We don’t do that in this family! Becks blasts Brooklyn over wedding dress rumpus with Posh
DAVID Beckham ‘read the riot act’ to his son Brooklyn in a rare confrontation – as the fall-out between the family and Brooklyn’s new wife Nicola Peltz continues.
Today Brooklyn, 23, and Nicola, 27, will watch former Spice Girl Mrs Beckham’s show at Paris fashion week.
The gathering will be a show of family unity which, it is hoped, will draw a line under an awkward rift which opened up in April and has yet to be healed.
But it can be revealed that before this appearance of a united front came a rare confrontation between Beckham and his eldest son.
It was provoked by Miss Peltz’s recent interview with Grazia magazine, in which she replayed tensions over the making of her wedding dress and appeared to accuse her mother-in-law of ‘blanking’ her and backing out of an agreement to make the gown.
I’m told that Beckham ‘read the riot act’ to Brooklyn last week, telling him: ‘We don’t do that in this family.’
A source says: ‘I don’t think David has ever lost his temper with Brooklyn or had cause to talk to him harshly, but that has now finally happened.
‘He had it out with him and told him: “We don’t do this in our family – and you know that we don’t do this in our family.”’
Beckham added to Brooklyn: ‘What happens next is up to you, but we are done with the drama.’
The source said: ‘David was really appalled by the Grazia interview because it seemed to be washing the family dirty linen in public – and he said that [Brooklyn’s brothers] Romeo and Cruz are also hurt by it.
It was probably a shock as he’s never done anything other than tell Brooklyn how much he adores him.’
Friends say the Beckhams have privately compared their family situation to the schism in the Royal Family between Princes William and Harry, with some blame attached to the American wives Miss Peltz and Meghan.
One added: ‘What is being said is that Brooklyn has forgotten that he is a Beckham.’
It seems David is naturally protective of his wife Victoria, who has been greatly hurt by her son’s drift from her side since he got married in April. Tensions surfaced during planning for the wedding, which was mostly carried out by Miss Peltz’s socialite mother Claudia.
Over the wedding weekend, Miss Peltz changed three times but didn’t wear any Victoria Beckham clothes – and the Beckhams were not seated at the top table.
After the wedding, the large Peltz family joined Miss Peltz and Brooklyn for a honeymoon on board a yacht. The young couple didn’t spend time with the Beckham family and seem to have not seen them at all, barring a lunch in Italy in July. Miss Peltz’s brothers Bradley and Diesel are joining her and Brooklyn in Paris this week.
The froideur was first evident in social media interactions between Miss Peltz and her motherin-law, revealed in this newspaper.
In her Grazia interview, Miss Peltz claimed that she, stylist Leslie Fremar and mother Claudia had been excited to have a dress designed by Mrs Beckham. She said: ‘We connected to start designing the dress, and then a few days went by and I didn’t hear anything. Victoria called my mom and said her atelier couldn’t make it.’
She went on to claim that it hurt her feelings when people speculated that she hadn’t ever intended to wear a Victoria Beckham dress.
Meanwhile Brooklyn, an aspiring chef, told the magazine: ‘To be honest, my wife is obviously my first priority and I never want to see her upset ever. We have each other’s back 100 per cent and we just move on together.’
‘We are done with the drama’