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‘They’re perfect – until they aren’t’: why are people so interested in the Beckxit beef?

Coverage of the three-year family ‘feud’ has been extraordinary, and nothing seems off the table in the media

Further details involving Romeo Beckham’s now-ex-girlfriend, various tattoos and a failure to attend one of Victoria’s fashion shows began bubbling up, and soon Beckxit had become a reality. The timing of the Glamour piece was terrible or brilliant, “depending on whose publicist you were”, said the PR agent Mark Borkowski, who helped revive Noel Edmonds’ career. Still, fights and breakups are life’s great equaliser and occasionally, said Pow, when the stars are as big as the Beckhams, these feuds can be “a shared experience, which is particularly salient in what has become an increasingly siloed society.

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