An insider explains the Beckham family feud - The Saturday Story
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The Times
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Hadley Freeman was embedded with the Beckhams when she was asked to ghost write a book for Victoria Beckham back in the early 2000s. Now, a colossal family feud between Brooklyn Beckham and the rest of the clan has exploded into the headlines, culminating in a scathing six-page Instagram statement. Hadley tells us what's really going on here - and why we all can't stop watching.
Guest: Hadley Freeman, writer for the Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
Clips: Sky News.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. |
| 0:05.4 | On Saturday, I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:09.5 | There is drama with the Beckham's. |
| 0:17.2 | Something coming into us this evening, |
| 0:19.2 | Brooklyn Beckham, saying he doesn't want to reconcile with his family. |
| 0:25.6 | This happened in an explosive social media post a little earlier this evening. |
| 0:32.3 | It has long been rumoured that Victoria and David weren't getting on with their eldest son and daughter-in-law. |
| 0:39.1 | There were reports of arguments over the wedding, over who was or wasn't liking, whose posts on |
| 0:44.4 | Instagram, questions over why the heir to David and Victoria's empire wasn't at Old Dad's 50th. |
| 0:51.7 | And then, this week, Brooklyn Beckham, for it is he, published a damning, damning statement. |
| 1:00.0 | He complained of controlling parents, performative social media posts, a wedding ruined, attacks, twisted narratives. |
| 1:07.2 | It was nuclear. |
| 1:08.7 | My family values public promotion and endorsement above all else. |
| 1:14.0 | Brand Beckham comes first. |
| 1:16.2 | We had a colleague read the posts out loud for add a drama. |
| 1:20.3 | Performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into. |
| 1:28.1 | But I believe the truth always comes out. |
| 1:31.9 | I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life. |
| 1:40.0 | One of my colleagues who knows this family better than most, |
| 1:43.0 | in fact who's embedded with them for a while, has been across every twist of this latest drama. |
| 1:49.1 | Are we witnessing the slow motion fall of the House of Beckham? |
| 1:53.6 | And why are so many of us interested? |
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