DAN WOOTTON: The Beckhams are having their ‘happy family’ veneer publicly smashed

Nicola Peltz Beckham knows exactly what she’s doing.

In another passive-aggressive media intervention this weekend, Brooklyn Beckham’s new wife — the American socialite and actress with the billionaire father — kept dragging her in-laws and crushing the perfect Instagram “happy family” veneer concocted by David and Victoria for commercial gain. many years.

In fact, she told The Sunday Times time and again that “no family is perfect” in reference to the feud that has even led to speculation that Brooklyn is looking for “Becks-xit” from his famous clan.

There’s a delightful irony in Posh and Becks losing control of their highly groomed image, all thanks to their ungrateful eldest allowing his wife to disrespect the parents who literally gave him everything.

Yes, we see their billion dollar brand teased by a celebrity monster they all made themselves: their son.

The root of this celebrity family feud is about as elusive as you’ll ever get amid a cost of living crisis, with the first bursting when Victoria refused to make Nicola a designer wedding dress but abandoned her. daughter-in-law to wear a Valentino Couture dress.

I know, I know – oh, the horror, the humiliation!

But American billionaire heirs — Nicola is the daughter of self-made businessman Nelson Peltz and his third wife Claudia Heffner, a former model — don’t seem to care how untouchable they sound, leading to an ongoing freeze between the two. families.

Over the weekend, her interview rubbed salt into Victoria’s already gaping wounds by telling Dressgate’s story — and how her mother-in-law disappointed her — all over again in particularly awkward detail.

She said, “The real truth is I really, really wanted to wear it and I loved that Brooklyn’s mom got to make it for me. And I was really excited to wear it. And in the end I didn’t wear it.’

Nicola revealed that Posh hadn’t even personally told her about her inability to make the dress, explaining: “Victoria was very busy and a few days went by without me hearing anything. Then Victoria thought that since I was on set, maybe she didn’t want to upset me, so she called my mom and said she couldn’t make the dress. She said her studio couldn’t make the dress in time.’

To illustrate how toxic famous families become, instead of Victoria calling Nicola in person to express her disappointment at the new interview, Team Beckham instead seems to have issued an equally no-nonsense briefing to today’s Sun newspaper.

A source close to Victoria called Nicola’s comments “slightly irritating” and “igniting the fire” of the feud, while accusing her of “acting on the name of Beckhams”.

Blimey!

They added little convincing: “It won’t hurt Victoria, though, because this doesn’t look bad on her.”

Brooklyn is equally complicit in the family drama: he didn’t go to his mother’s after-party at Paris Fashion Week with his wife and went out to dinner with Nicola’s mother Claudia.

Nicola also didn’t recognize Victoria’s label on her all-important social media, where the couple had long ignored each other since the wedding. She raved about Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli’s “beautiful” show.

The pressure has clearly taken its toll on Victoria, with the former Spice Girl admitting over the weekend that her catwalk tears, a rare display of public emotion, were ‘because family is everything to me; to have them there, to support me, is just everything.’

I do understand that Brooklyn’s utter lack of gratitude or sensitivity must be painful to say the least.

But that’s the problem when the morals you teach your kids are more about the importance of social media followers than what family loyalty and blood ties really mean.

I fear that Victoria has no one to blame but herself and David for creating such a thankless little sod in Brooklyn willing to inflict so much bitterness and shame on his family.

While it may sound unkind, we all know that there is no good reason for Brooklyn Beckham to be famous or successful other than his last name.

But from a young age, the Beckhams in Brooklyn instilled an almost terrifying sense that he should be one of the biggest stars in the world.

It didn’t seem to matter that there was no discernible talent, passion or initiative to support this A-list status; all that mattered was the ever-growing social media numbers, while Victoria and David pimped his Instagram handle to the world.

It didn’t even seem to matter if Brooklyn’s public pursuits were humiliating.

The expensive coffee table photo book, for example, where many of the photos were out of focus.

Or the transition to celebrity chef where Brooklyn appeared on the NBC Today show in the US and struggled to make a compelling bacon sandwich.

No, the name of the game has only been fame.

Perhaps the Beckhams naively believed that Brooklyn would always need their family brand and fortune to continue his professional hobbies while living a luxurious lifestyle.

That’s not the case — Brooklyn’s social media numbers equal his own independent money, power, and brand, and that’s before he ended up with a famous woman who could end up being even richer than his parents.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Brooklyn and Nicola are acting like selfish and straightforward brats, and if I were David or Victoria I’d be furious at the lack of loyalty and the heavy doses of public shading.

But sadly, the Beckham’s decided their priority was to raise a son of influential celebrity, rather than a decent dude, so fool them more.