Archive: Peltz-Beckham: A super-wedding gone wrong
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week Brooklyn Beckham publicly cut ties with his parents David and Victoria Beckham. Its exposed a rift in the family that seemingly dates back at least to Brooklyn's wedding.
More than two years ago, Brooklyn Beckham married the actress Nicola Peltz in a wedding that did not go smoothly. Nicola Peltz's billionaire father, Nelson Peltz, filed a lawsuit against two wedding planners demanding a refund. The Observer's Claudia Williams in this episode of the Slow Newscast asked the question: what happens when you treat a wedding like a billion-dollar business deal?
This episode was first published on 28th March 2023
Reporter: Claudia Williams
Producer: Imy Harper
Sound design: Sam Mbatha
Editor: Basia Cummings
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello, it's Alexi Mostras, the host of the slow newscast, and welcome to a special re-up show that we first published way back in 2023. |
| 0:18.4 | It's about a certain superwedding, the ramifications of which sent the internet into |
| 0:24.2 | meltdown this week. Like it or not, you almost certainly know where we're heading. Brooklyn |
| 0:30.4 | Beckham and his rant on Instagram. I won't go into the gory details. It's enough to say that |
| 0:36.6 | his description of his wedding |
| 0:38.2 | to Nicola Peltz in 2022 did not cast Sir David and Lady Beckham in a good light. |
| 0:45.0 | And now it's the family and the brand that is falling apart. And all of that made me think |
| 0:51.2 | of Tolstoy and how he said that all unhappy families were unhappy in their own way, |
| 0:57.0 | which in this case just isn't really true. Just Google, my mum ruined my wedding, and you'll see |
| 1:04.1 | pages and pages of results. Maybe that's why people are so interested in this story, because |
| 1:10.4 | despite this playing out in the most public way, we can all empathise with both sides. |
| 1:17.2 | But actually, this particular event was unusual, a marriage between one of the most wealthy families in the world, the Peltzes, and one of the most famous, the Beckham's. And the cracks |
| 1:29.3 | were beginning to show even before the cake was cut. Two years ago, the observers Claudia |
| 1:35.4 | Williams latched onto the story earlier than almost anyone. Here's her slow newscast. |
| 1:42.1 | Hi, I'm Nicola Peltz. Hi, I'm Brooklyn Beckham. |
| 1:45.3 | And this is the GQ couples' quiz. |
| 1:47.7 | That was really unseen. |
| 1:48.8 | Oh, we killed us. |
| 1:49.3 | Are you ready? |
| 1:52.4 | It's Valentine's Day, February 2020. |
| 1:55.9 | Nicola Peltz, the daughter of an American billionaire, |
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