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Oedipus Becks: fans online rally round in 'national emergency'
The Observer
|January 25, 2026
Over the past week Stephen Thomas, 49, an insurance company employee from Cardiff, has been moonlighting as a reputation manager for Victoria Beckham, whom he has never met.
Thomas has been campaigning on TikTok for people to listen to the former Spice Girl's single, following her son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham's posts, criticising his parents for being "controlling" and his mother for ruining his wedding dance. All the hard work has paid off and Victoria Beckham's single, Not Such an Innocent Girl, released in 2001, has reached number one in the iTunes chart.
Thomas said: "Victoria and David are like the royal family to me. I'd do anything for her."
In a social media landscape where #teambrooklyn is facing #teambeckham in a scandal dubbed "Oedipus Becks", it's a win of sorts for the fashion mogul and may help diminish her reported embarrassment over her eldest son's accusations.
Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition January 25, 2026 de The Observer.
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