Romeo Beckham gets £45 grand for a days work.

[Pollyteacakes]

How much does this family need. Burberry have paid 12 year old Romeo £45.000 for one days work modeling. I don't wear Burberry myself but if I did that would probably put me off ever buying it again. How far will this family go for publicity and money. Small change to them though. But isn't there something wrong when a 12 year old gets in one day what it might take most of us a year or two to earn?

Actually, there was a Beckham reality TV show.

I disagree, I think the Burberry ad's amazing!

Aldi ad is cluttery and tacky and if you swap the name - it could be an Iceland ad.
I suppose It's ok, for what it's selling, which is food.

The Beckhams are very attractive people and are not noticeably evil. The child looks quite nice in those clothes. Not to my taste.

People are getting confused by pay. People are not paid enormous quantities because they are worth it or because they work hard or because they deserve it. If that were the case some teachers/journalists/politicians/doctors I know would ran a fortune. There is an enormous imbalance in our current system that means the highly skilled workers who slave away making those clothes earn £20k and a pretty child who is famous through accident of birth earns two and a half times their annual salary in a day to stand around pouting. Saying this is not jealousy. How can anyone think this is not fucked up?

Arsenic, I only know what Romeo looks like because I had a look at the Burberry ad (can't STAND burberry, incidentally). I don't know what the other kids look like. I don't think I'm unusual in that, either. I suspect you have to read particular newspapers to be confronted with them.

Ha, no Rabbit - if only they would coral them to the tabloids.

They get everywhere.

They really don't. Never seen them in the FT (although I suppose that romeo's Burberry deal might have made it there, I have been working from home this week and not bought a physical paper) Never seen them on the crossword pages of the times or the guardian. Nor on the footy pages. Very easy to avoid.

Ah yes Rebecca Loos - who can forget how Saint David cheated on Victoria with a woman so desperate for fame, she resorted to wanking off a pig on national tv?

Brand Beckham my arse. What a farce.

They're not shrewd btw - Joe Public is thick.

They really don't. Never seen them in the FT (although I suppose that romeo's Burberry deal might have made it there, I have been working from home this week and not bought a physical paper) Never seen them on the crossword pages of the times or the guardian. Nor on the footy pages. Very easy to avoid.

You do use the net Rabbit? You're not accessing MN via quill and parchment?

It's impossible to even sign in to some of my email accounts without dodging sleb 'news'.

Agree trice. He is a 12 year old boy, his parents didn't have to accept this money on his behalf, he doesn't exactly need it. But my point is this really - they have 4 great kids. Wouldn't it be fantastic if just one of them ended up not attached to the sleb culture. Quietly going about their business in something other than football, fashion blah blah. Perhaps the sciences, teaching, research - something worthwhile.

As I said upthread, I am just really surprised the Beckhams let him do this when they always go on about wanting them to be ordinary kids and not privileged etc. I am sure they have good manners but they certainly ain't ordinary earning £45K for 8 hours work. Bear in mind this won't be his first huge payment, he was in last summer's ad campaign too. If I was a shareholder I would be at the AGM kicking up stink at this fee - profits fall by 11 percent this half year.

ArsenicSoup My parenting manual will be on Amazon on 31 November.

This boy's antics don't interest me and neither do his parents' but if people are willing to part with their cash for images of that's not my business. Good luck to them.

And it is one of my gripes with the BBC TV news that nonsense such as footage of the entire Beckham clan is periodically broadcast on the back of a sport, business or showbiz 'story' as well as nonsense such as Royal birthdays masquerading as news.

I obviously use the net more effectively than you do! I do not get sleb news other than specific stuff I have sought out sent to my email accounts. I do not see the Beckham kids either on MN (apart from the photo of Romeo posted upthread) or on the other sites I look at.

There's reakky no need to be snide, either - if you feel your online experience is being ruined by sleb twaddle then look at how you handle your online doings, don't mock those of us who successfully avoid what you are complaining about. Like I said - never any pictures of sleb kids on crossword pages. Or sudoku pages for that matter.

ArsenicSoup My parenting manual will be on Amazon on 31 November.

I wasn't being at all snide Rabbit; You were by implying I feast on tabloid sleb twaddle.

It does actually require considerable effort to completely avoid this stuff. That was my point. More effort than is worth my while, since I want certain things like free generic email. But I'm not the parent thrusting my DC into the public eye in the first place

What do you mean there is no escaping their children's faces?

I can't remember the last time I saw a picture of their kids and I wouldn't know them if I bumped into them

Seriously? You haven't seen pictures of little Harper in her gray Bonpoint ensembles (adorable)? I know exactly what she looks like from the supermarket queue!

It's not that he's paid the £45k per se. It's that its so much money to give to a child for such a pointless job. There are literally people starving on the same planet as this and someone somewhere pays a child £45k for putting a coat or two on.

Burberry would have only had to have sold 45 raincoats to pay the lad...... and good for him, anyway!

I agree with trice well said.

sunshineandshowers there are infinite other examples on how money is "wasted" in society, when it could be given to the poor / hungry. I don't mean to be rotten, but I take it you enjoy the odd treat, that could be seen as wasteful by others, instead of giving every spare penny to the needy? I recently spent £5k on a new car. Should I have bought one for £500 and give the rest to the poor? i'm not meaning to have a go, just asking, and using this as a comparison, to where do you draw the moral line?

How would burbery only have to have sold 45 raincoats to pay him? So they are £1,000 each. What about them being made, best quality materials etc. The profit on each one would be a fraction of that. Then you have overheads etc.

I agree with MrsDeVere. So he made £45k, you'd turn it down for your 12-year-old for one day's work? Would you fuck!

I really wasn't. You claimed it was impossible to avoid, I disagreed. It's easy to avoid. You then made a very snide comment about quill and parchment. Which is cleary much easier to do than it is to make the effort to avoid something you claim to disdain.