Do photos show Victoria Beckham’s ‘inappropriate’ dance at son Brooklyn’s wedding?

In January 2026, Brooklyn Beckham, the son of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and retired English soccer star David Beckham, reportedly published a bombshell statement on Instagram, appearing to publicly break ties with his famous family.

The younger Beckham leveled several accusations against his family — particularly his mother, Victoria — including a claim that the former pop star and fashion designer “hijacked” his first dance at his 2022 wedding to Nicola Peltz, daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz.

According to the British tabloid The Sun, which published Brooklyn Beckham’s statement in full after his post expired on Instagram, he wrote:

My mum hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song. In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage, where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me instead. She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.

The quote from Beckham’s reported statement also appeared in screenshots from his Instagram Stories shared (archived) by British journalist Victoria Derbyshire. Stories are temporary Instagram posts that usually disappear after 24 hours.

Reuters and the Associated Press also reported parts of Beckham’s statement.

In the days following the reported statement, social media users sought photographic or video evidence of Victoria Beckham’s alleged inappropriate dance. Some users shared (archived) a series of photos claiming to show Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Peltz, with the groom’s mother striking various dance poses in front of the newlyweds.

In short, the images were fake. The user who created them appeared to have used at least one authentic photo of Beckham and Peltz and digitally composited Victoria Beckham in various dance poses, likely with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Other images of Brooklyn Beckham and Peltz, including one that appears to show Peltz gasping in surprise at Victoria Beckham’s dancing, also appeared to have been altered using AI.

Reverse image searches did not return any results for a photo resembling the scene from Brooklyn Beckham and Peltz’s wedding.

According to Google’s Gemini chatbot, the images also contained SynthID, Google’s watermark for content produced by its AI tools. Gemini wrote about the photos:

All or part of these images were made with Google AI. Each of the six images you’ve shared contains a SynthID digital watermark, which is used to identify content generated or edited by Google’s AI tools.

Hey Reilly, a self-described designer, artist and creative director whose logo appeared on the photos, posted (archived) the images on Facebook on Jan. 20, 2026, and wrote: “I mean, I don’t know about you, but after a few wedding sherries I’m absolutely first on the dance floor, busting moves I didn’t know I had.” One of the many hashtags on the post was “#Ai.”

Hey Reilly’s post appeared to be among the earliest instances of the images circulating online, with other widely shared posts circulating after theirs.

We reached out to Hey Reilly to confirm that they created the images using Google’s AI tools and await a reply.

According to a 2022 Vogue report citing a guest who reportedly attended the wedding, Brooklyn Beckham and Peltz had their first dance to “Only Fools Rush In,” performed by South African artist Lloyiso. The report did not describe any inappropriate dancing by Beckham’s mother or other guests. Snopes could not independently verify Beckham’s claim that his mother “hijacked” his first dance or whether her alleged actions were inappropriate.

Beckham parents silent after son’s statement

Neither of Brooklyn Beckham’s parents had publicly addressed his reported accusations at the time of this writing.

In the lengthy reported statement, Beckham claimed his parents “controlled narratives” about the family in the press and placed “countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade.”

Beckham also accused his parents of “trying endlessly” to ruin his relationship with Peltz, writing that Victoria Beckham allegedly pulled out of designing Peltz’s dress “in the eleventh hour,” and “repeatedly invited women from my past into our lives in ways that were clearly intended to make us both uncomfortable.”

On Jan. 20, 2026, the day after Beckham released his statement, David Beckham appeared to ignore a Sky News reporter’s questions in Davos, Switzerland, about whether he had a message for his son or was “disappointed” that the statement had aired “family business” in public.

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box program about children and social media that same day, the elder Beckham said:

Children make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes, that’s how they learn. So, that’s what I’ve tried to teach my kids but, you know, you have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well.

David Beckham did not name Brooklyn or any of his other children — Romeo, Cruz and Harper — during the appearance.

At the time of this writing, it appeared unlikely that photos or videos of the alleged dance would ever be made public.

According to a report by tabloid news outlet TMZ, the wedding guests had their phones confiscated and the wedding videographer reportedly uploaded their footage “directly to a computer accessible only to Brooklyn and Nicola and, per contract, was required to wipe all copies and sign an NDA.”

Victoria Beckham was reportedly the only guest allowed to keep her phone. It was unclear whether she recorded the alleged inappropriate dance.