This isn’t so much breaking news as confirming what we all suspected – Brooklyn Beckham has opted to walk away from his degree in photography from Parsons School of Design. Brooklyn, you may remember, not only landed a Burberry campaign at the age of 16, he also published his own book of photographs called what I see. Both of those were poorly received. So it was refreshing to read that Brooklyn was taking the time to study his craft and not just writing the critics off as jelly haters. But, alas, he missed his famous family, who most likely procured the spot for him at the prestigious school in the first place, and plans to move back home. He hasn’t given up his dreams of becoming the next Jerry Uelsmann, but rather will pursue his art through an internship with a choses-to-remain-anonymous British photographer instead.
Homesick Brooklyn Beckham has quit his New York photography course after a year so he can zoom back to his family.
The 19-year-old started the four-year course in September last year at the world-renowned Parsons School of Design.
He told pals months ago he wanted to leave – but decided to stick it out to the end of term.
Brooklyn, the eldest of David and Victoria’s four children, has deferred the course for an internship with a respected British photographer, whose name remains a secret.
Sources say his Spice Girl mum is delighted to have her boy back – telling friends she “absolutely hated” being separated from him.
A source said: “It sounds as if he was truly homesick and was feeling lonely out there.
“He adores his family, in the end it was the lure to come back to them all that swung it – and the prospect of a terrific internship.
“Victoria is absolutely delighted at the news and couldn’t contain herself when it was all coming to plan – to have Brooklyn back under the same roof is a dream come true for her.”
The source said Victoria, 44, was “thrilled” at Brooklyn’s return, adding: “She was telling pals she couldn’t believe how much she missed him and hated to be separated from him.”
Just to be clear, I have no problem with a person interning with a professional instead of getting a degree. There is great value in both, just like there is value in trade schools over universities for some professions. But on the surface, this reads so clichéd: a privileged kid is handed opportunities others fight for their whole lives and never get, only to chuck it all because they miss the familiarity of home. I know people who couldn’t get in to Parsons and/or couldn’t afford the $23K tuition so I guess I’m indignant on their behalf. As far as the photographer under whom Brooklyn is interning asking not to be named, maybe it’s so they can study undisturbed by Beckham stans, or maybe he was begged by David and Victoria to do them a solid and he’s worried about his reputation. I’m not well-versed in the photographic world so I’d love to hear who you all think it is.
As for Brooklyn’s reason for ditching, that doesn’t surprise me. The Beckhams, for everything they try to keep from us, they make no secret of how close they are with their kids. I can’t really fault a young person for home sickness, it’s actually kind of sweet. I like Victoria, so I choose to believe she didn’t pressure Brooklyn into this decision. I don’t think Brooklyn is a bad kid or anything. I just think that he has been handed everything a little too easily. If he really wants to become a photographer of note, he has to be willing to put in the effort to get there. So I wish him luck with that.
Photo credit: WENN Photos and Instagram
Doubt schooling is a priority for these people.
Like most of these privileged children, he’s mistaken nepotism for talent. When surrounded by truly talented kids who worked for their place, he bolted. My guess for the photographer is Ben Dunbar-Brunton.
Yes, I’m sure he was homesick, but he probably also realised he was in over his head. Posh and Becks both worked hard for what they have — they aren’t doing their kids any favors by allowing them to skate along.
I agree. My guess is that he didn’t do well and wasn’t a star pupil, and his ego couldn’t handle that
My daughter graduated with a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Those professors are all working photographers, not Ivy Tower coddlers of rich kids. I bet the entitled spoiled boy couldn’t take the critiques.
Agree wholeheartedly. He was handed the Burberry gig without earning it, same with entry to Parsons. The guy is pretty ordinary, judging by his published work (another unearned privilege) so coming up against very driven, talented peers would have overwhelmed him and his ego.
If a photographer is willing to take him on as an intern, okay, but again, this is another favour not earned. He’d be best to learn the craft, do the grunt work and shut up. The photographer will hopefully be straight with him re. his abilities.
Considering how close the family is, I wouldn’t doubt he misses them *sometimes*. However, lol, this kid has been photographed everywhere (drinking, music festivals, driving around London and LA, etc) with and w/out his girlfriend(s) (past and present), so it didn’t seem like he actually even showed up for classes. Personally, I think he failed out, or was asked to not come back for next year. This sounds more like a cover for that. JMO… Personally, I think photography is just something this kid is playing at.
I get home sickness but he has all the money in the world to fly home for a weekend and be with his family if he wants to do so. I just don’t believe he wants to put in the work it takes to be in school or possibly is not one who likes being in a structured environment. It will be interesting to see how long he will last being an intern. Just curious, but were/are the Beckham children home schooled (not that that is a bad thing)?
Always curious how these celebs do homeschooling. I have friends that home school. But they do it in a community thing. Trying to get their kids with other home schooled kids. He just looks like a kid that doesn’t know what he wants. Like someone said what do you want to do; and he said I like taking pictures. Photography is a tough business. He may have seen that without his parents help he wouldn’t just rise to the top.
I don’t believe they were home schooled, maybe a bit. Most celebrities don’t really “home school” in the sense the general public does; as in they do the schooling. They hire tutors and governesses. Often the kids are in a private school and are just pulled out when the parents need to travel. Then the tutors do their thing.
I always think it’s such a shame when celeb kids drop out. He hasn’t shown much natural talent for photography (that first book was…yikes) and receiving this degree would have gone a long way to legitimacy. Now he’s on his way to being another celeb kid dismissed (rightly or wrongly) for nepotism. Too bad.
Willa that doesn’t particularly surprise me. Neither Posh nor Becks are overly blessed with smarts, it stands to reason their kids would be similarly average. Posh has a certain savvy with fashion and Becks has football genius but those attributes won’t translate well to academic life.
He’s privileged, yes, but should he be forced to stay in unhappy circumstances just because other people are less fortunate? Definitely not. If the school was not working out and living in a different country was causing him distress, he was right to pursue other options.
I didn’t say he should be forced to stay whether due to home sickness or school not working out for him. I just wish they would be honest about his reasons and I don’t truly believe it is simply because he is home sick. This is a young man that has been away from his family on his own before. Did he always go back after a time? Yes, and he had that ability to go back as much as he wished during school. I went away for school and my parents had me choose a university where I could come home weekends if I wanted to do so (which meant within reasonable driving time).
College kids all over the world go through home sickness, missing family and home. It is a growing process. I wonder if he had a hard time making friends with the others in the class. He is well traveled; and is seen a lot without his family. So he’s used to being alone. My thoughts are he may have felt out of his league. Not as knowledgeable as those around him.
PBAN, Yes. And all the emphasis on Posh missing him and wanting him back home is also a bit of a red flag — letting your kids go is also part of growing and evolving and it sounds like she might be clinging to him for the wrong reasons. I say this as a mom whose oldest is leaving for college in about six weeks. I know I’m going to miss him so much but I am trying to keep my focus on being excited for the independence and opportunities he is getting, which he just wouldn’t if he stayed home with me.
@esmom – it will get easier. Good luck! He will do fine.
I’ve often wondered if I would’ve perservered thru loneliness, sadistic profs, and uncertain career options if money were no object. The desire to be something more combined with lack of safety net pushes a lot of young people to degree completion.
Esmom, the first one going to college is the toughest. It does get easier. And then you become proud of how much they grow and learn to handle things on their own.
No they went to private schools don’t know of many here that home school I am sure there are. Maybe he wanted to socialize more than study. Also, although the language is same/similar it’s a different culture and maybe it was just not a good fit. A lot love the idea of living in NY but a lot I know it’s either you love it (me) or you don’t. Then again I am from the US so might be different.
Thanks about the info on the schooling. I didn’t know and was just curious.
The two middle boys went to an academically selective school in London – the sort of place that has 10 applicants per place and yet they waltzed in mid year and not through the normal entrance procedure.
The school evidently compromised their entrance requirements to let them in but they didn’t do themselves or the kids any favours as they left after a year because they couldn’t keep up.
They’re now at a different private school but one that’s less academically rigorous. I think the Beckhams do value education and want their kids to go to the best schools. The problem in London is that the ‘best’ schools tend to be kind of hothousy and have quite a narrow academic range of pupils.
Original nested wrong: Willa that doesn’t particularly surprise me. Neither Posh nor Becks are overly blessed with smarts, it stands to reason their kids would be similarly average. Posh has a certain savvy with fashion and Becks has football genius but those attributes won’t translate well to academic life.
I didn’t realise he had 11 million followers on Instagram, just for having famous parents. Easy to hit a home run when you’re in third base :p
Hashtag #selfmade lol
Gave me a true lol.
You can buy followers and companies are finally catching on the number of followers doesn’t equal a real Influencer.
Spoiled rich kid quits school poorer kids with no connections would give their right arm to get into? Shocker!
+1
Good that he’s out. Now there is room for someone who really wants it and deserves it.
Something about this kid just infuriates me. I think it’s the shitty and pretentious photos he takes in combination with the crazy opportunities that are handed to him. It’s just nepotism and unfairness at its worst.
But obviously it’s the grown ups who are really to blame here – the established photographers who hand out internships to mediocre celebrity kids in exchange for PR, rather than hiring and helping actually talented, hard-working kids with less privilege.
Same, for some reason I find him one of the most irritating celebrity offspring. There is nothing about him that warrants any special treatment.
And wasn’t he briefly a model, of all things? I mean, come on!
Yeah, the modeling gig was definitely nepotism.
I feel the same, he stands out as even more mediocre in a sea of mediocre celeb spawn. It may have been the “modeling” gig that started it for me, like, really!? LOL!
What’s even more infuriating is his parents are clueless to understand their lack of parenting is a direct reflection of them. In my family the losers were kept hidden. You didn’t get cars, money, vacations and opportunities. You stayed in the background until you got your ish together and then you could partake in the communal well. My parents would be mortified and probably disown me if I was like him.
@ Racer 1 : someone earlier wrote that the Beckham parents valued education. However neither of them have much education and therefore I wonder if they understand what is required to succeed at places like Parsons School of Design. Tons of hard work even when you don’t understand the purpose and a willingness to receive a lot of (constructive) criticism.
The kid’s a bad photographer. Not just an untrained one, he’s flat out bad. His photography book could have been a joke book mocking bad Instagram pictures.
I don’t really care about nepotism, but there’s times when it’s just embarrassing to all involved, and the Beckhams getting their very untalented kid an internship with a major photographer is Francis Ford Coppola casting Sophia in The Godfather III levels of embarrassing.
Brooklyn B is aggressively average in every single way but thinks being the “child of” should mean more than it does. Parents sometimes pull strings and that will always be the case. But it should be when their child actually has some modicum of talent or uniqueness that the leg up is just a launchpad.
Whatever I think of Swifty she has masterminded her own staying power and that goes for other offspring like Angelina, Gwyneth, Isabella Rosellini, Zoe Kravitz, Jennifer Aniston and some others that I can’t think of at the moment. They stand alone whatever our personal opinions.
There is nothing special about him.
His mother was a marginal singer and is a hit or miss designer and his father is a football legend. He doesn’t do any of those things. Without DB’s athletic abilities none of them would have the high profile they have and that includes VB.
He’s the kind of kid who should have just gone to college and paved his own way out of the limelight. BB comes off like an over privileged child that was born with a PR agent looking for angles from day one.
*stage whispers* There is nothing there.
I disagree with you on one point – I don’t think David was the one who made that family; without her, he’s the good looking idiot who helped blow a huge World Cup game. She may never have been the most famous Spice Girl but her fame is what turned them into Brand Beckham.
Just to clarify because I agree with you. I think she is the mastermind behind their fortunes but I think their financial fortunes are based on the money he made. She made him who he is but with a lesser “product” she wouldn’t have been able to do it.
His soccer contracts were giant, but I think that their high profile is because of two superstars coming together, and I can’t give him all of the credit there at all. If that were the case, we’d talk a lot more about someone like Wayne Rooney.
Plus, I would imagine that Victoria made a giant chunk of money in the last couple of Spice Girls tours. It’s not exactly like she was penniless on her own.
Agreed again. She made a tidy sum on her own. I don’t know how much she used for her fashion business though. Fashion is a hard business to make money in unless she has licenses and I know she had some struggles. Still, I do think of her as a successful woman and I like her a lot more than I like him.
Talking about it reminds me of the old Posh and Becks days when the tabloids couldn’t get enough of them.
I just find it interesting that people think that Victoria is somehow the “lesser” partner – as though she wasn’t a global superstar herself. Are we just this trained to diminish women?
As far as the fashion line, some of it would likely be a cash infusion from investors. The scale at which she started would only have so much self funding. And I like her stuff, she’s just priced herself too high. Most brands in her price point are buoyed by things like fragrances and accessories. I would be really interested to see a deep dive on this subject.
I don’t think we’re trashing women. Spice Girls was a tacky girlsband and short-lived. Kind of iconic but in a lesser Backstreet Boys way. She helped David achieve the power couple status. I was always surprised because she wasn’t either talented nor especially beautiful. She also definitely wasn’t bubbly or interesting personality. So I’m like “DUH, why is she still here”. I believe David had a bigger talent, overall was way better in his discipline and was/is very handsome. He also made her transition into fashion easier because his brand was more respectful. Yep, he played one terrible, very high-profile game but it shouldn’t define him.
Spice Girls – mostly one hit wonder, targeted at teens, David had a more mature audience. Now she just pretends she has higher profile and better income and success than she really has.
I bet the photographer doesn’t want to be known because he is being paid and he has accepted a quid pro quo situation. We all know this kid has zero talent and no one would buy he got the gig because he deserved it so it makes the photographer look like a greedy shameless sellout. I give it a couple of months of Brooklyn not showing up and behaving like an obnoxious brat before he is moved along to something else he doesn’t deserve.
That sounds about right.
I recall the buzz months ago was that he rarely even attended classes, so the whole ‘leaving on his own’ sounds like spin..
I can imagine. I bet his ‘interest in photography’ was limited to roaming around the city posing with his hipster Leica camera for his IG account. When it came to studying the actual technical and artistic parts of photography, which means showing up every morning and putting in the effort along with other serious students, he wasn’t interested.
You heard correctly. The tea is that he rarely attended and that he didn’t fit in with his peer group due to bragging about his celebrity connections and partying. Parsons didn’t want him anymore anyway so yeah HUGE spin. He was kicked out plain and simple. It’s their own fault for even taking him on and denying the chance for a harder working gifted kid that has less money and connections.
Clearly his parents got him in via money not on their son’s merit or work ethic because he’s lazy and not gifted at photography either. Or interested. They’re enabling him, the book was the first sign. This is the 2nd. The only reason the photographer is anonymous is because everybody knows that Brooklyn is a talentless brat and that without money nobody would even look at him.
So harsh on a 19 year old. He didn’t raise himself. Like you suggest, his parents did him no favors.
@ladyt, if a nineteen year old can go to war, go away to college, raise a child, and operate a motor vehicle, he/she should also be able to handle constructive criticism.
It sounds like when Franco went to college allegedly only to creep on women, sleep in class, put in no effort, and instead of dropping out, having a professor fired for an unwanted but deserved low grade.
BB prob only *bothered* w/ any formality because he also was *bothered* by the unwanted but deserved criticism (nepotism), made worse being surrounded by ACTUAL passion/drive, if not talent. Along w the present perceived precariousness of his parents’ union, he prob ducked/flunked out.
Thank you, Artemis. Everything you said makes sense, I believe it.
Most likely the truth. Education institutions are about making money and raising profile so there’s plenty in it for Parsons. There’s a point, though, when BB must have become a liability. If he didn’t attend, boasted about his privilege and name-dropped and was next to useless, other students would have steered clear. Teachers would have given him what he deserved re. grades. Hence, BB left/ got kicked out. VB’s missing him is just PR fluff to cushion failure. The parents are doing the kid no favors by buying him a life he cannot step up to.
Unsurprising. My first thought was doubt he has any work ethic, as is so typical of hyper-spoiled celebrity progeny.
I went to the New School (not Parsons, but another division), and knowing how intellectually rigorous it is, and how far to the left it is (farther to the left than any other university in the United States, possibly on the planet earth), his being eaten alive was a forgone conclusion.
What does it being leftist have to do with it? I don’t mean it as an attack or a setup I am curious.
No set up or attack. Considering his background, the schools he went to, the people who surrounded him growing up, and the strict social class structure he’s been inured to, I just don’t feel like the left would be his jam. I can’t imagine he’s read Thomas Picketty, or Noam Chomsky, or bell hooks, or much of anything. I could be wrong. He could have written a 20 page essay on Henri Cartier-Breson’s Ideology and his choice of subject matter. He could be a revolutionary, ready to upend the established order. I doubt it. I think he just wanted to go to art school in New York City, never considering the politics (or, like I said, the intellectual rigor) of the school he was actually going to, and he made himself a pariah.
Speaking as a proud leftist, by the way. I can see how that first comment could read.
Thanks, @Surely Wolfbeak! Very interesting. (I now have more reading to do…)
Oh I didn’t take it as you were a troll or anything. Lol I was interested in your theory. He most likely does not have the intellectual ability or curiosity to do well in that environment. I can’t see him yearning to stretch his brain at all. He’s the kind of student who would be a frat boy at a big state university if his parents weren’t famous. Even then he would probably do so many beer bongs he wouldn’t be able to make it to class.
New School is awesome. If anyone can they should take a class or audit. I have and I hope to do more. Lucky you for being immersed there.
Ha! Sorry @Magnoliarose, parenthood has really done a number on my reading comprehension.
Yay, New School!
How can a school with a $23K tuition really be “leftist”, though? Surely kids from the working class could never afford that, unless they’re one of the few lucky enough to receive a scholarship?
I’m from Northern Europe, where higher education is free and accessible for anyone who’s smart enough, so the idea that a $23K school can be “leftist” or its students particularly “revolutionary” baffles me. I bet Parsons tend to attract kids from a certain socio-economic demography, no matter how much Marx they claim to be reading.
Exactly, Evelyn. Working class and 23k.. something doesn’t match. Frankly they’re probably at age that the majority can be called pretentious hipsters.
Why is Brooklyn taking a photo of his crotch in that one pic? I can’t be the only one who was thinking the same thing
I blame the parents. When you have a child who wants to do something but lacks the talent, yes use your money and influence to get him professional tutoring or an internship with a professional. Give him confidence and support but be honest and emphasize that he has to work harder at it than others who were birthed with the gift.
Above all else don’t just buy his way into school, prepare him for that school and wait until he is ready. They set this boy up for failure. They brutalized his self-esteem after getting him into a school he was not qualify for and failing. That is not good parenting IMO.
I see this another way. He wanted this opportunity, no one could know, maybe he could excel at it or at least learn something. If you have all the money and resources of the world wouldn’t you help your kid achieve his dream? He already dropped out, lesson learned, hard way or not. I definitely would do the same to my kid. Better experience it than say “what if”.
I have a feeling him going home has a lot to do with Mom and Dad separating. I would not be surprised if Brooklyn moves to Miami with Dad in the next year or two.
Honestly, not surprised. The only one talented in a family is David – a dedicated athlete. Victoria is objectively a horrible singer and it would be weird to even call her one, she was one of the most boring members of the girlband. Than she hired a stylist and a trainer, rebranded herself and took a bunch of money from David to hire a team to create a collection for her. Still, the brand is sinking.
So Victoria made no money of her own, it’s just all David’s?
@Bridget, she started with a loan from David and her line is struggling with a profit to this day, I think celebitchy covered this
Strictly your opinion. Nothing is fact based, only that her line is struggling.
They’re a brand together. David was a great athlete, no one can deny and I do wonder if the brand makes him too much favour. Like.. He’d be a football legend, instead he was drugged into fashion etc probably to have Victoria fulfill her passions.
Completely plain, boring child of nepotism drops out of school…..he is living up to everything I thought he would be. NEEEXXXTT!
Imagine a mother being thrilled her son dropped out of school. SMH. To be so rich. Wow.
Is $23,000 even considered that expensive these days for most American universities? The college for my first Bachelors was $30,000/yr. Then again, my area has notoriously expensive schools because we have a lot of prestigious universities here. I was fortunate to have a scholarship through them that paid a hefty percentage of it, so I only came out with roughly $30,000 in debt over all, but I knew people who went through all four years and were graduating with 100K plus in debt.
Anyway: unsurprising. I don’t necessarily begrudge rich people their connections, but stuff like this is really revealing about how little work they actually have to put in for their privilege. When you have to actually engage in the labor to master it, that’s not so easy.
It’s not expensive for a US university/colllege. It’s on the low end of the spectrum, excluding community colleges. My local state university’s in-state tuition just increased to $12K with the out-of-state tuition set at $29K, and my kid is looking at an out-of-state school in the $50K range and private universities in the $70K ballpark. With grants and scholarships he is hoping to bring those totals way down, but funds aren’t guaranteed. I’d love it if he was accepted to a “prestigious world reknowned” school at only $23K!
Yeah, for a private college in NYC, I thought it lower than I expected. Art schools are notoriously exclusive and overpriced.
I don’t know what your sons’s intended major is, but has he completed his basic credits yet? I saved A LOT of money paying out of pocket for my first two years at community college, then transferred to completely my Bachelors. A lot of schools have scholarships specifically aimed at those transfer students so they can get them in and paying.
Where I live we have a program in high school that allows students to get two years free at the community college. It’s the way to go so that you can get your basics out of the way and for free.
That’s pretty low. One nephew is at Tisch (NYU) at $80,000, and the other starting at University of Wisconsin, Madison at $70,000. It ain’t cheap to get educated nowadays!
Wow, that’s a lot!
The biggest expense for an art student outside of their tuition are their art supplies. They are far more expensive than just books and they still have to buy those too.
Somehow Marlon Richards managed to go to Parsons and not be so thoroughly disliked. You would think with Keith Richards as a father and Anita Pallenberg as a mother he would be a total jerk but he isn’t. It is interesting how some celebrities have privileged offspring and they fly under the radar but others are so damn thirsty they make fools of themselves.
Interesting to now!
I was wondering that too. 23k isn’t that much for tuition these days – honestly, there’s a message therapy school in Lexington KY that charges half that. I’d imagine a lot of colleges are waaaay more expensive than that – it honestly sounds relatively reasonable.
It’s $24k per semester at Parsons, not per academic year.
NYU/Tisch is about $30k for one SEMESTER (12-18 credits), not the entire year! Jeez…. I majored in photography too and went to FIT. I applied to 1 or 2 other schools and didn’t get in. My grades in high school were awful. We didn’t have the money anyway and I still have friends paying off school loans from back then. I love how he is holding a f*** Leica though – I have been coveting one and it’s about $5000. Brat!
I have no problem with him going home, sometimes college doesn’t work out for people, or they want to be in a different city.
But I do have a problem with him, based solely on his parents fame, getting campaigns and books and millions of followers. He hasn’t earned it, and likely when pushed on it, couldn’t take it. I hope he does find a school that fits him, and does work hard at an internship, if he really wants a career in photography. He’s young and has plenty of time to learn, and if he does earn it, it will be so much more fulfilling.
I was super homesick when I deployed to the Middle East for the first time at 19. A bit worried for my safety as well. Best wishes to BB after wasting an opportunity some people have literally put their lives on the line to have a shot at.
Like there aren’t any photography school in London he could have transferred to?
Right??? Entitlement!!! Like he couldn’t fly home for weekends if he was homesick ….
London has one of the best art schools in the world. So no transfer I guess. *eye roll*
Not with failing grades.
Maybe he’s coming home to support his mum through the (imminent) breakup?
No. He quit art school because you have critiques by your professor and peers. Something tells me he couldn’t hear the truth about how his work wasn’t as awesome as he thinks. I went to art school for photography. Those critiques can be tough to hear especially if u walk in thinking your s$&t doesn’t stink.
I teach in a MFA Photography program and the crits are hardcore, leaving most students traumatized. I’m sure undergraduate is no different. If he was treated the same as everyone else, it probably was the first time he’d ever been challenged or told his work was not so great and possibly even BAD. I see people drop out of Masters programs all the time, for family reasons, money, and work, mostly, sometimes simply because their egos just can’t take it. It is highly common, and not unusual. You need to be tough to make it through those photography crits.
Frankly, if he couldn’t take it we can’t totally blame him on being privileged. Many aren’t tough enough, I know I wouldn’t be.
Looking at his Instagram, his favorite subject seems to be himself. I would imagine that the critiques were quite harsh.
US senator Kamala Harris daughter was a freshman at parsons this year, Harris spoke on how the students had to apply what’s going on in the world to their art and know about these things. Somehow I can’t imagine Brooklyn being very knowledgable about the world outside celebrity circles. I also can’t imagine him being used to the rigour and tough criticism you have to handle at an art school. My guess is that homesickness means he couldn’t handle the rigour and criticism and he went crying back to mommy and daddy, and instead of telling him to toughen up they set up a new golden opportunity for him. He seems incredibly spoilt even for a celebrity kid.
I am by no means a Madonna fan but it’s funny how everyone gave Madonna shit when her kid went to live in England ( her kid who then went on to hang out with Brooklyn and other celebrity offsprings in England and appear in the Daily mail frequently which is probably exactly what she didn’t want for him) , but she seems to actually expect them to get an education or have certain amount of dicipline in their life. The older daughter is one of few celebrity kids who actually went to college.
Others go to college but they live privately so we don’t hear about it. I was saying above it is funny how some celebrities raise their children to be responsible and they are reasonably adjusted and others are just spoiled do nothings.
He might be a lot like Kanye in that respect. Kanye wanted to be a fashion designer…didn’t care about actually going to fashion school…wanted to be taken seriously without the blood, sweat, and tears it takes. But when you’re already rich and famous, you usually just get to skip to the head of the line don’t you?
Shame on the school for accepting his mediocrity just because his parents are famous. They are a top tier school and didn’t need the PR. That means someone who really deserved to get in on his or her own talent and merits was sent a denial of admission letter.
I went to a top east coast university and a lot of children of famous people were there as well. However, all of the ones I knew were extremely bright and talented and deserved their place at the school.
….if he really has 11m followers on ig…well thats his career right there…he doesnt need to do anything else….
He just wants to do what he wants and blow through the money without actually applying himself. He is an incredibly subpar photographer; not even a good “instagram” photographer. How is it that he’s homesick but always frolicking somewhere doing something stupid? With that said, I think the possible family situation with his parents may be another reason for him to want to be home. He could be fulfilling some sort of older brother role to be the rock for his mom and siblings. At the same time, I can see him just following his dad to Miami, etc etc… We all saw this coming.
Poor kid, in a way…he was given a book and an ad campaign, plus is huge on instagram – of course he thought he was a good photographer! Then getting into school and having to actually work for it, study, learn the technicalities, and be critiqued – that would be a hard nut to swallow.
That really isn’t uncommon at all. My son went away to college right after HS graduation – he came back after one semester. And he wasn’t alone; he went to a college in an area where quite a few of his HS friends were also starting college (Atlanta area) and quite a few of them came back after the first semester as well. Happily, after about a year back home, he returned to college and will be graduating next year; but I do think a lot of kids get homesick initially. Eighteen/Nineteen isn’t quite as “adult” as people tend to think it is.
My son lasted two years but, unbeknownst to us, he would drop classes that he was struggling with so that he wouldn’t get bad grades. So at the end of two years he had far fewer credits than he should have had. He moved home, went to our junior college and worked part time. Then he transferred to a local four year college where he is doing very well, still living at home, and will finish in two more semesters. He just wasn’t mature enough at 18 and we should have seen it. It may be a boy/girl thing because our daughter went away last year, did well, had a part time job, did extracurricular activities, managed her affairs very nicely.
Sorry I just see an ENTITLED SPOILED BRAT.
“Victoria is absolutely delighted at the news and couldn’t contain herself when it was all coming to plan – to have Brooklyn back under the same roof is a dream come true for her.”
I don’t doubt that she missed her son but what kind of mother would want their adult child to drop school and their ambitions just to sit at home with her?
Do parents just forget that the whole point of raising children is to create self-sufficient adults prepared for real-world challenges? They’re people, not dolls.
The kind who’s trying to make it sound like her kid didn’t fail out of school.
Weren’t the Beckhams the family that made a big deal about Brooklyn getting a job as a teenager (I think it was bussing tables) and understanding the value of hard work? That seems to have lasted.
Is this the trend of celeb kids that they all should go into the entertainment industry, models, photographers musicians, actresses/actors. Are those the only professions.
If those are the industries where their parents have connections then it definitely makes sense that that’s where a lot of them end up. Entertainment is an area where someone can make it with just talent and no college degree. Although it seems that with this kid there is no real talent so he’s just floundering and wasting his parents money.
Think about what children want to be when they grow up, and now imagine if they’re in a position to have Mom & Dad pull some strings to help make it happen. Of course they want to be in showbiz, it looks cool and special.
Well I can’t see too many wanting the rigours of an office job or anything too difficult/with a boss if they don’t have to. Hell if I could make my living doing something fun and not working too hard for mad cash I’d do it too.
Oh, please. He’s not homesick, he flunked out.
Oh man, I looked at his Instagram. He really is bad. And what’s with all the crappy self portraits? He is just so average. The word “gormless” comes to mind when I see him.
He looks like a combo of Post Malone and Heath Ledger.
The children of celebrities really don’t have the life skills required to focus and stick with something. You don’t need accomplishments or salable skills to make your way in the world when you have mommy and daddy’s money.
Did he fail or was he homesick or both?
Is Victoria the kind of mother who emotionslly back mails her kids to take her sides when she hits a rough patch with her husband? I don’t know…
But I find it strange that a couple that worked so hard to be where they are don’t teach their kids the value of working for their dreams.
Hey, uni isn’t for everybody. Or, maybe he was goofing off too much, realized it, and decided to take a break and re-enroll when he feels like he can fully commit to it.
However, given the rumors swirling around about his parents’ marriage, I hope Brooklyn didn’t drop out in some misguided attempt to keep the family together. That happens sometimes in dysfunctional families; the kids feel a huge obligation/responsibility to fix the family’s problems. Posh being so happy to have him back home is a bit concerning; yes, it might be just a loving mother’s happiness at having her son close by, but it could just as easily be the sign of an unhealthy codependence.
I did wonder if it was easy to drop out now before some sort of announcement. He did go to some fashion show as his Mum’s plus one recently
Re: photographer – my money’s on Hedi Slimane. Maybe Matt Irwin. If it was Julia Kennedys that would be brilliant, but I can’t see Brooklyn interning for a female photographer. It’s got to be one of his mom’s friends. The big shots like Meisel don’t spend enough time in London.