Catching up with the Beckhams
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It’s been rather quiet on the Beckham front lately after nonstop family drama earlier in the year. Now everyone seems to have retreated to their respective corners. David and Victoria Beckham were in New York last night for the Time 100 Gala.
The official Sir David and Lady Beckham posted before the gala, not exactly beating those “they post too much, that’s part of the problem” allegations.
I’ve been thinking about that a lot since everything went down earlier in the winter. In a way, Brooklyn Beckham is kind of like a social media/family vlogger kid, in that he was raised in the public eye and his family’s business is the Family Business, and really, his conflict with his parents isn’t so different from what we’ve seen from the children of social media stars and family vloggers who put their kids front and center from a young age, only for those kids to speak out against their exploitation as they grow up.
The biggest difference is, of course, that the Beckhams aren’t really family vloggers and there is the billionaire of it all in the form of Nicola Peltz’s family. But that only amps up the drama, right? It’s a kid who was famous from birth and seems to not want to be famous anymore multiplied by rich and powerful and divided by fame. The more I’ve thought about it, the more sympathy I have for Brooklyn. Maybe he just wants to be a house husband with a limp hot sauce brand.
He is, however, also still posting, too, promoting that hot sauce in cooking videos.
Speaking of basic, penne alla vodka is pretty basic, but it does look good in that video. Nothing wrong with cooking simple dishes well, but it goes to my theory that maybe Brooklyn really doesn’t want to stand out. Maybe he doesn’t want to be inventing bold new flavor profiles. Maybe he just wants to hold down the fort. Is that bad? In an ambitious family like the Beckhams, apparently, but for a rich kid who married even richer… maybe not. Not like he needs to work.
Another thing I’ve been thinking about re: Brooklyn is that so far, none of the grown Beckham kids are especially distinguished. Romeo attempted soccer, it wasn’t totally embarrassing but he is definitely not a chip off the old block. He’s doing better as a male model, frankly, walking for Versace and Burberry (he modeled for Burberry as a child, too). Other brother Cruz is nominally a musician. It’s not like any of them are crushing it. Do we expect more from Brooklyn because he’s the oldest? Or because between he and his wife, he has virtually unlimited resources with which to succeed? Again, maybe he just wants to be Mr. Nicola Peltz.
At a certain point you kind of have to let go of whatever happened at the wedding—and seems to be mostly Marc Anthony’s fault, anyway—because you can’t change it and if you dwell, it’s just going to eat you alive. But I wonder if the conflict is less about that event and more about the friction between ambitious parents and a lackadaisical son, compounded by that son feeling like he’s been made to perform for and in his own family. I wonder if the billionaire wife and her obvious fame-thirst and her family’s complicated relationship to politics and power is just muddying the waters, making a clearer hero/villain binary than really exists. I have no answers, only thoughts, and a sudden craving for pasta. Damn, maybe Brooklyn IS onto something.
Here are Sir D, Lady B, and Cruz out in New York yesterday.
Victoria and David Beckham leaving the Time 100 Gala in NYC, April 23, 2026
Cruz Beckham and Jackie Apostel in NYC, April 23, 2026
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