David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly concerned about their eldest son Brooklyn amid the ongoing feud between the family
Brooklyn Beckham used to have daily contact with his parents – before the family feud(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Hug)
David and Victoria Beckham are said to be growing increasingly concerned about their son Brooklyn, who continues to ‘ignore’ their calls.
It’s been claimed 26-year-old Brooklyn would once FaceTime his parents on a daily basis but now – amid their ongoing feud after Brooklyn and wife Nicola Peltz were a no-show at both parents’ birthday celebrations – there is said to have been ‘no contact’. However, this is not without the parents trying to reach out to their eldest son.
David is said to have made attempts to get in touch with Brooklyn through social media, but to no avail.
A feud is said to have sparked between the eldest Beckham offspring and the rest of the clan after Romeo Beckham started dating Kim Turnball – who was previously romantically linked to Brooklyn a few years ago. Since the claims, Brooklyn has snubbed paying tribute to his parents David, 50, and Victoria, 51, on their birthdays and missed out on their celebrations.
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David Beckham is said to have tried to reach out to Brooklyn via social media(Image: Getty Images)
A source has claimed: “There has been no call, no contact, nothing.
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“As parents, David and Victoria are concerned for their son and they have tried to get in touch but he isn’t interested.
“David even tried through social media last Monday because he fears that his son won’t know that he and Victoria love him so dearly otherwise,” they added to the Daily Mail.
David is said to have shared how he missed his son during a birthday fishing trip to Scotland, after reaching out to him on social media but, it has been said that Brooklyn “isn’t interested at all” despite his parents’ attempts to let him know “they are all there for him when he’s ready to talk”.
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Brooklyn has been married to Nicola since 2022(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Exp)
Meanwhile, it has been claimed that there are beliefs that Brooklyn’s wife Nicola Peltz, who wed in April 2022, “must be behind” the family fallout.
Around the time Nicola and Brooklyn wed, rumours of a feud between the American actress and fashion designer Victoria have been swirling. Nicola’s friends recently claimed “emotional abuse and toxic behaviour” are the reasons behind the fallout. However, David and Victoria reject the claims and are outraged by the suggestions.
A source close to the Beckhams recently told the Mirror: “I don’t think anyone who has ever seen David and Victoria with their children would recognise this deeply unpleasant attack. It doesn’t even warrant a response it’s so ludicrous and patently untrue.”A second source told The Mirror that the couple have been left “open mouthed” after hearing the suggestions.
David and Victoria are also parents to Romeo, Cruz and Harper(Image: Getty Images)
Nicola’s friend had earlier said: “We are at this point because Nicola, an outsider coming into the Beckham family, has been able to help Brooklyn see the emotional abuse and toxic behaviour within his family, that it’s not healthy and it’s not normal and it’s not ok.”
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But an acquaintance of the Beckhams said that Nicola’s friends were “pumping out untruths” as they added: “You wouldn’t expect this of your worst enemy, let alone close family members. The whole thing beggars belief.”
EXCLUSIVE: Denise Welch has opened up about transforming her life and losing two stone following a concern which was flagged by a doctor after the actress suffered a fall
Denise Welch has opened up about her incredible transformation, which continues to shape her life
Denise Welch has revealed the moment she decided to undergo a dramatic overhaul of her life. The Loose Women broadcaster and actress has spoken openly about her life and how she had previously battled with alcohol. Speaking candidly, she revealed that going sober 13 years ago was the “best decision” she and her husband, Lincoln Townley, had ever made.
But after ditching alcohol, which she says was a “momentous point” in their lives, she later realised that she realised she may be swapping alcohol for food addiction due to an “addictive personality”. Denise revealed to the Mirror: “I very quickly realised that I was in danger of swapping alcohol addiction for food addiction.”
The Waterloo Road star went don’t to say that “all of the bad things” in her life had kept her slim without her trying – including alcohol and depression. “That stops me from eating when I’m having an episode, suddenly, the alcohol and the bad things were taken out of my life, I realised I was starting to replace alcohol with food,” she said.
Actress and broadcaster Denise Welch has opened up about her transformation(Image: lighterlife.com)
Denise, 66, went on to explain that she found herself “bingeing” and eating “way past” her full point, but it was never enough. She revealed she had started secretly eating, heading to the kitchen for food, and hiding chocolate. But she later realised that she didn’t need to hide it from her family, as her husband, Lincoln and youngest, Hotel Portofino star son, Louis, didn’t care.
“Nobody cared – so why am I doing everything so secretly? Guiltily, like I used to drink,” she said. After Lincoln proposed to Denise, she realised she had put on two stones in “not a very long time”. She explained that while she realised some people often look to lose a significant amount of weight, the two stone to her was a great deal.
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Explaining, she said: “It wasn’t just how aesthetically it made me look, because I carry a lot of my weight on my face, so it becomes very noticeable. I’m on television several times a week – and that’s not a very flattering medium, so I was aware of it there but it was also the fact I’ve never been super fit but I was aware it was impairing my breathing.”
But the realisation hit Denise while she was appearing in a theatre production in Kingston with Keith Allen. Recalling the moment, she said: “I tripped and fell on Kingston Bridge. I went to see this knee doctor and he said, ‘You’ve got osteoarthritis and you need to lose weight’. I thought ‘my God, I didn’t think I had that much of a problem’, the breathing and stuff was due to a sleep apnea problem that wasn’t caused by, but isn’t helped by, weight gain.”
The Loose Women star revealed that the programme completely changed her life(Image: lighterlife.com)
Denise explained that after discussing her plans to lose weight for her wedding, she was “inundated” by diet firms to front their campaigns. But it was a decision she made with Lincoln, who was also keen on losing weight. They decided on LighterLife as it was the only weight loss company which spoke about changing the relationship with food.
The company, for which Denise is an ambassador, uses mental approaches, such as CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), group therapy or mentorship, and physical approaches. At first, she admits being wary about going to the group therapy as she didn’t want “all eyes” to be her but it was Lincoln who encouraged her to go along.
“I’m ever so grateful that I did, that first meeting changed my life,” she exclaimed. Although she says she would have lost weight in other ways, she admits she may have “piled it back on”, due to being a human whose weight fluctuates throughout life. “I always know that I’ve got the tools, the CBT tools to get me back on board,” she said, explaining that there are four processes that she can put in place.
Denise realised she needed to make a change after suffering a fall and being diagnosed with osteoarthritis (Image: Getty Images)
After losing the two stone, Denise used her CBT skills to pack smoking in, something she took up when she was 16. She explained: “By applying the same CBT techniques to cigarettes, and that helped me, come off those as well. So they are treasured tools.” Denise has been a LighterLife ambassador for 13 years and still checks in with her doctor, Dr Kelly. “I have seen LighterLife and the mentors not only change people’s lives, but people’s lives,” she explained before adding: “I am a fervent believer that this works.”
Although Denise admits she has no medical experience, she believes that LighterLife does work, having seen firsthand how thousands of people have benefited from it. She often carries some of the LighterLife food around with her due to her hectic work schedule, with her favourite being the porridge and salted caramel chocolate bars. “I would say to give it a try and the help of working with these trained mentors who are there for you is life changing, it’s an incredible, supportive community,” she explained.
Each food pack is filled with “every mineral and every vitamin” that you may need. Over Christmas, Denise experienced a spell of poor mental and physical health, which impaired her appetite. “What I did was, I was using the LighterLife products to feel better, to know I was getting everything I needed,” she said before explaining that while it maintains her weight, she can often engage in a “total programme”.
“I live an actor’s life, we live a sort of sandwich lifestyle, we’re up and down, grabbing this and grabbing that,” acknowledging that she may not always get her five a day or vital minerals and vitamins. She added: “So at least I know that if I’m having the late night products, then, and I’m some way towards achieving that.”
Meanwhile, Denise’s doctor, Dr Kelly, shed light on the rising topic of diets on social media. She said: “The problem with social media weight loss trends is that often they’re not nutritionally complete, not effective nor sustainable, and often they can be downright dangerous.
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“Alongside a nutritious, evidence-based, clinically effective weight loss plan, LighterLife helps you gain the tools required to silence that ‘food noise’ and successfully manage your weight in the longer term.” Dr Kelly went on to explain that LighterLife’s diet plan has used an “evidence-based solution”, explaining: “Unless you engage with a programme which is designed to support both the physical and the psychological changes needed to help you better manage your weight, which includes diet and tools to address ‘food noise’ then you are far less likely to be successful.”
Denise Welch is working with LighterLife, the leading weight loss programme, which combines formula-based nutritionally complete diet plans with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people holistically transform their lives. Denise lost two stone in two months with the programme. Find out more at lighterlife.com
Love Island star Curtis Pritchard has revealed more about his romance with Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu after the pair were hit by split rumours and claims Ekin-Su had cheated on the dancer with a Married At First Sight star
Curtis gave an update on his romance with Ekin-Su(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty I)
Curtis Pritchard has revealed all about his romance with Love Island co-star Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu. The pair found love on the most recent series of Love Island All Stars and have gone from strength to strength since being back in the outside world.
However, just recently, the pair were rocked by claims made by Ekin-Su’s ex Married At First Sight UK star Georges Berthonneau and had claimed she slid in his DMs while Curtis lay beside her in bed.
Georges had also previously claimed to have had a relationship with Ekin-Su, but she denied they were ever an item. Georges even went as far as saying she “cheated on him” when she entered the Love Island All Stars villa.
Whilst the rumours were denied by Ekin-Su, the dancer insists him and the former Love Island bombshell are stronger than ever and said he felt lucky to be with someone so “special”.
Curtis and Ekin-Su are stronger than ever(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, Curtis said: “I’m at Ekin-Su’s right now actually! She’s hiding away in the bedroom! It was great; I loved it. I went into this Love Island feeling so grounded and myself – I knew I was just going to enjoy it.
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“And if I was lucky enough to leave with somebody and I was lucky enough to leave with somebody very special. I knew what I was doing on the outside; I knew I had all things lined up and Love Island wasn’t going to change this.”
During his first experience of Love Island, Curtis was partnered with Amy Hart, who left the show early. Whilst he admits his first experience on the show didn’t go quite to plan, he was grateful to go back.
“I had such a good time the first time – it was a bit of a rollercoaster, but I loved it. I’m older now so perhaps at a different part of my life. I had five more years of experience through life. I was mentally and physically a different person going in. Still the same old Curtis – just with more knowledge,” he said of his second time in the All Stars villa.
Curtis and AJ are running the London Marathon(Image: PA)
Curtis has now turned to boxing and will fight next week. Speaking about his decision to go into the sport, he admitted it was a childhood dream of his and he finally can pursue his other passion.
“I’m not afraid to throw myself into something where I can potentially injure myself if you don’t do it properly. I just thrive in extreme sport. The opportunity to do it now, it’s a bit of a childhood dream,” he told us.
“At the age of 18, I had a thought that I wanted to change career but I self-sabotaged myself and I said I was too old to do it – but in reality, that was the stupidest thing I did in my whole life.”
Curtis and his brother AJ Pritchard are also running the London Marathon together, to raise vital finds for Marie Curie. Admitting his fitness focus is currently boxing, he said: “I’m doing a lot of sprints and boxing training is the bouncing on the legs anyway. That’s my preparation as of this moment. But in terms of the long distance running, we’re yet to come to that!
“Even your training just takes hours out your day. When you’re doing panto, sometimes we do three shows a day, and to add on top of that – a three hour jog, it becomes hard to fit it in your schedule.”
Former Scotland and British and Irish Lions head coach Sir Ian McGeechan says he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The former centre and fly-half won 32 Scotland caps, captaining them nine times, and toured with the Lions in 1974, winning the series in South Africa, and in 1977.
He coached Scotland to the Five Nations Grand Slam in 1990 and led the Lions to series victories as coach in 1989 and 1997.
The 78-year-old is currently consultant director of rugby at Championship club Doncaster Knights.
McGeechan told the Telegraph he had just completed a six-week course of radiotherapy.
“I don’t want to make a big thing of it, but it is important to get the message out about urging people to go and get tested,” he said.
“I said that to our players here, to make sure they get themselves tested.
McGeechan triumphed on his first tour as Lions head coach, overseeing the side’s 2-1 series victory in Australia in 1989.
He was at the helm for the 2-1 series defeat in New Zealand four years later, before masterminding an against-the-odds series win over world champions South Africa in 1997.
That tour was later immortalised in the ‘Living with Lions’ film which included footage of stirring pre-match speeches to his players.
Appointed Scotland coach in 1988, McGeechan led his side to their most Grand Slam two years later, courtesy of an iconic 13-7 victory over England.
As a coach at club level, he won the European Cup with Wasps in 2007 and the English Premiership in 2008.
Mirror’s shopping writer Grace has tried her fair share of milky toners, but Beauty of Joseon’s one has taken the top spot after she received compliments from strangers on her glowy skin
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Beauty of Joseon has become a internet-trending skincare brand(Image: Grace Salmon)
Milky toners have become a bit of a skincare trend this year, and I’m personally a huge fan of them. Having already tried out a few formulas, including BYOMA’s Hydrating Milky Toner, £11.99, and Curel’s Moisture Facial Milk, £20, I love the glow they give and how much they hydrate the skin, ready for make-up.
Even Hailey Bieber swears by a drop of her rhode Glazing Milk mixed into foundation for the ultimate lit-from-within look.
So when I discovered the internet’s trendiest K-Beauty skincare brand, Beauty of Joseon’s Glow Replenishing Rice Milk, I couldn’t wait to try it out.
This milky toner is packed full of skin-loving ingredients that hydrate, calm, and nourish in one go. It has a dual-layer formula, which involves a light, essence-like liquid combined with a powdery base that not only provides serious moisture but also helps keep oil and shine in check.
This is especially a lifesaver if, like me, you suffer from oily skin and need to keep it at bay during the summer months without drying your skin out.
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The Beauty of Joseon Rice Milk is the perfect make-up base(Image: Grace Salmon)
Beauty of Joseon Glow Replenishing Rice Milk review
As I previously mentioned, I’m already an avid user of milky toners, so it was unsurprising that I enjoyed using Beauty of Joseon’s one so much. However, what cemented this one in particular as my new go-to is how well it works for oily skin.
Other milky toners can sometimes lean on the side of shiny, rather than radiant, but that wasn’t the case with this rice milk.
Not to mention, I got literally stopped in the street and complimented on my “glass skin”, which hasn’t happened to me with the other milky toners I’ve used.
It definitely gives that luminous, “I drink three litres of water a day” glow, and because it’s infused with rice extract and rice amino acids, it actually feeds your skin with a whole load of vitamins and antioxidants.
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My only criticism is that I would prefer the consistency were slightly thicker; it is far more watery than other milky toners I’ve used in the past, and that leads me to pouring out a bit too much product every time I use it.
“It was such a beautiful day,” recalls Bradford-born commentator John Helm, who was working for Yorkshire Television that day.
“The sun was shining and everybody in the city was happy.”
A home game at Valley Parade against Lincoln City was due to mark the end of a memorable season which had seen the hosts top the Third Division, their first title since winning the same league in 1929.
“Bradford City had already won promotion and were due to receive the trophy in front of their adoring fans,” Helm adds.
“Lincoln had nothing to play for, so you couldn’t possibly imagine anything wrong.”
For centre-half and club captain Peter Jackson, leading his hometown club to the title was a source of triumph.
“Particularly for me being a local lad and having lived and gone to school locally, it was a proud day,” says Jackson, now 64.
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The game started uneventfully enough, but around the 40-minute mark, Helm spotted something unusual in the stand opposite his vantage point.
“My commentary position was almost like in a garden hut on the Midland Road side of the ground looking across to the main stand,” he says.
“I think it was Stuart McCall who had the ball in his hands ready to take a throw-in and I just noticed over his shoulder, about seven or eight rows back, a tiny glow of a fire.
“The most chilling fact for me was that four-and-a-half minutes later the entire stand was gone. Four-and-a-half minutes. That’s how savage that fire was.”
Stood in the Kop, to the side of the affected stand, was 24-year-old fan Linda Norton, with her husband Bob.
“I saw some smoke and my first thought was that it was a smoke bomb,” recalls Linda, who was four months pregnant with her son Lee at the time.
“Then you saw flames and people running out of the back of the stand and others going to the front to climb over the wall and get onto the pitch.
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Meanwhile, Helm was told live pictures of the scene were being picked up by national television as he relayed what was happening.
“(The message) was not to overdramatise,” he says.
“And why would you when you could see the horror that was unfolding before my very eyes?
“All the emergency services still use the footage from that day for training.
“At one point, which was awful in my mind, one or two people were throwing stones at me and shouting, ‘Switch your so-and-so camera off’.
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Two hundred miles south and oblivious to the chaos was Valley Parade regular Steve Ding, then 22. He had gone to the Royal Albert Hall with the Boys’ Brigade, but his 59-year-old father Alan and his cousin’s husband, Ken, were at the match.
“It was only when we got back to our hotel at about 17:00 BST that we turned on the telly and saw it on Grandstand,” Steve says.
“I still remember the words, ‘We’re going back to Valley Parade now where there’s been horrific scenes,’ and my first thought, because hooliganism was so common at the time, was, ‘They’ve not been fighting today on a day of celebration have they?'”
After seeing footage of the blaze, Steve and Ken’s son, who was with him on the London trip, raced downstairs to call home from the hotel reception.
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“It was just a massive sigh of relief,” Steve says.
“My mum picked up the phone and my dad had literally just got through the front door. He was fine, but he was coughing a lot because of the smoke.”
Back on the pitch, Linda recalls her and Bob feeling a sense of helplessness as the fire spread.
“We wanted to help but the flames were getting more intense and you could feel the heat as well. You just didn’t know what to do.
“We thought everybody had got out. I saw one middle-aged man lying on the pitch who was being seen to, who we thought might have had a heart attack and might be the one person hurt.
“But we got home and put the telly on and they said people had died. And then the numbers of those who’d died were just going up every few minutes. We couldn’t believe it.”
Club captain Jackson had managed to get his wife and daughter out of the stadium unscathed, but in a pre-mobile phone era he had suffered an agonising six-hour wait before discovering his father and two brothers had also escaped without injury.
“I drove past Bradford Royal Infirmary on my way home and I just saw hundreds and hundreds of people sat on the wall outside in Bradford City shirts,” he says.
“I stopped and went into the casualty department.
“There were people with 20% burns waiting to be seen and all they wanted to talk to me about was playing Leeds United and all these big clubs in the second division next season. It was humbling.”
After getting home that night, Jackson remembers doing TV interviews in his garden before “sitting down on the settee, still in my kit”.
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The final death toll was later revealed to be 56. Fifty-four were Bradford supporters, while the other two were Lincoln fans Bill Stacey and Jim West. A stand at Lincoln’s Sincil Bank ground is named after them as a lasting tribute.
Helm recalls interviewing supporters later, including one man who was able to escape by clambering over the wall and onto the pitch, but who could only watch as his elderly father was fatally trapped, unable to make the climb himself.
“Those are the sort of chilling stories… it’s sending a shiver up my spine now to be honest just talking about it,” the commentator says, adding that he has never been able to look back at the footage of the day.
“It’s still extremely raw, even 40 years on.”
A common strand between Helm and Jackson’s stories is a workplace approach to trauma and grief that was very much of its time.
Helm asked for the following day – a Sunday – off work but was told he had to go to the Odsal Stadium, also in Bradford, to present speedway coverage as scheduled.
“I did it, but on the understanding that I’d then have a week off because I was traumatised without question,” he explains.
“I probably should have had a little bit of counselling, which I never did have.”
Jackson, meanwhile, says he and his fellow players “never got any help or support” as he began organising squad trips to attend funerals, charity events and to visit the injured in hospital.
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Returning from London by train on the Sunday, Steve would discover his dad had been missed by a fireball by “a second” as he fled with Ken, having been stood in a corner of the ground with the stand to his left.
“He was pretty laid back my dad,” Steve says. “He was an engineer by trade. If he was traumatised or if he felt angst or anxiety at all, he wouldn’t have talked about it.”
Picked up from Bradford Interchange on Sunday evening, Alan drove Steve past Valley Parade on the way home.
“It was horrendous,” he says. “You could see how hot it would have been. The metal frames that were left were disjointed and out of shape.
“I’d been really torn between going to London and going to the match, but I just felt I couldn’t let the kids (in the Boys’ Brigade) down in the end.
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An inquiry later found the fire was started accidentally, caused by a lit cigarette falling on rubbish gathered underneath the stand.
Decades later, amid scrutiny of that inquiry, theories that the blaze might have been started deliberately were voiced.
However, both Helm and Jackson are unequivocal that there was no foul play.
“It was an accident,” the former captain says, firmly.
“Underneath the stand it was a tinderbox waiting to happen. There were holes in the stand and people just used to shove rubbish through it.
“After that game the whole stand was going to be knocked down so the ground could accommodate Second Division crowds. That’s the sad thing, the diggers were there ready to take it down.”
Helm adds: “The rubbish underneath the stand was the reason.
“It was something that shouldn’t have happened. It will hopefully never happen again anywhere in the world.”
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Linda says she seldom spoke about the fire until joining the BBC’s Bantam of the Opera choir earlier this year.
She has exchanged anecdotes about the day with other members, which include Steve.
“Talking about it has helped,” she says. “It’s so absolutely 100% important we remember those 56 people, not just on the anniversary, but every day.”
Jackson feels that while the tragedy is always respected at Bradford and Lincoln, where he also later managed, it has become a “forgotten disaster” beyond the two cities.
