Tom Bower’s explosive new book The House of Beckham, as serialised in The Mirror, has taken a look inside David and Victoria Beckham’s marriage troubles
David and Victoria Beckham lived separate lives as their marriage hit crisis-point, an explosive new book claims.
The pair were allegedly so estranged they barely spoke and instead just maintained a “distant business relationship”. The animosity between the couple was so bad eight years ago that each of their publicists “fed negative stories” about the other, author Tom Bower claims.
In an extraordinary twist, Beckham even allegedly accused his wife and her publicist of “waging a media war” against him. But the pair ultimately stayed together and worked through their issues, just as they had after their marriage was rocked the first time by Rebecca Loos ‘ claims of an affair with the footballer.
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“Although the Beckhams could not hide their separate lives, they stuck together to support the Brand,” Bower claims. Bower’s book The House of Beckham paints a vastly different picture to that of the Netflix documentary, which was exec-produced by David’s production house.
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While the pair alluded to the marriage problems in the wake of Loos’ allegations, more recent woes were ignored. Serious cracks in the marriage began opening up in 2016 with the couple spending increasingly larger amounts of time apart with David in Miami and Posh in London.
Bower writes: “During London Fashion Week that year, she asked Beckham to return to London for a dinner in her Dover Street shop. By the end of the celebration she must have wished he had stayed in America.
“Morosely, he sat staring at her guests. Some whispered that the two had been embroiled earlier in a foul-mouthed row.” Later that evening Beckham was seen at Heathrow taking a late flight to New York.
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Two years later, it’s claimed the situation hadn’t improved and in many instances, had deteriorated. By this stage, Bower claims that both Posh and Becks were the subject of negative briefings – by their other half’s publicists.
“Reflecting the acrimony between the Beckhams, the two publicists began to compete rather than collaborate to promote their own client,” the book claims. “Both fed negative stories about the other side to their favourite tabloid journalists.”
One such planted story involved “an extraordinary exchange that had occurred during the Beckhams’ summer holidays” in which Victoria had reportedly told her children: “Daddy’s not a cheat.”
“Reading the newspaper report, Beckham raged that Victoria and her publicist were waging a media war against him,” the book claims. “In reality, he was doing a good job of self-inflicted harm.”
Another low point in the marriage came when David gave an interview to an Australian broadcaster in which he admitted that their marriage was “hard work”. Victoria’s publicist reportedly leaked to a favoured journalist how she was left “overwhelmed by rage and recrimination”.
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