Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's former wedding planner has waded into their family row and said he was 'surprised' by the aspiring chef's bombshell statement.
Last Monday the 26-year-old son of David and Victoria went nuclear on his family and said he doesn't wish to reconcile with them and made several claims about their behaviour at his wedding.
Now their former wedding planner Preston Bailey has shared that he was shocked he hit out against his parents in such a public and brutal manner.
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Preston was embroiled in wedding drama himself and didn't end up seeing their planning job through - instead going on to be replaced by Arianna Grijalba and Nicole Braghin.
After quitting as the first planner - Bailey claimed at the time he was 'overcommitted' on other jobs so 'couldn't deliver to the quality I was used to.' He said in 2023: 'I have the best to say about the Peltzes and Nicola. There wasn't any bad blood.'
In a subsequent legal filing, Nicola's dad Nelson Peltz said Bailey encountered 'challenges' while planning the enormous event, which took place at the family estate in Palm Beach, Florida and reportedly cost around $3.5million.
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's former wedding planner Preston Bailey (seen) has waded into their family row and said he was 'surprised' by the aspiring chef's bombshell statement
Last Monday the 26-year-old son of David and Victoria went nuclear on his family and said he doesn't wish to reconcile with them and made several claims about their behaviour at his wedding (seen at their vow renewal last year)
Now Preston has spoken of his experiences with Nicola and Brooklyn while he was still planning the wedding.
He told Page Six: 'It surprises me that he is taking this stand against his parents. That's not the Brooklyn I met as far as him being this nice, gentle guy... He was just a nice, regular person who would say hello and chit chat.
'I can tell you about my experience with Brooklyn. While we were planning, clearly as far as the details for the design, he was very much involved. I have always thought of him as a gentle, decent guy. There was never any tension.'
'I don't remember her being bossy. I remember a lot of affection between them. Whatever design was done was presented to Nicola, but it was important for her to have Brooklyn approve it. She wasn't going to do anything without his approval.'
Nicola was portrayed as a 'nightmare bride' in a documentary about her bitter dispute with her wedding planners for her lavish 2022 nuptials.
She subjected her wedding planners to the 'group (text) chat from hell', said Chris Lochery, the editor at gossip site Popbitch in the documentary Peltz Beckhams vs The Planners.
Lochery said at the time that the wedding was 'total carnage' and that Nicola came out of the lawsuit looking 'spoiled and entitled.'
Celebrity wedding planner Mark Niemierko said that Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba, who took over the wedding, were handed a 'hot mess' when famed planner Preston stepped back.
Now their former wedding planner Preston has shared that he was shocked he hit out against his parents in such a public and brutal manner
Preston was embroiled in wedding drama himself and didn't end up seeing the planning job through - instead going on to be replaced by Arianna Grijalba and Nicole Braghin (seen)
Third wedding planner Michelle Ragos (seen) got the job done in the end - but charged the Peltz family an escalated fee because of the tight turn-around
He described Nicola as a 'very, very insecure individual who is insecure of their career.'
The lawsuit 'represented a mess of a family, forget the mess of planning a wedding,' said Niemierko in the documentary.
The wedding took place in April 2022 in the Palm Beach, Florida, mansion of Nelson Peltz, Nicola's billionaire investor father.
The three-day event attracted celebrities like Eva Longoria, Gordon Ramsay and Venus and Serena Williams, as well as David and Victoria.
Behind the scenes there were ugly tensions which came to the surface when Nelson Peltz sued Plan Design, Braghin and Grijalba's Miami-based wedding planning company several months after the event.
They were fired after just eight days because, as was claimed in legal filings, they were incapable of doing the job and had 'hoodwinked' the Peltz family into thinking they could do it.
In the lawsuit Peltz demanded his $159,000 deposit back and called their refusal to hand it over a 'good old fashioned shakedown.'
The wedding planners fired back with a counter lawsuit which revealed hundreds of texts of what they claimed showed unreasonable demands from the Peltz family.
The documents said that Peltz was acting like a 'billionaire bully' and that he became so frustrated with the chaotic planning he called the event a 's*** show' and wanted to cancel it but his wife Claudia begged him not to as it would 'destroy Nicola's career.'
Nicola was portrayed as a 'nightmare bride' in a documentary about her bitter dispute with her wedding planners for her lavish 2022 nuptials (seen are messages in a planning group chat)
She subjected her wedding planners to the 'group (text) chat from hell', said Chris Lochery, the editor at gossip site Popbitch in the documentary Peltz Beckhams vs The Planners
Texts between Nicola, Nelson and the wedding planners revealed Nicola's frustration that they couldn't manage the RVSP list
Things came to a head last Monday when Brooklyn released a shock statement saying he doesn't want to reconcile with his family (seen together in 2019)
John Uustal, a celebrity trial attorney, said in the documentary that Nicola fired the wedding planners because 'she was getting scared' about the mess that was unfolding, which he called a 'slow moving train crash'.
According to Uustal, $159,000 was nothing to Nelson Peltz and there had to be 'more at stake here than money.'
He said: 'The cost of lawyers - he's going to spend more on lawyers then he's going to get (from the deposit). I can guarantee it.
'Reputation matters to someone like Nelson Peltz. On Wall Street he's feared and if he can't take care of a problem with a couple of wedding planners that's going to affect his reputation and I suspect his business dealings.'
The documentary revealed that Plan Design was the second wedding planner hired by the Peltzes and a third had to be hired to complete the job after they were fired, the counter lawsuit stated.
Mark Niemierko, a celebrity wedding planner who wasn't involved in the event, said that Bailey quitting as the first planner - Bailey claimed at the time he was 'overcommitted' on other jobs - was 'one of the biggest red flags'.
Niemierko says: 'For (Bailey) to walk away would be quite considerable. The wedding handed to them (the new planners) was a hot mess. A lot of alarm bells would have been ringing if I'd got that call.'
Among the messages included in the lawsuit were furious messages from Nicola about a fiasco with the guest list during which Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 race car driver, RSVPed but actually couldn't come.
She texted: 'lewis Hamilton did NOT RSVP. So explain why his names on the list please. We spoke to him. He can't come so explain why you said he rsvpd yes.'
As the wedding planners implored Nicola to help them, she texted: 'Can someone just send me a list of yeses PLEASE.'
Later Nicola wrote: 'I don't want it to be so complicated. I just want a list PLEASE.
'I've repeated myself a lot. I don't want an app or google doc. Just a text or email. Simple. Old school. That's the way my mom and I like it!'
Nicola was obsessed with small details like the matching monogrammed silk pajamas she and Brooklyn were due to wear on their wedding night.
The lawsuit claimed that the bill for Nicola's hair and makeup was more than $100,000 but Nelson Peltz could not be told because he would 'kill (Claudia, his wife), and be so mad.'
In other messages Nicola demanded that Preston Bailey be 'cut off', adding: 'I hate them' and 'can we fire them yet.'
Referring to Yuda, who appears to be a member of staff working on the wedding, Nicola wrote: 'He doesn't work weekend (sic) and when the suns (sic) down he won't work…Ya honestly he kinda sucks Truth be told.'
When Nicola is told one guest thinks they are flying on a private jet to the wedding, she replied: 'UMM HAHAHA NO'.
Even Brooklyn could not escape Nicola's anger.
While discussing the Beckham side of the guest list Nicola cut in and said: 'I do not trust Brooklyn with this. He has no idea. And is guessing'.
Niemierko said the texts that were included in the lawsuit 'represented a mess of a family, forget the mess of planning a wedding'.
On Nicola he said: 'She came across quite impatient, wasn't getting what she wanted. From seeing the correspondence it represents a very, very insecure individual who is insecure of their career, where they are and I think that's a shame'.
Chris Lochery said: 'It seems like the group chat from hell. It's awful. Just total carnage everywhere. Nicola comes across as a nightmare bride. Exactly the sort of person you don't want having your phone number'.
The case continued with a trial expected. But in September of that year both sides unexpectedly settled.
In a joint statement both sides said: 'The parties believe that this contract dispute should be resolved on the terms agreed.
'As part of the settlement Plan Design will make a donation in the name of Nicola and Brooklyn to the CARE Ukraine Crisis Fund. Plan Design wishes Nicola and Brooklyn Peltz Beckham happiness and a fruitful life together'.
Florida lawyer Peter Tragos said that the 'leverage of taking Nicola's deposition and other family members made Nelson Peltz think twice' about going ahead with the case, and that's why he settled.
According to Niemierko the wedding planners did not suffer a reputation hit and 'if anything they're now on a lot more people's radar'.
He said: 'The reputational damage is to the Peltzs and in particular Nicola. The Beckhams certainty want this to go away as quickly as possible.'
Lochery says in the film: 'I have no idea if Nicola Peltz spoke to (her father) ahead of filing this lawsuit but I have a feeling if he did there's no way she would have agreed to it.
'It makes them look petty and it makes them look entitled.
'Now they look spoiled and are trying to sue hardworking women over $150,000, to try and ruin their reputations. It's a horrible situation.'
The Beckhams have been embroiled in a tense row with their son Brooklyn and Nicola for months now.
Things came to a head last Monday when Brooklyn released a shock statement saying he doesn't want to reconcile with his family.
Brooklyn married actress Nicola in 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida, but things ran far from smoothly
The Beckhams have maintained a stoic silence since the influencer claimed he has been 'controlled by a family that values public promotion above all else' and that since being with Nicola he has found 'peace and relief' after battling crippling anxiety.
Among the long list of claims he made was that Victoria pulled out of designing his bride's wedding dress at the 'eleventh hour' and then 'hijacked' the first dance at his wedding and 'danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone'.
Victoria is said to be 'feeling betrayed' by Brooklyn's bombshell statement and dancing revelations after her years spent protecting him from 'dark stories'.
The Daily Mail's Katie Hind previously explained how the Beckhams' camp 'leapt into overdrive in Brooklyn's defence' when stories such as kiss and tells and tales of him being 'involved with the wrong crowd' surfaced.
The family have been putting on a united front in Paris this week during fashion week as Brooklyn remains in the US with Nicola.