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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast. Well, yesterday

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Speaker 1: on our show, Emma Gillespie, who is the editor of

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Speaker 1: The Daily Os, who's our pop culture entertainment guru, she

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Speaker 1: spoke about the rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents

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Speaker 1: and this is a thing that a lot of adults

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Speaker 1: are now doing. This is something that Oprah Winfrey has

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Speaker 1: been talking about, Mel Robbins, all those self help kind

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Speaker 1: of gurus and TikTok is big on. This is people

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Speaker 1: grown ups going no contact with their parents, breaking up,

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Speaker 1: divorcing their parents. Parents are off and left saying what

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Speaker 1: have I done? And these grown children are saying, you

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Speaker 1: know very well. We've spoken about this for twenty years,

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Speaker 1: so it's fascinating to see this playing out with the Beckhams, who,

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Speaker 1: as we said yesterday, have curated their family narrative very carefully. Well.

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Speaker 1: We spoke about bits and pieces as to where the

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Speaker 1: feud began. One of the things was that on the

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Speaker 1: leading up to his wedding, his bride, Nicola Peltz, didn't

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Speaker 1: choose Victoria Beckham to make her wedding dress. Was one

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Speaker 1: of the stories. Another Victoria she's good on the fat,

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Speaker 1: She's great on the husk of van are you just

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Speaker 1: asked her? She'll whip you up something with a pattern

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Speaker 1: like that. She don't imagine that she's at home spotlight.

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Speaker 1: She's going through with the material? Is the butterick pattern?

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a cardboard thing with all the checkers? And

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Speaker 1: I remember showing mun pictures in magazines that I want

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Speaker 1: to look like this, and she said, oh, get a

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Speaker 1: pattern for that. And you know you're going to look

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Speaker 1: like an eight year old. So when your mum says

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Speaker 1: we have McDonald's at home, yes, but there are a

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Speaker 1: couple of stories also that. Well, let's see what Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: Beckham has said, because overnight he has released on his

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Speaker 1: socials a damning statement where he has come out saying

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Speaker 1: that his family are not as they seem. And this

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Speaker 1: is a man who's fighting to not be labeled as

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Speaker 1: you call him yesterday, Brennan, a no talent, NEPO babytive.

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Speaker 1: The narrative is that he has a very powerful partner's

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Speaker 1: from a very rich family. Yes she is, she's an heiress,

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Speaker 1: that he is being led along and he's lost his

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Speaker 1: manliness and he's been taken over by her and her

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Speaker 1: family and he's saying, this is not the troth the

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Speaker 1: kids swung from the money tree to another money tree.

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Speaker 1: Let me read to you what he has said. I've

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Speaker 1: been silent for years and made every effort to keep

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Speaker 1: these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have

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Speaker 1: continued to go to the press, leaving me with no

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Speaker 1: choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth

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Speaker 1: about only some of the lies that have been printed.

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Speaker 1: I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm

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Speaker 1: not being controlled. I'm standing up for myself for the

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Speaker 1: first time in my life. For my entire life, my

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Speaker 1: parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family.

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Speaker 1: The performative social media posts, family events, and inauthentic relationships

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Speaker 1: have been a fixture of the life I was born into. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I've seen with my own eyes the lengths they will

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Speaker 1: go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly

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Speaker 1: expensive innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I

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Speaker 1: believe the truth always comes out. My parents have been

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Speaker 1: trying endlessly to rule in my relationship since before my wedding,

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Speaker 1: and it hasn't stopped. My mum canceled making Nichola's dress

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Speaker 1: in the eleventh hour, despite how excited she was to

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Speaker 1: wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new

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Speaker 1: dress weeks before our big day. But the narrative was

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Speaker 1: that she Nicholas said she didn't want to wear the podstress.

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Speaker 1: The story goes on. There's bits here that it's extraordinary reading.

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Speaker 1: The night before our wedding, members of my family told

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Speaker 1: me that Nichola was quote, not blood and not family.

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Speaker 1: Since the moment I started standing up for myself with

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Speaker 1: my family, I've received endless attacks from my parents, both

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Speaker 1: privately and publicly. That was sent to the press on

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Speaker 1: their orders. Even my brothers were sent to attack me

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Speaker 1: on social media before they ultimately blocked me out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere the last summer. Listen to this bit. This is

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Speaker 1: the bit we'd heard that the mum took the first

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Speaker 1: dance at the wedding. He said, my mum hijacked my

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Speaker 1: first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks

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Speaker 1: in advance, to a romantic love song in front of

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Speaker 1: our five hundred wedding guests. Mark Anthony called me to

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Speaker 1: the stage where in the schedule was planned to be

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Speaker 1: my romantic dance with my wife. Instead, my mom was

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Speaker 1: waiting to dance with me. She danced very inappropriately on

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Speaker 1: me in front of everyone. I've never felt more uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: or humiliated in my entire life. No, there's no video

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Speaker 1: that we know of. We waited. We wanted to renew

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Speaker 1: our vows so we could recreate memories of our wedding

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Speaker 1: day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: It just keeps going. My wife has been consistently disrespected

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Speaker 1: by my family. My mum has repeatedly invited women from

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Speaker 1: my past into our lives in ways that were clearly

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Speaker 1: intended to make us both uncomfortable. Goes on and on,

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Speaker 1: but this is how it kind of wraps up here.

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Speaker 1: Mom My family values public. My family values public promotion

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Speaker 1: and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first family quote.

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Speaker 1: Love is decided by how much you post on social

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Speaker 1: media or how quickly you drop everything to show up

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Speaker 1: and pose for a family photo op, even if it's

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Speaker 1: at the expense of your professional obligations. We've gone out

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Speaker 1: of our way for years to show up and support it.

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Speaker 1: Every fashion show, every party, every press activity to show

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Speaker 1: our perfect family wow. Wow. The narrative that my wife

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Speaker 1: controls me is backwards. I've been controlled by my parents

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Speaker 1: for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in my life, since stepping away

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Speaker 1: from my family, that anxiety has disappeared. My wife and

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Speaker 1: I do not want a life shape by image press

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Speaker 1: or manipulation. It's extraordinary. It sounds like Prince Harry. But

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Speaker 1: with Prince Harry you can't who stood up for his

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Speaker 1: wife saying you're painting the wrong picture here. But with

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Speaker 1: Harry you appreciate. There's a strong family narrative. But it's

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Speaker 1: not about that. Listen to it. This is just a

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Speaker 1: guy trying to make good. It's not about how much

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Speaker 1: money from your bank account. Really, I really feel for

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Speaker 1: him because this is a family who appearances everything royal family,

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Speaker 1: you get. They have a structure that the whole world understands. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the Bectams are like the Royal Well, this is

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Speaker 1: we didn't he's saying it's fake. He's saying it's curated

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Speaker 1: and it's harsh and it's not so well your team

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Speaker 1: what's the old MAT's name, Brooklyn or team? I like

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Speaker 1: the Beckhams. But this is fascinating, is this will break

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Speaker 1: out the fast fascinating it is were you know, this

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Speaker 1: is something we could put to the pub test for

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Speaker 1: the first time in twenty twenty six. We'll do that

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Speaker 1: a little bit later on, maybe we will