Our Take On The Brooklyn Beckham Saga
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the final hour before recording this week, we had to push our planned research aside and get stuck into the meat and bones of the juiciest celeb drama 2026 has given us so far: Brooklyn Beckham released an eight part Instagram story tell all about his much rumoured estrangement from his parents, Victoria and David Beckham.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina get to grips with the implicated misogyny of everyone’s response, the particular Britishness of this scandal and why, for once, this is gossip we can engage with guilt free.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Pollyester. And I'm I'm Ioni, the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is The Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review |
| 0:16.4 | And if you didn't already know |
| 0:17.7 | Members get a free copy of every zeme we put out |
| 0:20.1 | As well as extra perks like one-on-one mentoring |
| 0:22.4 | A group WhatsApp chat where you can talk to me and Ione, and loads, loads more. |
| 0:27.3 | This week, we polled members in our group chat to hear what they'd like the topic of our secret members-only bonus episode to be, and they chose... |
| 0:34.6 | On 2016, nostalgia. |
| 0:37.7 | Watch out for that on Wednesday. |
| 0:40.0 | Sign up via the link in our description. |
| 0:42.0 | Do you have any reviews, Ione? |
| 0:43.6 | No. |
| 0:46.8 | But we do have very nice Spotify comments. |
| 0:49.2 | We have loads of Spotify comments this week, which I really liked. |
| 0:52.5 | Really made me feel a part of the community. If you're getting a reply on the Spotify comment, know that in your heart that is I only gamble. It is I only gamble, yeah. If I fight with you, it's Gina. Flute? Fight. Oh, yeah. Rogg says, I loved this episode. It gave a name to this dissatisfaction I have been feeling. It really hits the nail on the head. We need stress. The removing of all the stress in our lives doesn't help. It just makes us feel hollow. Keep up the amazing research and accessible ideas. Thanks, Rob. And then Rachi says, I've been dying to get into podcasts, but I've been struggling. This is one of the only ones I've found that doesn't sound forced. |
| 1:28.3 | Genuinely feels like you're overhearing a conversation |
| 1:30.2 | that you accidentally got deeply invested in. |
| 1:32.5 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:33.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:33.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:33.9 | So today, what are we talking about? |
| 1:36.8 | Bam, bum, bum, Brooklyn Beckham. |
| 1:39.2 | Brooklyn Beckham over this week released a series of stories on Instagram. |
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