{"id":250550,"date":"2026-01-18T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250550\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:40:10","slug":"katie-hind-hears-tone-deaf-brooklyn-wants-to-reconcile-with-parents-david-and-victoria-after-shock-staff-exit-but-wife-nicola-peltz-is-obsessed-with-driving-the-beckham-rift-its-pathetic-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250550\/","title":{"rendered":"KATIE HIND hears ‘tone-deaf’ Brooklyn wants to reconcile with parents David and Victoria after shock staff exit – but wife Nicola Peltz is ‘obsessed’ with driving the Beckham rift. ‘It’s pathetic and out of control!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having spent years as a member of Harvey Weinstein<\/a>\u2019s PR team, Hollywood \u2018attack dog\u2019 publicist Matthew Hiltzik is, you could argue, a dab hand at handling a crisis.<\/p>\n

So it made perfect sense that, when Nicola Peltz<\/a> \u2013 the US heiress married to Brooklyn Beckham<\/a> \u2013 found herself at war with her husband\u2019s high-profile parents, David and Victoria, Hiltzik was seen as the right man to help her navigate the fallout.<\/p>\n

With a little help from her father, the notoriously aggressive billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz, she secured his extremely expensive services last June.<\/p>\n

And as the Beckhams continued to garner the lion\u2019s share of public sympathy during the feud, Nicola set out to get even in the best way she knows how: by throwing money at the problem.<\/p>\n

Hiltzik\u2019s mission was to protect and restore the Peltzes\u2019 reputation and to make sure the wider Peltz family, including Brooklyn, won the briefing war.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before the claims being pushed out from Nicola and Brooklyn\u2019s Californian camp began to escalate.<\/p>\n

There were accusations of misogyny slung at the Beckhams, who have long blamed Nicola, 31, for the complete breakdown in relations with their eldest son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, Nicola appeared furious when I wrote that Brooklyn, 26, had been nicknamed \u2018The Hostage\u2019 in the Beckham\u2019s circles over claims that he is simply following her lead.<\/p>\n

\"Nicola <\/p>\n

\u00a0Nicola appeared furious when I wrote that Brooklyn had been nicknamed \u2018The Hostage\u2019 in the Beckham\u2019s circles over claims that he is simply following her lead<\/p>\n

More recently, a story emerged from their shores that they had instructed their lawyers, London-based Schillings, to send David and Victoria a \u2018cease and desist\u2019 letter last summer, which requested that any contact between the warring parties should go through them.<\/p>\n

But now, I can reveal, the conflict has become too much even for Hiltzik to bear. Seven months after engaging his services, the couple have parted ways with the publicist, with both sides claiming they ended the agreement.<\/p>\n

Sources tell me it was Nelson who called time on the partnership after growing increasingly irate that his youngest daughter was continuing to be upset at her negative portrayal in the media. Nicola and Brooklyn are also insisting they let him go, I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, others say it was Hiltzik who walked away, having grown tired of Nicola using social media to antagonise her in-laws, including a post that saw her fawning over her mother, Claudia, on her birthday last week (the couple famously failed to attend any of the celebrations for David Beckham\u2019s 50th birthday last year). Certainly some who know Nicola agree she is \u2018extremely hard work\u2019.<\/p>\n

Whatever the truth, sources agree on one thing: it\u2019s \u2018a blow\u2019 for Nicola and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u2018Matthew is no longer working with Nicola and Brooklyn,\u2019 says my source. \u2018It really is quite the blow for them, Nicola seemed to enjoy getting her feelings out there to the Press on the rift.<\/p>\n

\"Seven <\/p>\n

Seven months after engaging Matthew Hiltzik\u2019s (pictured) extremely expensive services, Nicola and Brooklyn have parted ways with the publicist, with both sides claiming they ended the agreement<\/p>\n

\"Had <\/p>\n

Had Hiltzik tired of snaps like this… the couple sharing VB\u2019s favourite \u00a35,000 wine?<\/p>\n

\u2018While many aren\u2019t fond of Matthew\u2019s fiery manner, he is used to a crisis, it is what he specialises in, so to not have him working with them anymore means that they are, arguably, in a much weaker situation.<\/p>\n

\u2018From the outside Nicola had become quite forthright, if not a little obsessed, with getting back at David and Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u2018But it has all got a bit pathetic now. It has become a bit of a \u201che said, she said\u201d now. Nicola will never want anyone to think Hiltzik has left her. For her, and her father, coming out on top is a must.<\/p>\n

\u2018Anyone who knows Hiltzik knows that by hiring him it<\/p>\n

would have meant he would aggressively pressurise the media not to print anything anti Nicola or Brooklyn. It is a real statement that she wanted to bullishly lead the narrative.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hiltzik, who is based in New York, stopped representing Weinstein in 2005 and has long since washed his hands of the serial sex offender after he was jailed in 2018. The PR man has gone on to work with Justin Bieber, Johnny Depp and Sacha Baron Cohen.<\/p>\n

Soon after Hiltzik parted company with the Beckham-Peltzes, Brooklyn shared a snap of himself and Nicola enjoying a glass of Victoria\u2019s favourite \u00a35,000 wine.<\/p>\n

He treated his wife to the Screaming Eagle Sauvignon Blanc while celebrating her 31st birthday earlier last week.<\/p>\n

One source said: \u2018As a couple of nepo-babies who don\u2019t really do a lot with their days or have really had a job they\u2019ve had to graft at, they are desperately worried about their reputations, but then they post a picture of themselves sipping \u00a35,000 wine.<\/p>\n

\u2018Perhaps that\u2019s the kind of thing that Matthew was getting fed up with \u2013 who knows?\u2019<\/p>\n

It was in April last year that I first revealed Brooklyn had fallen out with his parents after failing to attend any of his father\u2019s 50th birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n

Former England captain David, and fashion designer Victoria, 51, were left devastated \u2013 but placed the blame firmly at Nicola\u2019s door.<\/p>\n

Nicola, of course, denies this. Through Hiltzik, she briefed the media that Brooklyn could make his own decisions about the type of relationship he wanted to have with his parents.<\/p>\n

But is evidence starting to emerge that perhaps Brooklyn is keener for a reconciliation than Nicola would have people believe?<\/p>\n

A story briefed to the New York Post (by someone who I believe to be a very well-placed source) certainly suggests so.<\/p>\n

They claimed that things had calmed recently before the incendiary story about the legal letter emerged.<\/p>\n

And the insider, who is said to know the couple, told the publication: \u2018Brooklyn wants to do anything to make Nicola happy, but this is all getting out of control. I can\u2019t imagine a world where Brooklyn wouldn\u2019t want to see his parents again.\u2019<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019m told that David and Victoria have reluctantly accepted that Brooklyn, who was once so close to<\/p>\n

them \u2013 and who appears to have named his hot sauce company, Cloud 23, after his father\u2019s squad number at Real Madrid and LA Galaxy \u2013 does not want to see them at the moment.<\/p>\n

But perhaps they now have a small glimmer of hope that, one day, he may return to them.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is clear that Brooklyn is very keen to please Nicola but maybe, just maybe, he will at some point want to get back in touch with his parents,\u2019 my source says. \u2018Nothing would make them happier.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having spent years as a member of Harvey Weinstein\u2019s PR team, Hollywood \u2018attack dog\u2019 publicist Matthew Hiltzik is,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[539,93,61,60,1489],"class_list":["post-250550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}