David Beckham has urged his youngsters to not chase social media recognition.

The former soccer star insisted looking for out likes on Instagram posts is “not a good thing” and has suggested his sons Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 20, and 18-year-old Cruz – who’ve 15 million, 3.6 million and 1.9 million followers on the photo-sharing platform respectively – to not place an excessive amount of significance on their on-line engagement.

David – who additionally has 12-year-old Harper with spouse Victoria – is quoted by the Mail on Sunday newspaper’s Emily Prescott as saying: “I’ve always told my children that it’s not a good thing that you get all these likes.”

Earlier this week, the 48-year-old former sportsman paid a touching tribute to his clothier spouse in honour of their twenty fourth marriage ceremony anniversary, hailing the 49-year-old magnificence the “best wife, mummy and drinking partner”.

Sharing a throwback photograph of himself and the previous Spice Girls star with two puppies, he wrote on Instagram: “On this day 4.7.99… 24 years and counting. To the best wife , mummy drinking partner ( most of the time ) Happy Anniversary love u so much (sic)”

Victoria shared a video on her personal account from their marriage ceremony day exhibiting the cherished up couple chopping the cake.

She captioned the publish: “4.7.99. 24 years ago. I love you so much @DavidBeckham.”

Despite the nuptials being lined as a part of a profitable journal deal, Victoria is adamant the marriage wasn’t as fancy because it appeared.

Speaking to The Business of Fashion as a part of the BoF VOICES 2022 occasion final 12 months, she stated of her huge day: “I think that the media glamorised the wedding much more than it actually was … [It was] actually much more intimate than it looked.

“I like to have enjoyable. I work very very exhausting. I take what I do very severely. I wish to be an awesome spouse, a very nice mum, however I wanna have enjoyable as properly.

“Sometimes my tongue-in-cheek sense of humour does tend to get me in trouble, but the wedding wasn’t as huge as everybody made it out [to be].”