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EXCLUSIVE Revealed: Brooklyn Beckham's shocking reaction when David rang him - and how it drove his father to take desperate measures out of fear for his son, insiders tell KATIE HIND By KATIE HIND CONSULTANT EDITOR SHOWBUSINESS Published: 00:57, 11 May 2025 | Updated: 00:59, 11 May 2025 e-mail View comments There was once a time when Brooklyn Beckham would FaceTime his parents on an almost daily basis. But as the family feud hits a new low, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Posh and Becks’s eldest son is refusing to even take his parents’ calls. Sources close to the situation say that there has been ‘no contact’ despite David and Victoria trying to check in on their son.
Brooklyn, 26, it seems, isn’t prepared to bury the hatchet and speak to his once-beloved mother and father. Friends suspect Brooklyn’s wife, actress Nicola Peltz , will have had a ‘huge influence’ over her husband’s decision to cut his family adrift, ensuring that he doesn’t speak to them. ‘There has been no call, no contact, nothing,’ said the source.
‘As parents, David and Victoria are concerned for their son and they have tried to get in touch but he isn’t interested. ‘David even tried through social media last Monday because he fears that his son won’t know that he and Victoria love him so dearly otherwise. David said that he missed Brooklyn while he was on his birthday fishing trip in Scotland with his other sons.
It was the only way he can get to him. ‘It is a terribly sad situation. They just want him to know that they are there for him when he’s ready to talk to him but he simply doesn’t seem very interested at all.
Nicola must be behind this, she has been driving this wedge for some years now.’ It seems Brooklyn, 26, no longer speaks to his once-beloved mother and father ‘There has been no call, no contact, nothing,’ said the source. ‘As parents, David and Victoria are concerned for their son and they have tried to get in touch but he isn’t interested’ David, who turned 50 on May 2, and Victoria, 51, are still said to be in shock that Brooklyn and Nicola shunned the former England captain’s five birthday celebrations.
They were no-shows at a bash in Miami, a boys’ fishing trip with Romeo and Cruz, a big party at the Beckhams’ country home in the Cotswolds, the family foray to France and finally a dinner at Notting Hill restaurant Core last Saturday. Last week, The Mail on Sunday revealed that despite travelling from their home in Beverly Hills to London and telling the Beckhams they would be joining the celebrations, the couple failed to turn up. And since then the story, which David and Victoria had desperately been trying to keep a secret to avoid causing further friction, has come tumbling out.
It has prompted friends of Nicola to lambast the Beckhams in what has escalated into quite the briefing war. Nicola insists that the couple didn’t attend the events because they feel uncomfortable around Romeo’s new girlfriend Kim Turnbull, apparently because she used to date Brooklyn. But the Beckhams have argued that he didn’t date Kim – and point out she wasn’t on the fishing trip or at the Cotswolds party.
Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola, did not turn up for any of his father’s five birthday celebrations Nicola’s camp also briefed some outrageous claims about how the Beckhams treat their children, which has further angered David and Victoria. ‘It’s difficult to see how this will ever end all of the time that Nicola is around,’ said one source. Today The Mail On Sunday can also reveal the depths of fashion designer Victoria’s dislike of heiress Nicola.
Victoria made up with her daughter-in-law around 18 months ago following a fall-out at the £3 million Beckham-Peltz wedding in April 2022. ‘The view is that Victoria thinks Nicola is a narcissist,’ said one long-standing friend of the family. ‘Nicola has love-bombed Brooklyn since the day they met and has tried to convince him that she is all he needs, and then she has cut him off from his family.
‘Victoria thinks that Nicola has used Brooklyn for all she can get to elevate herself and that has really worked for her – she’s a Beckham now. Victoria absolutely loves her son – she always will. ‘But with Nicola it’s an entirely different story.
She despises her, she tried her best to make up after the wedding row but this time it all seems extremely unlikely. Victoria has had enough. To the Beckhams, Nicola is a nightmare.
She grew up in a big, billionaire family with a father – who friends of the Beckhams say isn’t that different to Logan Roy from Succession.’ One of David’s 50th birthday party, with Victoria and three of their four children, from left, Cruz, Harper and Romeo As for Brooklyn, both David and Victoria are worried for his wellbeing and mindset. ‘If they could go and pick him up now and bring him home then they would,’ said one friend.
‘But he is a grown man and can make his own decisions. They are devastated. ‘They have always treated him with kid gloves and treat these situations delicately but this one feels pretty impossible.
‘Through his entire life and into adulthood, he was so close to both David and Victoria, so they miss him. Of course, there is anger that he wasn’t at David’s birthday dos but at this point they just hope he’s okay.’ Associates of the family also point out that the Beckhams’ youngest child and only daughter Harper must be missing her beloved big brother too.
Aged just 13, she will probably be struggling to understand the complexities of this family rift. The siblings have always had such a strong bond. ‘Brooklyn was 13 when Harper was born and so was always so hands on with Harper,’ said a source.
‘He was the doting older brother since the day she was born.’ Nicola also enjoyed playing big sister to Harper. But the couple are understood not to have spent any time with the teenager since last December.
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