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Speaker 1: Entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Put on your dancing ships, don't give me your.

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Speaker 3: Best sho Emma Less Entertainment reporter is here and it's

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Speaker 3: all about the Beckhams.

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Speaker 1: It is a four part documentary. It dropped on Netflix

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Speaker 1: last week. You might have seen some headlines. It's this

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Speaker 1: four part series about the life of David Beckham, his career,

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Speaker 1: his marriage to wife Victoria Beckham a k A posh

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Speaker 1: spice of course, and can you believe this? It was

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Speaker 1: directed by the guy who plays Hugo in Succession if

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Speaker 1: we've got any success. The guy that's Parker Stephenson Stephens almost.

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Speaker 2: What's his name, fish Stephens? His head and a skinny neck.

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Speaker 4: That turtle at the back is he related to Parker Stevens.

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Speaker 2: Let's say, is Stephenson and a Stephens.

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Speaker 4: Going down this fox hole?

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Speaker 1: Then anyway we'll get out of that and back to

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Speaker 1: the documentary. But it's the rise of the wanted East

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Speaker 1: London schoolboy David Beckham and we see all this incredible nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: It's got interviews with everyone he's ever played with, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of superstars, plenty of nostalgic Spice girls footage. If

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Speaker 1: you're into it, I am but there is a viral

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Speaker 1: moment of this bit where Posh is chatting about sort

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Speaker 1: of their childhood, their working class background, and it's gone viral.

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Speaker 2: It's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: He's a little bit of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think also we both come from

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Speaker 5: families that work really hard. Both of our parents work

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Speaker 5: really hard. We're very working working class. I am being honest,

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Speaker 5: I am being honored.

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Speaker 4: Did your dad drive you to school?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 2: My dad, my dad.

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Speaker 5: It's not a simple answer.

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Speaker 4: Because what did you get?

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Speaker 5: It depends no, no, no, no, no, okay. In the eighties,

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Speaker 5: my dad had a Rolls Royce.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that why she was called Posh? I think reading

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Speaker 2: she was because the dad had a Rolls Royce. It's

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Speaker 2: so funny.

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Speaker 1: That My favorite thing about this docco And you know,

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Speaker 1: people are comparing it to the Last Dance, which was

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Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls documentary. It's really really well made.

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Speaker 1: But I love this insight into Posh because we've always

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Speaker 1: seen in the media she's so serious and people are.

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Speaker 2: She so dist she smiled, so she never smiles. She

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Speaker 2: looks so standoffish. She's really funny.

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Speaker 1: She's really really interesting in this DOCCO but of course

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Speaker 1: we go into some of the controversies. There's a cheating

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Speaker 1: scandal that kind of gets addressed from back when David

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Speaker 1: was playing for Madrid and separated from his family, and

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Speaker 1: Posh kind of says, you know, it was really hard.

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Speaker 1: It affected her, she was really upset.

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Speaker 2: Well, imagine those headlines every day. Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that people are kind of a little

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Speaker 1: bit annoyed about is they don't really acknowledge that the

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Speaker 1: cheating happened. It's more about the headlines and the tabloid

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Speaker 1: media and the coverage and how that impact.

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Speaker 2: Because he's never said he's never admitted it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he doesn't admit it in this instance either,

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Speaker 1: And it is a really candid series, like they go

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Speaker 1: there for everything else, but he just kind of says,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how we got through it.

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Speaker 1: It was a difficult time for the family.

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Speaker 4: And also if if they didn't meet to it, then

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Speaker 4: there were judgment from everyone about well why did you

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Speaker 4: stick with him and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can see what they've chosen not to say.

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Speaker 4: So whatever happened, it's no one else's business in their world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they do really well to kind of protect

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Speaker 1: his image, and you know, he does seem like a

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Speaker 1: really nice guy, which kind.

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Speaker 2: Of and it takes you through that with the horrendous

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Speaker 2: bullying he encountered when people felt he lost England the

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Speaker 2: World Cup.

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Speaker 1: That. Yeah, So this whole series is a really strong

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Speaker 1: reminder of the British tabloids and the power that they

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Speaker 1: yield or at least certainly yielded in the nineties. The

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight World Cup, so England played Argentina.

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Speaker 2: It was huge.

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Speaker 1: It was the sort of the round of sixteen knockout match,

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Speaker 1: and he was twenty two or twenty three. It was

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Speaker 1: his first World Cup, first time playing for England, and

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Speaker 1: he had a bad game. We find out in the

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Speaker 1: documentary he had a bad game because Posh told him

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Speaker 1: she was pregnant the night before, so that's sort of

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Speaker 1: a new information. But the abuse that he copped. He

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Speaker 1: got red carded in the first like fifteen minutes of

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Speaker 1: this game, and so England played with ten men and

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Speaker 1: the country turned against him for months to years every

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Speaker 1: time he took to the field for Man United. After that,

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Speaker 1: the booing, the horrifying things that were said about Posh

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Speaker 1: in this day and age, like it just wouldn't happen.

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Speaker 1: You would never ever see someone so publicly facing treated

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 4: But he good so well everyone was brewing good exactly,

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Speaker 4: and then it started happening again with Buddy Franklin.

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Speaker 2: So it still happens.

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Speaker 1: It definitely still happens. But the extremes in England that

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Speaker 1: they go to for love and hate of their athletes,

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Speaker 1: so their football players. You know, he opens up about depression,

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Speaker 1: what he went through then and how hopeless everyone around

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Speaker 1: him kind of felt. So there is a lot of

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Speaker 1: light and shade to it. It's a really interesting series.

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Speaker 2: So even if you're not necessarily fan of the spy

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Speaker 2: schools or any of that, there's a lot to love

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Speaker 2: about this.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to love if you like sport, if

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Speaker 1: you like nice cars and nice watches, if you like

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Speaker 1: a great love story, good neck tattoos and pop culture. Yep,

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Speaker 1: a lot of David Beckham with no tattoos, which is

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Speaker 1: interesting to see the young guy.

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Speaker 4: That just shows you how old you are is when

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Speaker 4: you look at David Beckham without tattoos and you say,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't we have finally stayed like that.

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend didn't know he ever even had long hair

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Speaker 1: because they show when he shaved his head at the

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Speaker 1: sort of active rebellion. School kids all around the country

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Speaker 1: shaving their head.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Interesting stuff about his relationship with his dad, who seems

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Speaker 1: like not super nice, but yeah, I would highly recommend

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Speaker 1: it something for everyone.

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Speaker 2: Thank you on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Good on you that you check M. Gillespie out at

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Speaker 3: the Daily os dot com today. You will talk to

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Speaker 3: you next Monday.

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Speaker 2: See you then,