Brooklyn Beckham accuses David and Victoria of putting branding before
family and sabotaging wedding
[January 21, 2026]
By ANDREW DALTON
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Beckham family falling-out has spilled further into
public view in a series of social media posts from Brooklyn Beckham
alleging that his parents David and Victoria Beckham have tried to
sabotage his marriage and have always prioritized public branding over
their family relationships.
“For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press
about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and
inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born
into,” Brooklyn Beckham wrote in several pages of text posted via
Instagram stories.
At 26, he's the eldest of the four children of the retired English
soccer superstar and former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer and has
worked as a model and photographer, even aspiring to be a chef. He
married American actor Nicola Peltz, daughter of activist investor
Nelson Peltz, in 2022.
“Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they’ll go
through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of
innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth
always comes out,” the posts said.
The posts make public a barely veiled feud that had been brewing in
anonymously sourced stories in tabloids for months. Younger brother Cruz
Beckham said on Instagram in December that Brooklyn had blocked family
members on social media.
“I do not want to reconcile with my family.” Brooklyn Beckham wrote.
“I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time
in my life.”
Unlike his three younger siblings, Brooklyn Beckham did not appear in
his mother's recent Netflix docuseries, “Victoria Beckham,” and did not
show up at the October premiere as he and Peltz had for the London
premiere in 2023 of the one centered on his father, called just
“Beckham."
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David Beckham, from left, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and
Nicola Peltz appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries
"Beckham" in London on Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer,
File)
 Many of the grievances described in
the Instagram stories stem from the Peltz-Beckham wedding in
Florida. He accused his mother of bailing at the last minute on
designing Peltz's wedding dress, and said she “hijacked” the first
dance he was supposed to have with his wife to music performed by
Marc Anthony.
“She danced very inappropriately on me in front of
everyone,” Brooklyn Beckham wrote. “I’ve never felt more
uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.”
Without giving specifics he also wrote that before the wedding his
parents “repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing
away the rights to my name.”
David and Victoria Beckham did not have an immediate public response
to the posts, and messages to representatives from The Associated
Press were not immediately answered.
In a Tuesday appearance on CNBC, David Beckham, who is at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, did not directly address his
son's statements, but said that children make mistakes on social
media and should be allowed to.
“That’s what I try to teach my kids. But you know, you have to
sometimes let them make those mistakes as well,” he said.
Married since 1999, David and Victoria Beckham have three other
children, 23-year-old Romeo, 20-year-old Cruz and 14-year-old
Harper.
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