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?

I don't think it's worth comparing a normal family turning down £45k to the Beckhams turning down £45k is it?

Why was what he got paid leaked anyway?

But Rabbit, LovelyBoots is quite right - they are splashed over magazine covers and newspaper front pages too. Do you really avoid all commercial websites of any sort and supermarkets, or do you avert your eyes in newsagent and supermarket queues? HOW do you manage to entirely avoid it?

Rousette - really, you think Burberry's profit on a raincoat is only a "fraction" of the £1k selling price? Not at all!

Obviously I know they have overheads, but I was just putting this forward as a representation. £45k in NOTHING to a huge company like Burberry!

The effort required to avoid pictures of the Beckhams would inevitably exceed the actual value of avoiding pictures of the Beckhams.

Like I said upstream, I "like" them as much as I could like any celebrity - I think VB is pretty canny and has done very well for herself - but this is a serious breach of their family's privacy. I can't understand why they would do it.

I also wonder who leaked it. If you google it's in pretty much every paper. Burberry?

You don't usually get to hear what someone earned for a job do you?

What would have been a reasonable sum for him? £100 and a PS4?

It would probably be a non story without that fact. They've earnt it back in PR.

But a good looking couple who make successful, credible careers based on talent and good sense?

Nah. That makes people twitchy.

Yup. Folk do not like people to do well just by doing well. People always looks for ways to discredit the achievement (she is famous/rich 'cause of her husband ) maybe it's so people can justify to themselves why they havent done as well.

Makes you wonder whether he actually got paid anything like that in truth, and it's all a load of cobblers for the media.

Yep just what I thought as I wrote 'fact'. Could be made up, he could have been paid anything.

Aldi ad is cluttery and tacky and if you swap the name - it could be an Iceland ad.

That's what i thought it was on first watch!

I know full well that other 12 year olds at stage schools who get an opportunity to do a day's modelling or film shoots DO NOT get £45,000 or anything like it.

This is the main reason why it isn't fair. He isn't the only good looking boy in this land. He is one of the only one's who could attract that kind of sum though, purely as a result of his name. Sad really. Materialistic world.

But it has Jools Holland Cats. I love him. Not the oily orange alarming people while they buy frozen food.

I know what Brooklyn looks like because i googled him last night. Apart from that i have no idea what the other three look like. I had to sit and think what their names were. I think the Beckhams must pop up on my radar about once a year. They certainly arent kim and kanye leaving their child behind in shops

sparkling. Yes Jools is ok. Better than "i love my kids"

Arsenic - I do my supermarket shopping online, because I work FT. I don't go in newsagents (I don't believe there even are any anywhere near where I live) and I read my papers on the iPad but as I said the FT and the crossword pages of the times and graun don't go big on sleb gossip. It is entirely possible to avoid all that bollocks if you want to. I don't watch the Telly news either, I listen to R4 - if I'm watching telly I make the best use of my time in front of the screen and devote it to SPACE, dragons zombies or similar. I have no interest in celebrity culture (although I have some interest in specific politicians actors and musicians) and its reakky easy to avoid it. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a nit (I wasn't aware there even was a 4th Beckham child for example) but mainly I'm fine with my choices. I find it annoying though when people complain that it's impossible to avoid sleb culture because I know that it isn't.

Goodness i must be walking around in a perpetual daze. I am either at work or in college 6 days a week with hundreds of people talking about all sorta of media stuff, i am in asda or a newsagents about 4 times a week. I am on MN or FB every spare minute of the day. I call friends in the evening and my son is quite into football. And yet i dont know what harper wears or even looks like. I could tell you how old she is, i think the third one was born around the time my eldest was born so about 9? But above that i have no clue about them. I am not seeing these images/ updates about the Beckhams that others are. Until this thread, the last i heard of them was in may when brooklyn got a job in a coffee shop. Before that? Christ knows!

It just makes perfect business sense to Burberry. There is a huge market for their goods in China, Japan and the Far East, areas where David Beckham's popularity is legendary.

Of course there are many young boys in this country, as good looking, who could do the job just as well as Romeo, boys from very ordinary or even poor families. It not a difficult job, nor does it require much talent, but that is not the point. The publicity alone is worth far far more than they paid Romeo and the media is more than happy to feed the public obsession with celebrity.

He is a lucky boy but as always it is who you know that has most influence on a person's life.

Rabbit, I get what you are saying. However, when DCs reach their teens, you have to get onboard with what's going on or you are slightly removed from them and their lives. My DCs weren't sleb worshippers by any stretch of the imagination but they were both music lovers, especially up and coming bands etc, I had to embrace all that because I wanted to be part of their lives and besides which they liked to talk to me about their interests etc. I didn't want to feel like a dinosaur in my own family. So whilst doing all that, you can't get away from all the other stuff whether you like it or not.
(p.s. when I say 'you' I don't mean you Rabbit, just a person in general!)

Its really not hard to avoid the celeb stuff. I wasnt even aware i was avoiding it! But it seems i have been successfully doing just that with zero effort. I wonder if i could bottle that and sell it?

Roulette two of my DCs are teens the other one is 11. None of them are remotely interested in sleb culture. They are all interested in space Dragons and zombies though and I am known as the 'cool mum' because I know about these things and my kids are usually ahead of that curve. My kids also, rather than reading about slebs, do things like going to the theatre and seeing them in stuff. I don't think DD1 would swap having seen David Tennant in hamlet, much ado and richard II for a few magazines with his face on (actually, we do get DWM so she in fact has magazines with his face in but not containing sleb gossip). And DD2 definitely wouldn't swap seeing Cumberbatch in hamlet next year for a copy of a supermarket checkout mag. None of them are remotely interested in the beckhams or any other sort of sleb gossip. Walking dead spoilers? Yes. And those, I'm completely up to date with.

Cats - (I disagree with your user name though, my cats are lovely) - of course it isn't hard. Some people just seem to seek this stuff out in order to give them something to complain about. A bit like me reading articles about the Tories (Gove in particular) - I know how it will end yet still I do it. And then froth afterwards. :(

Thinking about it, I don't think my two DSs would know or care who the Beckham children were if shown a picture. They certainly didn't know what 'Burberry' was.

It's all about FIFA15 and Minecraft in this house.

Rabbit, I do get it, and mine weren't sleb watchers at all, but sometimes there's overlaps with stuff.
(p.s. quite like 'Roulette', might change my name, throw a dice and win £45K!)

Sorry, my iPad has been shit since upgrading to ios8. Autocorrect has gone mad and Safari keeps crashing.