{"id":387784,"date":"2026-01-24T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:23:11","slug":"a-short-history-of-brooklyn-beckhams-many-attempted-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387784\/","title":{"rendered":"A short history of Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s many attempted careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every philosopher has their big question. Socrates questioned whether ignorance was the true root of evil. Plato contemplated whether physical reality was inherently imperfect. Aristotle wanted to understand the root causes of change. Then there\u2019s the question that plagues all modern-day philosophers. \u201cWhat does Brooklyn Beckham do?\u201d<\/p>\n

From time to time, the press, tabloids and netizens try to parse what the son of David and Victoria Beckham actually does for a living. What they don\u2019t realise is that it\u2019s much easier to ask \u201cWhat has he done?\u201d than \u201cWhat does he do?\u201d The trick is in the past tense. Here, we run you through some of his previous ventures.<\/p>\n

Attempted professional athlete<\/p>\n

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Long before cameras and cookery, Brooklyn tried to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps on the pitch. And they were big Adidas Predators to fill. During his professional career, David Beckham was considered one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, with 19 major trophies and an England captaincy under his belt.<\/p>\n

Initially, Brooklyn showed some promise. Even if he was only\u2026 four. In 2004, he enrolled on Tottenham Hotspurs\u2019 Football in the Community scheme for local children, and locals took note of his skills. \u201cYou can already see that Brooklyn is going to develop into a good player,\u201d an onlooker told The Standard at the time. \u201cThe kids were only practising elementary football skills but Brooklyn shows lots of promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, this promise did not continue into later life. He spent time in youth academies, including Arsenal\u2019s U-18 team, but did not secure a scholarship or graduate to the professional ranks. He made no first-team appearances, nor did he secure any further contracts.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Beckham with his photography book, What I See, in 2017<\/p>\n

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At one point, photography was Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s main passion \u2014 but in more of a \u201cgraphic design is my passion\u201d way than a \u201cMario Testino\u201d way. Nevertheless, that didn\u2019t stop him from landing a Burberry Brit campaign at age 16, which he shot despite having no formal photography training.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Brooklyn released his own photography book, What I See, which included a mix of images ranging from snapshots of wildlife to family moments. This book birthed the immortal meme that is Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s image of an elephant shrouded in darkness, captioned: \u201cSo hard to photograph but incredible to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later enrolled at Parsons School of Design in New York for photography but left after one year, reportedly to be closer to his family and to focus on his photography internships. During one internship, a source told The Sun\u2019s Bizarre column that Brooklyn was struggling with \u201cbasic tasks.\u201d \u201cEveryone knew Brooklyn\u2019s work needed fine-tuning but no one knew his knowledge of the simplest tasks was so off,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

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Instagram\/Brooklyn Beckham<\/p>\n

Cooking has become one of Brooklyn\u2019s most publicised projects and continues to be his main area of interest today. His passion for cooking was ignited by the COVID-19 lockdown, when he started experimenting in the kitchen and later launched an online show called Cookin\u2019 With Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

He appeared on the US Today Show as a culinary personality, where he prepared\u2026 a breakfast sandwich. In another cooking appearance on Vogue\u2019s YouTube channel, he was ridiculed for struggling to open a gigantic wheel of cheese. <\/p>\n

Of his cooking expertise, he has admitted: \u201cUnfortunately I\u2019ve never done, like, a cooking class, but I\u2019m obsessed with watching MasterClass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooklyn continues to post cooking videos to his social channels, and they remain divisive. In December, he posted a recipe for beer-brined chicken that was \u201cliked\u201d by Victoria Beckham,<\/a> allegedly violating a cease-and-desist letter he had issued to his parents that requested they not reach out to him publicly, on social media. <\/p>\n

Hot sauce entrepreneur and sake brand co-founder<\/p>\n

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Getty Images for Airbnb<\/p>\n

In late 2024, Brooklyn Beckham launched a hot sauce brand called Cloud23. It has been somewhat successful, gaining a place within the condiments aisle of upmarket grocery stores, like Whole Foods and Erewhon.<\/p>\n

He described the product to CNBC, saying: \u201cI designed every tiny little aspect of Cloud23. I designed the bottle from scratch. I named it. This is like my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less publicised but still real is another food-related venture: Brooklyn\u2019s canned sake brand, WESAKE, which is produced with a centuries-old Japanese brewery.<\/p>\n

On this project he said, \u201cI\u2019ve always had a profound respect and intrigue for Japanese culture\u2026 I was introduced to sake through my travels, love of cooking and experimenting with new flavours.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the entrepreneurship doesn\u2019t end there: reports indicate that Brooklyn is in the early stages of launching a burger restaurant called Beck\u2019s Buns in Los Angeles, with Cloud23 sauces featured on the menu. However, it appears the eldest Beckham child is currently busy putting out fires of a more personal nature,<\/a> so we may have to wait for Beck\u2019s Buns to come to full fruition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every philosopher has their big question. Socrates questioned whether ignorance was the true root of evil. Plato contemplated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8634,6491,6871,96,56,54,55,5932],"class_list":["post-387784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brooklyn-beckham","tag-celebrities","tag-david-beckham","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victoria-beckham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}