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David and Victoria’s past comes back to haunt them in an explosive behind-the-scenes biography
Over the course of nearly three decades, David and Victoria Beckham have gone from constant tabloid fixtures to one of the entertainment industry’s most stable couples. Over the years, their marriage and personal lives have faced fierce scrutiny, from infidelity allegations to financial scandals. But despite the deluge of negative headlines, the pair have always remained united, cementing their image as one of showbiz’s most loved-up couples.
But now, on the eve of the pair’s 25th wedding anniversary, a brand-new book is threatening to challenge that image. The House Of Beckham, the no-holds-barred biography from Tom Bower, tells astory of “money, sex and power”. Seemingly timed to perfection, the book’s release has reportedly left the couple in astate of panic. Just as they’re about to publicly celebrate aquarter of acentury of marriage, Tom alleges that the couple are masters of “dishonesty and lies” and live totally separate lives. Their marriage, he tells heat, is “a friendship and abusiness relationship”, rather than apassionate relationship.
The alleged separation in the pair’s lives can be chalked, in part, down to work. David, 49, spends alot of time in Miami, where he is the president of football team Inter Miami, while Victoria, 50, goes between New York and London frequently for her fashion line. “The idea of them sitting down together for acosy dinner in Holland Park every night is ridiculous,” Tom says. “That’s what they want people to think, but it just doesn’t happen.”
The book details how the couple were rocked some 20 years ago by aseries of cheating allegations made about David. The most prominent came from his former personal assistant Rebecca Loos, who claimed she had an affair with David for four months while he was playing for Real Madrid in 2003. At the time, David called the allegations “ludicrous”, with Victoria admitting in David’s 2023 Netflix docuseries that this was “the hardest period” of their marriage.
In the book, Tom alleges that the pair were on the brink of divorce following the Rebecca Loos scandal and subsequent other women who claimed to have slept with David while he was married. In their Netflix series Beckham, Victoria said that the pair were “against each other” at this point, with David adding, “There were some horrible stories, which were difficult to deal with. It was the first time that me and Victoria had been put under that kind of pressure in our marriage.”
However, it’s alleged in the book that while divorce was discussed, it was the need to maintain “Brand Beckham”, driven by Victoria, that kept them together. “She had to make sure he und
