Victoria Beckham reportedly attempted to reconnect with her eldest son Brooklyn just days before he blocked both her and David Beckham on social media.

The fashion designer reportedly “liked” one of Brooklyn’s Instagram posts in a gesture of goodwill ahead of Christmas.

In response, she was met with silence and ultimately got blocked by her elder son.

An insider shared with Metro, “Victoria liked an Instagram post on Brooklyn’s page just days before he blocked her and David.”

“There was no intention behind it other than to show she’s thinking of him before Christmas. She had no idea it would lead to this fallout.”

“She can’t understand why Brooklyn would make the decision to block her, David, and his brothers. Cruz and Romeo are just as hurt by it and it feels like Brooklyn has truly cut them out of his life.”

The news came just a few days after the 20-year-old refuted claims that his parents unfollowed their eldest on Instagram.

“NOT TRUE. My mum and dad would never unfollow their son… Let’s get the facts right. They woke up blocked… as did I,” Cruz wrote on social media.

The English model and photographer no longer follows any of his immediate family members.

The Kid LAROI finally put the longstanding debate on Stay songwriting credits to rest.

The Aussie pop star addressed the confusion that Charlie Puth wrote the lyrics of his 2021 smash 2021 duet with Justin Bieber.

During The Road to Before I Forget Twitch stream on Tuesday, December 23, the 22-year-old debunked the misconceptions, revealing that it was he himself and Bieber, 31, who wrote their own verses.

“I wrote every single lyric on that song apart from Justin’s verse,” the Too Much rapper set the record straight once and for all. “Justin wrote every lyric of his verse. There’s been some, like, misinterpretation somewhere along the line that the song was pitched to us.”

“People think Charlie [Puth] wrote the song and gave it to us. That didn’t happen. I wrote every single lyric of that punch-in style.” he clarified.

For the unversed, in a 2022 SiriusXM interview, Puth, who co-produced Stay, explained how he constructed the chords for the single.

However, some netizens took his statement as if the See You Again singer’s explanation means that he wrote the entire song without input from LAROI, whose real name is whose real name is Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard or the Baby hitmaker.

“I definitely did get bummed when I started seeing people say I didn’t write [Stay] because I was so proud of that,” the Australian musiican expressed frustration on-stream for not getting the credit for something he is genuinely proud of. “I was 17 years old. And I’m still so proud of that. That’s an accomplishment and something to be proud of. … Like, ‘Damn, people think that this song was just given to me?’ That’s so crazy.”

He acknowledged other people’s contributions, emphasising that it was a collaborative effort.

At the same time, LAROI clearly conveyed that he personally wrote every lyric on the song except Bieber’s verse.

• Gold rises 0.1% to $4,492.51 with record high of $4,525.19.
• Silver gains $72.27 touching all-time peak of $72.70.
• Thin year-end liquidity exaggerats recent price moves.

Gold surged past the $4,500-an-ounce mark for the first time on Wednesday, while silver and platinum also scaled record highs, as investors piled into precious metals on safe-haven demand and expectations that US interest rates will fall further next year.

Spot gold rose 0.1% to $4,492.51 per ounce by 0359 GMT, after touching a record high of $4,525.19 earlier in the session. US gold futures for February delivery climbed 0.3% to a record high of $4,520.60.

Silver gained 1.2% to $72.27 an ounce, after hitting an all-time peak of $72.70 earlier, while platinum jumped 3.3% to $2,351.05 after rising to a historic high of $2,377.50.

Palladium climbed almost 2% to $1,897.11, its highest level in three years.

“Precious metals have become more of a speculative narrative around the idea that, with de-globalisation, you need an asset that can act as a neutral go-between, without sovereign risk particularly as tensions between the US and China persist,” said Ilya Spivak, head of global macro at Tastylive.

Thin year-end liquidity exaggerated recent price moves but the broader theme was likely to endure, with gold targeting $5,000 over the next six to twelve months and silver potentially pushing toward $80 as markets respond to key psychological levels, Spivak added.

Gold has surged more than 70% this year, its biggest annual gain since 1979, driven by safe-haven demand, expectations of US rate cuts, robust central-bank buying, de-dollarisation trends and ETF inflows, with traders pricing in two rate cuts next year.

Silver has jumped more than 150% over the same period, outpacing gold on strong investment demand, its inclusion on the US critical minerals list and momentum buying.

Gold and silver have “been hitting the accelerator pedal this week” with fresh record highs, reflecting their appeal as stores of value amid expectations of lower US rates and lingering global debt, said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.

Platinum and palladium, primarily used in automotive catalytic converters to reduce emissions, have surged this year on tight mine supply, tariff uncertainty, and a rotation from gold investment demand, with platinum up about 160% and palladium gaining more than 100% year to date.

“What we’re seeing in platinum and palladium is largely catch-up,” Spivak said adding that the thin nature of those markets leave them vulnerable to sharp swings, even as they broadly track gold, once liquidity returns.