Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay’s wedding was never going to be a quiet affair. The ceremony – which took place on 27 December at Bath Abbey – comes amid a much-discussed and clearly painful family feud, with the Olympic swimmer’s relations claiming that he is embarrassed of them and their working-class roots. They say the bride’s family – her father is the chef Gordon Ramsay – have subsumed him into their world of serious wealth and celebrity status. (Only Peaty’s sister, Bethany, was at the ceremony, with his mother telling the Mail on Sunday that her son “is in Gordon’s clutches. I can’t help but feel like they are pulling him away from me. Their family is very insular.”)
Now, Peaty has taken to Instagram to change his name – announcing to his 740,000 followers that he is now Adam Ramsay Peaty. It’s hard not to see this as a statement – not only a way of publicly embracing his new wife’s family, but a nod to the fallout with his family.
Adam Peaty changed his name to Adam Ramsay Peaty (Photo: Instagram)There is no way for anyone outside the family to understand the full picture, but what is clear is that Instagram has made a bad situation all the worse. Family rifts have, of course, always existed – we all know of an estranged relative, or a bitter decades-long row that has gone down in family history. But now, in our phone-obsessed times, furious, hurt family members can within seconds hop on to their social media account and use it as an outlet.
Ordinary people, as well as celebrities with hundreds of thousands of followers, are increasingly using it as a place to try and set the record straight, to tell their side of the story, to twist the knife – and without fail, these public expressions of nuanced family turmoil, only deepen the pain of the fallout.
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Peaty said in a statement that “there are two sides to every story” and it is clear -whatever the reality of the situation – that his family has added fuel to the fire by airing their dirty laundry on Instagram. Peaty’s mother, Caroline, posted sometime after allegedly being snubbed by her daughter-in-law and not invited to her hen party: “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is”. More recently, Peaty’s estranged brother, James, posted an old family photograph with their mother standing outside the abbey in which Peaty was going to be married, with music from The Godfather playing over the top. A not-so-subtle comment that will have only made things extra messy.
Gordon and Holly Ramsay arrive for her wedding to Adam Peaty at Bath Abbey (Photo: Ben Birchall/PA)Meanwhile, the Beckhams – who were at the wedding, being close friends with the Ramsays (try to keep up) – have been posting images which won’t calm down any reports of their own family estrangement. There have been a flurry of reports that David and Victoria’s oldest child, Brooklyn, and his wife, Nicola Peltz, have “quit” the Beckham family, with the couple being absent from David’s 50th birthday and celebrating their vow renewal without any of Brooklyn’s relatives.
After speculation that David and Victoria had unfollowed their son on Instagram, the couple’s younger son, Cruz, 20, wrote in an Instagram story: “NOT TRUE. My mum and dad would never unfollow their son… Let’s get the facts right. They woke up blocked… as did I.” The fact that his brother has blocked his whole family on social media could – and should – arguably have stayed private.
David and Victoria posted photos of themselves in their own family pyjamas (Photo: Instagram)Over Christmas, Brooklyn – who has done a Peaty-esque name change to Brooklyn Peltz Beckham – posted photos to Instagram of him and his wife in matching festive pyjamas, and with his in-laws cosying up by the tree. At the same time, David and Victoria posted photos of themselves in their own family pyjamas, and then dancing to Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb’s “Guilty” (“We’ve got nothing to be guilty of…”). It’s normal for celebrities to post their dreamy Christmas photos, and keep their personal brands going at all times, but the abundance of curated social media posts also looks very much like one-upmanship, and media power play, in the context of such a public family breakdown.
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and his wife, Nicola, shared lots of cosy Christmas photos – but the reality seems complex and difficult (Photo: Instagram)Where once celebrities had only the press to contend with, there is now the looming spectre of Instagram at all times. A blessing but also a curse – it is so often a place where people feel compelled to share, explain, or point-score. A celebrity can, of course, choose to stay silent, but they can’t guarantee that “the other side” will do the same.
Instagram might be full of aspirational, beautiful photos but it only makes ugly family fallouts all the uglier.
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