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Speaker 1: Before we get into the episode, we want to issue

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Speaker 1: a trigger warning. This episode touches on themes around suicide

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Speaker 1: and eating disorders. In nineteen ninety eight, Victoria and David

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Speaker 1: Beckham had made it to the glossy pages of British fogue.

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Speaker 1: Posh and Becks looked like they were living the picture

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Speaker 1: perfect life, but that illusion was set to be shattered

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Speaker 1: with rumors of a cheating scandal hitting the tabloids.

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Speaker 2: I am still reading. He had a huge direction as

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Speaker 2: rolling about for the last three hours.

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Speaker 1: The Spice Girl's future was also in jeopardy, with one

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Speaker 1: band member making a dramatic exit. There's lots of reasons

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Speaker 1: why I left the Spice Girls. We are journalists Kate

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Speaker 1: Amy and Sophie Torbert and this is our new series Unspoken,

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Speaker 1: where we bring you the unspoken stories behind the biggest

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Speaker 1: pop culture headlines to rock the nineties and early naughties.

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Speaker 1: In last week's show, we took a look back at

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Speaker 1: how Victoria Adams shot to international fame as Posh Spice Now.

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Speaker 1: Her star power absolutely exploded when she began dating Manchester

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Speaker 1: United football at David Beckham when we left you, Victoria

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Speaker 1: and David had just found out they were pregnant six

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Speaker 1: months after it becoming engaged, and whilst their relationship looked

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Speaker 1: picture perfect in British Vogue, the couple's first cheating scandal

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Speaker 1: was brewing. So in January of nineteen ninety nine, when

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Speaker 1: Victoria was seven months pregnant with the couple's first child,

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Speaker 1: cheating rumors started emerging in the tabloids. Now, Victoria was

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Speaker 1: on tour with the Spy Skirls and received a call

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Speaker 1: kissing another woman. Can you imagine how that phone call

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Speaker 1: would have gone down?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: He clearly wanted to get on the front foot before

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Speaker 1: the tabloids printed anything.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: In her two thousand and one autobiography called Learning to Fly,

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Speaker 1: Victoria said when she saw David for the first time

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Speaker 1: She said she hadn't planned it, and she hadn't punched

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Speaker 4: It was just instinct.

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Speaker 1: Now, the allegations got worse, with tabloid at the Sunday

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Speaker 1: Girl Number two shock for Posh Spice. Victoria went into

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Speaker 4: Here's what she said.

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Speaker 2: I was very, very upset because as much as he's

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Speaker 2: telling me this is not true, I swear on our

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Speaker 2: I don't even know who this person is. Actually physically

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Speaker 4: What a quote from Posh.

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Speaker 1: I know. In the recent doco, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: but she really was open about how she felt and

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Speaker 1: what was going on. When I was researching this cheating scandal,

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Speaker 1: it was really difficult finding out information. It does look

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Speaker 5: You just feel physically sick, and I think Victoria was sick.

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Speaker 1: Actually, it was a.

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Speaker 5: Tough time for us both, probably more for Victoria. Obviously

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Speaker 1: Say, David Beckham is telling the truth and there is

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Speaker 4: Here's what she said.

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Speaker 2: It's a really traumatic time for both of us. You know,

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Speaker 4: Name into that.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think that you took it to court,

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Speaker 6: But it wasn't true the story, but nonetheless it was

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Speaker 1: I suppose it's an age old thing that whenever someone

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Speaker 4: Here now.

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Speaker 1: As the news broke, Victoria and David flew to Lake

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Speaker 4: Here's what David said, How.

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Speaker 6: Depressed were you?

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Speaker 1: What to do?

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Speaker 5: We went away for the weekend after that, and obviously

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Speaker 5: the worst thing for me was seeing Victoria hurting so

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Speaker 2: It was very hard.

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Speaker 5: It was on the edge of a Lake Como so

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Speaker 1: I love that Victoria had removed that part from the

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Speaker 4: In the book.

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Speaker 1: Well, particularly because in two thousand and one we didn't

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham. Now. The days leading up to Victoria's

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Speaker 1: key moments in both Victoria and David Flows. Now David's

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Speaker 4: Not back now.

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Speaker 1: Luckily David made it back in time and was by

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Speaker 1: And when the media got wind of this, Victoria was

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Speaker 1: the hospital. Now we're used to seeing this type of

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Speaker 1: And David really did play into the part of being

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Speaker 1: same way that the Royals would do so. While Victoria

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Speaker 1: Victoria said, can you believe it? He said, does my

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Speaker 1: David's behavior. She said he was awful when he was

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Speaker 1: picking out what outfit he was going to wear as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: all of this press attention made Victoria paranoid about her

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Speaker 1: Now. Unsurprisingly, following Brooklyn's birth, the name Brooklyn spiked in popularity. Interestingly, though,

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Speaker 1: And the fact is that she's always liked the name

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn never became a professional soccer player. He dabbles and

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Speaker 4: They were like, they were actually so boring, but I

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because in regards to his name, Victoria

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Speaker 1: afterwards because she was actually in New York when she

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Speaker 1: found out that she was pregnant. I can't believe she

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Speaker 1: didn't put two and two together earlier. Now, two months

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, Jerry Halliwell announced she was leaving the

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Speaker 1: Spy Skirls. This announcement caused shock waves around the globe,

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Speaker 1: and she made it through a solicitor, saying, this is

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Speaker 1: I have left the Spy Skills. This is because of

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Speaker 1: be successful and I wish them all the best. That

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Speaker 1: is a very interesting statement, particularly because it was issued

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Speaker 1: PR team get together and say everyone's friends, but Jerry

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Speaker 1: it's very loaded saying that is because of differences within

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Speaker 6: Ballsed up yet? Were they jealous of you? Though? When

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm lucky. I don't think they're jealous.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I have been waiting patiently to get into the wedding

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Speaker 1: This deal changed the way that the public perceived their

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Speaker 2: We asked everybody out there, if you got offered a

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Speaker 6: Come on.

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Speaker 1: I think she is so clever in flipping it back

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Speaker 1: They weren't as rich as they are now, so a

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Speaker 4: Well, they did enlist the.

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Speaker 2: I'd seen an episode of Friends where they had they

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Speaker 1: I was so surprised that this was part of her inspiration,

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Speaker 1: That this was in the nineties, though it was just

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Her dress was made by renowned designer Vera Wang, and

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Speaker 1: said that she was pleasantly surprised when Victoria called her

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Metgala, Remember when she was in that

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Speaker 1: really small corset dress and she was pink and had

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Speaker 1: those sort of water dropping off it. Now, Vera said

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Speaker 1: that Victoria wanted a fifteen or sixteen inch wate for

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Speaker 1: the wedding and she wanted to be really cinched in.

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Speaker 1: Let's put this into perspective because her wedding was only

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Speaker 1: four months after she gave birth. Jees, Vera did say

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Speaker 1: that there's only one man in the world today that knew.

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Speaker 1: Jeez Vera said that there's only one man in the

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Speaker 1: world today that she knew that could create a bust

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Speaker 1: year that was able to sinch a woman's waist in

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Speaker 1: that much, and it was mister Pearl. Now, mister Pearl

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Speaker 1: doesn't travel to the US, so it had to be

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Speaker 1: flown back and forth between London and New.

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Speaker 4: York, where Vera is based.

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Speaker 1: Vera explained that mister Pearl makes corsets that have to

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Speaker 1: be pulled in with metal and they usually take around

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes to lace up. Can you imagine wearing

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Speaker 1: this and trying to eat in wedding meal? Well, it

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Speaker 1: sounds horrendous. It sounds so uncomfortable. She must have had

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Speaker 1: an awful night. Well, no wonder they got into those

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Speaker 1: purple outfits so quickly. Now, as you can expect, there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of commentary about Victoria's weight loss on

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Speaker 1: her wedding day and how she'd managed to fit into

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Speaker 1: such a gown four months postpartum. To give you an

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Speaker 1: idea of just how big this dress was. It was

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Speaker 1: so large that when they put it on their private

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Speaker 1: plane to Island, they had to physically take it out

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Speaker 1: of the box because it wouldn't fit through the door,

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Speaker 1: and they had to pilot in the back of the plane.

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Speaker 1: During the flight, David was sitting in the front and

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Speaker 1: they all told him do not look back because he

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Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to see the dress. It sounds a bit

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Speaker 1: like Princess Diana's dress. How it was too big to

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Speaker 1: fit in the carriage. They had to like cram it

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Speaker 1: in and it ended up being so creased.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, to tie in with the fairytale vibes, Victoria wore

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Speaker 1: an eighteen carrot yellow gold tiara set with a large,

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Speaker 1: brilliant cut diamond and featuring suspended diamond drops. The tiara

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Speaker 1: was designed by Julius Slim Barrett, who also designed pieces

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Speaker 1: for Princess Diana, Amy and Mick Jagger. It's rumored that

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Speaker 1: the head piece costs thirty thousand dollars. That actually doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound that much in today's climate for a celebrity, but

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it was a lot. Twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 1: Victoria did sport a brunette pixie cut on the big day,

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Speaker 1: as well as a crucifix necklace, which was a gift

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Speaker 1: from David An a rustic bouquet made of wild vines.

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Speaker 4: Twigs and apples.

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Speaker 1: It was a very unusual bouquet. It's funny because usually

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Speaker 1: when there is such a big celebrity wedding like this,

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Speaker 1: you see everyone copying the trend. I still remember seeing

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Speaker 1: photos of Jennifer Anniston marrying Brad Pitt and she had

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Speaker 1: this beautiful daisy chain on her head, and I remember

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Speaker 1: thinking at the time I want that for my wedding.

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Speaker 4: Did many people copy this apple and twig bouquet?

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Speaker 1: I don't actually think that it caught on as much

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Speaker 1: as they were probably hoping in regards to her wedding,

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Speaker 1: though the bouquet did match the Beckham's very unique wedding cake,

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Speaker 1: so rather than a traditional sponge. Victoria is known for

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Speaker 1: opting for cakes which are made out of fruit, most

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Speaker 1: of the time watermelons, so she always seems to choose

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Speaker 1: a healthy option for her celebrations. So for her wedding,

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Speaker 1: she had a three tier wedding cake made out of apples.

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Speaker 1: I really want to have a guest felt about this

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Speaker 1: when I would be so caught If I'm going to

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Speaker 1: the wedding of the century, I don't even get a

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Speaker 1: nice dessert. They could have at least made them toffee apples. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's funny because they infamously cut the cake with this

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Speaker 1: dramatic sword, and maybe it was because it was hard

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Speaker 1: to get.

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Speaker 4: Through all of those apples.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: The fairytale theme did continue with Victoria's bridesmaids, so her

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Speaker 1: sister and maid of honor, Louise, were a strapless Chloe dress,

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Speaker 1: while she had two very junior bridesmaids. So they were

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Speaker 1: Victoria's thirteen month old niece Liberty and David's sixteen month

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Speaker 1: old niece Georgina, who took on the role of bridesmaids,

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Speaker 1: and they were dressed as woodland fairies. I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of having kids as bridesmaids. I've only heard of having

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Speaker 1: them as flower girls, particularly these days because we see

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Speaker 1: a lot of people having weddings with no children. But

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Speaker 1: I mean the fact that they've got their four month

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Speaker 1: old son in it, he shows how family orientated they are.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that none of the Spice girls were in

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Speaker 1: the wedding party. Well, I was more surprised to hear

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Speaker 1: that Jerry didn't even get invited. So there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of rumors around the time that Victoria didn't send

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Speaker 1: her out an invite, but Victoria has denied that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, we did briefly.

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Speaker 1: Touched on the purple outfits before, and these were absolutely iconic.

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Speaker 1: So Victoria, David, and even their four month old son

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn changed into coordinated purple outfits for their reception. So

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Speaker 1: Victoria's purple dress was made by designer Antonio Baradri and

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Speaker 1: it was described as a Jessica rabbit dress with a

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Speaker 1: strapless neckline with one strap made up of red and

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Speaker 1: purple floral detailing and a thigh high leg split. Now

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Speaker 1: her floral strap matched the floral pin David wore on

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Speaker 1: his suit, of course, and David's suit was also all

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Speaker 1: purple with purple Swede Manolo shoes. He still managed to

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Speaker 1: look smoking.

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Speaker 4: That guy can pull off anything, no well.

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Speaker 1: Victoria topped off the look with silver heels with a

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Speaker 1: wrap around strap that snaked up her legs, and Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: wore a purple bib trousers and a matching hat. He

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Speaker 1: also had the role of ring bearer on the day.

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Speaker 1: In the recent Beckham documentary, Victoria and David did reflect

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Speaker 1: on the looks, and David poked fun at the outfits,

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Speaker 1: saying what will we thinking and explaining that he took

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Speaker 1: Victoria's lead on it. Victoria, however, defended the outfit choice.

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Speaker 1: She said, but it was fun. We weren't worried about

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Speaker 1: what people would say. I mean, christ, how lovely to

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Speaker 1: be that way when you just literally don't care.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Posh and Becks's wedding was the biggest show business bash

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Speaker 1: of the year, as you can imagine the world's press

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Speaker 1: and village locals crowded the streets to catch a glimpse

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Speaker 1: of celebrities passing through the famous gates of the historic

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Speaker 1: Irish castle.

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Speaker 4: The media reported that the venue had taken on.

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Speaker 1: The atmosphere of an outdoor concert, with the streets lined

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Speaker 1: with media and people wanting to catch a glimpse. It

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Speaker 1: was a very star studded guest list as we touched

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Speaker 1: on there were three Spic S Girls members there, as

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Speaker 1: well as David's Manchester United and England teammates. In terms

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Speaker 1: of the dress code for guests, it was black and white,

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Speaker 1: which raised a lot of eyebrows at the time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: right now we're seeing a lot of black and white

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Speaker 1: bridesmaid dresses as a trend, but back in the nineties

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Speaker 1: it was pretty unheard of. It would have been very

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Speaker 1: taboo back then to wear those cutlors to a wedding.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine when Victoria and David stepped out to

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Speaker 1: the reception in their purple outseits.

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Speaker 4: I think everyone would have lost their minds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They then welcomed a much larger guest list of

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Speaker 1: about two hundred and thirty people for the reception. Well

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Speaker 1: teammate Gary Neville. He was David's best man and he

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Speaker 1: seemed more nervous in the lead up than David and

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Speaker 1: David actually caught Gary practicing his best man's speech holding

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Speaker 1: his deodorant ken as a microphone on the morning of

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Speaker 1: which is really sweet. Do anyone else think that Gary

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Speaker 1: Neville was one of the breakout stars of that docca

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Speaker 1: He just seems so lovely.

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Speaker 4: He seemed like a legend.

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Speaker 1: But I heard a few people discussing that they thought

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Speaker 1: he was hot, and I couldn't quite see that myself

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Speaker 1: because I was just so taken by David Beckham. He

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Speaker 1: was hotter now than he was when he was a player.

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Speaker 1: I think it's more that he had something about now.

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Speaker 1: Following the Beckham doco, Gary's best man speech has gone viral,

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Speaker 1: with people saying that he absolutely smashed it. I need

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Speaker 1: to give some background before I get into what he

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Speaker 1: actually said in the speech. So he gave it shortly

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Speaker 1: after Manchester United had one historic treble, so they became

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Speaker 1: the first side to win the Premier League, FA Cup

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Speaker 1: and Champions League in one season. I'm glad you explained

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Speaker 1: what a treble was, because I was pretending like I

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Speaker 1: knew it, but I've got no idea I share. It

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Speaker 1: means like three in a row. So they'd come back

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Speaker 1: from the brink of defeat to take an iconic two

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Speaker 1: to one victory against Bayern Munich in the European Cup finals.

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Speaker 1: So Gary used the victory to help write his speech,

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Speaker 1: saying David and the Spy Skills requested the Bayern Munich

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Speaker 1: team be present today, and David said he was puzzled

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Speaker 1: by the request and asked why. The spy skulls replied

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Speaker 1: they wanted to meet any man who can be on

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Speaker 1: top for ninety minutes and still come second.

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Speaker 4: Now, Twitter users all over the world loved it.

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Speaker 1: Writing Gary Neville's best man's speech is iconic. Another said,

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Speaker 1: seeing the first two episodes so far, struggling to imagine

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Speaker 1: there could be a better scene than Gary Neville's best

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Speaker 1: man's speech. It's good inspo for people out there writing

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Speaker 1: best man's speech. Now, David and Victoria shared their first

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Speaker 1: dance to Frank Sinatra's It Had to Be You, and

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Speaker 1: the wedding ended at one am with a finale of fireworks.

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Speaker 4: Oh I love that.

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Speaker 1: I really wanted to have fireworks at my wedding, but

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Speaker 1: being in January not a good idea. Yeah, there's probably

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Speaker 1: a total fireban on us, and I'll say they're really

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Speaker 1: bad for the environment.

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Speaker 4: Apparently, Oh you've eco warrior here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, as expected, the media crucified the couple for

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Speaker 1: their fashion choices and the theme, with one publication writing oh, posh,

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Speaker 1: why did it all have to be so vulgar? Victoria

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Speaker 1: did say that she didn't plan on the wedding being

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Speaker 1: as big as it ended up being. She said, I

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Speaker 1: think everyone got very carried away, and you get to

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Speaker 1: a stage where you're like, sot it. It's my wedding day,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to do what I.

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Speaker 4: Want to do.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting to note that people thought it was hideous

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Speaker 1: back in the nineties as well, because if you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're looking at the photos and I'm like, maybe

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Speaker 1: it was in fashion men. No, I would have been

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Speaker 1: interested to see what they would have done if they

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Speaker 1: hadn't got the million dollar magazine deal, because there would

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Speaker 1: have been pressure also to be really different and do

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Speaker 1: something really bold and out there.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: The Becans had a very short lived honeymoon in the

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Speaker 1: south of France, ran They ended up one night at Andrew.

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Speaker 4: Lloyd Webber's house.

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Speaker 1: They were meant to be on their honeymoon for ten days,

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Speaker 1: but David's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, caught him five days

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Speaker 1: in saying I need you.

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Speaker 4: Back at training. Oh that's a little bit harsh.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Beckhams did end up renewing their wedding vows

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Speaker 1: eighteen years on in front of a much smaller crowd,

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Speaker 1: so it was a very intimate ceremony at home. David said,

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Speaker 1: it was a lot more private and there were about

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Speaker 1: six people in our house. Now, we touched on Victoria's

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Speaker 1: initial worries over her son's safety, but as time went

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Speaker 1: on those worries intensified when she started receiving messages threatening

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Speaker 1: to kidnap Brooklyn. This was in the wake of David's

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Speaker 1: infamous red card incident that we spoke about in last

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Speaker 1: week's episode. So Brooklyn was born just eight months after

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Speaker 1: the incident, and clearly some fans have no life and

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Speaker 1: hadn't gotten over it yet eight months. I just can't

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Speaker 1: believe these soccer fans.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, in two thousand, the media reported that a terrifying

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Speaker 1: plot to kidnap Brooklyn was foiled in an undercover police operation.

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Speaker 1: So over a two month period, an underworld crime figure

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Speaker 1: had planned to snatch Brooklyn and Victoria to demand a

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Speaker 1: big ransom. Love how you say snatch Victoria's if she's

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Speaker 1: as small? Can you imagine being Brooklyn and finding this

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Speaker 1: out as an adult, That's pretty terrifying. Well, the Beckhams

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Speaker 1: were first made aware of this kidnapping threat when they

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Speaker 1: received a threat at a designer clothing store in Manchester

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Speaker 1: which was owned by a friend. So after that they

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Speaker 1: alerted the police and the store's phone was tapped and

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Speaker 1: the Beckhams were told to step up their security. A

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Speaker 1: few weeks after that, an underworld informant told the police

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Speaker 1: that the threat could be real, so initially the couple

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Speaker 1: responded by hiring two bodyguards for Brooklyn, but it soon

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Speaker 1: became apparent that the police had to become further involved,

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Speaker 1: so a squad was set up to deal with the

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Speaker 1: threat after a known criminal started boasting about the plot,

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Speaker 1: and the evidence suggested that the kidnappers planned to hold

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn and Victoria ransom in Hamstead and at the time

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Speaker 1: the family was moved into a safe house in the countryside. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: no arrests were made due to a lack of evidence,

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Speaker 1: so for safety, the Beckhams had to install panic buttons

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Speaker 1: and CCTV cameras and also purchased two rot reelers for security.

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Speaker 4: God how terrifying.

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Speaker 1: In the Beckham dot o, Victoria said, we were getting

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Speaker 1: kidnapping threats right from when we had Brooklyn, and you

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Speaker 1: can't even explain how that feels because we couldn't hide.

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Speaker 1: She continued, imagine having a baby and having death threats.

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Speaker 1: David had to play knowing this was all going on,

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Speaker 1: and I was on my own in an apartment.

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Speaker 4: With a baby.

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Speaker 1: Now, if we do fast forward a little bit to

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, police foiled another kidnapping attempt, and

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Speaker 1: this time the plot was centered around Victoria.

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Speaker 4: So the plot was discovered.

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Speaker 1: By an undercovered team from News of the World. So

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Speaker 1: the newspaper told police what it knew, and the armed

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Speaker 1: officers arrested three men over allegations of conspiracy to kidnap

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Speaker 1: and theft. A further four men and two women were

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Speaker 1: also arrested in connection with the gangs at activities, and

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Speaker 1: according to the newspaper, the gang planned to ambush Victoria

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Speaker 1: as she left her mansion and sedate her and her children.

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Speaker 1: They then plan to imprison them in a house in

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Speaker 1: South London and demand a five million pound ransom. The

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Speaker 1: News of the World also claimed that the gang carried

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Speaker 1: out surveillance and even visited the Beckhams house and planned

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Speaker 1: escape from Gosha is just so scary and that is

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Speaker 1: where we are going to leave you today. In next

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Speaker 1: week's final installment, the Beckhams are off to Spain as

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Speaker 1: a new career change disrupts the family dynamic. The couple

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Speaker 1: is forced to live separately for a few months and

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Speaker 1: are rocked by their biggest cheating scandal to date, plus

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Speaker 1: the demise of the Spice Girls. The media's obsession with

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Speaker 1: Victoria's weight and how she conquered the world of fashion,