DJ Fat Tony has explained why he decided to speak out on the Beckham-Peltz wedding drama – suggesting the bride and groom asked him to publicly set the record straight.
The 60-year-old is a longtime pal of the entire Beckham clan and DJed at Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s lavish Palm Beach wedding in 2022.
The nuptials took place against a stunning visual backdrop, with the big day being held at the Peltz family’s mammoth Florida estate, but long-running rumours of a rift between the happy couple and Brooklyn’s parents threatened to overshadow the wedding.
After years of denying the fallout, Brooklyn finally confirmed the family feud in a six-page Instagram post shared in January this year.
The eldest of the Beckham children made a number of claims in his explosive update – notably alleging that his first dance with Nicola was “hijacked” by his mother Victoria, who “danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone”.
While almost all wedding guests made the (wise) decision not to get involved, Fat Tony’s husband commented in a meme about the dancing with: “It’s true, I was there.”
The five-word comment sparked headlines aplenty and the DJ, real name Anthony Marnoch, ended up appearing on This Morning to tell all.
In a new interview with The Telegraph, Marnoch has now defended his decision to speak out, explaining: “I wanted to shut down the inappropriate dance thing everyone was making memes about.
“It was getting to the point where everyone forgot the reality was that some kid’s hurting and a family’s lost their son. I wanted to shut that down and change the narrative.”
Asked whether he spoke to either side before agreeing to appear on the ITV show, Marnoch added that “there’s… a WhatsApp group” he has with Brooklyn and Nicola.
“I just kind of thought, you know what, I’m not going to throw anyone under a bus, I just spoke from the heart,” he said. “I wasn’t there to slag off Victoria and David. I wasn’t spilling the beans. Of course that escalated into a million people turning into lawyers, saying, ‘You signed an NDA’ or whatever. I didn’t.”
The DJ said on This Morning that “the whole situation [with the first dance] was really awkward for everyone”.
He added that Nicola left her own wedding in tears when performer and former Mr JLo Marc Anthony – the alleged orchestrator of the first dance saga – called Victoria “the most beautiful woman in the room” and told Brooklyn to put his hands on his mother’s hips as she danced.
Victoria and David have largely taken a Royal-esque “never complain, never explain” approach to the family drama, but former Spice Girl Victoria did offer a response when asked about the feud in April.
Seemingly refusing to say Brooklyn’s name, she told Fortune 100: “We love our children so much.
“We’ve always tried to be the best parents that we can be. And you know, we’ve been in the public eye for more than 30 years right now, and all we’ve ever tried to do is protect our children and love our children.
“And, you know, that’s all I really want to say about it.”
