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Brooklyn Beckham reveals he's never had a cooking class and spills the beans on his childhood cooking experiences in new interview about his culinary creations.
The eldest son of David and Victoria Beckham, 24, admits his wife of two-years Nicola Peltz can't "cook to save her life" and recalls hanging out with his dad in the kitchen as a youngster - adding his mum wasn't really one to take the lead when it came to preparing family meals.
Brooklyn, who has opened up a pop-up restaurant for fans of his food, also reveals his dream of opening a pub in his current base in L.A - admitting he misses the pub culture in London since moving to America full-time.
The eldest Beckham child began sharing his cooking adventures on social media during lockdown in 2020, with the former aspiring photographer often ruthlessly mocked due to some of his seemingly simple dishes, like a sausage sandwich and a pasta made with shop-bought sauce.
Brooklyn Beckham has been looking back on how his passion for cooking came about (Instagram/ @brooklynpeltzbeckham)
The first thing the budding chef ever cooked was a packet of Super Noodles (Bloomberg via Getty Images)But Brooklyn, who has previously admitted to wishing "the haters well", isn't letting the criticism deter him from him passion for cooking. Speaking to The Times, the budding chef muses: "Unfortunately, I've never done, like, a cooking class, but I'm obsessed with watching MasterClass [online classes with experts in their field]. I've always loved that. I've been lucky enough to do videos and hang out with all these different types of chefs, learning different things, like [the renowned US baker] Nancy Silverton, who is one of my favourite chefs. She's a really cool person."
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Brooklyn, who tied the knot with billionaire heiress Nicola in April 2022, also recalls getting the cooking bug from his famous father. "My dad was always the one cooking in the house, my mum not so much. I loved hanging out with him in the kitchen," he says, before revealing the first dish he ever cooked. "Probably Super Noodles - you can't go wrong with Super Noodles," the foodie fan declares.
Brooklyn tried his hand at several jobs over the years, with cooking tutorials being his longest-lasting passion. As the son of one of the world's most famous footballers, Brooklyn once tried his hand at the sport himself but was kicked out of Arsenal's youth team in 2015 after failing to get a scholarship to stay at the academy.
He then tried modelling and appeared in a music video for The Vamps in 2015, before landing an amazing opportunity to work as an assistant to famous fashion photographer Rankin. However, Brooklyn's assistant career was dogged by reports that crew that regularly work with Rankin couldn't believe how incapable he was, and his time at Parsons School of Design was cut short when he dropped out.
"I really enjoyed [photography] for a couple of years. I love taking pictures of my wife. I still have all my film cameras, but now it's just more of a fun thing to do. They were kind of all hobbies," he told Variety in 2022. Brooklyn went on the confess he's now discovered the one thing he would "literally die for." That being; cooking.
"I was still trying to find that one thing I would literally die for, and I found that with cooking," he admitted as he looked back on his varied career, before sharing a message for his critics. "I always wish them well, the haters," he declared. "I'm just doing what I love doing, staying healthy, being happy, and that's what it is. I hope they like my next video."