David Beckham's leaked emails

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I thought he came across rather well on Desert Island disks the other day, but AIBU to be glad that DB has been exposed?

I've always regarded the Beckhams as a textbook example of much that's wrong with our celeb-culture, accumulating vast wealth and renown on the coat-tails of very mediocre talent.

Now it seems the charitable work was all in aid of securing a knighthood.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190152/Hackers-release-tranche-Beckham-s-personal-emails.html

The Rooneys are very long-standing supporters of Claire House, a hospice in the North West. Coleen's sister Rosie sadly passed away there a few years ago.

YABU for reading the terrible rag

Infidelity isn't anyone's business, apart from the wronged partner or those close to them.

However, the dogged pursuit of a knighthood, an honour which bestows status and monetary gain in Britain throughout the world, ought to be scrutinised to ensure that the recipient was worthy.

And not least because reading of David Beckham's fury at not getting one made me laugh until the tears ran down my legs.

Personally I think Royal honours should be banned, along with the Monarchy. But that's a different thread

What is it like, I wonder, to be so rich that the only new challenge is a knighthood? And pretending to care about poor brown people in order to get one. And then argue about the price of a flight. It must be quite quite dull

I couldn't stop laughing either Limited

You reep what you sow and all that. Also whilst most people could see through fakeness of this family, it is nice to have evidence.

It was only rumoured the Sunday times would mention it. I dont think I saw anyone say they were 100%.

It was on the blacksea.eu site the emails were leaked from that the Sunday Times were involved.

I just don't get why people in United Kingdom are so affected by the exposure of this man's true character .
You guys are spoilt for choice when it comes to real gentlemen -all I read here is people blinded by love jones.

He's done- deal with it, Jeeesus, you've got Kit Harrington, Like Evans, Theo James, Tom Hardy, Colin O'Donoghue, Bradley James, Idris Alba and the delicious Gavin Rossdale

Luke Evans

We should retain an honours system to enrage the people who really want them and don't get them.

This time it's David Beckham. Every year he doesn't get a knighthood I rejoice. It was also the same with my former boss, whose name you wouldn't recognise. I never used to say that though. For survival's sake I'd say: 'Oh my God! How could they have done that to you? Would you like a tissue? I'll just leave you alone with your grief.'

It used to amuse me that Bruce Forsyth was blackballed year after year. God knows what he did but now I feel a bit rotten and don't begrudge him in the twilight of his years. But if they give Jimmy Tarbuck a K I'm going to the barricades.

Other notables who've been passed over include Paul Dacre and Tony Blair which most people on MN would regard as entirely fair.

It's a tradition that former Prime Ministers get at least a knighthood - John Major was the last one. Baroness Thatcher was the one before him.

But Blair pissed the Queen off at the time of the People's Princess, so he's not going to get one. But it would be too obvious to skip him so no Prime Minister is going to get one any time soon.

I think Tony's making too much money to care and I imagine Gordon would be the kind of person to humbly accept his fate either way. I don't think Dave cares about anything or even knows what day it is.

I bet Theresa would love one though.

How do you know that they haven't turned the honours down limited? Alastair Darling is now Lord; he was in the same Government as Gordon Brown. I always assumed that Gordon Brown had turned it down.

What upsets me most is the UNICEF business. They take DB to meet some of the very poorest children on earth, they show him first hand the difference that the donated money is making and he cheerfully cooperates in photo opportunities to showcase his charitable nature for the good of the 'brand'.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he's insisting to his cronies that he shouldn't have to give them any of his own f*** money, and later invoices them for a flight he never even needed to take.

It's like a sick joke.

Royal honours should be reserved for true greats, which would mean few celebrities.

Wouldn't it be awful if they got confused and gave a knighthood to Simon Cowell when it should have gone to Simon Callow misses the point of the thread

Euan Blair instead of Euan Macgregor.

Jamie Vardy instead of Jamie Oliver. Actually, that would be funny.

"And not least because reading of David Beckham's fury at not getting one made me laugh until the tears ran down my legs."

Excellent!!

thanks for this thread

now I know why Vicky never smiles

Actually, I think its really sad. I'm not a David Beckham fan but he seems to have done a lot for the UK, Unicef and other charities. So what if he is rich - good on him! I wish I was! And at least he gives back. I don't care whether the emails are true or not - we all want to have a rant once and a while so why can't he - that's what we use AIBU for!
Today I felt so sorry for him that I donated to David's Unicef campaign 7 which helps children around the world. I figured at least something good has then come out of this new story! In fact I have been secretly wondering if other high profile politicians have encouraged the story to get the heat off them!

I do feel a tiny bit sorry for Vicky. She's had to face the press today and was very brave.
She chose a bright red outfit, just in case the paps missed her

These are private emails, what he says privately in the heat of the moment and in confidence are none of our business. All the great things he has done are still great, all the bit so great things still not so great. It would be wrong for these private emails to actually affect his life. The people who hacked and leaked them on them on the other hand yes, they should be investigated!
I do slightly enjoy though seeing these people who seem so high on a pedestal still get pissed off and drop the c bomb and bitch and moan like us mere mortals!

ittajes2 have you actually read about the 7 charity?
According to the leaked emails, UNICEF were begging 7 to send money they had long promised, so it could be used in projects that had already been set up.

Please tell me what exactly DB has 'done' other than posing for pics with poor children? What about all the people who volunteer up and down the country every week for various charities and don't demand anything back? Or the workers who give up cushy lives in the West to work for UNICEF and other organisations in difficult conditions? Give me a break.
If anything the stories about DB have highlighted how ludicrous the honours system has become. There are two many celebrities getting honours for bugger all. For example, why should Olympic medal winners get anything? They've already got the bloody medal! My dps have a neighbour in her 80s who has been walking the streets for over 40 years for Poppy Day. People like her should be getting honours, not some airhead for singing the national anthem a few times.

From the leaked emails

"The issue was clearly worrying Unicef, and they sought reassurance. In June Edwards(from UNICEF) emailed Oliveira (Becks PR) asking him to send an email by return to “allay fears” about when the money would arrive so the charity could “commit resource and commit funds to literally pack aid boxes”. She added “we have no extra funds to draw on if they are delayed and the countries are expecting the funds.”
Her suggested text for Oliveira started with “I understand there has been considerable anxiety about when David’s personal donations will arrive at Unicef UK”. Oliveira struck out “considerable” and replaced it with “some” then sent back the email copying in Unicef’s director of fundraising Catherine Cottrell.
The PR executive promised the money in the Autumn and wrote that this “should be close to $1.5m money he kindly wants to give the proceeds to the Fund.”
The Unicef director wrote back to ask for a firm date “as this work with children is so pressing”. She added: “We need to make sure they can plan accordingly and are ready to receive the funds they so desperately need. This also mitigates the risk of the DB7 Fund being perceived as not delivering the ambitious targets it set out at the launch.”

What do they both look like in those pics today? Those tights looked awful on his legs, and as if he just had to pop out for a couple of shakes!! VB' red outfit was horrid too and why can't she sort her nipples out?