TATTOOS are the love language of Brooklyn Beckham.
With about 110 etchings sprawled across his body, inked-in words of affirmation are how he likes to express himself.
How utterly wounding, both literally and figuratively, it is then to learn the 26-year-old has intentionally covered up tributes to his father David.
This, quite evidently, is a wound that runs deep.
Having already tattooed over “Mama’s boy”, now it is the turn of his once-beloved dad to be erased from pigmented history.
And my God, this will hurt family man Becks.
A man, after all, who culturally redefined a generation with his tattoo sleeve; a thing previously reserved for military.
Thanks to Becks, it is harder to find someone WITHOUT a tattoo than with.
Brooklyn is effectively weaponising his dad’s own identity against him.
To rub salt into the still-drying wound, approximately 73 of his 110 tatts are dedicated to his US wife Nicola Peltz.
He even has her eyes on the back of his neck. But hey, one person’s creepy is another’s romantic.
I know David will be devastated and embarrassed by this latest snub.
He, himself, has inked tributes to his eldest son, including one dedicated to “Buster”, Brooklyn’s nickname since childhood.
But I can guarantee you one thing: David will never, ever remove these dedications.
He may be hurting, but the door remains forever open to his flesh and blood.
When he got those tattoos, they really were for life.
