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The Business of Bickering Beckhams · Mark and Pete

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  The business of bickering. Beckham's.
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  Welcome back to the Mark and Pete, where we specialized in
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  asking the question that modern culture avoids at all costs, and
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  that is what is actually appropriate.
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  This week we look at the Beckham's this is Mark and
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  Pete's two blokes with half an opinion.
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  Now here's our first thought. When families have fights or
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  moods where the daughter and son colludes and the father's bad
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  attitudes, it becomes a mother of all.
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  Feuds. Oh yes.
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  Could you believe it? Yes, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has
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  said she does not want to reconcile with his family.
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  Why? Well this is basically fuelling
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  the whole of the media environment where unfortunately
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  now we're seeing that Brooklyn is falling out with his parents,
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  Sir David Beckham and Lady Beckham.
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  Now Mr. Pete, whilst I know the Beckham's only need to just
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  simply appear in front of a camera and everybody stops and
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  listens, is this really a serious situation where Brooklyn
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  has sort of lost favour and will not reconcile with his parents?
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  Or is this just simply another brand media stunt just to keep
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  their name in the media? Well, that's always possible,
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  isn't it? The whole thing has been taken
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  out of out of context and then used.
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  It's a whole people are interested in this, let's just
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  go for it. It could be the the whole thing
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  was deliberate. It does play into a real problem
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  that happens when someone is a comedian or a singer or in in,
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  in Victoria Beckham's case, a celebrity.
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  Then you can't you, you end up always being the celebrity or
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  and you can't let it go. So in a public situation like
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  that, you end up needing to be the centre of attention.
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  It it could be that, that's that that's true.
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  But Even so, it's it's, it's, it's hardly a serious matter, is
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  it? It's a bit of a joke, yeah.
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  Well, maybe we should clarify what's going on here.
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  Yeah. But yes, let's run down the
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  details for us, Mark. Well, Brooklyn, Pats Beckham had
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  a wedding. Yes, it was a wedding.
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  That was something that was meant to be celebrated with his
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  new heiress, Nicola Peltz. Now, the the crucial thing here
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  is, is that Nicola Peltz comes from a very wealthy family.
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  She is a very wealthy individual in herself.
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  But look, let's get to two people coming together at a
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  wedding. What seemed to happen was as the
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  DJ for the wedding was calling out the most beautiful woman in
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  the room to come and dance with, of course, the groom.
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  Unfortunately, what the media has recited and basically
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  claimed is that Lady Beckham suddenly decided to spring into
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  action with a bit of Dirty Dancing, essentially
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  inappropriately in front of everyone, leaving unfortunately
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  the bride looking rather shameful, uncomfortable and
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  humiliated. How could this possibly happen?
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  Well, I wonder, was it scripted? Who knows?
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  But the fact is, is that there are some people who are actually
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  saying genuinely that this was a really awkward moment and it
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  should never have happened. Brooklyn has taken offence.
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  He's gone into the media and basically his wife doesn't want
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  to have anything to do with David Beckham or Victoria
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  Beckham in particular. And that's really what's been
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  seems to be happening. Now, the devil's in the detail
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  here, folks, because, well, some people will say, well, it was
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  slightly awkward, but at the end of the day, people do strange
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  things at weddings. Well, they might do, but I I
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  think it's gone a little bit further than that because
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  basically Brooklyn has gone out really starting to cite some
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  other nasty family feuds and seems to be escalating this now.
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  Is this a bit of naivety on behalf of Brooklyn, or is it
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  just simply a bit of gameplay with the media?
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  Well, my take on it is that it's a bit of both.
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  I mean, I think that it genuinely happened, but that
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  it's it's a great way of getting out of getting yourself out in
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  the news again. And if you do that and you allow
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  your your media team to spin it out, then the participants can
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  get genuinely upset. So, you know, it's spins out of
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  control. Now, First Corinthians 14 verse
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  14, just to quote a Bible verse says let all things be done
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  decently and in order. And if they just followed that,
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  they wouldn't have had all this trouble.
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  I mean, it's, it's, even if it is supposedly just brand, just a
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  brand publicity stunt if you like.
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  It's still, it looks bad, especially for the for the the
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  bride, because she should be the centre of attention and it's
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  made Victoria reckon the centre of attention.
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  Now. I mean, I, I haven't looked
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  closely at Victoria Beckham and the bride next to each other, so
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  I'm not going to judge on which is the more beautiful.
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  But you know, it's that's irrelevant at a wedding.
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  The bride is the most beautiful by definition, You know, it
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  doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what their
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  opinions are. Now, when I used to officiate at
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  weddings, having said to you everything should be done
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  decently in order, I participated in a practical joke
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  and at the big request of the couple who were going to get
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  married, instead of playing the usual here comes the bride music
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  as they write, as they first come in, I played the funeral
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  March and they asked me to do it.
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  And then I put on a little sound effect for them.
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  As those, you know, I was scratching the record and it
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  went into the to the wedding music and I looked down at them,
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  but they were in fits of laughter.
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  I say, I used to always have them sitting down in front of me
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  to one side facing me. They they thought this was
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  hilarious and but the rest of the congregation.
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  So you just, I'm not saying this as a story in favorite.
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  I'm saying I should have said no to that because it came over
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  very badly to everyone else, I guess, except for the married
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  couple. But still, it put a bit of a
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  sour feeling on the whole event, just for a moment.
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  So I, I, I think that whatever it is, whether it's really,
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  really a publicity exercise or whether it was a genuine, just
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  not knowing how to, how to control yourself, getting the
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  timing wrong with a humorous thing of dancing, or whether she
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  genuinely thought, well, I'm obviously the most beautiful, so
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  I have to get up and dance. Whatever it is, she shouldn't
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  have done it. Well, quite now a few things
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  here because Peltz Beckham basically said I have been
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  silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters
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  private. And this was written in a series
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  of posts to his 16,000,000 followers.
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  These slightly more than you Mr. Pete.
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  What does surprise me here is he sort of went on to say,
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  unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go
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  to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself
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  and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been
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  printed. Well, that's all very well.
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  But Mr. Pete, what does surprise me is, first of all, you were
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  not invited to the wedding. So that's sort of scandal in
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  itself. But secondly, why even air this?
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  Because it makes him look a little bit sort of childlike to
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  me. Yes, well, I think the keyword
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  is about parents and team. It's a media team putting these
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  sound by side, putting out social media posts.
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  So yeah, it's gone out of control because of the way that
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  celebrity culture works. And if I could just comment just
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  in closing, I think that's that's what we're seeing.
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  We're seeing here. We're seeing modern the the
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  apogee of modern celebrity culture.
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  But a modern celebrity culture, it teaches us that every time,
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  every moment is actually a stage to publicise yourself and
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  possibly your merchant size merchandise.
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  Every gathering opportunity is is an opportunity to further
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  your brand. Christianity, and I guess common
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  sense teaches the opposite. Real love and good behaviour in
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  a situation often looks more like mistreat.
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  Well, it does indeed. And in fact, I would say, well,
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  how do they get out of this situation?
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  So, Mr. Pete, if you were talking to Brooklyn right now,
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  how does he bend it like Beckham?
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  Well, I would say that it's, it's, I would say that it's,
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  it's not a situation that you that you step away from and just
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  say, no, it doesn't matter. I say that you get together and
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  decide. The couple get together and
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  decide to forgive.