January 19, 2026 • 6 mins
Brooklyn Beckham has accused his parents of putting "countless lies" in the media about him and his family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast. Well, yesterday
on our show, Emma Gillespie, who is the editor of
The Daily Os, who's our pop culture entertainment guru, she
spoke about the rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents
and this is a thing that a lot of adults
are now doing. This is something that Oprah Winfrey has
been talking about, Mel Robbins, all those self help kind
(00:22):
of gurus and TikTok is big on. This is people
grown ups going no contact with their parents, breaking up,
divorcing their parents. Parents are off and left saying what
have I done? And these grown children are saying, you
know very well. We've spoken about this for twenty years,
so it's fascinating to see this playing out with the Beckhams, who,
as we said yesterday, have curated their family narrative very carefully. Well.
(00:47):
We spoke about bits and pieces as to where the
feud began. One of the things was that on the
leading up to his wedding, his bride, Nicola Peltz, didn't
choose Victoria Beckham to make her wedding dress. Was one
of the stories. Another Victoria she's good on the fat,
She's great on the husk of van are you just
asked her? She'll whip you up something with a pattern
(01:07):
like that. She don't imagine that she's at home spotlight.
She's going through with the material? Is the butterick pattern?
Isn't that a cardboard thing with all the checkers? And
I remember showing mun pictures in magazines that I want
to look like this, and she said, oh, get a
pattern for that. And you know you're going to look
like an eight year old. So when your mum says
we have McDonald's at home, yes, but there are a
(01:29):
couple of stories also that. Well, let's see what Brooklyn
Beckham has said, because overnight he has released on his
socials a damning statement where he has come out saying
that his family are not as they seem. And this
is a man who's fighting to not be labeled as
you call him yesterday, Brennan, a no talent, NEPO babytive.
The narrative is that he has a very powerful partner's
(01:53):
from a very rich family. Yes she is, she's an heiress,
that he is being led along and he's lost his
manliness and he's been taken over by her and her
family and he's saying, this is not the troth the
kids swung from the money tree to another money tree.
Let me read to you what he has said. I've
been silent for years and made every effort to keep
these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have
(02:17):
continued to go to the press, leaving me with no
choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth
about only some of the lies that have been printed.
I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm
not being controlled. I'm standing up for myself for the
first time in my life. For my entire life, my
parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family.
(02:37):
The performative social media posts, family events, and inauthentic relationships
have been a fixture of the life I was born into. Recently,
I've seen with my own eyes the lengths they will
go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly
expensive innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I
believe the truth always comes out. My parents have been
(02:58):
trying endlessly to rule in my relationship since before my wedding,
and it hasn't stopped. My mum canceled making Nichola's dress
in the eleventh hour, despite how excited she was to
wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new
dress weeks before our big day. But the narrative was
that she Nicholas said she didn't want to wear the podstress.
(03:19):
The story goes on. There's bits here that it's extraordinary reading.
The night before our wedding, members of my family told
me that Nichola was quote, not blood and not family.
Since the moment I started standing up for myself with
my family, I've received endless attacks from my parents, both
privately and publicly. That was sent to the press on
their orders. Even my brothers were sent to attack me
(03:40):
on social media before they ultimately blocked me out of
nowhere the last summer. Listen to this bit. This is
the bit we'd heard that the mum took the first
dance at the wedding. He said, my mum hijacked my
first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks
in advance, to a romantic love song in front of
our five hundred wedding guests. Mark Anthony called me to
the stage where in the schedule was planned to be
(04:03):
my romantic dance with my wife. Instead, my mom was
waiting to dance with me. She danced very inappropriately on
me in front of everyone. I've never felt more uncomfortable
or humiliated in my entire life. No, there's no video
that we know of. We waited. We wanted to renew
our vows so we could recreate memories of our wedding
day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.
(04:27):
It just keeps going. My wife has been consistently disrespected
by my family. My mum has repeatedly invited women from
my past into our lives in ways that were clearly
intended to make us both uncomfortable. Goes on and on,
but this is how it kind of wraps up here.
Mom My family values public. My family values public promotion
and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first family quote.
(04:51):
Love is decided by how much you post on social
media or how quickly you drop everything to show up
and pose for a family photo op, even if it's
at the expense of your professional obligations. We've gone out
of our way for years to show up and support it.
Every fashion show, every party, every press activity to show
our perfect family wow. Wow. The narrative that my wife
(05:15):
controls me is backwards. I've been controlled by my parents
for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety.
For the first time in my life, since stepping away
from my family, that anxiety has disappeared. My wife and
I do not want a life shape by image press
or manipulation. It's extraordinary. It sounds like Prince Harry. But
(05:35):
with Prince Harry you can't who stood up for his
wife saying you're painting the wrong picture here. But with
Harry you appreciate. There's a strong family narrative. But it's
not about that. Listen to it. This is just a
guy trying to make good. It's not about how much
money from your bank account. Really, I really feel for
him because this is a family who appearances everything royal family,
(05:56):
you get. They have a structure that the whole world understands. Yeah,
but the Bectams are like the Royal Well, this is
we didn't he's saying it's fake. He's saying it's curated
and it's harsh and it's not so well your team
what's the old MAT's name, Brooklyn or team? I like
the Beckhams. But this is fascinating, is this will break
(06:17):
out the fast fascinating it is were you know, this
is something we could put to the pub test for
the first time in twenty twenty six. We'll do that
a little bit later on, maybe we will
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast. Well, yesterday
on our show, Emma Gillespie, who is the editor of
The Daily Os, who's our pop culture entertainment guru, she
spoke about the rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents
and this is a thing that a lot of adults
are now doing. This is something that Oprah Winfrey has
been talking about, Mel Robbins, all those self help kind
(00:22):
of gurus and TikTok is big on. This is people
grown ups going no contact with their parents, breaking up,
divorcing their parents. Parents are off and left saying what
have I done? And these grown children are saying, you
know very well. We've spoken about this for twenty years,
so it's fascinating to see this playing out with the Beckhams, who,
as we said yesterday, have curated their family narrative very carefully. Well.
(00:47):
We spoke about bits and pieces as to where the
feud began. One of the things was that on the
leading up to his wedding, his bride, Nicola Peltz, didn't
choose Victoria Beckham to make her wedding dress. Was one
of the stories. Another Victoria she's good on the fat,
She's great on the husk of van are you just
asked her? She'll whip you up something with a pattern
(01:07):
like that. She don't imagine that she's at home spotlight.
She's going through with the material? Is the butterick pattern?
Isn't that a cardboard thing with all the checkers? And
I remember showing mun pictures in magazines that I want
to look like this, and she said, oh, get a
pattern for that. And you know you're going to look
like an eight year old. So when your mum says
we have McDonald's at home, yes, but there are a
(01:29):
couple of stories also that. Well, let's see what Brooklyn
Beckham has said, because overnight he has released on his
socials a damning statement where he has come out saying
that his family are not as they seem. And this
is a man who's fighting to not be labeled as
you call him yesterday, Brennan, a no talent, NEPO babytive.
The narrative is that he has a very powerful partner's
(01:53):
from a very rich family. Yes she is, she's an heiress,
that he is being led along and he's lost his
manliness and he's been taken over by her and her
family and he's saying, this is not the troth the
kids swung from the money tree to another money tree.
Let me read to you what he has said. I've
been silent for years and made every effort to keep
these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have
(02:17):
continued to go to the press, leaving me with no
choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth
about only some of the lies that have been printed.
I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm
not being controlled. I'm standing up for myself for the
first time in my life. For my entire life, my
parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family.
(02:37):
The performative social media posts, family events, and inauthentic relationships
have been a fixture of the life I was born into. Recently,
I've seen with my own eyes the lengths they will
go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly
expensive innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I
believe the truth always comes out. My parents have been
(02:58):
trying endlessly to rule in my relationship since before my wedding,
and it hasn't stopped. My mum canceled making Nichola's dress
in the eleventh hour, despite how excited she was to
wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new
dress weeks before our big day. But the narrative was
that she Nicholas said she didn't want to wear the podstress.
(03:19):
The story goes on. There's bits here that it's extraordinary reading.
The night before our wedding, members of my family told
me that Nichola was quote, not blood and not family.
Since the moment I started standing up for myself with
my family, I've received endless attacks from my parents, both
privately and publicly. That was sent to the press on
their orders. Even my brothers were sent to attack me
(03:40):
on social media before they ultimately blocked me out of
nowhere the last summer. Listen to this bit. This is
the bit we'd heard that the mum took the first
dance at the wedding. He said, my mum hijacked my
first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks
in advance, to a romantic love song in front of
our five hundred wedding guests. Mark Anthony called me to
the stage where in the schedule was planned to be
(04:03):
my romantic dance with my wife. Instead, my mom was
waiting to dance with me. She danced very inappropriately on
me in front of everyone. I've never felt more uncomfortable
or humiliated in my entire life. No, there's no video
that we know of. We waited. We wanted to renew
our vows so we could recreate memories of our wedding
day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.
(04:27):
It just keeps going. My wife has been consistently disrespected
by my family. My mum has repeatedly invited women from
my past into our lives in ways that were clearly
intended to make us both uncomfortable. Goes on and on,
but this is how it kind of wraps up here.
Mom My family values public. My family values public promotion
and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first family quote.
(04:51):
Love is decided by how much you post on social
media or how quickly you drop everything to show up
and pose for a family photo op, even if it's
at the expense of your professional obligations. We've gone out
of our way for years to show up and support it.
Every fashion show, every party, every press activity to show
our perfect family wow. Wow. The narrative that my wife
(05:15):
controls me is backwards. I've been controlled by my parents
for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety.
For the first time in my life, since stepping away
from my family, that anxiety has disappeared. My wife and
I do not want a life shape by image press
or manipulation. It's extraordinary. It sounds like Prince Harry. But
(05:35):
with Prince Harry you can't who stood up for his
wife saying you're painting the wrong picture here. But with
Harry you appreciate. There's a strong family narrative. But it's
not about that. Listen to it. This is just a
guy trying to make good. It's not about how much
money from your bank account. Really, I really feel for
him because this is a family who appearances everything royal family,
(05:56):
you get. They have a structure that the whole world understands. Yeah,
but the Bectams are like the Royal Well, this is
we didn't he's saying it's fake. He's saying it's curated
and it's harsh and it's not so well your team
what's the old MAT's name, Brooklyn or team? I like
the Beckhams. But this is fascinating, is this will break
(06:17):
out the fast fascinating it is were you know, this
is something we could put to the pub test for
the first time in twenty twenty six. We'll do that
a little bit later on, maybe we will
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