DJ Fat Tony recently disclosed that he was invited to appear on “This Morning” to discuss the tensions within the Beckham family earlier this year.
In January, Brooklyn Beckham, the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham, issued a startling statement at age 26. He accused his mother, Victoria, of commandeering his first dance with his wife, Nicola Peltz, and claimed she behaved inappropriately during the event.
Following this high-profile controversy, Tony, who has been a close friend of the Beckham family for years, decided to speak out. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, he revealed that he was approached to discuss the situation through a WhatsApp group that includes both Brooklyn and Nicola.
“Yes, I was asked to speak,” Tony confirmed. “There’s a WhatsApp group with Brooklyn and Nicola.” He emphasized his intent not to cast blame, saying, “I thought, I’m not going to throw anyone under a bus. I just spoke from the heart. I wasn’t there to criticize Victoria and David. I wasn’t spilling the beans.”
Speaking with emotion, Tony shared his hopes for a reconciliation, saying, “I always like to see a happy ending, and I believe they will reunite as a family. It’s really sad… It reached a point where people forgot the real issue—that a young man is hurting and a family feels they’ve lost their son.”
DJ Fat Tony has revealed he was ‘asked’ to appear on This Morning to shed light on the Beckham family feud earlier this year
Days after the release of the six page statement, Tony claimed that Marc Anthony was to blame, revealing the musician had called Victoria to the dance floor with her son and instructed him, ‘place your hands on your mother’s hips’.
Speaking on This Morning, Tony shared: ‘There was no slut-dropping, there was no PVC cat suits, no Spice Girl action! The word “inappropriate”, why I said it was as well, it was the timing, this is what happened.’
Tony continued: ‘What happened was, basically, Marc Anthony was performing on stage, he then called Brooklyn onto stage…
‘Brooklyn went on to the stage, and the next minute everyone’s expecting Nicola to go up and do the first dance, and then Marc asked for the most beautiful woman in the room to come to the stage – and then he says “Victoria, come to the stage”.’
He revealed that Brooklyn looked ‘devastated’ at the fact his first dance was with Victoria and not his wife, adding that Nicola left the room ‘crying her eyes out’.
Tony went on: ‘Brooklyn is stuck there on stage, and they do this dance, and Marc Anthony says “put your hands on your mother’s hips” and it was a Latin thing, and the whole situation was really awkward for everyone in the room…
Days after the release of the six page statement, Tony claimed that Marc Anthony was to blame, revealing the musician had called Victoria to the dance floor with her son and instructed him, ‘place your hands on your mother’s hips’
Detailing Brooklyn’s motives for going public with his statement, Tony continued: ‘It’s taken a lot for someone to go to social media, when your life is lived out on social media… he wanted to change the narrative’
‘I’ve done an awful lot of Beckham parties in the past, and they are a very dancing close-knit family and love to dance, right? So you know, what we deem as “inappropriate” is not how Brooklyn feels…
‘This is all about how Brooklyn feels. If he feels that it was inappropriate and awkward, it was inappropriate and awkward…
‘What’s sad is that this is the bit that everyone’s taken from the statement, and kind of whitewashed everything else that went on.’
Detailing Brooklyn’s motives for going public with his statement, Tony continued: ‘It’s taken a lot for someone to go to social media, when your life is lived out on social media… he wanted to change the narrative…
‘For all of his life, he’s been called [a] nepo baby, and “he should be grateful that he’s got the family name”. But that’s what he was born into, y’know. I think what we’re all missing here is the fact that parents have lost their child and a son has lost his parents.’
When asked if he couldn’t counsel him to ‘go and live his life’ and not blow this up, Tony said: ‘The thing is, it’s drip-fed.
‘We live in a world where people make their own presumptions about everything and no, [there’s nothing you can do about that], you can’t, and the reason why I’ve come on This Morning is because it’s a safe space.
Victoria is pictured with Nicola Peltz and her son in 2024
‘I’ve been inundated with “you’re a liar”, “you’re this, you’re that”, and I haven’t even commented – my poor husband was in an argument and made a brief comment saying, “You weren’t there, I was, it’s true.” Which then led onto [all those messages] it was ridiculous.’
On why he thought Brooklyn didn’t approach his parents privately, Tony replied, ‘He’s done all that. It got to the point for him where he can’t take this anymore and wanted to step back from it, and that was his way of doing closure.
‘That’s his decision. I couldn’t think of anything worse [for his parents] and I can only talk as a dog dad, but I didn’t talk to my own father for 30 years due my own understanding of a situation that I made up in my own head.
‘And it wasn’t until I reconciled with my father that I realised that I had to look at my part in it… so of course it’s really sad situation. Do I think they’ll talk again? Of course they will at some point, they are family. But the noise needs to die down, people need to step back from it.
‘I didn’t realise there were two and a half million people at that wedding, because everyone seems to think they were there! Everyone feels the need to comment on it. And I’m sure they will have a field day with this, but that’s the world we live in.’