If there’s one thing we love to do, it’s post cute photos with our loved ones on Valentine’s Day, and, as Us Weekly taught us in 2002, stars, they’re just like us! Instagram feeds were flooded with posts from normies and the glitterati alike, showering their partners and kids and friends with love.
Some went a bit further: Maya Hawke got married on Saturday to her longtime (I guess?) partner, Christian Lee Hutson. According to Page Six’s trove of photos, it was very New York City (they walked to their reception!), and a ton of Stranger Things cast members attended. (Not including David Harbour, even though he was also out and about in NYC over the weekend. Interesting!)
And other longtime faves of this column used Valentine’s Day as an occasion for yet another topic: family feud mending and/or furthering. Yes, I’m obviously talking about Brooklyn Beckham’s proud self-estrangement from his family. Less than a month ago, the eldest Beckham child posted six very text-heavy Instagram Story slides detailing why he refuses to reconcile with his family—from the eye-roll-inducing “my mom wouldn’t publicly share my wife’s animal sanctuary posts” to the sadder “I don’t want to just be a part of the family business” (those are not direct quotes). For Valentine’s Day, he posted a selfie of himself and wife Nicola Peltz almost smooching. (Page Six deems it “steamy” but Peltz is inexplicably wearing sunglasses I last saw available for purchase at a Claire’s in 2006, which really ruins the sexiness factor, IMO.)
Like almost everything Beckham has posted in the last two years, this has incredible wife guy energy while also being an extremely unsubtle and really weird dig at his parents: “I will forever protect and love you,” he wrote. As far as I can tell, all he’s done to protect her is post Instagrams and not talk to his parents. And honestly, I think if Peltz needs protection, she’d first turn to her father, Nelson Peltz (net worth: $1.5 billion, give or take a couple hundred million depending on the stock market), who can finance whatever lawsuit/security detail/self-defense class she wants.
Meanwhile, his little sister, 14-year-old Harper Beckham, tried to play peacekeeper, and posted a throwback photo of her hugging Brooklyn, posing with their other brothers, Cruz and Romeo. “I love you all so much, words can’t describe it,” she wrote. On another old photo of the four siblings, she wrote, “Happy Valentine’s Day to the best big brothers in the whole wide world.” Extremely sweet, but also kind of a bummer; Harper doesn’t deserve to be caught in the weird emotional crosshairs! Won’t someone think of the sweet baby sisters??
Of course, the only reason we are seeing these pictures is because momma bear Victoria Beckham reshared them on her story (Harper’s account is—appropriately—private), and I think we can safely assume she had some ulterior motives for doing so.
Just a reminder that these two hotties are married: Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann celebrated Valentine’s Day at the Olympics! [People]
Hudson Williams is in a relationship with a woman. Cue the queerbaiting allegations. [Cosmopolitan]
Now, why would you ask LeBron James about Israel? [Fox News]
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