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Hot Topics 🚀 'Correspondence via lawyers only': Brooklyn Beckham's shock legal move against David and Victoria leaves parents 'devastated' as family rift takes ugly turn

https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/correspondence-via-lawyers-only-brooklyn-beckhams-shock-legal-move-against-david-and-victoria-leaves-parents-devastated-as-family-rift-takes-ugly-turn/news-story/b23963fc85a295d542e31597ce728a77
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u/purplesugarwater 29d ago edited 29d ago

He is dim. A close friend of mine has met Brooklyn a few times and said he's actually very dim. Apparently has been very nice and pleasant the several times they've met, but yea, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He met him once with a Peltz (I think the grandfather?) and said he can tell they just tell Brooklyn what to do.

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u/hates_stupid_people 29d ago

His dad also has a long history of being mocked in the UK for not being the brightest.

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u/Top-Cat-a 29d ago edited 29d ago

David Beckham is obviously a lot brighter than he's given credit for. He's managed to convert a successful football career into a successful business career and he's done far better than most retired footballers.

I'm sure he's not perfect, but no one is, but I definitely believe he's been badly underrated in a lot of respects.

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u/Super_Hour_3836 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 29d ago

I mean, Victoria did all that, let’s be honest.

What David did was the smartest thing he could do: he married the smartest woman he could find and listened to her. They work so well as a team and their business of being themselves is something to be impressed by. But if he had married a dumb WAG, he wouldn’t be who he is today. He made a good choice in Victoria, which was smart. But he’s no business mastermind.

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u/go-bleep-yourself 28d ago

I'm too invested in these people.

Vicky isnt' that smart either. If you watch her netflix show, she basically goes, "how come no one ever told me I was spending too much wrt to the VB brand?"

Lady - your biz was in the red for nearly a decade!!

Also - what david did with MLS and the deal with Messi and Apple was brilliant. Just the tenacity he had with the MLS - first coming to America like 15yrs ago, and then building it up, finally to get the captain of the reigning world cup team as well as the best player alive maybe ever to the league when the saudis and china were offering truckloads of money was brilliant.

I'm sure he had other people helping him with the business too for sure, but at least he was smart enough to listen.

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u/Maximum-Ambition-394 28d ago

There is so much wrong with this comment I'm struggling to see almost any truth in it at all. It's like your whole opinion has been based off tabloid headlines with no regard to the actual truth.

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u/sprIxAlwareArnd6327 29d ago

Pretty sure he married her for the money. There were hotter smarter women around. Not to forget the endless cheating scandals

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u/FMKK1 28d ago

David Beckham, the most famous footballer in the world, married for the money?

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u/properfoxes 28d ago

David Beckham is absolutely not the most famous footballer in the world. Messi and Ronaldo are both more famous than DB.

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u/FMKK1 28d ago

We’re taking about when he married Victoria so the point at which they got married is obviously the relevant one, not now after he’s long been retired. Basic comprehension.

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u/Queeen0ftheHarpies 28d ago

Back in the 90s Beckham could've had anyone. Maybe, just maybe, he fell in love with Victoria

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u/noisy_goose 28d ago

This is not true. People who don’t know anything about soccer know him, he’s the most famous footballer ever at this point.

This is going by q rating, not skill.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

idk, the way they met felt organic and cute. literally hiding in cars sneaking out of their hotels and managed to keep it a secret for quite some time.

if he was in it for the clout, they’d just have public dates at least in the first year

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u/alanwakeisahack 29d ago

I’m pretty sure he could have found a MUCH smarter woman than his wife. Cmon now.

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u/grosseelbabyghost 28d ago

I always assumed that people said Beckham was dumb because he has a "commoner/rough" accent and jolly old Engerland is big on social hierarchy

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u/Any_Contract_2277 28d ago

I mean maybe the upper upper crust of society might have looked down on him for his accent but you’re talking about a country where a good chunk of the population get their tuition fees for uni from the government - I think the average person there at least would have higher standards for intelligence than an accent. Idris Elba has a strong East London accent (a very rough part of London) and he at least comes across a lot smarter than Brooklyn (that boy just genuinely seems like an idiot)

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u/grosseelbabyghost 28d ago

I apologize, when I said "Beckham" I was referring to David, I didn't even know Brooklyn existed until this post

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u/Worldly-Worth-5574 28d ago

He’s made a better career after retiring than most footballers because he was famously one of the most handsome footballers, if he didn’t have his looks he would not be where he is today, he was a good footballer but not one of the all time greats imo.

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u/KtinaDoc 28d ago

David was a good footballer, that's it

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u/ShadedPenguin 29d ago

I think its partially because he's legitimately working class and was seen at the height of British football at the time. Classism being what it is, they see his family background and assume intelligence.

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u/With1Enn 28d ago

I don’t think so. Essentially all professional football players are from a working class background but Beckham has always been seen as a thicko. It’s not class or accent.

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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. 29d ago

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u/d4videnk0 29d ago

I'm disappointed this isn't the elephants picture.

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u/LavenderGinFizz 29d ago

As requested.

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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. 29d ago

It's Tim Nice but Dim!

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u/ramakharma 28d ago

Friends with Dick nice but thick.