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Grotesque Spectacle?
The grotesque spectacle of a £15m Vogue wedding for Brooklyn Beckham - a vapid offspring who struggled to make a bacon sandwich on TV - in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis is everything wrong with modern celebrity
Brooklyn Beckham isn't a celebrity chef, writes DAN WOOTTON. The bloke struggled to prepare a bacon sandwich during a mortifying segment on NBC's Today show. He's not a famous photographer, either. His coffee table book of snaps was derided because most of the childish black and white images were out of focus. Nope, Brooklyn is one of those annoying figures that seem to populate celebrity culture in 2022 who is famous simply because his parents are. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice, if dim, guy. And I blame his parents David and Victoria for creating a sense of entitlement that their kids just must be famous from a young age. But this weekend I snapped. In the middle of a once-in-a-generation cost of living crisis, this vapid offspring is putting the world through the most garish, gauche and grotesque celebrity wedding since, well, his parents.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10708141/Dan-Wootton-15m-Vogue-wedding-Brooklyn-Beckham-grotesque-spectacle.html
Brooklyn Beckham isn't a celebrity chef, writes DAN WOOTTON. The bloke struggled to prepare a bacon sandwich during a mortifying segment on NBC's Today show. He's not a famous photographer, either. His coffee table book of snaps was derided because most of the childish black and white images were out of focus. Nope, Brooklyn is one of those annoying figures that seem to populate celebrity culture in 2022 who is famous simply because his parents are. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice, if dim, guy. And I blame his parents David and Victoria for creating a sense of entitlement that their kids just must be famous from a young age. But this weekend I snapped. In the middle of a once-in-a-generation cost of living crisis, this vapid offspring is putting the world through the most garish, gauche and grotesque celebrity wedding since, well, his parents.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10708141/Dan-Wootton-15m-Vogue-wedding-Brooklyn-Beckham-grotesque-spectacle.html
Comments
One of the main things wrong with this world is rank hypocrisy. Of the kind exhibited by Dan Wootton.
Rich children of even richer parents have an expensive wedding? Good luck to them.
People succeed despite having limited talent? Good luck to them.
Newspaper spends a week hyping up a wedding to boost sales, and then trashes it afterwards, again to try and boost sales? Pathetic.
If you have a £15 million wedding, a lot of working class people get paid. Photographers, waitresses, caterers, and a whole lot of people who need the money. While rich people get to spend their money in a way that suits them. That's what money is for.
Vogue get involved, because a lot of people genuinely want a glimpse into that lifestyle. It gives them pleasure.
Me? No. Not my thing. But I'm not of a mind to begrudge other people pleasure, just because it is not for me.
Because that is a nasty world to live in.
Disliking people because they are wealthy, or knocking them because they live well, has never sat comfortably with me.
I have always felt that it was their money, and they were entitled to spend it as they wish.
Whether that was on a £15million wedding, or a £40k takeaway.
I have no interest in the wedding, other than the annoyance of having to wade through the many column inches of press coverage.
Although I do wonder where it all ends.
Celebrity weddings do seem to have a competitive edge to them.
Does the next one have to spend more, just to outdo the Beckhams?
I also wonder where the actual wedding features in all this.
Are the cost, the number, and notoriety of the celebrity guests, number, and size of the marquees, number of the religious ceremonies, quality of entertainment, more important?
Will the guests even remember that young Beckham got married at this event?
The other thing I wonder about, is that most of us mere mortals have a set format to our lives.
We go to school, maybe university, find a job, leave home, rent a flat, maybe buy a house, etc etc.
The young Beckhams missed all that, its like they retired before starting work.
At least thats how it would seem
I am not sure what it would be like going through life seemingly without a purpose.
However, their Dad was a great footballer, and good luck to them.
I think Mum & Dad Beckham are a great story, both started with nothing & made a fabulous success of their lives. Good luck to them. Been together a long time too, & still seem wonderfully happy.
And I think they are good parents, who bought their children up well with old-fashioned values such as manners, & respect.
Reading about them, & looking at their photos, always makes me happy.
The cult of celebrity has been carefully managed by the likes of the Mail. Simply because they need to remain relevant in a changing world.
They cannot do that by providing news. Others can do it quicker, and cheaper. And tailor their news to the ever-increasing numbers who only want to read stuff they agree and identify with.
The result is the regular clickbait headlines. And stuff that people want to read about in relation to the super-rich. Which, of course, they do in partnership with Vogue/OK etc. And, as I understand it, the demands of the Rich Mags comes with its own problems. As an example, guests are often not allowed to take pictures on the day.
I agree with the difficulties faced, career-wise, with kids of famous parents. Us mere mortals are allowed to start in jobs we are a bit rubbish at without being publicly mocked. Still-there are advantages too.
Although I cant imagine what my life would have been like if I had left school, and not had to find a job.
To clarify, I like them immensely, but I'm not in the least envious of them.