Groom’s Mom’s Wild Wedding Dance Goes Viral with Over 25 Million Views amid Beckham Family Drama 

Amid Brooklyn Beckham’s bombshell claims that his mother, Victoria Beckham, “hijacked” his first dance with wife Nicola Peltz Beckham and “danced very inappropriately on [him] in front of everyone” at his wedding, one groom is sharing how his own mother busted a move at his destination nuptials over the summer.

Joseph Maine posted a clip from his wedding to husband Jack McWilliams on TikTok, and it quickly went viral — racking up more than 25 million views.

“In Victoria Beckham’s defense, this was my mom at our wedding,” Joseph, 36, wrote in onscreen text over a clip of his mother, Julie Maine, 55, being carried and bounced up and down by one of the grooms’ friends, Travis Kipp, 40, as a remix of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It” played.

He added in the caption, “She asked our friend to pick her up 😂 Let moms live. They need to shake it sometimes too.”

Underneath a shimmering disco ball, Julie threw both hands into the air as guests on the dance floor cheered her on. After a few seconds, Kipp set her down, and the party kept going.

The video has amassed more than 25.8 million views, 1.6 million likes, 136,000 shares, 56,000 saves and 18,000 comments since being posted on Jan. 23.

Speaking exclusively, Joseph says the moment happened on the third day of his four-day wedding celebration in June at Valle De Guadalupe in Mexico. After seeing people react online to the Beckham wedding drama, he figured viewers would get a similar kick out of his mother’s high-energy dance.

“There has been so much discourse online and pearl clutching about a single sentence written about Victoria Beckham at her son’s wedding with zero context or evidence,” Joseph says. “I knew if people could be that rocked by something they’ve never seen, this would really have them shaking in their boots.”

What he didn’t expect was the scale of the reaction — or how harsh some comments would be.

“I’ve never been so uncomfortable,” one of the top comments with 610,000 likes reads.

Another TikTok user wrote, “Why the hell were you all okay with this???😭.”

Joseph says many viewers missed that the post was meant to be humorous — and jumped to conclusions without reading his caption or understanding the context.

“I just never imagined people would not be able to see the humor, not understand the text on screen was a joke or that people would not read the caption and think I was the one holding her,” he says. “There’s so many expectations for how a mom is ‘supposed to act.’ Had this not been my mom and a friend who was 15 years younger, the reaction would have been dismal in comparison.”

While Joseph and Julie have laughed at how far the clip has traveled, he says his mom also noticed something else: a lot of the criticism came from other women.

“My mom mentioned how disappointing it is to see that the most judgmental people in the comments are other women and mothers,” Joseph says. “She hopes that they can let go of their internal shame and not be so quick to jump to conclusions as many of the comments were more vulgar than anything happening in the video.”

He adds that she appreciated the viewers who understood the spirit of the moment — and the idea that parents deserve room to celebrate, too.

Despite the negativity online, Joseph says the guests who were actually there loved it.

“Our 60 guests in real life absolutely loved” the spontaneous dance, he says. “People know my mom loves to have a good time. My friends are really grounded non-judgmental people which creates a free environment for expression and laughs without guilt or shame. The entire moment of my mom in the air was less than 15 seconds — my husband and I loved it too.”

For Joseph, seeing his mother enjoy herself carried extra meaning. He says her boyfriend of eight years died a year before the wedding, and she also lost his grandmother around that time.

“She had a rough year leading up to the wedding, losing her partner and my grandmother both, so I was just happy to see her smiling and having fun,” he says. “We were laughing about it for weeks. All those crazy moments over a four-day wedding are the stories we will retell for years to come. Life’s too short to be boring.”

Julie, Joseph says, truly “had the time of her life.”

“I was happy she was able to have a couple main character moments at our wedding,” he adds. “What people didn’t see was that she was saying ‘put me down!’ at the end. Afterward, she came running up to me to ask if she had embarrassed me and apologized if she had gotten carried away — but there was no need for an apology.”