Paul Glin
BBC culture
The drama in the Beckham family continues, and the latest in a series to get involved in untangling this family knot is DJ Fat Tony, who played music at Brooklyn's wedding and Nikola Pelc.
Brooklyn, the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham, posted on January 19th on Instagram reasons why he is angry with his parents.
Among other things, he claims that his mother allegedly 'kidnapped' his first dance.
Apparently his mother, a former singer for the British band Spajs grls, "danced very inappropriately in front of everyone", which made him feel "uncomfortable and humiliated".
"Everyone was uncomfortable with the whole situation."
"There was no inappropriate flirting, no black tight one-pieces, no Spice Girls movement," said Fat Tony.
The music star performing at the wedding was Marc Anthony, who invited Brooklyn to the stage, the DJ, whose real name is Tony Marnock, told ITV.
"Everyone expected Nikola to come out and then the two of them would have their first dance," he added.
Anthony then invited "the most beautiful woman in the room" to join Brooklyn, only to then say Victoria's name instead of Nicole's.
The bride then left the room with tears in her eyes, Marnok said.
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'Crying'
"Victoria is next to the stage and comes out on stage, Brooklyn is surprised and literally heartbroken at that moment, because he thought he would have his first dance with his wife."
"Nicole leaves the hall crying. Brooklyn is 'stuck' on stage."
"Victoria and he are dancing, and Marc Anthony tells Brooklyn, 'Put your hands on your mother's hips' - it was a Latin American song. Everyone in the room was uncomfortable," the DJ said.
Marnock has played music at “a lot of Beckham’s family parties” in the past, with whom he says she is “close-knit and loves to dance.”
Whether that dance was "inappropriate" depends on how Brooklyn feels, the musician responds.
“It all comes down to how Brooklyn feels.
"If he thinks it was inappropriate and uncomfortable, then so be it."
"The most awkward part of the whole situation" came the day after, when guests commented on the events of the wedding among themselves during a daytime gathering, the DJ said.
The newlyweds left "broken," but the dance was "a small part of a bigger problem" for the feuding family.
"It's sad" that many focused only on that part of Brooklyn's statement, Marnock believes.
Memes of Victoria Beckham's alleged wedding dance have been flooding social media for days.
"You have to dare and write about it on social media."
"He wanted the narrative about him to change, because he had been called a goddamn baby his whole life and that 'he should be grateful he had a last name' - he was born into that kind of environment."
"I think we're all missing the fact that the parents lost the child, and the son lost his parents and the rest of his family," Marnock says.
Brooklyn Beckham wrote on Instagram on January 19th and that doesn't want to "reconcile" with his family.
He accused his mother, now a fashion designer, of "canceling the making of Nikola's dress at the last minute."
He also claims that his parents "repeatedly pressured him and tried to bribe him to sign over the rights to his name," but it is not clear which rights he is referring to.
David and Victor Beckham have not directly commented on the claims, nor have they released their own side of the story.
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