What is next for Brooklyn Beckham after 'nepo-baby' slammed for raw beef cooking tutorial?

Nepo baby Brooklyn Beckham is failing to find a successful career path unlike his singer mother Victoria and football father David

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Brooklyn Beckham has added to his failed cooking ventures as he has been slammed for posting a video of a ‘heart attack on a plate’.

The photographer turned chef found his love for food in lockdown and has spent the last year and a half trying to cement himself as a future cook.

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With an eight-episode series on Facebook called Cookin’ with Brooklyn and television appearances cooking with Late Late Show’s James Corden and Rachel Ray on the Today Show, to his name, Brooklyn’s cooking attempts have been in the public eye and therefore open to not only admiration but also criticism.

Fans criticised Brooklyn for labelling himself as a ‘chef’ in a TikTok despite the lack of accreditations or time spent in restaurants.

Previous recipes have drawn doubt including Brooklyn’s infamously dry English Breakfast sandwich in which the 23-year-old laid bacon, eggs and sausage on unbuttered bread as well as cheesy pasta that he cooked for his wife Nicola Peltz.

In his latest cooking video posted on Instagram, Brooklyn has been blasted for his ‘michelin style’ Sunday roast dinner with comments suggesting that the beef was severely undercooked and the amount of butter and oil used was verging on unhealthy.

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Users commented: “Might as well bite the cow while it’s grazing,”, “heart attack on a plate,” and “save some butter for the rest of us”, while others rushed to his defence to say the meal did still look lovely.

Some may say that Brooklyn’s numerous attempts at pursuing careers including football, photography and cooking is a way to step out from his label as a nepo-baby and find his own path.

As the eldest son of David Beckham and Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, it may be difficult to find a career that has not been laid out for you, and despite Brooklyn’s efforts, no pursuit has seemingly taken shape.

At the age of 15, Brooklyn spent a short time considering following in the footsteps of his father, playing in the same position at the Arsenal football academy, but decided to end the athletic career the same year.

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He said to Vanity Fair: “I have a lot of anxiety. And to try to live up to what my Dad did, it was just like, it got to that point where I was just, like, I really want to make my own name for myself, and work my a*** off.”

A couple of years later, Brooklyn turned his hand to photography releasing a campaign with Burberry and a coffee table book with Rizzoli, but dropped out of Parsons School of Design as he realised his passion for photography was not enough for a career.

So, while Brooklyn is enjoying cooking, all eyes focus on whether it is a recipe for disaster or if this is the main course for the 'nepo-baby’s' career.

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