Victoria Beckham has reportedly decided not to let the fallout with her son Brooklyn disturb her family’s Christmas.

Victoria, 51, and Sir David, 50 are involved in a feud with their eldest child and his wife Nicola Peltz. 

During this time, the couple have missed all of the family’s important events over the past year-notably the footballer’s 50th birthday celebrations and his knighthood. 

In this situation, Brooklyn, 26, is likely to celebrate the festive period with Nicola and her family in Miami, while the Beckhams celebrate without them in the United Kingdom.

In this difficult scenario, Victoria is believed to be working hard to put on a brave face and stay strong for her husband and teenage daughter Harper, 14. 

The couple are also parents to Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20.

A source said: ‘It’s been a year since they last all saw each other and it’s something she will never come to terms with. But she won’t let it get her down over the festive period as she needs to be strong, especially for Harper, as well as her parents and David’s parents’.

Friends of the Beckham family have said Victoria’s mum 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.

The insider told The Sun: ‘Brooklyn spent so much time with her parents Jackie and Tony for the first few years of his life and they had such a special bond, while Sandra looked after him so much growing up’.

‘Harper really misses her big brother and Nicola. Victoria is hoping that Brooklyn at least calls his grandparents over Christmas. She’s given up on him calling her.’ 

It comes after his estranged brother Cruz offered another Olive branch to Brooklyn on Sunday, by sharing a home video clip of himself and Brooklyn as children.

The White House announced on Thursday that Washington’s iconic John F Kennedy arts centre is to be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center” after President Donald Trump.

The extraordinary naming of a major cultural venue after a living president is just the latest effort by the 79-year-old Republican to stamp his identity on the US capital in his second term.

He has also demolished the White House East Wing in order to install a grand ballroom, and is seeking to construct a large triumphal arch.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Kennedy Center’s board — which Trump purged of Democrats earlier this year before installing himself as chairman — had “voted unanimously” for the change.

She said it was “because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation.”

“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur,” she added.

The towering white monument is named after president John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. The centre, which sits on the banks of the Potomac River, opened in 1971.

Trump has made a number of references to renaming the centre in recent months.

Earlier this month at the opening of a peace institute that had also been renamed after him, Trump referred to it as the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” before adding: “Whoops, excuse me.”

During his first term, billionaire Trump never attended the annual fundraising gala for recipients of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors, as many of those artists vocally opposed his policies.

This time, Trump moved quickly to make the centre his own, ridding the board of trustees of its Democratic appointees and ousting its president, as part of a wider assault on federally funded cultural institutions he deemed too “woke.”

Trump then presented the honours this year himself, giving awards to “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone, disco legend Gloria Gaynor and rock band KISS.

A few days earlier, at the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup on December 5, Trump received a new peace prize from football’s governing body and made a speech on stage.

Kristin Cabot is finally speaking out months after her viral Coldplay kiss cam moment cost her job and ignited an internet firestorm.

In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, December 18, the former Astronomer HR executive reflected on the night she and then-CEO Andy Byron were caught in an intimate embrace during the band’s Boston concert in July.

Cabot, 53, told the paper she agonised over whether to go public but ultimately felt compelled to explain what happened. She insisted she and Byron were not in a sexual relationship and said they had never kissed before that night.

“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,” she said, adding that “it’s not nothing.”

Cabot said she has accepted the consequences, even if they were devastating. “That’s the price I chose to pay,” she explained, noting that she “gave up [her] career” over the incident. “I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up, but you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.”

She told the Times she and Byron “clicked, stylistically” when she interviewed for her role in 2024, bonding later over both “going through” separations. By the time she invited him as her plus-one to the Coldplay concert, she admitted she had a “crush,” though it was not meant to be a date.

On a dopamine high from tequila cocktails and dancing, the pair appeared on the jumbotron, prompting Chris Martin to quip, “Whoa, look at these two.” When Byron ducked away and Cabot hid her face, Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy.”

“I was so embarrassed and so horrified,” Cabot said. “I’m the head of HR, and he’s the CEO. It’s, like, so cliché and so bad.”

Both were placed on leave following a board investigation. Byron resigned the next day, and Cabot followed shortly after.