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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Morwenna Ferrier

‘They’re perfect – until they aren’t’: why are people so interested in the Beckxit beef?

David and Victoria Beckham pose with Romeo, Cruz, Harper, Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham.
The vagaries of celebrity beef means no one quite knows how we got here. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

If the biggest feud of the week belongs to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then the longest running is arguably “Beckxit”.

The name given to the fallout between one of the most famous couples in the world – David and Victoria Beckham – and their less famous eldest son, Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola Anne Peltz, was coined by the Daily Mail this year. But it covers a broader conflict that began in 2022, when Peltz wore Valentino instead of Victoria Beckham to her wedding, and brings us to this week’s lavish cover-shoot for German Glamour magazine in which the junior Beckhams discuss their “occasionally messy, very real love” and whether they might open a restaurant – without a word about her in-laws.

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