DJ Fat Tony has shed light on the nature of Victoria Beckham’s much-discussed dance with her son Brooklyn, calling it ‘awkward’.

The 60-year-old DJ, who spun the tunes at Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz’s wedding celebration in April 2022, spoke out on Friday to support Brooklyn. He described the dance as ‘really awkward’ and noted that Nicola left the reception in tears.

Brooklyn, now 26, detailed in a revealing six-page statement on Monday that his mother Victoria had ‘taken over’ his first dance with Nicola, causing him discomfort and embarrassment by ‘dancing very inappropriately on me’.

Tony, a close associate of the Beckham family, suggested that Marc Anthony played a role in the incident. He disclosed that the musician invited Victoria to join Brooklyn on the dance floor and directed Brooklyn to ‘place your hands on your mother’s hips’.

Appearing on This Morning on Friday, Tony clarified, “There was no provocative behavior, no flashy outfits, no Spice Girls antics!”

He added, “The word ‘inappropriate’ was used because it was about the timing, and this is how it all unfolded…”

Tony continued: ‘What happened was, basically, Marc Anthony was performing on stage, he then called Brooklyn onto stage. 

‘Brooklyn went on to the stage, and the next minute everyone’s expecting Nicola to go up and do the first dance, and then Mark asked for the most beautiful woman in the room to come to the stage – and then he says “Victoria, come to the stage”.’ 

He revealed that Brooklyn looked ‘devastated’ at the fact his first dance was with Victoria and not his wife, adding that Nicola left the room ‘crying her eyes out’.

Tony went on: ‘Brooklyn is stuck there on stage, and they do this dance, and Marc Anthony says “put your hands on your mothers hips” and it was a Latin thing, and the whole situation was really awkward for everyone in the room…

‘I’ve done an awful lot of Beckham parties in the past, and they are a very dancing close knit family and love to dance, right? So you know, what we deem as “inappropriate” is not how Brooklyn feels. 

‘This is all about how Brooklyn feels. If he feels that it was inappropriate and awkward, it was inappropriate and awkward.

‘What’s sad is that this is the bit that everyone’s taken from the statement, and kind of white washed everything else that went on.’ 

Detailing Brooklyn’s motives for going public with his statement, Tony continued: ‘It’s taken a lot for someone to go to social media, when your life is lived out on social media… he wanted to change the narrative. 

‘For all of his life he’s been called “Nepo Baby”, and “he should be grateful that he’s got the family name”. But that’s what he was born into, y’know. I think what we’re all missing here is the fact that parents have lost their child, and a son has lost his parents…’

When asked if he couldn’t counsel him to ‘go and live his life’ and not blow this up, Tony said: ‘The thing is, it’s drip fed. 

‘We live in a world where people make their own presumptions about everything and no, [there’s nothing you can do about that], you can’t, and the reason why I’ve come on This Morning is because it’s a safe space. 

‘I’ve been inundated with “you’re a liar”, “you’re this, you’re that”, and I haven’t even commented – my poor husband was in an argument and made a brief comment saying, “You weren’t there, I was, it’s true.” Which then led onto [all those messages] it was ridiculous.’

On why he thought Brooklyn didn’t approach his parents privately, Tony replied, ‘He’s done all that. It got to the point for him where he can’t take this anymore and wanted to step back from it, and that was his way of doing closure. 

‘That’s his decision. I couldn’t think of anything worse [for his parents] and I can only talk as a dog dad, but I didn’t talk to my own father for 30 years due my own understanding of a situation that I made up in my own head. 

‘And it wasn’t until I reconciled with my father that I realised that I had to look at my part in it… so of course it’s really sad situation. Do I think they’ll talk again? Of course they will at some point, they are family. But the noise needs to die down, people need to step back from it.

‘I didn’t realise there were two and a half million people at that wedding, because everyone seems to think they were there! Everyone feels the need to comment on it. And I’m sure they will have a field day with this, but that’s the world we live in.’

Asked about what people were saying the morning after the wedding, Tony admitted: ‘Well you know, when the bride and groom leave their wedding devastated, word trickles out… and not many people turned up for the brunch, but everyone was talking about it, and how sad that part of it was. 

‘But Victoria was thrown into that situation, and I think too much has been read into it… in the sense of too many stories being added to it. The dance is a very small part of the bigger problem.’

At the end of the interview, host Alison Hammond, said: ‘As a mother, the whole thing saddens me, and I would love to put it out there to Brooklyn and to Victoria, I would love to bring you all together and I would love to mediate. I’m here if they want to do that Tony.’

Tony had previously joined in with the posts poking fun at Brooklyn’s claims that Victoria ‘danced very inappropriately’.

Earlier in the week, he shared a video of Lucy Punch’s character Amanda in BBC sitcom Motherland dancing wildly to the Lil’ Kleine & Ronnie Flex track Drank & Drugs in front of her school mum friends.

The clip was captioned ‘POV: Victoria Beckham during Brooklyn’s first dance’ and Fat Tony added the words: ‘Actual video footage it’s true I was there !’

Tony’s partner Stavros Agapiou also backed up Brooklyn’s ‘inappropriate’ dancing comment.

‘I was there and she did, he’s telling the truth,’ he said in an Instagram comment, which has since been deleted – with Stavros instead posting: ‘Good on him for finally speaking out!’ 

Brooklyn made a series of bombshell allegations about his 2022 Florida wedding, including claims his mother dramatically intervened in what was meant to be his romantic first dance with Nicola.

An insider told The Sun: ‘Brooklyn was so embarrassed and his wife so humiliated and furious to have been upstaged.

‘She made her feelings very, very clear on the day. It soured the whole evening.’

The insider added of Victoria: ‘There was absolutely no malice there; quite the opposite.’

Meanwhile a different source said David and Victoria are ‘baffled’ by the accusations as on the day, guests were ‘having so much fun’ and were ‘lapping it up’, with no concerns about the mother and son dance raised at the time. 

They said Victoria was just a ‘tad tipsy and having fun’ while ‘Nicola didn’t want him to dance with his mum at all – so kicked off about it’.  

Page Six reported the actress was so upset she left the reception crying after Victoria ‘wrapped her arms around Brooklyn and nuzzled into his neck’. 

A source said: ‘She [Victoria] was dancing with him very inappropriately. She took that moment from Nicola, that is the god’s truth.

‘Nicola ran out crying. The Beckhams’ side of the room was cheering and the Peltz side was quiet.

‘Nicola’s friends were saying “You have to go back down.” Her face was swollen. She finally came down and was sad the entire evening, it was so heartbreaking.’

Another source claimed Brooklyn spent the weekend ‘agonising’ over what to say in the six-page statement, after telling his wife ‘f*** it, this ends now’. 

The insider told The Mirror: ‘He thought the abuse towards his wife would never stop until he said something in his own words. He was sick of the lies, and there was no changing his mind….and nor did anyone want to. He was fixated on ending the b******t which he claims his mum and dad are behind.’ 

Fans are clamouring to see the footage at the centre of the Beckham family rift. 

But sources say the video will likely never surface because Brooklyn himself holds the only recording of the controversial moment.

The couple famously enforced an ultra-strict no-phones policy at their lavish Florida nuptials, attended by 500 guests. 

All attendees were required to surrender their personal devices upon arrival, sealing them inside electronically locked pouches before being handed retro flip phones for basic photographs.

As a result, Brooklyn and Nicola retain exclusive control over all official footage from the day, meaning the alleged ’embarrassing’ dance exists only in material owned by the couple themselves.

A source revealed: ‘Brooklyn holds all the power when it comes to the video of Victoria dancing “inappropriately” on him at his wedding to Nicola.

‘You can completely understand why Brooklyn would never have wanted the footage made public. Until now, he has stayed silent, but he is finally speaking out about his experiences with his family and, in particular, how deeply let down he felt by his mother on his wedding day.

‘Thousands of people are now speculating about just how inappropriate Victoria’s performance really was, and releasing the footage could be the ultimate proof that everything Brooklyn has alleged is completely accurate.

‘The only person who can lawfully release that footage is Brooklyn himself. And while he’s clearly been pushed to breaking point, he may still feel it’s not something he wants to relive, especially on such a hugely public scale.’ 

As a result of Brooklyn’s claims, thousands of memes and hilarious videos imagining Victoria’s ‘inappropriate’ dancing have gone viral online. Sources told The Sun that she is ‘devastated’ at being turned into a laughing stock. 

Glamorous images of the couple’s lavish nuptials were captured by celebrity fashion and wedding photographer German Larkin, later forming the centrepiece of their glossy Vogue cover shoot.

But it is within the couple’s own account of their big day that cracks in Brooklyn’s version of events which have begun to appear.

Vogue reported that the newlyweds’ first dance was to South African singer Lloyiso’s rendition of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love. 

The publication then states that Marc Anthony took to the stage much later in the reception to perform his hit I Need To Know.

It was at this point, Vogue adds, that Brooklyn invited his mother onto the stage for a dance, where she was joined by David and their daughter Harper.

That detail appears to directly contradict Brooklyn’s explosive claim that Marc Anthony called him to the stage, and that what was meant to be a romantic dance with his wife was instead interrupted by his mother, who was allegedly ‘waiting in the wings’ to dance with him.

Brooklyn wrote in his statement that his mother ‘hijacked’ his first dance, insisting the moment had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song – a version of events that now sits at odds with the couple’s own published account.

Brooklyn insisted in his statement that the reason he and Nicola chose to renew their vows just three years after their original ceremony was because Victoria had ruined their wedding day, a renewal the Beckhams notably did not attend.

He said: ‘We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.’

The Beckham family feud has been simmering for years, both behind closed doors and in public, with each side desperately battling to protect their version of events and their reputations. 

In his lengthy Instagram post, Brooklyn claimed his family had ‘controlled narratives’ and perpetuated ‘countless lies’ to ‘preserve their own façade’ – with ‘Brand Beckham’ always the priority.

But the chef said tensions reached breaking point when Victoria, who first rose to fame as Posh Spice and now owns a hugely successful fashion and beauty empire, ‘cancelled’ Nicola’s wedding dress at the eleventh hour, despite how excited Brooklyn’s wife had been to wear her design. 

However, some fans have already questioned the accuracy of Brooklyn’s claims surrounding the dress, pointing to the fact that Nicola wore an elaborate Valentino Haute Couture gown that reportedly took years to design.

In a Vogue article published days after the couple’s April 2022 wedding, Nicola’s stylist Leslie Fremar revealed the dress required ‘years’ worth of conversations with Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli’s team.

Fremar also said the bride made two trips to Rome and attended fittings in the US to ensure every detail was ‘immaculate’ on the big day.