{"id":725722,"date":"2026-01-28T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:41:14","slug":"ulrika-jonsson-blasts-nepo-baby-brooklyn-beckham-over-weak-and-spineless-attack-on-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/725722\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulrika Jonsson blasts &#8216;nepo baby&#8217; Brooklyn Beckham over &#8216;weak and spineless&#8217; attack on parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulrika Jonsson has launched a blistering attack on Brooklyn Beckham, labelling him &#8220;weak and spineless&#8221; following his recent public criticism of his parents.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old television presenter tore into the eldest Beckham child after he claimed David and Victoria had attempted to control his life and expressed no wish to repair their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jonsson described the 26-year-old as a &#8220;nepo baby&#8221; lacking independent thought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world needs to accept Brooklyn is a weak, spineless young man, with no capacity to think for himself,&#8221; she wrote in The Sun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"82e4b\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"807e4d1a7fcc09c03c0430d2aa6ffb6a\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202938%204200'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769578872_706_nicola-peltz-and-brooklyn-beckham.jpg\" width=\"2938\" height=\"4200\" alt=\"Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham\"\/>Brooklyn and Nicola have distanced themselves from the Beckhams in recent years  |  GETTY<\/p>\n<p>The former Gladiators host revealed she had personal experience of Brooklyn&#8217;s behaviour, noting he had previously blocked her on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jonsson admitted her initial reaction to Brooklyn&#8217;s outburst was one of genuine sympathy, but her maternal instincts soon took over and prompted a change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>The television personality expressed that her &#8220;heart aches&#8221; for Victoria, who she felt had been publicly humiliated by her own son.<\/p>\n<p>She reflected on the challenges of parenthood, noting there is no manual to follow. &#8220;We guide them as best we can,&#8221; she wrote. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"d2340\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"c9ab3684cb23f7da5d89a6c3b0e7525d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ulrika-jonsson.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Ulrika Jonsson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ulrika Jonsson described the 26-year-old as a &#8216;nepo baby&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Intent on not making the same mistakes as our parents did but with a guarantee that we will doubtless make our own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonsson questioned why Brooklyn continues to trade on the family name in his various career ventures if he feels so wronged by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid he can&#8217;t have it both ways,&#8221; she stated bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining members of the Beckham clan have presented a united front in the wake of Brooklyn&#8217;s comments. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"c54ae\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"b84a83c13f6af5db33d0829af2b0f162\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203509%202341'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769578874_924_victoria-beckham.jpg\" width=\"3509\" height=\"2341\" alt=\"Victoria Beckham\"\/>Brooklyn Beckham made claims about his mother, Victoria  |  PA<\/p>\n<p>David, Victoria and their three younger children \u2013 Romeo, Cruz and Harper \u2013 attended Paris Fashion Week together, marking their first public appearance since the controversy erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror that David appeared &#8220;strong, rather stern and protective&#8221; during the outing. <\/p>\n<p>She noted his typically relaxed demeanour with Victoria had received &#8220;a very dramatic upgrade&#8221; to appear &#8220;emphatically alpha.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victoria, meanwhile, projected what James described as &#8220;calm defiance or resilience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"12e5c\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"4281f16ebd6f79641dc98ce0fbec08ef\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201024%20732'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brooklyn-beckham-nicola-peltz.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" alt=\"Brooklyn Beckham \/ Nicola Peltz\"\/>Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz have torched their ties to his parents  | GETTY<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Victoria is not looking fragile or in need of being towed here though,&#8221; the expert observed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jonsson also addressed the apparent tension between Victoria and Nicola, expressing her frustration at how women are often set against one another. <\/p>\n<p>She lamented the way the two had seemingly been pitted against each other throughout the ongoing family drama.<\/p>\n<p>While the Beckhams maintain their composed presence in Europe, Brooklyn and Nicola continue their life in America, seemingly unbothered by the controversy surrounding his explosive claims about his upbringing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulrika Jonsson has launched a blistering attack on Brooklyn Beckham, labelling him &#8220;weak and spineless&#8221; following his recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,109,77,512,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-725722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-david-beckham","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-sgg","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115971128496258595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}