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

Wrong. It's personal and even if true is not newsworthy. They're not politicians doing something dodgy by email. He's a footballer who is bitching a bit. I fundamentally disagree that they have a 'right ' to print illegally obtained personal correspondence. This is what ended the NOTW.

Totally wrong, because the hack has not been done by the newspaper. It's been done by another source and they're simply reporting that the hack has happened and it's contents.

Plus when you read the Black Sea website linked to above you see that almost everything within the hack is political in nature.

It includes stuff such as alleges interference in the Scottish Indyref largely for his own PR purposes, concerted efforts to campaign for honours using NGOs and dodgy tax affairs which blocked that. It's more comparable to Wikileaks than the NOTW hacking Wills phone to find out who he was shagging.

Plus, regardless of that there is a very blurry line on what is 'personal'. For example, (and I'm not suggesting Beckham does this, but other people have), men who make an awful lot of money presenting themselves as one thing in the press: a family man, someone who respects women, an ardent campaigner for fair trade and human rights. But in private they're shagging Russian prostitutes and anything else that moves, beating up their wives and snorting huge amounts of cocaine which involve an awful lot of crime and breaches of human rights to produce and are certainly not fair trade.

It's a pretty easy formula to follow - if you don't want your private life in the papers for something shit then don't shove your private life in the press to make money when the going is good.

There are PLENTY of famous people who let their talent speak for itself and don't feel the need to plaster their wedding dress/baby bump/colonoscopy results all over the press for everyone to see.

As soon as you start using your private life to promote yourself and make money it's fair game just like any other product IMO.

Otherwise Charlie Sheen would still be on a hundred million dollar salary and we'd all think he was a lovely funny bloke, eh?

The Beckham family is a ruthless self-promotion machine. Why would we be surprised?

And yet again someone sees fit to give this apology for a newspaper even more exposure. It won't be long before there's yet another thread whining about them stealing stories from the site.

Very well said billsykesdog.

I didn't think anything in the newspaper article was that shocking or unreasonable -and I liked the kj comments, I think they were pissed off with her for the Twitter affair stuff - but the stuff @billsykesdog has mentioned is more concerning

After all the issues with phone hacking how is publishing private emails okay?

Do we really imagine he does his charity work for altruistic reasons?
Does anybody? Really?

I probably would but only if he didn't speak too much, I just can't get past his squeaky voice

Ok, so that was a bit strong. There are many selfless people doing amazing things for others. Who they are though, who knows! Their stories often aren't headline news!

Agree bills

As I said before I think he has certainly annoyed or upset someone and if you sell yourself to the press for gains it is they who will control your downfall should they choose to

Though usually your pr team walk away pretty unscathed and go off to find any other egotistical star that believes in their own hype

My last post looks like a reply to Former ! Being with DB would be a selfless act indeed.

See everyone on here happyily putting the boot into Beckham

Poor downtrodden Dave, he has such a tough life we mustn't put the boot in and make him even more miserable
Sorry Dave

I wouldn't trust the source and I sure as the hell don't trust the paper reporting the so called story, it's what happens though, you sleep with dogs you wake up fleas. This is what the press does, builds them up and knocks them down, repeat over and over until something juicer comes along.

For me the biggest concern here is that newspapers still haven't learnt not to go hacking into people's emails, texts, etc. Its not about who it is or what the emails divulge its the principle of invading someone's privacy.

And lo the field of shits I give lies barren.

Rebecca Loos

I think he should get back into football , people would love to hear him as a pundit on sky sport or presenting like Gary Linekar . He can't keep being credited for playing for Man Utd and England and modelling pants , generations of new fantastic footballers are coming along and lots of young fans out there who don't remember Beckham playing .

This is what pisses me off about the honours system. Every bloody celeb or sports person seems to think it's their "right" to get an honours if they do some charity work.

It's not like he is doing a 9 to 5 work and then spending every spare time feeding the homeless in the dark or cold or building houses in an earthquake stricken country, he is just a "face" for a charity so they can get more money for their cause. All he has to do is show up and smile.

And we have no real idea what he is like in private. Like most people he is liable to have a public and private image that he shows. I for one never swear at work or in public but do so at home and with very close personal friends.

I don't think David is quick enough to be a pundit or presenter

Anyone who only wears pants fresh from a packet before giving them away has got to be a bit hmm

He gives away his worn pants? Eeew!

He is a thick as fuck, whiney voiced, overrated, scribbled on, faithless bastard.

Beckham a mediocre talent pmsl

Just Man Utd, Real Madrid, ac Milan and psg on his CV

celeste I don't think the 'newspapers' did the hacking , they are simply reporting on it.
The message should be clear by now. Do not put anything online, social media, send emails or do anything in public that you do not think will stand public scrutiny. Thats just the way it is.

Mercy - you don't like him much then...