WEBVTT - Victoria Beckham: The Cheating Scandals 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.759 Before we get into the episode, we wanted to issue 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.760 a trigger warning as we discuss themes about eating disorders. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.920 The Beckhams had become English royalty. The public were obsessed 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.239 with the couple and their every move made headlines. I 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:17.520 con them golden balls. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:18.079 You know now. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.000 That's gonna be true and kind of those kings. I 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.720 shouldn't have said. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.880 No one knew though, that the Beckham Juggernau was about 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.920 to go international. A shop moved to Madrid, put Posh 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.920 and Becks's marriage under the spotlight. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.680 Of course, I love my family, I have a wonderful life, 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.720 but football is everything to me and joining Real Madrid 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.080 is a dream come true. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.159 Then came the onslaught of cheating allegations that rocked the marriage. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.040 I felt like a whole. I felt really cheap, and 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.120 I felt used, and I said, I'm not not even 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:51.519 why why am I doing this? 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.160 We are journalist Sophie Kate and Amy Torbert, and this 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.040 is our new series Unspoken, where we bring you the 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.720 unspoken stories behind the big pop culture headlines to rock 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:07.280 the nineties and early naughties. When we left you last, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.640 David and Victoria had officially become the Beckhams. They had 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.160 an absolutely extravagant wedding. They also had just given birth 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.600 to their first child, Brooklyn, and were dealing with absolutely 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.600 terrifying kidnapping attempts. Now in the midst of all of this, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.920 Victoria was also being hounded by the press, and they 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.800 had an absolute obsession with her weight. So over the years, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.520 she's been called everything from porky posh to skeleton posh 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.000 and the media. Speculation about her weight went into overdrive 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.000 following the birth of her first child, Brooklyn, in nineteen 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.040 ninety nine. Now, not long after she gave birth, a 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.520 picture of Victoria appeared on the front page of the newspaper, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.800 where a journalists pointed out every part of her body 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.040 where she needed to focus on losing weight. She did 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.600 end up losing a large amount of weight very quickly, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.480 which sparked speculation of an eating disorder. Victoria denied the 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.320 claims that she she was anorexic, insisting that her shape 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.720 had changed naturally after giving birth. She said her issue 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.880 was made worse by food allergies. Just two months after 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.320 giving birth to Brooklyn, Victoria appeared on TF five Friday, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.799 which was hosted by Chris Evans, and unbelievably, during the 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.040 live interview, she was forced to weigh herself in front 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.800 of the audience and cameras. Let's throw to how it 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:22.360 went down. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:24.919 Is you wait back to normal? 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:25.200 Yeah? 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:26.040 Can I check? 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.280 Oh no, Jerry, didn't you on? 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:30.080 But Jerry? 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:31.680 Was that really smart? 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:33.880 Two? 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:35.960 Number two is great? 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:37.880 You can afford Number two is? 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:38.200 Can't you. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:40.200 All? 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.160 The last time I saw people being weighed on television 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.480 and then cheered for when they lost weight was when 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.560 The Biggest Loser was on and we all know what 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.600 a mess that television show turned into. Can you imagine 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.600 if this was filmed today, the uproar making a female 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.680 celebrit pretty stand on scale. It just wouldn't happen. And 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.320 the worst part is Victoria said, oh, you did this 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.400 to Jerry as well, talking about Jerry Hallewell it's even 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.640 worse because she has just had a baby as well, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.880 and it's that expectation that well, you better hurry up 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.240 and get rid of this way. Posh did reflect on 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.919 the interview, saying he made me stand on the scales 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.400 to be weighed. Can you imagine doing that nowadays? Now? 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.320 In two thousand, the Spy Skills announced they were going 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.840 on an indefinite hiatus, but they insisted to fans that 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.440 it wasn't the end of the spy skills, so they 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.840 never actually officially broke up. It sounds like that denial 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.600 where one d broke up. They're just going on a break. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.760 Victoria did embark on a short lived solo career. She 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.000 released her first solo album called Victoria Beckham in two 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.920 thousand and one. Now that didn't go too well. It 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.360 failed to reach the top of the charts, and I 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.040 feel like this has always been a bit of a 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.160 saw point for Victoria. Well. She was also mocked by 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.960 the general public and the media because she was never 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.760 known for her voice, as we've touched on in the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.840 past episodes. Now, to promote the album, Victoria appeared on Parkinson, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.680 but instead of focusing on the music, David Parkinson flatter 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.720 asked her if she was anarexic. Let's throw to what 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:10.120 he said. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.120 Three questions I got to ask you right right? Is 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.760 it true that David wears your knickers? First question, say, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.080 is it true that you wear the trousers in your house? 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.240 And the third are you anarexic? 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:22.480 Now? 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.320 Those are the three questions everybody in the audience out 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.839 there and the media all eager to hear your views 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.800 on David wearing your. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.200 Knickers to star with. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.039 Well, I'm the only person that actually wears my knickers. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.080 You are, but if you'd like to borrow them, I can. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.680 Play the headlines now Parky borrows Poshi's knickers. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.280 I liked how she tried to divert the question, but 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.719 Michael again asked her, are you anarexic? Let's throw to 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.320 what she responded. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.200 Now, are you anarexic? 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.040 No, I'm not. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:52.520 How do you know that? 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:53.599 I know? 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.120 Because I eat anorexic? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.440 You eat regularly? 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:57.760 Yeah? 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.919 No, I mean I have a perfectly healthy dar. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.560 Why, it's clear to me listening to this interview that 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.760 back in the early two thousands, people didn't understand what 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.479 anorexia was. It seems preposterous to ask someone how they 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.200 know that they're not anorexic. Well, it's also clear that 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.760 no one realized it was completely inappropriate to pose that 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.760 question to someone, let alone do it in a public 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.440 space during a live interview that's been televised, Particularly when 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.160 Victoria went on to explain that she actually had visited 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.000 a doctor to investigate why she was unexpectedly losing weight 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.719 since giving birth, and she said she was eating normally, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.080 so she was quite worried about it. And she said 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.040 the doctor told her it was an hereditary condition as 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.000 the same thing had happened to her mum following childbirth. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.920 This interview just got worse because Michael Parkinson then asked 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.599 her what it's like going out for meals at restaurants 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.279 and do people assume that she goes to the toilet 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.680 to chuck up? And the audience proceeded to laugh. It 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.719 felt like a pylon because on the show they also 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.760 had two Fat Ladies. Star Clarissa d Wright interviewed and 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.960 she was sitting alongside Victoria and she chimed in asking 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.719 Victoria what she ate, and when Victoria tried to explain 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.400 that she eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner and snacks, Clarissa 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.360 then made a snide comment saying, and how many let 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.160 us leaves a day? Was that? Do you think they 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.400 purposely got Clarissa on the panel. It was an interesting 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.000 mix because you've got Victoria Beckham there who is being 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.000 accused of not eating, and then you've got Clarissa Dixon, 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.160 who was on a show called two fat ladies, who 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:31.599 was known for cooking very indulgent food, So I maybe 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.520 think that there was some strategy behind it. I think 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.719 it was definitely a strategic move by producers. They would 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.560 be working weeks in advance to make sure that the 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.239 three guest celebrities all complimented each other in the sense 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.720 that they were three very different people with three different views. Yeah, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.000 I mean it was so uncomfortable to watch, particularly when 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.880 you think about the way Parkinson worded the question. I 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.280 understand that in the early two thousands we weren't as 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.039 educated on the topic of eating disorders, but there would 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.039 have been a much better way that he could have 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.960 worded the question and shown some compassion, rather than presenting 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.240 it as a third dot point in a quick filistic questions. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.600 He also seemed to accuse her of it, as if 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.400 it was something that she was purposely doing to cause upset, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.200 when we know that anorexia is a mental health condition. Well, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.160 can you imagine if she said, oh, yes, I am, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.360 I mean, how is that a really sensitive way to 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.360 tell people about something that you've been struggling with. It 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.080 also feels like a bit of a got you moment 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.920 as well, because if she closes up and says no, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.000 I'm not. Then later down the track, if she does 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.400 feel comfortable to talk about it, then she lied to 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:39.960 the public. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:40.520 Yeah. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.760 Well. After years of denying the eating disorder rumors, in 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.360 two thousand and one, Victoria admitted in her autobiography that 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.200 she did in fact suffer from an eating disorder. So 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.680 she said her obsession with her body image began in 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.880 the early days of the Spice Girls, when management told 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.640 all five girls they needed to lose weight. Victoria went 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.680 on to blame Jerry Halliwell in her book for fueling 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.680 her obsession with losing weight. So at the time, all 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.640 five girls were living together in a house in Berkshire, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.239 and Jerry encouraged Victoria and Melsey to get up early 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.640 and go running, as well as introduced Victoria to meal 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.920 replacement shakes. She then said, the trouble is that when 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.560 you start thinking like this, it's hard to stop a 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.840 change from someone who was dieting to lose a bit 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.920 of weight to being obsessive. I was shrinking and the 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.640 excitement at getting thinner quite took away the hunger. Now 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.160 the pressure got too much for Victoria, who then began 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.760 binging and purging. It's been reported that Jerry and Melsey 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.520 also battled eating disorders. Victoria said she would eat ten 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.480 bowls of Frosty's in one sitting, and tins of fruit 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.880 and when she was in the gym. Instead of checking 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.679 her posture or position, she said she'd checked the size 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.760 of her bum or to see if her double chin 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.480 was getting any smaller. Wrote I began living on vegetables 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.840 and nothing else, but it never occurred to me that 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.280 I had an eating disorder. She wrote, I used to 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.800 chop up bowls of spinach and carrots and steam them, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.239 or I just eat peas I had become skeletal. Spice. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.040 Despite saying that she suffered from an eating disorder in 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.720 the early days of the Spy Skirls, Victoria vehemently denies 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.840 that that condition continued. So She said, I think there's 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.040 a big difference between someone having an eating disorder and 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.920 someone who is controlled about what they eat. There's a 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.400 big difference. And every now and then, of course I 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.680 go and eat what I like, but I do try 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.400 to be quite disciplined in the way I eat. She 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.000 also said that becoming a mum helped her to become 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.280 more accepting of her body. She said, when you have children, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.480 it also puts a lot into perspective. You realize they 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.319 notice everything. I would never sit down with my kids 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.400 and skip a meal. They need to see that their 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 mum eats healthy. You need to show little people how 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.040 to be healthy and happy with who they are. I 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.719 just think this continuous speculation about Victoria's body for the 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.000 last thirty years is just disgusting. And it's so ridiculous 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.679 to think that we expect female celebrities to act as 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.600 role models when they we are prone to even greater 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.640 pressure to be thin than ordinary women. I mean, look 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.559 at three out of the five Spy Scales have come 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.200 out and said that they have suffered from eating disorders. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.240 They were clearly under a lot of pressure in the 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.120 nineties to be thin, to be heroin chic. It's pretty 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.800 clear to see that nothing is ever good enough for 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.280 the press. They're either too fat or too thin. They're 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.680 never just quite right. Yeah, and I think it's actually 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.240 really good that Victoria came out and admitted that she 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.000 was struggling with an eating disorder, because it really opened 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.440 up the conversation. We did see it back in the 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.120 mid nineties when Princess Diana came out and said that 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.800 she had bulimia. The thing that I don't like, though, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.840 is that there's no room for Victoria to be allowed 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.440 to recover from that eating disorder. She has to continually 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.920 be scrutinized and questioned, and even now there is still 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:52.320 so much speculation around what Victoria eats. Recently, in February 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.720 twenty twenty two, David Beckham made headlines when he spoke 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.080 about Victoria's restrictive diet. So he was asked on the 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.080 River CAFEO podcast about what his family eats, and this 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:03.839 is what he said. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.040 When I'm eating something great, I want everyone to try it, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.800 you know. And that's unfortunately I'm married to someone that 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.400 has eaten the same thing for the last twenty five 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.320 years since I've met her. Victoria, she only eats you know, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:26.520 grilled fish, steam, vegetables. She'll very rarely deviate away from there. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.319 Now, this interview led to a lot of people speculating 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.720 again that Victoria was suffering from an eating disorder, and 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.000 it also sparked a lot of unhelpful conversations that really 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.400 trivialize the way that Victoria ate. So people were talking 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.200 about how oh, she's just very disciplined, or it's a 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.679 time saving tactic, and it sparked a lot of unnecessary conversations. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:49.040 Well. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.320 In July twenty twenty two, Victoria actually addressed the comments 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.680 that David made in the podcast interview. She said, talk 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.800 about making me sound boring. She went on to clarify 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.760 that she eats healthy, including fish, avocado, nuts, that sort 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.080 of thing. She added that she regularly drinks alcohol. She 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.600 also noted, I'm quite extreme in anything I do, whether 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.520 it's eating or working out, or drinking or not drinking. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.920 I didn't actually realize. But she was interviewed on the 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.840 same podcast a year earlier, and she sparked mixed reactions 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.360 when she answered what her favorite comfort dish is. So 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.880 she said, this is where I get even more boring 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.480 in the food department. Okay, what do I like? I 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.320 like whole grain toast with salt on it. She then 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.280 laughed at her response and went on to say it 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.120 was really boring and that it's that carbi thing, isn't it. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.800 It's that carbohydrate that makes you feel comforted, and I 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.680 love salt. What can I say? She then went on 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.760 to describe herself as a very fussy eater. That is 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:48.360 most restaurants nightmare. Victoria also explained that she likes her 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.400 food to be cooked plainly, without oil, butter or sauces, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.080 and as for a diet, she hasn't eaten red meat 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.760 since she was seven and does not eat dairy. She 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.320 also said that she loved to eat steam vegetables with 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.480 balsamic v and like to season her meals herself. I 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.560 don't see how that's so much different to what David 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.520 Beckham actually said a year later. I just can't get 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:07.920 over the fact that there's not even a bit of 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.760 butter on that toast, like the fact that it's just 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.079 bread and salt, because toast with butter can be an 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.679 elite combination. But yeah, I think she's missing out one 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.200 of the vital ingredients there. Now we need to get 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.439 back to June two thousand and three because this is 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.040 a very important moment on the timeline. So the football 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.880 world was left shocked when David Beckham was sold to 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.120 Real Madrid for thirty two million pounds. No one was 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.640 more shocked than David himself, who was at the peak 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.160 of his career and didn't want to leave his beloved 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.200 Manchester United. Now, David's exit was down to his relationship 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.839 with United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, so in the early 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.760 days he had been somewhat of a father figure to David, 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.240 but there was tension growing between them. Ever since Beck's 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.720 met Posh. The falling out erupted with a much publicized 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.600 locker room incident. So after the match, David mouthed off 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.080 at Ferguson about the loss and Ferguson lost it and 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.000 kicked a boot at him. David claimed he had to 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:08.400 get stitches in his eyebrow, whilst Ferguson called its stage management. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.600 In the Beckham documentary, David said, when I first moved 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.120 to Spain, it was difficult because I'd been part of 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.920 a club and a family for my whole career, from 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.440 the age of fifteen to when I was twenty seven. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.280 I was sold overnight. The next minute, I'm in a 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.480 city where I don't speak the language. More importantly, I 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.600 didn't have my family now. David made the move to 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.160 Spain in June two thousand and three, however Victoria and 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.040 the kids didn't join him until December that year. Victoria 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.800 was heavily criticized in the press for not moving with 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.960 David straight away. However, the reality was she had two 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.800 young children whose lives were also being uprooted. No one 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.160 considered the fact that she actually had to find a 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.000 school for Brooklyn, or that she had a career based 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.000 in the UK. She did become public enemy number one 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.880 with the Spanish people when the media reported that she 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.080 said the Spanish smell of garlic. Now. She those claims, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.880 saying she would never say anything so disrespectful. She continued 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.160 saying everything was fabricated and taken out of context. It 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.240 was never about Spain. It didn't really seem like Posha's 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.680 sense of humor resonated with the public. During an interview 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.880 with GMTV in Madrid, she said, one thing they can't 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.440 get right here is the grapes because they all have 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.520 pips in it. I feel like that is a common 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.800 thing with English people because I've been listening to a 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.120 podcast recently and these English girls are saying that the 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.920 Americans just don't get their sense of humor, so maybe 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.120 it's the same for the Spanish well. She also said 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.760 that she wasn't happy with the interior of the houses 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.000 that some of the real estate agents had offered her 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.680 in Madrid. In an interview, she said that one of 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.160 the reasons it's taken her so long to settle into 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.840 Spain is because it's been tough finding a house. She 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.360 said that the houses the agents found her were very 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.040 Hollywood and were filled with lifts, disco balls and cinemas, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.600 and she didn't want anything like that. I do like that. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.880 She said that she was learning Spanish and that David 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.200 would get very hot under the collar when she'd whisper 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.760 sweet nothings in Spanish. It's pretty funny because the reporter 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.240 Darla Romano tried to teach Victoria a few words, including 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.920 Spanish for golden balls, which is Victoria's pet name for David. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.840 Can you imagine her then suddenly dropping that to him. Well, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.880 he'd have no idea. Now, with Victoria and David navigating 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.400 a long distance relationship, the press were already pre empting 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.760 an affair. Talk show host Jonathan Ross started stoking the 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.800 fire when Victoria appeared on his show to promote her 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.800 solo career. Let's throw to what. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.920 He said, You're dating without that one of the most 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:35.600 attractive men. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.080 No, I'm not dating and we've got married. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.560 Well, okay, I like having this little bit of omen's day, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.360 you know, but you're you're married to, yeah, one of 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.880 the most attractive, handsome, famous men in the world, and 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.680 you know it's all there for him. And he's going 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.520 out with someone who's out working in New York. And 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.560 you're an attractive you're a beautiful woman. You've got you know, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.160 fame as well. It must be tough just on that level. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.880 I mean, the trust that's involved there must be quite larger. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.000 Or are you why do you get concerned? Are you 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:00.680 jealous of each other? 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:00.920 Case? 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.720 I mean, I think it's always healthy to have a 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.399 certain amount of jealousy in a relationship. But at the 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.240 end of the day, it's no harder for us than 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.680 it is anyone else. You know, you're away from must 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.440 you know, I think that there's pressure on every relationship. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.560 I'm not going to say poor. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.679 Me, look look for me, okay, you know. I mean, 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.320 I'm not bad looking for my age. But when I 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.080 go my wife, my wife knows, no one's going to 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.000 look twice. Really unless I went out of my way. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.160 There's David right now, he's in Spain. They're following himself 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.840 at him. Yeah, you know, they must be all the 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.840 time and you go out, people are right. You know, 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.280 I'm sure you get more than a few offers, don't you. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.960 Yeah, But I think you know, we do trust each other. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.040 And when you got kids, you know, at the end 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.200 of the day and you never know how long fame 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.280 is going to last. And it is all very superficial. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.600 And that's why, you know, as long as our relationship 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.239 is all right, that's the main thing. You know, we're 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.720 going to grow old and wrinkly together. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.399 Enter Rebecca Loose. So when David moved to Spain, his 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.560 management firm hired a twenty six year old assistant called 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.680 Rebecca Now. She was born in Madrid, but she also 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.240 holds Dutch citizenship. Her father was a Dutch diplomat and 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.520 her mother was originally from Surrey. Now. The idea was 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.360 that Rebecca would help David settle in and teach him 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.680 the ropes of living in Spain. So Rebecca first met 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.760 David at a private airport and said she was initially 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.160 not impressed by his pretty boy image, ripped jeans, diamond 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.320 earrings and fancy watchers. She did say it was clear 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.280 Victoria and David were at crisis point, with David allegedly 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.199 having explosive fights on the phone with his wife. She 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.000 also said that David begged Victoria to join him in 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.320 Spain with their two sons, saying he couldn't live without them. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.560 In September two thousand and three, whispers of a cheating 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.280 scandal began brewing when media published photos of David and 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.800 Rebecca at a nightclub together. They looked pretty cozy in 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.800 the photos, sitting close to one another and chatting. Now. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.680 When the photos hit the paper, David's PR team came 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.400 out and said people were reading into nothing. However, Rebecca 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.840 alleges that these photos actually captured the start of their 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.520 four month affair. Here's what Becka said about that night. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.760 We were just locked into each other all night, conversation wise, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.000 I mean other people noticed it. Other people at the dinner, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.200 I sat opposite him and the rest, you know, sort 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.600 of down the table. Then it was just him and 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.600 I talking and laughing and joking and we just we 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.480 just connected. The chemistry between David and I were so 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.680 strong that everyone was aware, and people weren't happy, obviously, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.760 because I was being very unprofessional and he's a married man. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.639 This girl came up, sat between us and we were 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.760 chatting and laughing, and he just kept looking at me. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.199 And then it dawned on me that what he'd asked me, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.240 and I did want to go back with him, So, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.119 you know, we just sort of gave each other a 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.480 look and a nod of the head and paid the 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:40.280 bill and we left. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.880 Once they left the nightclub, they got into a car 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.080 with two other members of the group they were with, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.800 and according to Rebecca, as soon as those two people 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.920 were dropped off and they were alone in the car, 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.920 they started passionately kissing. She described them as being like magnets. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.480 I could have done without that. Now in the morning, 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.639 she says, David fed her fresh strawberries. And this is 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.000 a detail that seems to have obsessed the UK public, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.199 I think because it almost seems somewhat romantic. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:08.840 Now. 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.879 In the interview, Rebecca explained how she felt when she 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:13.560 left the hotel the next day. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:22.200 It's very breathless, very very happy, smiling. Yeah. I got 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.960 home and my mother said, oh, where have you slept? 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.480 Worvey spent the nights and she could just tell her 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.280 by the look of my face. She knew I didn't 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:29.920 have to tell him. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.680 She knew. That week Rebecca went to visit him again 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.320 at his hotel before a match. She said she was 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.320 very excited to see him, but after their encounter she 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.320 felt used. Here's what she said. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.320 I was very excited to see him, and it was 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.080 literally in, you know, close off, get the action done 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.280 and out within half an hour. And I left their 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.040 feeling absolutely I felt like a whore. I felt really cheap, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.600 and I felt used and you and I said, I'm 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.000 not not even why why am I doing this? Why 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.320 am I putting myself through that? Because emotionally I've been 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:02.159 through a lot. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.639 Despite feeling used, Rebecca fell hard for David, telling the 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.560 media she adored him. She claimed they text each other 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.879 thirty times a day, which, to point out, in the 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.240 early two thousands would have cost you a lot of 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.720 money when that wasn't a problem for becks No. She 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.439 also alleges that they sexed twice a week. She recalled 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.119 visiting a museum with her parents and having to rush 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.560 to the bathroom to finish the sexting in there. I'm 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.240 sure her parents were thrilled to hear this information in 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.760 the newspaper. Despite all the sexting, Rebecca said that over 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.560 their four months relationship, they only had sex six times, 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:37.840 and I just wonder was this due to a lack 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.000 of opportunity. Well, if Posh wasn't there, I feel like 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.560 they would have had a lot of opportunity. I think 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.119 it's more that Beckham probably had other mistresses going on. Allegedly. 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.600 In April two thousand and four, Rebecca sold her story 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.879 to the News of the World in what was described 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.680 as one of the last great kiss and tell stories. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.760 The tabloid went to great lengths to get the scoop, 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.639 so journalist Neville Thurlbeck said, securing the story was like 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:05.000 a spy operation. He detailed the lengths he went to 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.080 in his book Tabloid Secrets, The Stories Behind the Headlines Now. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.800 Neville said, his editor called him into his office and said, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.680 the biggest story of the year is about to be dropped. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.200 By this stage, Rebecca had enlisted the help of publicist 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.280 Max Clifford, who was helping her sell a story to 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:21.840 the paper. 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:22.440 Now. 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.359 In exchange for her story, Rebecca wanted one hundred thousand pounds, 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.280 which by the end of the investigation ended up being 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:33.399 three hundred and fifty thousand pounds. In exchange for the money, 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.880 the newspaper wanted an interview with all the launchy texts 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.280 and proof, so Neville flew to Madrid straight away and 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.440 spent two weeks hiding out with Rebecca, trying to catch 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.399 David out for the cheating. Can you imagine them sitting 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.320 in the hotel room just sending off these rogue texts 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.320 to David Beckham. You think about it when you really 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:54.400 like someone and you're hoping to get a text back. Well, 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.000 this would have been magnified because she's trying to prove 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:58.800 that this affair actually went on. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:22:59.160 Yeah. 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.200 Well, the reason that they were trying to get Beckham 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.160 to text them back was that he was always texting 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.719 her from different numbers, and they needed proof that it 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.359 actually was him. Isn't this just a major red flag 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.439 if your partner is constantly changing their phone number. I 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.600 understand that this is something that celebrities do in case 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:18.960 someone finds out what their number is, but this seemed 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:21.600 to be happening on a regular basis. The journalist said 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.200 that he changed his phone number more times than men 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.600 changed their soul. Well, I feel like you'd have a 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.240 pretty good excuse for it. Eventually, Rebecca did get a 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.080 response to one of her calls, but all they heard 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.720 down the line was a silence, and then a person 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:39.760 on the other line burst into boyish giggles. Now Neville 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:41.840 was about to pull the pin on the story until 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.520 Rebecca discovered a piece of paper that had Beckham's Management's 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.600 company details on it, and at the bottom, in David's 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.120 handwriting was his name followed by a phone number. Now 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.160 that phone number match raunchy text that had been sent 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.240 to Rebecca. Now the news of the affair broke with 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:00.720 a five page spread in News of the World that 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:04.320 Sunday morning. The story framed David as lonely and said 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:08.080 Rebecca was there to comfort him. It also described Victoria 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:11.159 and David's long distance marriage as troubled and said he 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.480 felt abandoned by Victoria. It seems like they're just trying 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:17.720 to paint Victoria badly in this story, even though it's 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:20.560 about him being a well. The tone running through the 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:23.520 article was, of course, he was going to cheat if 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:25.960 she wasn't there keeping an eye on him, And the 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:29.480 article really didn't spare any detail. It printed the array 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:33.639 of graphic text messages where David allegedly explained what he 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:37.560 wanted to do to Rebecca in bed Now, Rebecca was 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:40.639 always portrayed as the villain in the press. Well, David 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:44.120 was this lovable puppy dog who was lonely and needed attention. 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:46.840 The public really felt like she was trying to make 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:49.600 a career out of sleeping with a married man, and 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.600 that she wanted to inflict pain on Victoria through the 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:54.720 press that she was putting out there. I can see 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:57.199 why people thought that, because it was publicized that she 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.520 got three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for selling the story. 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:03.119 If she had perhaps come out and told the story 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:06.159 for free, people may have been more kind towards her. 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:06.440 Yeah. 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:09.399 Well, her publicers probably feared that this would be the case, 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:12.240 so asked her not to be named as the source 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:14.200 in the first story that came out and the news 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.359 of the world instead. It was bizarrely written from the 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.639 perspective of an unnamed source who was apparently a close 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:24.200 family friend of Rebecca's that she had confided in. This 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:27.240 is a general tactic of journalists. They'll use an unnamed 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:30.119 source when quite often it is the person involved in 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:33.639 the story who was giving these quotes. However, in this case, 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.840 it all didn't quite add up, because why would Rebecca's 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:40.960 friend one have copies of her hundreds of text messages, 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:43.720 majority of which were of a sexual nature. And I 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:47.159 can also hardly imagine a family friend giving this quote. 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:50.400 So one of the quotes said David was a sensational lover. 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:54.200 The sex was highly charged, explosive. They would make love 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.439 for hours. Surely the general public could read between the 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:01.080 lines and knew that this story had come direct from Rebecca. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.760 There was no way she wasn't involved in it. The 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:06.120 journalist did out of line about how she was approached 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.840 for commt and didn't give any but surely people could 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:12.119 put two and two together. Oh definitely. It did feel 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:16.000 like Victoria was being mocked when this story came out, 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:20.280 because the text messages really ignited a national guessing game 0:26:20.320 --> 0:26:23.280 because some of the words had been censored out, so 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:26.240 the public was encouraged to try and guess what words 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:28.320 were missing. And can you imagine how that would have 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:31.000 felt for Victoria. It would have been absolutely soul destroying 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:34.119 that everyone is getting fun out of your misery and 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.080 all playing a game to guess these sordid things that 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.960 your husband had said to his personal assistant. Well, David 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:42.919 Beckham's team was quick to release a statement, and it 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:46.200 must be noted that David didn't flat out deny having 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:49.840 the affair. Instead, the release said, during the past few months, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.800 I have become accustomed to reading more and more ludicrous 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:56.000 stories about my private life. What appeared this morning is 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:59.080 just one further example. The simple truth is that I'm 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:03.240 happily married to a wonderful wife and two very special kids. Now, 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:05.760 to make things more awkward, this was actually a pre 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:09.240 planned family skiing holiday with her parents, sister and mother 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:11.639 in law all coming along. God, wouldn't you try and 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:14.840 pull out of this trip? Like that would be the worst? Yeah, 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:18.000 it would be. Now, David was granted compassionate leave by 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:21.080 Real Madrid, which saw him miss the club's Champion League 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:24.159 game to join the family vacation. Can you imagine the 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:26.800 heckling he would have got on the ground had he played. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:28.520 I think he would have rather been there than on 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:31.840 this family trip. I mean, it was so humiliating for him, 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:34.920 but also for poor Victoria. Imagine having to be around 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.600 all your family and you're trying to deal with all 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:41.280 of this bullshit. Now, brand Beckham was out in full 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.159 force on the ski slopes the next morning. There were 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:47.280 photos of the couple strolling hand in hand and frolicking 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.119 in the snow. As you can imagine, this was a 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:53.359 strategy from their PR team, who wanted to show a 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:56.000 united force and to act as though there was no 0:27:56.119 --> 0:28:00.760 merit in these allegations. Victoria has opened up since sharing 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.240 what it was really like to live through the scandal. 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:05.800 She said, it was a nightmare from the minute we 0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:08.000 opened the door in the morning. The press were there 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:11.000 in cars and everywhere we went we would get followed. 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:14.320 It was an absolute circus. In the Beckham documentary, she 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:17.320 confirmed that it was the most difficult moment of her marriage. 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:19.760 She said, it was the hardest period for us because 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:22.359 it felt like the world was against us. And here's 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:25.199 the thing. We were against each other, if I'm completely honest. 0:28:25.520 --> 0:28:28.200 You know, up until Madrid sometimes it felt like us 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:31.960 against everybody else. But we were together, we were connected, 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:34.320 we had each other. But when we were in Spain, 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:36.920 it didn't really feel like we had each other either, 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:39.800 and that's sad. I can't even begin to tell you 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:42.640 how hard it was and how it affected me. Now. 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:45.560 In another PR power play, less than a week after 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:49.160 the article came out, Victoria appeared on Anton Deck's show 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:53.440 Saturday Night Takeaway, and Victoria was interviewed by two kids 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:56.640 who they called Mini Anton Deck, and the kids proceeded 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.040 to ask her if they were planning on having any 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:03.080 more kids. Here's what she said, definitely. 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:04.760 Want to have more babies, not just yet, but I 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:06.400 definitely want to have more babies. 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:09.680 Are definitely more movies at the moment. 0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:15.880 We're not planning on making babies at the moment, but 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:20.080 we're what they call practicing to make them, which is 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:20.920 really good fun. 0:29:22.360 --> 0:29:25.200 In this interview, she also left a message on David's 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.120 phone saying I love you, and she just came across 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:31.400 as really happy and smiling and was joking around. You 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:34.400 would never have guessed that behind the scenes so much 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.239 was going on. What a perfect media performance for her, 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:40.320 because you'd watch this and think, ah, maybe it is 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:44.360 all bullshit. Meanwhile, the pr Beckham machine was working over 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:48.960 time trying to just credit Rebecca Loos's reputation and clawback David's. 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:53.280 Newspapers were being fed stories about Rebecca's supposed lesbian affairs 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.680 and affairs with three tennis players, whilst ex colleagues were 0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:00.560 giving derogatory quotes about her to journalists. How clear the 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:03.520 media were trying to pay a certain picture of Rebecca. 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.120 They tried to slut shame her and also make her 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:09.400 out to be this fame hungry person. Yeah. Well, she 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:12.640 very quickly became fed up with that and she was 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:15.440 over being called a liar. So she hit back by 0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:20.200 appearing on SkyTV for her first televised interview, and unsurprisingly, 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:24.160 that interview drew in near record ratings, and on the show, 0:30:24.520 --> 0:30:28.000 she told the full story of how the affair unfolded, 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:31.560 or allegedly unfolded. I should say, in the interview, she 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:34.080 wanted to make it clear that she wasn't the cause 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:36.760 of the problem in the marriage, saying the problems were 0:30:36.800 --> 0:30:39.960 there long before she came into the picture. Now, the 0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:43.760 genuineness of her comments was called into question when during 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:46.680 the interview she said that she never intended to break 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:50.760 David and Victoria up, especially when there's young kids involved, 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:53.480 and she hoped that they stayed together. Oh, she only 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:55.600 just wanted to sell the story to the media to 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.680 make lots of money. Well, yeah, she did make a 0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:00.960 further one hundred and fifty thousand pounds the interview. I 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:04.640 also don't understand because in that interview. She also said 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:08.280 that she adored David and she still does. So if 0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:11.040 he had those types of feelings still for someone that 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.920 you were apparently with, then why would you then wish 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:16.080 that couple the best of luck and hope that they 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:18.720 stayed together. It just doesn't come across as very genuine. No, 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.560 it comes across as very jaded now in the press. 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:26.400 Rebecca also made derogatory remarks about Victoria's body, so she 0:31:26.560 --> 0:31:29.960 claimed that David said he hated Victoria's thin body and 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:33.920 loved her like a sister, but they had a sexless marriage. 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:36.960 She also admitted to using Victoria's hair clips while she 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:40.440 showered in David's hotel room. Rebecca then went on to 0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:44.920 describe Victoria as a very cold, severe, unsmiling woman behind 0:31:44.960 --> 0:31:47.960 the scenes, and said she was very sour and difficult 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:51.120 to get along with and was envious of Rebecca from 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:54.080 the first time they met. She finished by saying she 0:31:54.120 --> 0:31:56.640 didn't like standing next to a woman who looked better 0:31:56.720 --> 0:31:59.160 than her. Gosh, I can see why Posh was giving 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:01.600 her the cold shit. If this, you know, she obviously 0:32:01.640 --> 0:32:03.760 was picking up that something wasn't right. I just love 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.800 this bullshit that she's so happy that Posh and bexer 0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:09.680 together and she wants them to be happy with their kids. Yet, oh, 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:12.840 she's not very nice and David said she was too 0:32:12.920 --> 0:32:14.960 skinny and they had a sexless man. Also, she's just 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:17.320 playing into all the headlines about Posh, how she never 0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:20.320 smiles and that she's too thin. Well, she's just weaponizing 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:22.720 her body. She knows that that has been an obsession 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:25.040 of the media, so she wanted to use it against 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:25.800 her as well. 0:32:25.960 --> 0:32:26.160 Well. 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:30.320 Max Clifford, who's Rebecca's publicist, he also made cutting comments 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:34.400 about Victoria, telling The Evening Standard newspaper that no one 0:32:34.480 --> 0:32:38.800 had been harmed by the allegations, especially not Victoria. He said, 0:32:38.880 --> 0:32:43.000 for Victoria, it's given her what she craves most, saturation coverage. 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:46.280 The only reason she's famous is because she's Missus Beckham. 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:50.120 Her career disappeared years ago. He added, I wouldn't say 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:53.360 she's enjoying it, but given the choice between no publicity 0:32:53.400 --> 0:32:57.480 and this, she would choose this. It's quite hypocritical for 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:01.040 the pr manager of Beckham's Misty, who has made a 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:05.200 name for herself from sharing this story publicly, to say that. Well, 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:08.200 also the fact that she has gone and seeked out 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:11.120 a publicist to go and break the story. I mean, 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:13.520 she did go on to appear on a number of 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:17.800 reality shows like Love Ireland the Celebrity Edition. The thing 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.360 that I disliked the most about this is the two 0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:22.760 women are being pitted against each other. You know, the 0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:25.360 common denominator in this story is David Beckham. He is 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.240 the one who is married and should be doing better 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.440 by posh. But now we're putting these two women against 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.440 each other. But why isn't she angry at David? It 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:36.280 just seems like she's turned all of her anger towards Victoria, 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:39.040 and probably because David doesn't want to be with her 0:33:39.200 --> 0:33:42.360 and she blames Victoria. Now, as we mentioned earlier, these 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:46.640 cheating allegations were touched upon in the Beckham doco recently 0:33:47.080 --> 0:33:50.560 now David addressed the controversy, saying there was some horrible 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.920 stories which were difficult to deal with. It was the 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:55.160 first time me and Victoria had been put under that 0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:58.280 kind of pressure in our marriage. Now, throughout the documentary 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:02.360 they did not name Rebecca. However, following it, Rebecca appeared 0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:05.800 on Good Morning Britain accusing David of playing the victim 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:08.680 and making her look like a liar. She said she 0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:11.280 never got any warning that they would be talking about 0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:14.319 the scandal, which was a little bit hypocritical considering that 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:16.759 she gave them no warning when she went to the 0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:19.399 press with her story. She said that she had tried 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:21.920 very hard to let it go and move on, but 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:24.319 it really bothered her that she felt she was made 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.520 to look like the bad person and said it was 0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:29.600 both of their faults. Now, she said in hindsight that 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.759 she wished she'd gone about this all in a very 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:34.520 different way now. If you're wondering what Rebecca has been 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:37.440 up to in the last twenty years, she is working 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.000 now as a yoga instructor and a small town of 0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:43.640 only two thousand, five hundred people. And before making the move, 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:47.240 as you mentioned, Sophie, she was criticized for chasing fame, 0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:50.680 appearing on Celebrity Love Island and The X Factor. The 0:34:50.760 --> 0:34:54.400 Rebecca Lowes story opened up a floodgate, with other women 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:57.680 coming forward to say they also had affairs with David. 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.800 A string of European models claimed they'd slept with David, 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:04.719 including supermodel Esther Candees, who was reportedly hurried out of 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:08.920 David's hotel room when Victoria made a surprise visit. David 0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:11.960 was also linked to a Spanish woman called Neuri Bermudez, 0:35:12.160 --> 0:35:15.960 who was allegedly seen repeatedly visiting his hotel. Now. She 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:19.800 was a self confessed lifelong Real Madrid fan and claimed 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:22.360 to have slept with at least six first team players, 0:35:22.360 --> 0:35:26.080 including David Beckham. She asked for twelve thousand pounds to 0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:30.240 tell her story on a local front. Australian model Sarah 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:32.759 Marbeck claimed that she had a two year affair with 0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:36.000 Beckham after she met him in Singapore in two thousand 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:40.000 and one during Manchester United's Asian tour. Allegedly, just four 0:35:40.040 --> 0:35:42.840 hours after meeting in the hotel, the pair had sex. 0:35:43.040 --> 0:35:45.520 She also claims David got her a ticket to watch 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.080 England play Italy in March two thousand and two in 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.960 Leeds and when they met in the player's tunnel he 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:54.279 was all hot and sweaty. Now, Sarah said David told 0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:56.640 her he felt like he'd been hit with the sledgehammer 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:58.879 when he saw her and loved the way she tied 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:02.080 her hairback. Currently, David told Sarah he loved her and 0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:05.400 they even had pet nicknames for each other. David's was 0:36:05.440 --> 0:36:09.400 Peter Pan, and Sarah's was tinker Bell, while Victoria was Wendy. 0:36:10.040 --> 0:36:14.120 I found that so gross that Victoria is included in 0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:17.440 these nicknames. Now, Sarah said that the only time they 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:20.960 stopped communicating over the two year period was when Posh 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:25.080 and Becks's second child, Romeo, was born. However, by August 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.359 two thousand and two, the relationship was calling off with 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:33.319 longer gaps between messages. So a week after Rebecca's story ran, 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:36.319 Neville ran a star As story with the headline I'm 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:39.319 Beck's love at number two. This time, the article was 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:43.640 seven pages long and went into even more explicit detail. Now, 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:45.880 you would have thought that the news of the World's 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.000 story would have put a stop to David's alleged affairs, 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:52.080 but it didn't. In October two thousand and four, a 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:56.000 beautician called daniel Heath publicly claimed she too had an 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:59.319 affair with David. The worst bit is daniel had become 0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:02.279 friends with viv Victoria after visiting the Beckhams home to 0:37:02.360 --> 0:37:05.520 do Posha's spray tan. Now this story is really wild 0:37:05.600 --> 0:37:09.359 because Victoria first met Danielle at a beauty parlor, and 0:37:09.440 --> 0:37:12.600 later Victoria invited her over to their house. So she 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:15.680 could do her spray tan. And when she first introduced 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:19.160 Danielle to David, she said, Danielle, this is David. David, 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:22.160 you've probably shagged her already. I'm assuming that's part of 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:24.400 her dry sense of humor because this was on the 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.440 cusp of those cheating scandals coming out, so she probably 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:30.719 jokingly assumed that everyone in Spain had already slept with 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:32.759 her husband. It just makes me like her so much. 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:35.640 I love that kind of humor. Now, two weeks later, 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:39.040 daniel alleges she did shag David. So she slept with 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:42.640 David in the Beckham family home allegedly, and she said 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:45.799 they were intimate again. A month later, now, David had 0:37:45.840 --> 0:37:48.880 allegedly flown Danielle out to Madrid to give him a 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.480 spray tan for a photo shoot. These cheating allegations did 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:55.560 make people question whether Victoria and David were in an 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:59.360 open relationship, considering Posh had jokingly said, oh, have you 0:37:59.400 --> 0:38:01.360 shagged him already? But I actually just think that was 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:03.719 part of our sense of humor and the timing of 0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:07.280 it all, because this alleged affair happened only four months 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:10.280 after Rebecca Loser story broke. I think people are questioning 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.400 it more so because they think, well, why would you 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:14.759 stay with your partner if he was constantly cheating on you? 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:16.120 Like she must be okay. 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:16.960 Yeah. 0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:20.040 The saddest part of this story is that Victoria announced 0:38:20.040 --> 0:38:23.080 she was three months pregnant with their third child, just 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:27.160 a day before David allegedly slept with Dannielle. Now, David 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.920 has denied these claims and put out a joint statement 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:32.880 with Victoria, saying it is even more distressing when we 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:36.680 are expecting our third child. The allegations are completely and 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.800 totally untrue and are in the hands of our lawyers. 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:42.399 They added, we are sick and tired of people trying 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:44.320 to make money out of our family. 0:38:44.480 --> 0:38:44.800 Wow. 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:45.240 Well. 0:38:45.280 --> 0:38:48.480 In two thousand and seven, David again shocked the football 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:51.719 world by announcing he was coming to America. So he 0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:54.959 signed a five year deal with La Galaxy worth three 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:58.480 point five million dollars. At the time, it was reported 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:01.360 he was taking a seventy percent pay cut. However, the 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:05.680 contract had unique stipulations. These stipulations allowed him to take 0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:09.399 an undisclosed percentage of all club revenue, as well as 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:12.360 the right to purchase an MLS expansion team at a 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.640 fixed rate upon retirement when they talk about club revenue, 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:19.120 So David got a cut out of everything, including beer 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:23.600 that was bought at the game's, uniforms, merchandise, everything, So 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:26.040 it was a very lucrative deal. I wonder if this 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:28.759 was to fit him under their salary cap, like I'm 0:39:28.800 --> 0:39:31.840 assuming a lot of the other players weren't receiving nearly 0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:34.640 as much money. But it is complex because they did 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.359 have a two million dollar salary cap, and obviously David 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:40.759 Beckham's salary exceeded that. But they actually invented this thing 0:39:40.800 --> 0:39:44.799 they now call the Beckham cap, where you can add 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:48.120 one player who is worth way more than everyone else. 0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:51.520 I mean, it was just obviously made because they desperately 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:54.640 needed him to join their football league. Now, all of 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:58.520 these little loopholes meant that his annual salary turned into 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:01.840 more than five hundred million dollars, making it one of 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.440 the most lucrative contracts in sporting history. This move was 0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:08.560 also very much welcomed by Victoria, who was keen for 0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:11.880 a fresh start and more privacy from the press. She 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:15.080 even landed her own show called Coming to America, and 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:17.920 in it she poked fun at the Rebecca louse scandal. 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:20.200 So as part of the plot, Victoria is looking for 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:24.320 a personal assistant and outlines her criteria. Here's what she said. 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:28.479 She can't be too good looking, she can't be too thin. 0:40:30.160 --> 0:40:33.600 It's all to be about it. In the show, Victoria's 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:36.520 prospective PA asks if she'll be assisting David, and she 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:37.920 comes back with this. 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:40.640 No, why do you want to No? 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:45.120 No, I mean eate. If him attractive, he's no, he's 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:49.480 not ugly. This was your typical naughty's reality show. It 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:52.120 had a lot of dramatic music and cutaway shots, and 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:56.000 it's quite ironic because after this scene Victoria does employ 0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:59.040 the new PA. We actually don't see David much in 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:00.920 this show at all, his own in the start, at 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:03.840 this weird photoshoot that they're doing together, and then in 0:41:03.920 --> 0:41:06.880 the last scene when he and Victoria arrive at the 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:12.160 airport and enter America. Now, despite having a scandal free 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:16.759 few years, in twenty ten, another cheating scandal hit. This 0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:19.640 time it was a sex worker called Irma Nikki, who 0:41:19.680 --> 0:41:22.920 alleges David hired her to have sex within five times 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:26.239 in hotel rooms across London and New York in two 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:31.480 thousand and seven. Now David emphatically denies these allegations, calling 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:35.560 them ridiculous. It must be noted that Irma actually didn't 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:39.240 have any evidence. The validity of her comments were also 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.239 called into question when she claimed that David answered the 0:41:42.320 --> 0:41:45.920 door with wet hair. Now, looking at this time frame, 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:50.239 his hair has been so highly photographed. He probably has 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:53.760 the most photographed hair in the world. So his lawyer 0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:56.359 was able to go through and pick the dates and 0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:59.640 actually say he had a Grade one haircut when you 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:03.040 currently caught up with him, and his hair wasn't long 0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:06.240 enough for it to stay wet at all. It's terrible 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:09.399 because I do feel like some of these people are 0:42:09.480 --> 0:42:13.719 being a bit opportunistic, especially when they don't have any proof. Yeah. Well, 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:18.560 David responded by suing the publication for twenty five million dollars, 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:21.360 saying it caused him and his family great anguish and 0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:26.759 emotional distress and adversely affected his personal and professional life. Now, 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:29.880 in twenty twelve, there was a very fleeting rumor that 0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:32.880 he had an affair with opera sing at Katherine Jenkins, 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:35.520 And this was the time of social media, so people 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:40.200 actually had platforms to defend themselves, and Catherine came out 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:43.399 on Twitter to deny the allegation. She said that she'd 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:46.960 only met him twice at the Military Awards in twenty 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:49.440 ten and on a night out at the West End 0:42:49.719 --> 0:42:52.680 that Prince Harry also happened to attend, and she said 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:54.759 that she never arranged to meet up with him and 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:57.480 nothing went on between them. So this was quite a 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.040 different allegation because she actually didn't make the allegation herself, 0:43:01.040 --> 0:43:02.879 and this was the first time it was someone who 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:06.719 actually had their own profile. So the last cheating scandal 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:10.920 is bizarre. In twenty eighteen, a rumor started circulating on 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:13.839 Twitter that David had an affair with his then six 0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:17.319 year old daughter's school teacher. The rumor got legs and 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:19.960 suddenly it was being reported that he got her pregnant 0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:23.439 and a divorce announcement was pending. This rumor was so 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:26.440 strong that bookies stopped taking bets on whether David and 0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:29.560 Victoria were getting a divorce, as it was treated as 0:43:29.560 --> 0:43:33.359 a surefire thing. This whole story, if you can believe, it, 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:37.439 was generated by one rogue tweet. It wasn't even by 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:40.719 anyone verified. It was just a random person saying that 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.120 they'd heard that David had had an affair with his 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:46.160 daughter's teacher and they just knew, but don't ask them how, 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:49.520 and that's where it all spiraled out of control. Now, 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:51.959 the couple did release a statement calling it a crock 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:54.839 of shit. This was probably the strongest statement they've ever 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:58.080 put out. They said there is no statement due for divorce, 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:00.799 and this is fake social media and that it's all 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:05.279 very bizarre and an embarrassing waste of time. Imagine the 0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:09.040 poor teacher, like, how embarrassing for her being dragged into this. Well, 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:11.960 it turns out that David had never even met Harper's teacher, 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.359 and the father actually came out blasting the rumors and 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:18.040 the media, saying it was nonsense and confirmed that his 0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:21.520 daughter had never even met David Bergell. Now, a lot 0:44:21.560 --> 0:44:25.239 of good came from Possenbeck's move to America. Victoria made 0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:28.560 a seamless transition from music to the fashion world. So 0:44:28.680 --> 0:44:31.759 when she left the Spice scales, Victoria walked in runways, 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:35.680 edited magazines, and had lucrative brand deals, but her dream 0:44:35.840 --> 0:44:38.680 was to cut it as a credible fashion designer. So 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:42.480 fashion has always been victorious passion more so than music, 0:44:42.680 --> 0:44:45.319 and she launched her self titled fashion line in two 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:48.239 thousand and eight, and this has been supported by the 0:44:48.360 --> 0:44:52.279 upper echelon of the fashion industry, including Anna Wintour, who 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:55.480 is a regular guest at her shows. It's pretty impressive 0:44:55.520 --> 0:44:58.480 because her label has been regularly shown during New York 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:01.719 and London Fashion Weeks and also made its debut at 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:04.719 Paris Fashion Week in twenty twenty two and again in 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:08.320 twenty twenty three. And her clothes are a far cry 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:11.200 from her nineties posh spice look. She is known for 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:15.280 creating clothes that are very streamlined and esthetic. Now, following 0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:19.240 the success of her fashion label, Victoria launched Victoria Beckham 0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:22.920 Beauty in twenty nineteen, right before the pandemic, and her 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:26.759 beauty line has now helped grow both of the businesses, 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:29.279 so it's now at a stage where revenue is up 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:31.160 by forty percent in twenty twenty one. 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:31.680 Wow. 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:35.080 And as for a musical return, Victoria has been involved 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:38.200 in a few Spice Girls reunions over the years. The 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.520 first was in two thousand and eight when their Greatest 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:44.040 Hits album was released, and later during the twenty twelve 0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:48.280 London Olympics closing ceremony in twenty nineteen, fans were excited 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.440 when the band teased that they would be holding a 0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:54.279 reunion tour. However, this was quickly squashed days later when 0:45:54.360 --> 0:45:57.439 Victoria told Vogue, I'm not going on tour now. While 0:45:57.520 --> 0:45:59.640 Victoria made it quite clear that she was not going 0:45:59.680 --> 0:46:02.320 to be involved, the rest of the girls went ahead 0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:05.160 on tour without her, and they launched their Spice World 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:09.200 Tour in twenty nineteen as a four piece band without Victoria, 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:11.680 and they did perform in the UK and Ireland. 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:12.239 Now. 0:46:12.239 --> 0:46:15.120 They played thirteen sold out dates and played to seven 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:19.319 hundred thousand fans and earned themselves seventy eight point two 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:23.600 million dollars in ticket sales. Victoria wrote on Instagram, I 0:46:23.600 --> 0:46:26.480 won't be joining my girls on stage again, but being 0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:28.960 in the Spice Skulls was a hugely important part of 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:31.319 my life and I wish them so much love and 0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:34.120 fun as they go back on tour next year. I 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:36.239 know they will put on an amazing show and the 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:39.480 fantastic fans past and present are going to have a 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:42.520 wonderful time, and that is where we are going to 0:46:42.640 --> 0:46:44.279 leave you. I can't wait to see what the next 0:46:44.280 --> 0:46:46.920 couple of years hold for Victoria and David, hopefully not 0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:49.520 too many more cheating scandals. It feels like they are 0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:51.960 on the right path. Finally, I hate to admit it, 0:46:51.960 --> 0:46:55.000 but I have found myself googling Victoria Beckham a lot 0:46:55.040 --> 0:46:58.520 recently after doing this deep dive, and I've been obsessed 0:46:58.520 --> 0:47:01.080 with trying to find clips of her singing the Spice 0:47:01.160 --> 0:47:03.799 Girls songs live, because it's been so much said about 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:05.880 how she never got to sing as much as the 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.560 other girls. Well, she hardly had any solo bits, so 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:10.560 it is hard even watching the film clips to try 0:47:10.600 --> 0:47:12.959 and catch a bit of her voice. It's funny because 0:47:13.000 --> 0:47:15.560 after I watched the Beckham documentary, I fell in love 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:17.879 with David Beckham, but I think I slowly fell out 0:47:17.880 --> 0:47:20.360 of love with him as this series has gone on, 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:23.680 and fell in love instead with Victoria Beckham. She just 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:26.360 seems like such an incredible woman and I've thoroughly enjoyed 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:29.160 putting this series together. Thank you so much for listening 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.360 to it. If you have enjoyed it, could you please 0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:33.759 make sure you leave us a rating on Spotify and 0:47:33.840 --> 0:47:37.360 also Apple podcast. And I'm very excited for next week's series. 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:39.560 I don't know how many details we can give out yet, 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:42.000 but it is an Australian story. A lot of you 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:45.479 have been asking for an Australian deep dive. We will 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:48.359 be delivering this and we cannot wait for it. This 0:47:48.440 --> 0:47:51.120 episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:53.920 people of the Adelaide Planes. We pay respect to elders 0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:54.840 past and present.