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Coming up on 60 Minutes...
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Where did it go wrong?
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It was all fine, I think until...
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The Beckham family bust up...
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My phone started going, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, can you believe this?
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Why eldest son, Brooklyn...
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One proud son, one proud dad.
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Has so viciously turned...
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It was war.
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...on his famous mum and dad.
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Do you think that this is just the start of Brooklyn's revenge?
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That's next on 60 Minutes.
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Spare a thought for Brooklyn Beckham.
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He doesn't play soccer as well as his dad David, and he doesn't have hit records like his mum Victoria.
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So while Posh and Beck's success has guaranteed him a privileged upbringing, it's also meant stepping out of their shadows,
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trying to become his own man, hasn't been easy.
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Brooklyn's challenges have mostly been hidden from view.
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But in January this year, he blew up any pretense of harmony when he publicly disowned his family.
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His bitter tirade exposed a rift dating back four years, to the time of his wedding to Nicola Peltz, the daughter of an American billionaire.
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But this is not just a squabble between a son and his parents.
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When your last name is Beckham, there are much bigger implications.
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Here's one.
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Really doesn't get more London than this, does it?
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Any hop.
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How far do we have to drive before we find something Beckham-related?
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We're in London, so throw a pigeon and you'll hit a Beckham.
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When it comes to celebrity gossip, not much gets past Alison Boshoff.
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As editor-at-large of Britain's Daily Mail, she's been spilling the secrets of the rich and famous since the 1990s.
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Wherever you can find a billboard, you'll probably find a Beckham.
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She's never been short of copy because she's had power players like the Beckhams to report on.
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How much is brand Beckham worth these days?
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1.18 billion.
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That's for David and Victoria.
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David is in himself worth a billion.
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Business is wonderful.
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I wish I was David Beckham's accountant.
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Tonight, how that accountant might be suffering headaches.
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The intriguing but also rather sad feud that's threatening to not only tear the family apart,
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but ruin the business of being Beckham.
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You always hope that families can get back together, can forget their differences, but, I mean, in this case, it does look really, really entrenched.
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Here in London, there is so much love for Sir David and Victoria Beckham.
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Many Brits might argue they're even more popular than the royal family.
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And for the Beckhams, they have their own collection of regal residences, including this mansion here in Holland Park.
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This exclusive neighbourhood fits perfectly into the billion-dollar brand the former footballer
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and fashion designer have spent the past 30 years building for themselves and their four famous children.
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As a unit, the Beckhams have been trained well.
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They know how to behave in public.
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Their steely glares for the paps are perfect.
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But behind the carefully curated facade, a Shakespearean tragedy has been unfolding.
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My phone started going, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.
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Can you believe this?
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Alison's talking about the moment in January this year,
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when eldest child Brooklyn Beckham unleashed a scathing Instagram post publicly disowning his family.
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My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else.
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Bran Beckham comes first.
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Brooklyn didn't miss.
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What he had to say was heartbreaking and humiliating and squarely directed at Mum and Dad, Victoria and David.
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Alison Boshoff says they were blindsided.
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As far as Brooklyn is concerned, they don't believe they've done anything they need to apologise for.
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What do you mean?
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That's what I'm told.
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Repeatedly.
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So what's their attitude?
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They've done nothing wrong, is their attitude.
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They're loving parents who may have made a few mistakes, but they don't believe they've done anything wrong.
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I do not want to reconcile with my family.
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I am not being controlled.
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I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life.
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What goes through your mind when you start reading that Instagram story?
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I couldn't quite believe it.
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I couldn't quite believe there was so much.
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This went on and on and on, and the detail that it went into,
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and the tone of it was so angry and so cold, and it did read as if it had been written by a committee which included a lawyer.
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As with many family disputes, love is at its core.
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In the case of the Beckhams, In the case of the Beckhams, this one had been simmering since Brooklyn's wedding to billionaire heiress Nicola Pels in 2022.
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The key to the whole falling out, of course, is they don't like the woman who he chose to marry.
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That may be the case, but it's still hard to imagine how any child would be so desperate to publicly slam their parents.
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I think when you understand where it's come from, this is a kid who feels he's been exploited by the people who should actually be instead nurturing him, the people in the world he should trust the most.
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Is it fair to say that Brooklyn has been a commodity since the moment he was born?
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You could say that.
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It was in the era of celebrity magazines and everything was for sale suddenly, intoxicating.
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This is before social media.
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So there was all this money on offer if you would just show us your kid or whatever.
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They were just literally hugging and kissing all the time.
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And I was like, this is not just for cameras.
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UK photographer Dave Hogan has spent 40 years shooting the biggest celebrities in town, including the Beckhams.
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He's watched the brand grow over the years, as David and Victoria morphed from power couple to proud parents of Brooklyn,
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Romeo, Cruise and Harper.
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That's one proud son, one proud dad.
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And, you know, it'd be lovely to get them back to be as natural as that.
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Up until very recently, Dave thought the family was tight-knit.
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But when amateur chef Brooklyn started viciously burning his parents, he was stunned and disappointed.
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This is my hero in the kitchen because the texture of the pasta really elevates my dish.
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He is only, you know, world-famous, because of who his parents are.
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He's not Brooklyn Beckham the chef yet.
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The name helps him.
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But he says he wants none of that.
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He wants a quiet, peaceful and happy life.
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OK, well, let's see how long that lasts.
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My wife and I do not want a life shaped by image, press or manipulation.
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All we want is peace, privacy and happiness for us and our future family.
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So big is the bus stop,
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Alison Boshoff has written a book exposing the juicy details of Brooklyn's marriage to aspiring actress Nicola Peltz.
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My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn't stopped.
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This story might not have a happy ending, but it did have a reasonably civil start.
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Victoria and Nicola got on at first, didn't they?
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They got on really well.
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How would you describe Nicola Peltz?
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People use words about her like, oh, she's a bitch.
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Oh, she's manipulative.
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Oh, you know, she's ambitious.
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I salute her because I think, yeah, you have a lot of strength.
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Why not fight for your relationship?
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Where did it go wrong?
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Shortly after the engagement.
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That was in July 2020.
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And then Brooklyn moved to America with Nicola.
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And so he starts to withdraw from the Beckham circle of influence.
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And he starts to do things the Peltz way, not the Beckham way.
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and the Beckhams start to really not like it.
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David and Victoria are used to getting what they want, but in the Peltzes, they may have met their match.
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They're not as famous as the Beckhams, but they're certainly richer.
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Who are the Peltzes?
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So, Nelson Peltz is a multi-billionaire businessman, low on charm.
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So, he is kind of the anti-David.
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So David is this kind of sexy god who very much lives in the celebrity world, and Nelson Peltz has never been on social media.
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You don't flesh your wealth around?
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No, no. The first time that they met each other, the Beckhams sent their security round to sort of sweep the house in Palm Beach before they came through the door,
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and the Pelts' were like...
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Who do you think you are?
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Well, are you kidding me?
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We have the best security here.
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The Pelt Beckham side just said there was continuous underhand snidey nastiness towards Nicola, and it never stopped.
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Like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, Brooklyn and Nicola were determined to be together, despite their warring families.
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They had not really been on speaking terms for the three months in the run-up to the wedding.
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But in April 2022, everyone put on their happy faces and a $6 million Florida wedding extravaganza went ahead.
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The best-laid plans, however, went awry.
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Was there love in the room?
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There was love in the room, although the rabbi did accidentally call Brooklyn David twice, which was noticed by everyone awkward.
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Awkward, yes, but not humiliating.
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That moment came when Mum Victoria was accused of hijacking the newlyweds' first dance.
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Turns out their close friend, singer Mark Antony, who was performing at the wedding, put his foot in it in spectacular fashion.
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The schedule was planned to be a romantic dance with my wife, but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me.
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She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone.
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I have never been more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.
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Nelson Peltz, who knows the value of a buck, had paid for this incredible revolving stage.
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It cost $200,000.
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Nicola slipped away, got out of her Valentino dress, into her Versace party dress. Of course.
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Came downstairs, was ready for this moment that she and her mother had planned.
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Mark Antony calls Victoria Beckham up.
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Didn't he ask for the most beautiful woman in the room to come up?
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Yeah, he did.
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Yeah.
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Nicola has run from the Marquis in tears, followed by most of her family.
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And what plays out inside?
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Victoria and Brooklyn have this dance, which nobody says was inappropriate in that way it's been taken.
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It wasn't some kind of weird sexual thing.
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But Brooklyn was really upset by it.
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The next day at the celebration brunch, there was this very chilly, sad atmosphere and people were, you know, picking over how awkward it had all been from that point onwards.
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After the wedding, at least publicly, the Beckhams kept up appearances,
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posing for the cameras and sharing their supposed love on social media.
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Everyone seemed to be playing nicely.
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But if you look closely enough, there were hints of trouble.
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At this Netflix red carpet, Victoria gave her son and daughter-in-law a barely noticed cold shoulder.
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Brooklyn and Nicola then snubbed David's 50th birthday and his knighthood ceremony.
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and even scratched David and Victoria from the guest list when they renewed their vows.
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It did look really spiteful and vindictive.
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I think they would have got away with it if they hadn't released pictures.
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Do it behind closed doors, don't do it.
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Don't do it for the gram, because that's just...
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That is quite foul, actually, isn't it?
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Brooklyn believes that his parents were planting negative stories in the press.
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I mean, you know how this works.
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Yes.
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You know, it was war from the not going to David's 50th birthday onwards.
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They just kept pushing and pushing and pushing and eventually Brooklyn just thought, F this, I'm now going to have my say.
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And as you're about to see, that may not be the last we've heard from this disgruntled son in exile.
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Brooklyn and Nicola want a public apology.
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Do you think they'll get one?
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Wherever celebrities go, you can almost guarantee Dave Hogan will be right behind them.
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He's been snapping the rich and famous for 40 years,
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but he's always had a soft spot for Victoria and David Beckham.
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This is the day of their engagement.
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They were very tactile, very much in love.
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After I'd done these pictures, I was thinking, these are brilliant, whatever.
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She just walked out the front hotel and went, showed off her engagement, and I went, no!
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Because, yeah, we all like having exclusives.
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You were scooped?
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I was scooped by her, by Posh and Becks, because they know better than me, OK?
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What's impressed Dave Hogan about the Beckons is the very disciplined way they've turned their celebrity into business.
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They have a certain look, they have a certain stance.
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You know, you look at all the great stuff that they do themselves, which is obviously obviously photographed on an iPhone by their team, and it's faultless.
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It's control.
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I think that's the thing that's happened, probably to keep the brand going, is they haven't ever let their guard down.
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But Posh and Bex lost control of their carefully crafted narrative in January, when their eldest son, Brooklyn,
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turned nuclear with this social media post, declaring war against his mum and I've received endless attacks from my parents,
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both privately and publicly, that were sent to the press on their orders.
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He was fed up with what he thought was their poor treatment of his wife Nicola Peltz, and also their need to control their lives.
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But Alison Boshoff from the UK's Daily Mail
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says Victoria and David felt their disgruntled son's Bruntled's son's public retaliation was just plain cruel.
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And how did they react?
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Just deep sorrow and absolute shock.
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They simply couldn't believe it.
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There's got to be something in the lead-up to such a grenade.
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The day before, Nicola Peltz just started to scrub her Instagram.
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I started to delete all the pictures of her with the Beckhams, her on holiday with the Beckhams, her having a birthday party with the Beckhams.
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They all came off on all of those statements, I love you all so much, gone, gone, gone, gone.
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And they did say, there's a warning here, something seems to be coming.
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Weeks before our big day, my parents repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing away the rights to my name, which would have affected me,
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my wife and our future children.
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The Brooklyn view, which was expressed to me very forcefully by someone in his camp was, this is just exploit, exploit, exploit.
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It's been a line through all his life, and this was just an exploitation too far,
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and he said no. At the heart of the family dispute are the legal rights to Brooklyn's name,
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which his mother trademarked back in 2016.
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That commercial agreement is set to expire at the end of this year.
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And now an adult, it's clear Brooklyn wants to take back control of his identity.
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So if the family doesn't make up, and if the disgruntled son's previous sprays are anything to go by,
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Brand Beckham might find itself having to mop up another monstrous PR disaster.
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Is it about protecting a brand or your child's identity?
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I think it's both.
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Trademark attorney Claire Brahani says it's all very legally complex, But in simple terms, it comes down to the bottom dollar.
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Because the family name is a commercial asset, the Beckhams will fight to protect it, even if it means being at war with their own blood.
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If you've built up a brand around your name, you want to make sure that it's used consistently and appropriately for your child.
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You don't just want any third party being able to use it to use it.
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Nicola Peltz, is she a third party in all of this?
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I mean, potentially.
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They've worked very hard to create this brand which is associated with luxury and family.
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And if they don't look after it, the value of it, people won't want to give them deals.
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Ordinarily, Claire Brahani might be right.
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But when it comes to the Beckhams, it seems family feuds are very good for deals.
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A couple of months ago, Brooklyn made this cheeky ad, taking another public swipe at his parents.
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You're probably wondering why I'm watching the FIFA World Cup 2026 at home.
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Not like I don't have tickets.
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It's because... For Longstreet. For Brooklyn?
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Yes.
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These can go to someone.. else.
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David and Victoria probably didn't see the funny side.
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But it shows, right now, there's no going back for Brooklyn.
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How long do you give it before they're friends again?
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I'm not really seeing it.
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You don't think?
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No. Have you spoken to the other side?
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No, I don't think.
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Brooklyn and Nicola want a public apology.
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Do you think they'll get one?
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No, no chance.
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