Speaking on ITV’s This Morning on Friday (23 January), DJ Fat Tony, whose real name is Tony Marnoch, shared his first-person eyewitness account of what exactly went down on the fateful night of Brooklyn Beckham’s much-discussed wedding.
In a series of Instagram story posts, Brooklyn claimed his mother, Victoria Beckham, “humiliated” him when she “danced very inappropriately on me.”
Speaking on This Morning, Fat Tony said “the whole situation was really awkward for everyone in the room,” as he recounted the events.
“There was no s**tdropping, there was no black cat PVC catsuits, there was no Spice Girl action.”
Pop star Marc Anthony performed at the wedding reception and Fat Tony claimed that he called Brooklyn to the stage.
“The next minute, everyone was expecting it to be Nicola to go up and do the first dance,” he said. Anthony then asked for “the most beautiful woman in the room” to join Brooklyn, then said Victoria’s name, instead of Brooklyn’s partner, Nicola.
‘The whole situation was very awkward.’
“Victoria is by the stage, she goes onto the stage, and of course at that point Brooklyn is suddenly, literally, devastated because he thought he was going to do his first dance with his wife.
“Then Nicola leaves the room crying her eyes out. Brooklyn is stuck there on stage.
“And then they do this dance and Marc Anthony’s going, ‘Put your hands on your mother’s hips’. It was a Latin thing.
“The whole situation was very awkward for everyone in the room.”
Fat Tony was asked if the actions were “inappropriate.” He responded: “If [Brooklyn] feels that it was inappropriate and awkward, it was inappropriate and awkward.”
Fat Tony also furthered that the newlyweds were “devastated” but the dance “is a very small part of a bigger problem” for the Beckham family.
Who is DJ Fat Tony? (Dave Benett/Getty)
Who is DJ Fat Tony?
DJ Fat Tony, otherwise known as Tony Marnoch, is a notable British DJ and author.
He’s best known for his work during the ‘80s and ‘90s club scene, where he was a prominent voice in house music. He continues to have influence today.
Fat Tony has DJ’d for the likes of Madonna and Prince, as well as the Beckham family.
In his 2022 memoir, I Don’t Take Requests, Marnoch shared his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and his HIV diagnosis.
Today, the DJ continues to platform LGBTQ+ communities and works as an activist.
Fat Tony married his partner, creative director Stavros Agapiou, in June 2025. Boy George officiated as master of ceremonies.
A former Space Force colonel fired by the Trump administration over her gender identity has raised over $100,000 less than 24 hours after launching a political campaign.
Retired astronautical engineer Bree Fram’s campaign to represent Virginia in US Congress has already skyrocketed into outer space less than a week after she made the announcement.
The 46-year-old Colonel announced her intention to run for the Congressional seat in a Tuesday (20 January) Instagram clip.
Bree Fram. (Getty)
“Too many Americans are afraid of what their own government is doing to them, instead of being confident in what it can do for them,” she said in the clip. “That’s why I’m running for Congress.”
Following the announcement, Fram launched a 24-hour fundraising haul aimed at raising funds for her campaign. In less than a day, it received more than $102,000 from at least 400 donors across 46 states, according to MetroWeekly.
She thanked donors in a social media post after the fundraising haul closed, saying they had helped to “turn the page on chaos, vengeance, and attacks on personal freedom.”
Fram was infamously removed from her position as an active duty officer of the United States Space Force in June 2025 after the US government enforced its ban on transgender military personnel. She is believed to be the highest ranking trans officer to have been fired under the executive order.
During her 23 years of service, Fram was deployed in Iraq and Qatar as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, eventually serving in both the US Air Force and Space Force. She came out as trans in 2016 and later became the first trans woman to reach the rank of Colonel.
She was among thousands of personnel ejected from their positions in the United States armed forces over the executive order, despite Trump administration officials struggling to justify the action.
Following her campaign announcement, Fram told InsideNoVa that she was not running “on a platform that is about identity” but rather on the basis of defending Americans’ “basic rights, particularly freedom of speech [and] freedom of assembly.”
“This is the calling”
The mother of two emphasised the need to restore democratic freedoms dismantled by the Trump administration in an interview with The Advocate, promising not to back down from the fight.
“No matter what rock we might look under, you can find something this administration has [done] that is worthy of not only an investigation but being held accountable,” she said, accusing Donald Trump of failing to “faithfully execute the laws of the United States and to fulfil his oath to support and defend the Constitution.”
Her focus is on ensuring Congress focuses on protecting Americans by investing in issues like social security, disease prevention, housing, and more.
“This is the calling,” she said. “If we don’t stand up now, we might not have anything to stand up for in the future.”
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On October 13, transgender civil rights icon Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away at 78 after time in hospice care. For over five decades, Griffin-Gracy fought for trans equality — and in a country that still wrestles with queer rights with as much temperament today as it did when she arrived in New York City in the 1960s. Nevertheless, she persevered as a torchbearer to brighten the lives of those who saw the world as grim and dismaying.
CRÉTEIL, VILLENEUVE-SAINT-GEORGES (Val-de-Marne) (TICsanté) - Le groupement hospitalier de territoire (GHT) Hôpitaux Confluence, constitué des CHI de Créteil et de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, a annoncé à la mi-janvier déployer son entrepôt de données de santé, E-Confluence.
Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted this week to rescind the most recent version of its workplace harassment guidance, which included examples based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
As NPR reports, the commission voted 2-to-1 on Thursday to rescind the guidance, with EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas and commissioner Brittany Panuccio, both Trump appointees, voting against Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s only Democrat.
The guidance, approved in 2024 under the Biden administration, cited the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that workplace discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation is a form of sex-based discrimination underTitle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It included examples of unlawful workplace discrimination involving intentional misuse of pronouns that do not align with an employee’s gender identity and denial of access to restrooms that align with an employee’s gender identity.
As NPR notes, Lucas, who was an EEOC commissioner at the time, voted against the guidance, writing in her dissent that “Biological sex is real, and it matters. Sex is binary (male and female) and is immutable,” and that “It is not harassment to acknowledge these truths — or to use language like pronouns that flow from these realities, even repeatedly.”
President Donald Trump named Lucas the EEOC’s acting chair last January, after firing two Democratic commissioners and the agency’s general counsel. Lucas opposes both DEI initiatives and federal civil rights protections for transgender people and has said that her priorities include “rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination.”
In May 2025, a federal judge ruled that the EEOC had exceeded its authority with the updated 2024 guidance, vacating the section related to anti-LGBTQ+ workplace harassment.
As NPR notes, neither that decision nor the rescission of the guidance changes anything about federal laws protecting LGBTQ+ workers from discrimination in the workplace. But it does remove a key resource for employers who rely on the EEOC for guidance on what constitutes unlawful harassment.
“There’s no reason to rescind the harassment guidance in its entirety,” Kotagal said on Thursday, according to NPR. “Instead of adopting a thoughtful and surgical approach to excise the sections the majority disagrees with or suggest an alternative, the commission is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Worse, it is doing so without public input.”
Kotagal was likely referring to the fact that Thursday’s vote came without the usual 30-day notice and comment period.
While Lucas asserted Thursday that the EEOC would continue to pursue cases of “unlawful harassment,” both former EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows — who was fired by Trump last year — and Craig Leen, a partner with the employment law firm K&L Gates, noted that the rescission of the EEOC guidance leaves employers in the dark about how to approach issues of harassment.
“There is no public transparency as to how the commission is going to look at these issues, some of which can be quite complicated,” Burrows told NPR.
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A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server for 11 years. [...]
Äike were an Estonian scooter company, which sadly went bust last year. [Rasmus Moorats] has one, and since the app and cloud service the scooter depends on have lost functionality, he decided to reverse engineer it. Along the way he achieved his goal, but found a vulnerability that unlocks all Äike scooters.
The write-up is a tale of app and Bluetooth reverse engineering, ending with the startling revelation of a hardcoded key that’s simply “ffffffffffffffff”. From that he can unlock and interact with any Äike scooter, except for a subset that were used as hire scooters and didn’t have Bluetooth. Perhaps of more legitimate use is the reverse engineering of the scooter functionality.
What do you do when you find a vulnerability in a product whose manufacturer has gone? He reported to the vendor of the IoT module inside the scooter, who responded that the key was a default value that should have been changed by the Äike developers. Good luck, should you own one of these machines.
L’Arduino Uno Q est arrivé au labo, l’occasion de découvrir la partie microcontrôleur et de profiter d’une distribution Linux intégré (Debian). On en profite pour lancer quelques benchmarks sur le SoC du micro-ordinateur. En octobre dernier, Arduino se faisait manger par Qualcomm et dévoilait au passage une nouvelle plateforme avec « deux cerveaux » : […]
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