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David and Victoria Beckham might be the picture of wedded bliss 25 years into their marriage, but it wasn’t always that way. A new book by Tom Bower, The House of Beckham, alleges that the retired soccer player’s affairs were so messy that they often overlapped each other while he was married to the Spice Girl.

It seems that David’s often-reported fling with his personal assistant, Rebecca Loos, was also around the same time as his alleged affair with supermodel Esther Cañadas. Victoria couldn’t find her husband one night and called Loos to see if she knew where he was. He just so happened to be at Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo’s villa, according to Bower’s book. At 3 a.m. Loos tracked him down there and said, per a book excerpt via Page Six, “David, I have your wife on the phone.” As David approached Loos, she reportedly saw Cañadas in his bed. “I looked at him, very hurt,” she told a friend. “I thought I was the only one.” 

Esther Cañadas on the catwalk.WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images.

The Beckhams have done their best to downplay the allegations in his 2023 Netflix documentary, Beckham. They alluded to the fact that something happened in their marriage without confirming any of the rumors. “It was the hardest period for us because it felt like the world was against us. And here’s the thing, we were against each other if I’m being completely honest,” she said in the docuseries. David only described it as a “difficult” time for them and added, “Victoria is everything to me.”

Fans won’t likely get a straight answer from the superstars, which is their prerogative, but a Page Six source pointed out that Bower’s book damages their brand. “There may not be anything we don’t know in this book but having it all in one place is super damning. Victoria and David will have thought they left all of this behind,” they said. “It’s a legacy you don’t want to have. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, the maggots are out of the woodwork.”

Loos, who is now married and has a family of her own, told the Daily Mail last fall that she will never back down from her affair claims. “He can say whatever he likes, of course, and I understand he has an image to preserve, but he is portraying himself as the victim and he’s making me look like a liar like I’ve made up these stories…” she said. “He is indirectly suggesting that I’m the one who has made Victoria suffer.”