Romeo Beckham’s break-up announcement is the most Gen Z thing ever

Romeo Beckham has announced the end of his relationship with his model girlfriend – but there’s one detail in the announcement that’s going viral.

Star couple have announced their break-up in the most Gen Z way possible.

Romeo Beckham has announced he has broken up with his girlfriend Mia Regan in the most Gen Z way possible.

Romeo, 21, is famously the son of David and Victoria Beckham and also plays soccer professionally for the Brentford Football Club.

He is also the younger brother of Brooklyn Beckham, the man with over 70 tattoos in tribute to his wife, billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz-Beckham.

Mia is a model and has been romantically linked with Romeo since 2019.

The Beckhams aren’t shy about sharing their romantic lives, with Romeo popping onto Instagram on Sunday night to let everyone know the relationship had ended.

He said they still have so much “respect” for each other and still hold a “strong friendship” and even added that they planned to remain friends forever.

Basically, he wrote the statement like a 46-year-old famous person announcing his divorce from his wife of 15 years, with whom he has two kids.

Romeo Beckham and Mia Regan announced their break-up over Instagram. Picture: Mia Regan/Instagram

The pair were together for half a decade. Picture: Romeo Beckham/Instagram

Mia then released her statement on Instagram, alongside a selfie of the pair, and explained that “love takes many different forms”.

“We aren’t together romantically, but we do share lots & lots of love for one another … after five years, we friend-zoned each other, hehe,” she wrote.

The “hehe” is obviously an incredible addition to the sad news and hopefully celebrities start adding laughter into their break-up announcements in the future.

Romeo is the son of David and Victoria Beckham. Picture: Romeo Beckham/Instagram

They said they have ‘friendzoned’ each other. Picture: Romeo Beckham/Instagram

The couple have navigated sharing their break-up is peak Gen Z behaviour.

Remaining friends and consciously uncoupling is the kind of behaviour that has become normal for Generation Z.

Whatever happened to breaking up with someone by changing your relationship status on Facebook? And then spending the next two years avoiding eye contact with them at house parties?

Gwyneth Paltrow pioneered the happy break-up when she broke up with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin in 2016, but now all the young people have fully embraced it.

While Romeo and Mia may have taken the high road about their relationship demise, fans online were crushed.

Romeo and Mia were the kind of couple that shared so much of their relationship online, including photos of him playfully groping her.

In the captions of the photos, Romeo used to gush about how he “loved” her so much.

They are planning to stay friends. Picture: MEGA/GC Images

Fans are sad about the news. Picture: Romeo Beckham/Instagram

Naturally, people got invested in their relationship, so the announcement upset some people and made them jump to some pretty outrageous conclusions.

Someone wrote that their break-up proved that love is not “real”. Another said she was going to cry because she’d just heard the news.

One claimed they couldn’t “handle” the news and another said they simply “refused” to believe it.

Popular Instagram influencer, who goes by Girl Boss Town online, reposted Mia’s statement and said it was the coolest and most mature social media break-up announcement.

She went as far as to say it was the “best” celebrity break-up announcement she has ever seen and that the pair were such a cute and romantic couple, but the way they handled their break-up was a PR dream.

“This is everything I’m obsessed with,” she said.

Originally published as Romeo Beckham’s break-up announcement is the most Gen Z thing ever