Cruz Beckham made his live radio debut on the return of Chris Evans’ TFI Friday Show this weekend, over 25 years after his mother Victoria’s famous appearance.
The Spice Girl was a guest on the iconic series back in 1999, and the episode featured the toe-curling moment Chris asked her to weigh herself live on air, just months after she’d given birth to her son Brooklyn.
The clip from now has a more sinister connotation after Victoria admitted she has suffered an eating disorder since the earliest days of her pop career in her new Netflix documentary.
But with Cruz set to launch his music career with a nationwide tour later this month, the musician was joined by his band The Breakers, formed of Dan Ewins, Telmo Seixas and Dario Scotti, for an appearance on the show.
After performing their song For Your Love, the band also delivered a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire.
During an interview with Chris, Cruz said: ‘Honestly just to keep making music and keep trying to put a smile on people’s faces. People need it right now.’
Cruz Beckham made his live radio debut on the return of Chris Evans’ TFI Friday Show this weekend, over 25 years after his mother Victoria’s famous appearance
The Spice Girl was a guest on the iconic series in 1999, and the episode featured the moment Chris asked her to weigh herself live on air, just months after she’d given birth to son Brooklyn
He also shared that the first gig he attended was one of Victoria’s Spice Girls shows, followed by a Stone Roses concert with his dad David at Old Trafford.
At the height of their Spice Girls heyday, Victoria was a guest on Chris’ TFI Friday show, where she was asked to weigh herself on live TV.
Evans warmly greeted Victoria by kissing her hand and cheeks – turning to Sir David, he joked: ‘It was just a quick peck, David, that’s all it was.’
The interview was just before David and Victoria’s wedding and after Manchester United’s treble Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup success, which was followed, Victoria said, by ‘a massive party’.
Evans told the audience the ‘world’s most famous baby’ was asleep downstairs, adding: ‘We’ve had to turn the bands down all day.’
He then asked Victoria: ‘A lot of girls want to know, because you look fantastic again, how did you get back to your shape after your birth?’
She replied: ‘I haven’t done anything, I mean I’m really lazy… I don’t go down to the gym or anything…’
Chris interjected: ‘Are you one of these sickening women that don’t have to do anything.’
With Cruz set to launch his music career with a nationwide tour later this month, the musician was joined by his band The Breakers for an appearance on the show
Victoria said: ‘I don’t, I don’t… actually a lot of people say does David help you work out…’
Chris then asked: ‘Is your weight back to normal?’ and Victoria replied: ‘Yes, it is.’
Reaching under his desk for a set of scales, Chris then asked: ‘Can I check? Do you mind?
A laughing Victoria replied: ‘Oh no, you did this to Geri didn’t you! Geri was small.’
Helping her onto the scales, they read the dial as Chris said: ‘Eight stone, that’s not bad at all, is it?’ while the audience cheers in the background.
Victoria then asked Chris to weigh himself and he said: ‘I’m always 12 stone six,’ but the arrow indicates 12 stones, and he joked: ‘Oh, look I’ve lost six pounds during the show.’
Referring to the weigh-in on her new Netflix documentary, Victoria – who was just 25 then – said: ‘I was weighed on national television.
‘”Get on those scales, have you lost the weight?” We laugh about it and we joke about it but I was really, really young and that hurts.’
Victoria’s body confidence agony began when she was just a teenager and won a place at the Laine Theatre school in Epsom, Surrey – which she reveals her parents funded by remortgaging their house in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire.
She told how despite her hard work she wasn’t the best dancer, or indeed singer. But she also told how she looked different to her classmates.
‘I didn’t look like a lot of the other girls,’ she said. ‘That’s where I started getting a lot of criticism about my appearance, my weight.
‘I remember the principle of the theatre school saying to me, you know, at the end of the show we are going to just fly in. “You girls can be flown in,” meaning that we weren’t looking as aesthetically pleasing as some of the others, “so we’ll just fly you in the back.”
Victoria’s mother Jackie also added that the star was told, ‘”You’re overweight. You’ll be at the back”.’
She added: ‘It must have affected her, it’s a very silly thing to say to someone, “You’re fat”.’
Ahead of the radio appearance, Cruz released the music video for his new single For Your Love on Friday – as his family remain in the throes of a feud with Brooklyn.
The Stone Roses inspired clip is a huge ode to family as his brother Romeo gets a namecheck, they film in his father David’s favourite pie and mash restaurant and even his grandad Tony Adams gets a cameo.
The aspiring musician, 20, had teased the visuals with a clip on Thursday night which saw him in Essex pie and mash shop Tony’s – a sweet nod to his dad David’s favourite eatery which he often visits with his mother Sandra.
For Your Love follows his debut single Optics released in October last year alongside Lick The Toad, marking the beginning of Cruz’s music career.
The video features Cruz alongside his band The Breakers, and features a cameo from his grandad Tony – Victoria’s father.
The video shows Tony on an old-fashioned TV screen as he introduces the band for their ‘first TV performance’ of the song.
Last month, Cruz announced his debut headline show with The Breakers at The Courtyard Theatre in London on March 27, which sold out in a matter of minutes.
He followed up the announcement with a full UK and EU tour, kicking off in Birmingham on February 25, before journeying to Cardiff, Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Southampton, Brighton, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin, before culminating in three nights in London at The Courtyard Theatre.
Cruz said of the single on Friday: ‘I love this song. It’s been so fun to play live over the last couple of months.
Ahead of the radio appearance, Cruz released the music video for his new single For Your Love on Friday – as his family remain in the throes of a feud with Brooklyn
‘It was the first track I properly finished with Justin and Lewis, who are total legends at what they do, and we all walked away knowing this had really laid the foundations for everything else we’ve created together.
‘For me, it’s all about love and being fearless in that love, but I hope everyone can interpret it in their own way and find their own meaning to it.’
The post came hours after Cruz’s olive branch on Instagram.
Cruz shared a gallery of images of his oldest sibling, 26, for the first time since a bitter feud engulfed the Beckham family.
Notably, Cruz shared the Billy Joel song The River Of Dreams as a soundtrack to his post, which includes poignant lyrics about ‘something sacred I lost’.
However, despite Cruz’s clear bid to send a message of reconciliation to Brooklyn, his older brother did not appear to reciprocate the hopeful tone.
Instead he shared a gallery of images that included his wife Nicola, accompanied by the thinly veiled Barry White track, You’re The First, The Last, My Everything.
Up until Cruz’s olive branch, the Beckham family have maintained a stoic silence since Brooklyn’s bombshell six-page statement, where he declared he has no plans to reconcile with his family.
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