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?

Rabbit I would have said the same about any 12 year old who came from a super rich family. I used Romeo an an example because I hadn't read about any other 12 year olds that day earning 45K.
You say VB works hard? well you might call it hard work I don't.
I can see what's happened here, my posts have been purposely misconstrued and made to go off thread to get a good argument going about VB. I won't be bullied and I won't accept it. My post was about imo the wrongs of giving a 12 year old that much money for a days work when he comes from an already super rich family. Because this boy happens to be a Beckham is irrelevant. I'd have said the same if it was any other similar family. Why is that so hard to understand.

So by this logic the national minimum wage should be kept very low so the rich get a bigger share? ....I despair

Your frankly mad translation of me saying that at least Romeo would have contributed more in taxes then someone who didn't get £45k, y'know, silver lining and all that.

If him being a Beckham is irrelevant, why say this family twice so specifically in your op.

Good grief Slithy let it go! let it go.

And anyway, where do you draw the line. Should we be looking at familial wealth when choosing salaries?

Not till you admit that your op was nothing but a poorly worded attack on the Beckhams. Call a spade a spade ffs.

Polly, have you any idea at all as to what goes into being a successful business man or woman?

It hard hard hard work.

Bloody hard even trying to turn over a tiny fraction of what they do.

Slithy Are they relations of yours or so something, you seem overly protective of them. It wouldn't matter if I'd used their name 10 times, the family was a perfect example of the point I was making. Surely a family who sell themselves to the media as they do and make fortunes out of it should expect some criticism as well as praise.

I'm not protecting them at all, you are inventing things again. But I despise people who tell me things I've written which aren't actually there. I also despise it when people lie about their own posts. And you are doing my head in with your backtracking.

But well done on admitting it was about criticising them.

You have every right to and I couldn't care less. But don't pretend you weren't.

Not obsessed or overly invested at all.

I've replied to the thread, the OP responded to me, I've replied again.

Much the same as everyone else here.

The OP has made a big point about singling out the Beckhams in a post that wasn't as clear as she thinks it was, then tried to claim she was using them as a general example of what's wrong with the world. That's not how she came across and it's not what she initially said.

And she's been quite snide in the way she has replied to the people who haven't agreed with her in the way she believes they should have. I was polite to her in my first post, something she can't really say about her reply to me or to many others here.

Polly - its just this weird celeb pedestal kind of thing that LePetitMarseillais described down thread.

Over arching greed and avarice seems to be fine if you're famous and good looking.

I find it pretty sickening myself, but then I can't shake off my lefty leanings.

Cariads your assumption that a high turnover equals being a success is as scary as it is sad.

I couldn't care less well why bother going to all the trouble then.
Just for interest, why is it iyo so bad for the Beckhams to be criticized. Surely a high profile family like them would expect to get a lot of criticism. We can't all love everybody. I've never pretended anything either.

Well as a business woman, as well as a business family I appreciate the work that goes into running a business and I admire people who can understand the goings on at that level. That is my point. It is hard work keeping up with it all.

Successful means achieving a desired aim.

I earn so little I'm not even taxed on it but I am successful.Dp and I work bloody hard,I'll wager harder than the Beckhams,we're both successful.

Megabucks doesn't automatically mean success or hard work.

I can see what's happened here, my posts have been purposely misconstrued and made to go off thread to get a good argument going about VB.

Just waiting for OP to claim that we telepathically manipulated her into starting the thread.

see alicelidl, I see your posts with all the you said this now I'll reply to every line the op made as snide and unneedy

do you pick apart posters who criticise someone like Jordan, or Kerry Katona?

or do you just pick apart posters at random?

Alice .....I've not been polite?......I got told to fuck off back to my council house in an earlier thread.......I used the Beckhams s an an example of greed and what is wrong with the world. I haven't backtracked from that anywhere in my thread. Why wouldn't i "single" them out. Would it have been ok if I had used more examples. They were current at the time for goodness sake.

Thank you Sad that is exactly the way I see it. If it was a conversation in the real world, unless she was taping it, it wouldn't happen. I feel like I've been interrogated.

I think I'm on a different thread to everyone else because I'm still having my say about my distate for a child earning £45,000 for one day's work (as a model, wrong for young teens to be doing that too!), particularly as he comes from a family where £45,000 is a meaningless drop in the ocean.

That fee will have been negotiated by a representative of his family.

Do 12 year old models on major campaigns normally earn that sort of amount?

How can anyone not say they are a little bit greedy? I'm not saying they are abusive, harmful, negative people. There are worse things they could be for sure. No one is disputing that.

But they've got their paws out, haven't they?

I agree it must be very hard work running a business. If it fails you could lose everything. Let's not forget that for VB that wouldn't happen. She has the security of knowing that if it all crashed tomorrow she'd still be ok.

Minty no,no,no you're dissing brand Beckham,save your criticism for KP,KK et al.

No Mintyy, it's just another feather to their angels wings, that's all. And lo we looked upon them with shining eyes, for they were good.