Brooklyn Beckham mocked relentlessly for claiming he invented 'new thing' with wife Nicola
express.co.ukBrooklyn Beckham, who married billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz earlier this year in a lavish Florida ceremony, announced to the world his hopes to "start a new thing" with his wife after their marriage.
However, David and Victoria Beckham's son's Twitter fans were left in hysterics when they discovered what his idea was - combining both of their surnames."We had this idea — we kind of combined our last names," an enthusiastic Brooklyn revealed to Variety magazine."I was just like, 'Oh, we could start a new thing, and it’ll be so cool to have our own kids and have little Peltz Beckhams running around.'"It wasn't long before bemused fans took to Twitter to disagree that the pair's idea was groundbreaking."Brooklyn Beckham introducing double barrel surnames to the world is akin to Alexandra Burke bringing 'elephant in the room' to the UK," @emmyfg chortled.Christina Barron quipped: "Maybe don’t tell the Pelz Beckhams, but my parents-in-law did this in 1940."Twitter user Fleur then joked: "Didn’t he invent photography as well?"Some fans defended Brooklyn's remark, with Twitter user Oliver Jones suggesting: "Do you not just think they meant as in start a new name ‘Peltz-Beckham’ …."Meanwhile Emmy's comparison referred to the moment when X Factor winner Alexandra, 33, insisted that the common phrase "elephant in the room" did not exist in England.She told ITV Daybreak's hosts back in 2013: "I had never heard of the saying before until I did my writing camp for the album."It’s a very American saying so I thought: 'Why not be the first person to bring it over here and make it into a song?'"Though various memes mocking her later went viral, Alexandra had a good sense of humour about it, quipping: "We all need to have a good.
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