Victoria Beckham has broken her silence after her son Brooklyn blocked their whole family on Instagram.
The fashion designer, 51, put on a brave face as she downed a shot with her colleagues on Monday ahead of Christmas – amid the deepening rift with her son.
The bitter Beckham family feud escalated to new heights over the weekend as Cruz claimed his brother Brooklyn had blocked their entire family on Instagram.
It had first been reported that David and Victoria had stopped following their oldest son, before Cruz, 20, furiously set the record straight.
He penned online: ‘My mum and dad would never unfollow their son [as reports had suggested]. They woke up blocked. As did I.’
But Victoria was determined to not let it get her down as she celebrated the festive period at the start of this week and looked rather jubilant.
Victoria Beckham has broken her silence after her son Brooklyn blocked their whole family
The fashion designer, 51, put on a brave face as she downed a shot with her colleagues on Monday ahead of Christmas – amid the deepening rift with her son
Taking to Instagram she cheersed her shot and joked to the team at her fashion and beauty brand: ‘Cheers to me! Enough about me what do you guys think about me?’
She then sat and ate her Christmas dinner with hair clips in as she joked that she wanted extra lights on her as after her recent Netflix documentary she realised she looks best in a ‘room full of light’.
Victoria was filming something for her brand as a camera light beamed down on her in the clip.
She penned in the caption of her post: ‘It’s a tough job being me, but someone’s gotta do it! Some unseen footage from the recent @victoriabeckhambeauty Creative Director series. Happy holidays everyone! xx.’
The claims of the very sudden blocking by Brooklyn sparked the obvious question of why he would do such a thing.
And it’s now possible that Brooklyn suddenly cut final ties with his parents and three siblings after Victoria liked a post of his about roasting a chicken.
Aspiring chef Brooklyn, 26, posted another of his regular cooking videos on Instagram last week as he showed his 16 million followers how to brine a chicken.
Victoria is thought to have liked the post which led to a slew of comments under the post urging Brooklyn to fix the feud with his family.
Fans penned: ‘Victoria liked this post. Yay!!! Family is everything’, ‘Go and see your parents, you will regret it later in life’, ‘Call your parents.’
Victoria was determined to not let it get her down as she celebrated the festive period at the start of this week and looked rather jubilant
Taking to Instagram she cheersed her shot and joked to the team at her fashion and beauty brand: ‘Cheers to me! Enough about me what do you guys think about me?’
She then sat and ate her Christmas dinner with hair clips in as she joked that she wanted extra lights on her as after her recent Netflix documentary she realised she looks best in a ‘room full of light’
It’s understood that Brooklyn was left annoyed by the comments prompted by his mother’s public like – and decided to block the whole family including his sister Harper, 14.
Brooklyn will be spending Christmas in the US with his wife Nicola Peltz – who no longer follows the Beckhams – and her family.
It comes after The Daily Mail revealed that David and Victoria have been asked to stop contacting Brooklyn and his wife.
It seems that the young couple find Instagram posts by the Beckhams upsetting and anxiety-inducing.
They wake up worrying what might have been posted about them overnight.
‘It would be really in the holiday spirit if the Beckhams could just back off and leave them alone for now,’ a friend of the Peltz Beckhams said on Sunday.
The claims of the very sudden blocking by Brooklyn sparked the obvious question of why he would do such a thing
It’s now possible that Brooklyn suddenly cut final ties with his parents and three siblings after Victoria liked a post of his about roasting a chicken
‘The Beckhams started these ‘blocking’ game stories earlier this year and they keep going.
‘Whether someone follows someone else on Insta or any other platform shouldn’t be and isn’t a story. It’s a sad situation, but nothing has changed here.
‘Nicola and Brooklyn haven’t been commenting. They just want peace. It would be best for everyone for them [the Beckhams] to stop contacting, commenting and briefing because it’s not accomplishing anything.’
In fact, even the intervention by Cruz is considered another negative briefing by Brooklyn and Nicola. As the friend says: ‘They have requested that the Beckhams back off. They just want to be left alone. The Instagram stuff is just a media play – it feels like more manipulation, more gaslighting. It just drives Brooklyn and Nicola further away.
‘They get upset by the speculation. They are trying to take the high road which is not to react at all and to just live their lives.’
Meanwhile sources in camp Beckham say after the blocking: ‘David and Victoria will never stop loving Brooklyn.
‘They will always be here for him and they always want him to know that, they are devastated at this fall out.
‘So far from this being them, it appears that Brooklyn has blocked them to show them that’s it, this is final.
‘It is very clear that this is a sign of his complete estrangement from his family.
‘For David and Victoria it was their last connection to Brooklyn as he has made it very clear he doesn’t want to talk to them anymore, they haven’t spoken for months and months now.
The Beckham clan are seen together earlier this month – without Brooklyn
‘By following him it was a message to him that they still love him and still want to follow his life. Now they can’t do that, but it’s not their doing.’
The Instagram fallout comes just days before Christmas.
Brooklyn will not join his parents and younger brothers Romeo and Cruz or sister Harper.
Instead he is expected to remain in US while the Beckhams celebrate with their wider family at their £10million home in the Cotswolds.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Brooklyn for comment on Cruz’s claims.
It is the most public sign yet that there has is no communication between them amid their spiraling family feud.
Brooklyn’s wife Nicola, 30, also does not follow David and Victoria. They no longer follow her either.
His decision to spend Christmas with his in-laws will come as a blow to his parents and siblings.
In recent weeks, David has appeared to offer a public olive branch to his son, in an apparent bid to put an end to their very public family feud.
The former footballer had shared a throwback picture of himself with Brooklyn and his younger brothers Romeo and Cruz.
Cruz also made sure his brother knew he was thinking of him by sharing a sweet snap of the pair with brother Romeo on the beach in Brazil.
Brooklyn was seen wrapping his arm around his youngest brother Cruz as they posed on the beach.
Relations between Brooklyn, Nicola and the Beckham clan unraveled completely when they did not attend any of David’s 50th birthday celebrations in May. Brooklyn also failed to acknowledge his father’s knighthood in November.
Last week, the Daily Mail revealed how Brooklyn’s nans are devastated they won’t be seeing their grandson this Christmas.
Victoria had shared a festive picture from her parents Jackie and Tony Adams’ house as they placed twelve stockings in a row on their fireplace, one for each grandchild. In pride of place was one reserved for Brooklyn.
The family feud has taken a particularly acute toll on Jackie, as well as David’s mother Sandra.
Some argue that hanging up Brooklyn’s stocking, regardless of the feud, is a sign of hope on Jackie’s part that – somehow, despite everything – Christmas might finally persuade her grandson to put aside his grudges and step on a plane to rejoin the family.
Friends of the Beckhams say Jackie and Sandra are ‘extremely sad’ about the situation.
Brooklyn will be spending Christmas in the US with his wife Nicola Peltz – who no longer follows the Beckhams – and her family
The Daily Mail previously revealed how Brooklyn has snubbed his family’s attempts at reconciliation in the run up to the festive period
The source added: ‘They’re not getting any younger and the cold truth of it all is that nobody knows when they will see Brooklyn next. It’s Jackie and Sandra who everyone feels so sorry for.’
David and Victoria will spend some of the festive period in the £60million home they recently bought on Miami’s waterfront.
It was where they were joined last year by Brooklyn and Nicola, and photographs of their Christmas celebrations show everyone having what appeared to be a lovely time.
Victoria is believed to be working hard to put on a brave face and stay strong for her husband and teenage daughter Harper.
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