking up the phone. The general public doesn’t need to know about this at all and yet, this situation being in the public sphere makes both parties look, not only incredibly thirsty but also, really dumb and manipulative IMO. Surely, someone in this situation can act like an actual adult, no?
I don’t think a parent’s love can be “performative”. I don’t doubt that David loves his son.
Nope. This is the wife’s fault. She sounds awful. This will end badly.
Nah — as much as this writer keeps trying to pin this on Beckham’s, I’m not buying it.
That entire last paragraph under “bad blood” is straight from the young couple.
Man posts reel of the year, included is a picture of his son — sources speak. This is all tabloid BS — pretending that celebrities have the ability to stop the tabloids from making up crap is disingenuous.
Not really
I will say not really good at all
David Beckham is trying to emulate Charles. Show performative affection, while briefing against his son. This won’t end well.
Obviously none of us know the true story about what’s really going on. But for me, the person who seems to be the issue is Brooklyn. You come from a “close” family, perhaps your family and wife didn’t get along for specific reasons, sit them both down and figure your shit out. All this seems like petty stuff so be the grown up and resolve everything so that your family and wife can learn to co exist. I know people like Brooklyn and their inability to be their own person and put boundaries up so that his family and wife realize they are both important to him and just need to respect each other and co-exist is the reason these conflicts just get exasperated.
The harder they push, the harder he will push back. Anyone who has had a teenager fall in love with someone the parent doesn’t like knows this. Unless Nicola does something really awful, the Beckhams will always look like they are trying to control their married son and bully their daughter in law. They need to just back off and he will likely come to them when he feels it is emotionally safe to do so.
Beckham should stop talking to the media about his son brooklyn. It just makes things worse
Emotionally immature parents are f-ing exhausting.
I imagine there’s fault on both sides. BUT if not for his parents, where would Brooklyn be? He doesn’t have much talent or drive and isn’t that bright He is a very nice, mannered young man, though, but without a lot of the charisma that his parents possess.
He wanted to be a photographer. His parents sent him to Parsons School of Design in NYC and he dropped out because he was homesick and said he was going to be mentored by some famous photographer. Then he has a photography book. Of course, his parents got that done. That project was mocked.
All of a sudden he decides he likes cooking. Does he go to culinary school to learn the craft? No. Of course not. He becomes some kind of cooking content influencer. The guy can barely cook.. LOL Then he says doing hot sauces came to him, a high-end hot sauce. His design looks more like a Bubble Bath label. How do we think he got the investors for that and connected to Whole Foods? The Beckham name. And what do his parents do for him? He certainly didn’t get on The Today Show on his own to promote it. Eva Longoria did a TikTok with him promoting his hot sauce because of Victoria. He got an interview with Bon Appétit on the arrival of his hot sauce brand. I’m not kidding. On and on. His parents were facilitating every aspect of this.
Her parents have more money than the Beckhams. BUT he is nowhere without his Beckham name and his parents making every opportunity happen for him. I’m not saying the Beckhams are blameless for the issues, and are probably overly involved at times, but I think there’s a lot more issues coming from her side. In her interviews, she brings up her mother a lot. They bought an $11 million home in California. It was stated her parents were upset the Beckhams didn’t contribute. Why should they? That’s crazy. Those two can’t afford that kind of home in their 20s. Clearly, her parents were involved in the down payment on that. A year later they put it up for sale and moved to Miami to be close to her parents.
When his career is hugely failing and he needs his parents’ backing or help or associated fame again, he will reunite with them.
As someone that has lived in 9 countries on multiple continents, I will say this: the whole no-contact-with-family thing is very, very North American. While people fight with family all around the globe, this intense focus on blocking people and going no contact is confusing to those of us that were raised elsewhere. I genuinely think that the Beckhams are confused by their son’s actions. I think they expected the family fight to resolve itself. I think that’s why they are flailing. They don’t realize that they have to reflect, acknowledge, discuss, etc. just my opinion, so don’t come at me please.
I hope it resolves. I hope he does not turn out to be someone that deeply, deeply regrets the mistakes he made with his parents after they are gone.