{"id":208421,"date":"2026-04-24T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:29:37","slug":"how-brooklyn-beckhams-conflict-with-his-parents-isnt-unlike-children-of-social-media-stars-and-family-vloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208421\/","title":{"rendered":"How Brooklyn Beckham’s conflict with his parents isn’t unlike children of social media stars and family vloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been rather quiet on the Beckham front lately after nonstop family drama earlier in the year. Now everyone seems to have retreated to their respective corners. David and Victoria Beckham were in New York last night for the Time 100 Gala. <\/p>\n

The official Sir David and Lady Beckham posted before the gala, not exactly beating those \u201cthey post too much, that\u2019s part of the problem\u201d allegations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about that a lot since everything went down earlier in the winter. In a way, Brooklyn Beckham is kind of like a social media\/family vlogger kid, in that he was raised in the public eye and his family\u2019s business is the Family Business, and really, his conflict with his parents isn\u2019t so different from what we\u2019ve seen from the children of social media stars and family vloggers who put their kids front and center from a young age, only for those kids to speak out against their exploitation<\/a> as they grow up.<\/p>\n

The biggest difference is, of course, that the Beckhams aren\u2019t really family vloggers and there is the billionaire of it all in the form of Nicola Peltz\u2019s family. But that only amps up the drama, right? It\u2019s a kid who was famous from birth and seems to not want to be famous anymore multiplied by rich and powerful and divided by fame. The more I\u2019ve thought about it, the more sympathy I have for Brooklyn. Maybe he just wants to be a house husband with a limp hot sauce brand.<\/p>\n

He is, however, also still posting, too, promoting that hot sauce in cooking videos.<\/p>\n

Speaking of basic, penne alla vodka is pretty basic, but it does look good in that video. Nothing wrong with cooking simple dishes well, but it goes to my theory that maybe Brooklyn really doesn\u2019t want to stand out. Maybe he doesn\u2019t want to be inventing bold new flavor profiles. Maybe he just wants to hold down the fort. Is that bad? In an ambitious family like the Beckhams, apparently, but for a rich kid who married even richer\u2026 Maybe not. Not like he needs to work.<\/p>\n

Another thing I\u2019ve been thinking about re: Brooklyn is that so far, none of the grown Beckham kids are especially distinguished. Romeo attempted soccer, it wasn\u2019t totally embarrassing but he is definitely not a chip off the old block. He\u2019s doing better as a male model, frankly, walking for Versace and Burberry (he modeled for Burberry as a child, too). Other brother Cruz is nominally a musician. It\u2019s not like any of them are crushing it. Do we expect more from Brooklyn because he\u2019s the oldest? Or because between he and his wife, he has virtually unlimited resources with which to succeed? Again, maybe he just wants to be Mr. Nicola Peltz.<\/p>\n

At a certain point you kind of have to let go of whatever happened at the wedding\u2014and seems to be mostly Marc Anthony\u2019s fault, anyway\u2014because you can\u2019t change it and if you dwell, it\u2019s just going to eat you alive. But I wonder if the conflict is less about that event and more about the friction between ambitious parents and a lackadaisical son, compounded by that son feeling like he\u2019s been made to perform for and in his own family. I wonder if the billionaire wife and her obvious fame-thirst and her family\u2019s complicated relationship to politics and power is just muddying the waters, making a clearer hero\/villain binary than really exists. I have no answers, only thoughts, and a sudden craving for pasta. Damn, maybe Brooklyn IS onto something.<\/p>\n

Here are Sir D, Lady B, and Cruz out in New York yesterday.<\/p>\n

Victoria and David Beckham leaving the Time 100 Gala in NYC, April 23, 2026<\/p>\n

Cruz\u00a0Beckham\u00a0and Jackie Apostel in NYC, April 23, 2026<\/p>\n

Photo credits: Eric Kowalsky\/MEGA\/WENN, BlayzenPhotos\/Fernando Ramales\/Backgrid, Instar Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been rather quiet on the Beckham front lately after nonstop family drama earlier in the year. Now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-208421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}