Summary
- The Netflix documentary “Beckham” sheds light on previously unknown aspects of David and Victoria Beckham’s lives, providing insights into their careers and relationship.
- David Beckham has various hobbies including beekeeping, collecting Legos, and shopping for luxury items like designer watches.
- David and Victoria faced difficult times in their marriage, including an alleged infidelity scandal and intense public backlash. However, they managed to overcome these challenges and keep their marriage intact.
The tell-all Netflix documentary Beckham reveals previously unknown details about the international superstar soccer player David Beckham. Known by millions for his sensational skills on the soccer field, David Beckham, along with his equally famous wife Victoria, has been in the spotlight for decades both on and off the pitch. Beckham rose to prominence as a loyal member of Manchester United, one of the greatest professional soccer clubs in the history of the Premier League. He started dating Victoria Adams in 1997 following her success as a singer in the popular Spice Girls group.
Beckham aims to shine a light on David and Victoria’s lesser-known qualities while revealing several new details on their careers and relationship history in the process. While everybody now recognizes the name Beckham, the documentary provides previously inaccessible coverage of the intricacies of what it’s actually like to be David Beckham. The Netflix doc also chronicles David’s humble beginnings and the internal battles that the superstar faced through the most intense and demanding parts of his celebrated career. David retired from soccer in 2013, fourteen years after marrying Victoria. Here are the ten biggest reveals from the four-partNetflix miniseries Beckham.
10 David Beckham Has Many Hobbies Such As Beekeeping
Beckham’s first episode opens up with scenes of David Beckham tending to his bee farm fulling clothed in beekeeper’s attire. He collects honey very naturally and hands some over to director Fisher Stevens, who is just as impressed as the viewing audience likely is. Outside of soccer, which Beckham has not played professionally in over ten years, beekeeping is just one of David’s many hobbies that he enjoys regularly. Another favorite pastime of David’s is to collect and assemble Legos. He unsurprisingly also loves to shop and invest in luxury items such as designer watches.
9 Victoria Told David She Was Pregnant Night Before 1998 Argentina Match
Before one of the most infamous games in David Beckham’s career, Victoria revealed in Beckham that she told David that she was pregnant with their firstborn and eldest son Brooklyn. Victoria called David to tell him the news while he was in France awaiting a hotly contested matchup with the powerful Argentinian National team while she was in Brooklyn, New York, which inspired the name choice. Victoria reveals that while she and David were both incredibly happy about the news, she did not think much about how it would affect David going into one of the biggest games of his life.
8 David Predicted He Would Marry Victoria After Seeing Posh Spice On TV
Before David ever met Victoria in real life, he pointed her Spice Girls persona out on TV one day and announced that he was going to marry her. Beckham recalls being with former teammate Gary Neville and stating that he would marry “the posh one” in the future. Gary, of course, thought he was joking and started to laugh at David’s earnestness. David soon proved to be incredibly serious about Victoria, who he knew nothing about at the time. By some magic, David turned out to be spot-on with his fortune-telling and he and Victoria have been together ever since.
7 David & Victoria Recall Alleged Infidelity Scandal As Incredibly Difficult Time
David and Victoria’s marriage fell into very hot water when allegations surfaced about David’s alleged infidelity with a former assistant of his by the name of Rebecca Loos. Loos came forward to the press that she and David had an affair that lasted four months when he first traveled to play in Spain for Real Madrid. David has always denied the allegations and Victoria has supported him, although both admit that it was the hardest part of their marriage by far. David recalls in the Beckham documentary that he is grateful that he and Victoria were able to come out of the difficult situation with their marriage intact.
6 David Became Depressed After Receiving Hate For 1998 World Cup Incident
After the notorious incident in which David Beckham was ejected from the 1988 World Cup game against Argentina, he revealed that he was depressed after all of the public and media hate he received as a result. David recalls feeling hated by the entire country of England and not knowing how to handle all of the relentless public ridicule. Every time David would go anywhere in public, people would spit and cuss him out with fierce and intense hatred which left David feeling incredibly broken. David claims in Beckham that he was never quite the same after experiencing such public backlash on a national scale.
5 David Initially Spent His Money At An Incredibly Rapid Pace
David reveals in Beckham that he had a terrible spending habit when he first came into wealth. David is currently worth roughly $450 million so his early spending days did not do much to set him back financially. Beckham reveals that David’s first paychecks that he revived on a Friday were typically gone by the following Saturday. He loved to spend his money on luxurious items, clothes, and even a brand-new BMW M3 from an Adidas endorsement deal. Considering Beckham’s humble beginnings, it’s hard to blame Beckham for indulging in the finer things.
4 Former Manchester United Manager Alex Ferguson Disapproved Of David & Victoria’s Relationship
David’s former soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson expressed disapproval that David was starting to date Victoria Adams when he was still just a young player on Manchester United. Ferguson believed that dating a celebrity might steer David off the right path of becoming the world-class soccer player he could be. He instructed David not to take any photos together with Victoria in order to maintain their privacy. David obeyed and initially dated Victoria in secret, meeting in places like parks and avoiding the lurking eye of the paparazzi.
3 David Had To Be Held Back After Ferguson Kicked A Boot At Him
David reveals that he charged his former Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson after the manager kicked a cleat at David, hitting him just above the eye. What was later revealed to be a freak accident and completely unintentional, an angry Ferguson kicked the soccer cleat at David which resulted in him apparently getting stitches. The following season, David was traded to Real Madrid, which was when his life began to spiral out of his control. He reveals in Beckham he never got to properly say goodbye to Ferguson.
2 David & Victoria Received Kidnapping Threats When Their Son Brooklyn Was Born
One of the most unsettling revelations in Beckham is the horrific truth that David and Victoria received random threats that their newborn son Brooklyn would be kidnapped. These threats arose due to the lingering public hatred towards David after he was sent off in the 1998 World Cup. David recalls being afraid to leave the hospital in Beckham, sleeping up against the hospital room door where Victoria was staying. The couple recalls how they were somewhat robbed of the joy of their first newborn because of the intense paranoia circling around Daviid and the angry public.
1 David Nearly Missed The Birth Of His Son Cruz Because Of A Photo Shoot
A lighthearted moment in Beckham arrives when Victoria recalls the instance in which David nearly missed the birth of his third son Cruz because he was tied up at a photo shoot with Jennifer Lopez. While the couple can laugh about it now in the Netflix documentary Beckham, David had cut it a little too close for Victoria to feel comfortable that he would be at the hospital with her when Cruz was born. In David’s defense, he asked his wife what Posh would do, which ended up being one of the funniest moments in the four-part miniseries.
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