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David Beckham

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Pumpkinoutfitsgalore · 06/10/2023 09:52

Enjoyed watching the documentary, he was different than I expected him to be, not sure how really, but I have more respect for Victoria now as I think their lives have been about what he wanted/needed mainly
There are rumours of lots of affairs, is this true though as I find that hard to believe, he seemed so obsessed with her

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Panaa · 08/10/2023 16:14

decionsdecisions62 · 08/10/2023 06:15

It was raised a number of times in the documentary that VB didn't seem to care too much if she affected DBs emotional state just before a game. GN discusses how at another time he had to tell DB to get off the phone as she was frying his brain just before the game. It's probably no wonder AF didn't speak to her. Any other WAG doing that would have probably been hauled in and given a stern talking to. However she was just too big a celebrity herself so wasn't.

Hauled in 😅
I'm sure plenty of WAGS would refuse to go if someone tried to haul them in.

Imagine wanting to talk to your fella or if you were annoyed with him etc and his boss told you to leave him alone because it was putting him off his job 😂

Annemaria · 08/10/2023 17:02

I feel sorry for their kids, landed with such awful names.

happinessischocolate · 08/10/2023 17:59

Banana1979 · 08/10/2023 08:55

Victoria had no right to drag this all back up. Rebecca Loos didn’t owe her anything. She is quietly living abroad with her children and partner, has not courted the limelight and is now getting vile and disgusting messages from all over the world. This is a fair it was years and years ago when they were both quite young and it is unfair to drag this back up now. RL has children
Victoria Beckham maybe wants to stay a bit more relevant perhaps

Oh no, Rebecca has children now...she should have thought about that before
1)she slept with a married father and 2) before she sold her story and tried to make a career out of it

happinessischocolate · 08/10/2023 18:01

@Banana1979

And wait, why's it Victorias fault it's being brought up again when it's part of the DAVID Beckham programme

JMSA · 08/10/2023 18:03

Annemaria · 08/10/2023 17:02

I feel sorry for their kids, landed with such awful names.

Anonymity would be hard for sure!

Bugbabe1970 · 08/10/2023 21:51

Banana1979 · 08/10/2023 08:55

Victoria had no right to drag this all back up. Rebecca Loos didn’t owe her anything. She is quietly living abroad with her children and partner, has not courted the limelight and is now getting vile and disgusting messages from all over the world. This is a fair it was years and years ago when they were both quite young and it is unfair to drag this back up now. RL has children
Victoria Beckham maybe wants to stay a bit more relevant perhaps

You are kidding right?

Panaa · 09/10/2023 14:54

Banana1979 · 08/10/2023 08:55

Victoria had no right to drag this all back up. Rebecca Loos didn’t owe her anything. She is quietly living abroad with her children and partner, has not courted the limelight and is now getting vile and disgusting messages from all over the world. This is a fair it was years and years ago when they were both quite young and it is unfair to drag this back up now. RL has children
Victoria Beckham maybe wants to stay a bit more relevant perhaps

Why are you blaming Victoria and not David? 😂

Emmav2020 · 09/10/2023 18:54

Living in Cheshire there are a lot of rumours that have flown around about David and all his affairs, one being with Sienna Miller years ago.
Makes your wonder how much these woman who have had a child from him have been paid?! I'd say I feel sorry for Victoria but she's just a mug.

JSMill · 10/10/2023 07:46

happinessischocolate · 08/10/2023 18:01

@Banana1979

And wait, why's it Victorias fault it's being brought up again when it's part of the DAVID Beckham programme

They couldn't not mention it and they don't even name Rebecca Loos. I think they did the bare minimum.

happinessischocolate · 10/10/2023 08:14

Emmav2020 · 09/10/2023 18:54

Living in Cheshire there are a lot of rumours that have flown around about David and all his affairs, one being with Sienna Miller years ago.
Makes your wonder how much these woman who have had a child from him have been paid?! I'd say I feel sorry for Victoria but she's just a mug.

Is she a mug though?

Maybe she's having her own fun elsewhere but is more discrete than him.

Maybe she sticks with him for the kids, because if she hadn't followed him round the world then the kids would never have seen him.

GodDammitCecil · 10/10/2023 08:56

Why is she a mug? She has more information on the situation than some rando on MN.

I’m sure she stays for her own reasons.

He could leave too, but funnily enough he hasn’t chosen to. Clearly the grass doesn’t look any greener on the other side of the fence for him.

SusieLawson · 11/10/2023 02:17

I think there's something strange about how that family are constantly forced in our faces. As if whoever is behind it, think if they keep telling us to think they're great enough times, we will think it. David was good at Man Utd, but then ignored his Man Utd manager when asked to concentrate on football, than going along with his wife using him to try to be like Kar'shians.

Then he went to Spain where he was only there for the celeb image to sell shirts to kids, but was on the bench most of the time. Then they went to LA to creep around Hollywood actors. They don't have plans for their kids than to sell into the talentless celeb industry to use for their own attention. They sent son on same photography course as Guy Ritche's son to use him for attention, but Ritchie film David was in flopped & Beckham's son didn't finish the course.

As soon as London Olympics started they were back, and tried to use it for more attention than Olympians winning medals. Victoria was promoted as a real fashion designer, when she has never spent a day working or studying the trade.
David was worst England captain ever, as only one to miss a penalty in Euros, getting England kicked out. He was tired from his wife using the game to have parties to invite talented people, to get her pictures in magazines.

I stopped buying women's magazines years ago, as after Victoria could no longer dance behind more talented SGs for attention, her promoters turned her into a style icon. She seems to have started the while cha vy, orange wag look, where women look cheap, with obvious fake chests they like showing off. She might have had the fake chest that looked like two hard melons removed now, but if I always know it looked cheap and tacky, doesn't that make me more of a style icon?

David's emails were hacked, which showed he expected a Knighthood for hanging around Prince William at charity events.

SusieLawson · 11/10/2023 02:26

I have a theory that certain highly attention seeking families like Beck' and Kard' are promoted for more than they're worth, as a reward for dumbing down society, and lowering standards of class and style, so young people don't aim for more in life than be a talentless celeb, who sell dumb stories about their designer handbag they can't pronounce the name of.
Then the families are so narcissist, they don't realise they're being used, and assume they're as great as they're over promoted.
If anybody can see reality they're not that great, the zombified masses accuse them of being jealous because they're rich. Even though they're often a dumb magazine interview away from selling their children into the celeb industry from bankruptcy.

Perdita40 · 11/10/2023 02:59

I saw it with my own eyes with my good friend at the time when he was in a very established relationship with Victoria & they exchanged messages for month's... ..pre marriage but not far from the engagement, I read all the messages, player. If I hadn't been there that night I would've of believed it...

Hellenabe · 11/10/2023 06:28

@SusieLawson 100% this. Their PR team must be paid handsomely because of how the Daily Mail bows to them and gives them so much exposure. Next stop, the son will have a reality show.

GodDammitCecil · 11/10/2023 06:52

They’re already in talks for that…. 😴

decionsdecisions62 · 11/10/2023 07:10

He's very arrogant to expect knighthoods. The security guard at my local college got an MBE. Stick that up your surgically enhanced hooter David!

Pumpkinoutfitsgalore · 11/10/2023 16:48

So shocked he had all
these affairs, honestly didn’t think he was that type, thought they had a real love

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derxa · 11/10/2023 16:56

Pumpkinoutfitsgalore · 11/10/2023 16:48

So shocked he had all
these affairs, honestly didn’t think he was that type, thought they had a real love

According to Mnetters - the reliable source of truth.

TogetherWeLearn · 11/10/2023 17:24

Well he hasn't categorically denied a lot of them @derxa and they both discuss how they were at odds with each other and her being in pain, it's pretty evident that the Loos affair happened and quite possibly more too. It's not like adultery is unheard of from high profile footballers, see also Rooney, Giggs...

derxa · 11/10/2023 17:32

TogetherWeLearn · 11/10/2023 17:24

Well he hasn't categorically denied a lot of them @derxa and they both discuss how they were at odds with each other and her being in pain, it's pretty evident that the Loos affair happened and quite possibly more too. It's not like adultery is unheard of from high profile footballers, see also Rooney, Giggs...

Why would he engage with a lot of gossip and mud slinging. I've no doubt the RL story is correct though. Ever since they got married people have speculated on their marriage. Why people get pleasure out of this I don't know. As for high profile footballers, for every Wayne Rooney there's a Frank Lampard.

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 11/10/2023 17:45

I enjoyed the documentary however what I couldn’t get my head around was when they were spoke about each other they spoke in past tense

Yes they were speaking about their past however it was comments like “I loved Victoria” rather than I love Victoria… and she was the same with David.

Monkspath · 11/10/2023 18:02

The embarrassing I know somebody, who knows somebody, at a school etc. Oh please. Get a grip. We can all pretend to be anything we want on social media.

Pumpkinoutfitsgalore · 11/10/2023 23:05

@HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend Didn’t notice that, how weird though

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