I have so many happy memories of playing with Brooklyn at Uncle David’s house but now I’m on the outside looking in at their lives
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Freddie, centre, with Brooklyn and Romeo at match Freddie is so proud of his famous uncle
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living on government handouts of about £75 a week, swallow their pride and scour supermarket bargain bins up to three times a day for reduced items to put food on the table in their flat in Dagenham, Essex.
Downcast Freddie says: “I think about the difference in our lives sometimes, but it’s hard to explain. Their lives are hard to imagine.
“I don’t really like seeing it but it is what it is at the end of the day. They
are still my family and I’d like to see them again.” Dad Colin and Lynne Beckham had three children together. After the split an informal agreement saw Colin agree to raise Freddie and his sister Georgina, 20, while Lynne took Josh.
But the relationship between Colin and Lynne is said to be difficult.
Freddie rarely sees his mum and younger brother who are close to David and wife Victoria. Josh is said to enjoy VIP days out in David’s private box at Wembley.
Freddie says he can never imagine having the fortune of Brooklyn, but he is working hard to pull himself out of financial hardship. Every day he goes on a bricklaying course at Barking and Dagenham College, where he gets a much needed €170-a-month bursary as an apprentice.
And while Brooklyn dates models like Chloe Grace Moretz, single Freddie half jokes that he can’t even take a girl on a date as he is so skint.
His wardrobe is just cheap High Street gear, while Brooklyn often flaunts his top-end couture clothes online, being spotted in labels like Louis Vuitton and Givenchy.
Looking sheepish, Freddie jokes he’d struggle to buy designer threads,
Freddie and dad adding: “I have €2 in the bank.” Freddie and his dad have been stuck in temporary accommodation for two years while they wait for the council to move them. The flat is so small Freddie’s sister Georgina is sofa surfing even though she is four months pregnant. Meanwhile, the Beckhams live 20 miles to the west in a huge €40million mansion in London’s upper crust Holland Park. Freddie says he dreams of meeting up with his cousins to watch a football match