Brooklyn Beckham appeared to be missing British cooking as he whipped up a traditional Shepherd’s pie in his LA kitchen on Thursday.
The aspiring chef, 26, took to Instagram with the clip days after a similar video saw fans pleading with him to mend his fractured relationship with parents David and Victoria ahead of Christmas.
Brooklyn, who is based in the US with heiress wife Nicola Peltz, 30, seasoned and cooked the meat before preparing the vegetables and constructing the pie with a mashed potato top.
However some followers pointed out that he appeared to use beef mince, instead of lamb, which would make the dish a Cottage pie rather than Shepherd’s.
They said: ‘Lamb in a Shepherd’s pie’: ‘Was that beef? Isn’t that cottage pie? Shepherd’s pie is with lamb’: ‘Beef is cottage pie, lamb is Shepherd’s pie’: ‘If that’s beef, it’s not Shepherd’s pie’: ‘Clue is in the name’.
Brooklyn and his wife are at the heart of a spiralling family feud that has resulted in their absence from all of his family’s key events over the past year – among them David’s 50th birthday celebrations and his recent knighthood last month.
Brooklyn Beckham, 26, appeared to be missing British cooking as he whipped up a traditional Shepherd’s pie in his LA kitchen on Thursday
The aspiring chef took to Instagram with the clip days after a similar video saw fans pleading with him to mend his fractured relationship with parents David and Victoria
He and his wife Nicola Peltz are at the heart of a spiralling family feud that has resulted in their absence from all of his family’s key events over the past year (family pictured last Christmas)
His absence is said to be ‘taking its toll’ on David, 50, and Victoria, 51, in the lead-up to Christmas, with Brooklyn expected to spend the festive period with Nicola and her family in Miami, while the rest of the Beckham clan celebrate together in the UK.
Sources close to the couple say they are finding their estrangement harder than ever, particularly after he missed out on watching his father receive his knighthood last month and his team Inter Miami win the MLS title.
Fans raced to his post to advise him to reach out before it was too late, urging: ‘Go and see your parents, you will regret it later in life’; ‘Talk to your mother!!!’
‘Call your parents’; ‘Ring your old man’; ‘Call your mum .. you only get one and life’s too short !’; ‘Speak to your parents – only one life and it is very precious’.
It comes after his estranged brother Cruz, 20, extended another olive branch to Brooklyn on Sunday, by sharing a home video clip of himself and Brooklyn as children.
It was his second reference to the influencer in as many weeks, with the aspiring musician previously sharing a photo of himself with Brooklyn, their father and other brother Romeo, 23, during a 2021 holiday with the caption: ‘Love you guys’.
While David appeared to make his own attempt at reaching out to Brooklyn over social media last week, as he shared a throwback picture with his sons.
Next to a photo of himself and Victoria with kids Romeo, Cruz and Harper, 14, and the MLS trophy this month, he added a throwback shot of him with Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz after winning the same cup as a player with LA Galaxy in 2011 and 2012.
Brooklyn, who is based in the US with heiress wife Nicola, seasoned and cooked the meat before preparing the vegetables and constructing the pie with a mashed potato top
However some followers pointed out that he appeared to use beef mince, instead of lamb, which would make the dish a cottage pie rather than Shepherd’s
They said: ‘Lamb in a Shepherd’s pie’: ‘Was that beef? Isn’t that cottage pie? Shepherd’s pie is with lamb’: ‘Beef is cottage pie, lamb is Shepherd’s pie’: ‘If that’s beef, it’s not Shepherd’s pie’:
‘License to cry,’ he captioned the collage, as he marked the occasion with his family after making history as the first person to win the MLS Cup both as a player and as an owner.
While Brooklyn’s grandmother Jackie suggested she was keen for Brooklyn to come home over the festive period by hanging his personalised stocking on her fireplace with the rest of her grandchildren’s.
Victoria shared a video of her mother’s festive display with the identical red stockings for Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper pinned above the hearth, alongside their numerous cousins.
The included her younger sister Louise’s children Liberty, Tallulah, Finlay and Quincy, who she shares with her ex-husband, Darren Flood.
Insiders claimed the move was a deliberate attempt to send a message to Brooklyn, telling The Sun: ‘Usually they wouldn’t post all of the Christmas stockings laid out, but for them, it’s their way of showing how missed Brooklyn is…
‘How he does have a family that loves him, so whatever the narrative is going on with him and Nicola’s family, that is not the Beckhams’ story…
‘The message they’re sending is that the door is always open and he’s always welcome. They’d love nothing more than to see Brooklyn over Christmas, put the past behind them and start 2026 afresh.
‘And Nicola? Well they’ve stopped trying to win her back over. It might never happen, she might never warm up to them again. So for now, they’re concentrating on Brooklyn.’
Friends of the Beckham family say that Jackie – and David’s mum Sandra – are ‘very sad’ at the rift that means they no longer see Brooklyn, especially because they were always so close.
