{"id":534477,"date":"2026-04-16T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:35:09","slug":"victoria-beckham-says-she-and-david-have-always-tried-to-be-best-parents-amid-brooklyn-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534477\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham says she and David have &#8216;always tried to be best parents&#8217; amid Brooklyn row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his six-page Instagram statement in January, Brooklyn made clear that relations with his parents had broken down, saying he had been forced to respond after they had &#8220;continued to go to the press&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made claims including that his mother had &#8220;cancelled making Nicola&#8217;s [wedding] dress at the eleventh hour&#8221; and &#8220;danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone&#8221; during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also claimed his family values &#8220;public promotion and endorsements above all else&#8221;, adding that &#8220;family &#8216;love&#8217; 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 opp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The events of the wedding have been disputed by some guests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8220err46o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Fat Tony backed up Brooklyn&#8217;s claim<\/a> about the &#8220;awkward dance&#8221; with his mother, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c98gyegzypxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">singer Marc Anthony said<\/a> the way events had been presented was &#8220;hardly the truth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir David has not commented directly, but speaking generally about social media at a panel in Davos shortly after Booklyn&#8217;s statement, he said children are &#8220;allowed to make mistakes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his six-page Instagram statement in January, Brooklyn made clear that relations with his parents had broken down,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-534477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534477","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=534477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}