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Review - A2 Monday 12 NOVEMBER 2018 (Adults) : Answer These Questions
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How David and Victoria Beckham's Marriage Survived and Thrived After Scandal
E News – By Natalie Finn, Tues 13 Feb 2018
Internationally renowned pop star meets the planet's sexiest soccer player. What could
go wrong?
When Victoria and David Beckham got together more than 20 years ago, they defined
"power couple." Posh and Becks had the world at their feet, him almost literally, and
their glam quotient quickly exploded past the confines of their native England, making
them a full-fledged global thing.
The former Victoria Adams first spied the stud who would become her husband in 1997
while hanging out, as members of the Spice Girls would have no problem doing, in the
Manchester United players' lounge.
"While the other football players stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see
David standing aside with his family. (He's not even in the first team at this stage—you
are the famous one.) And he has such a cute smile," Victoria wrote in 2016 in a letter to
her 18-year-old self for British Vogue. "You, too, are close to your family, and you will
think how similar he feels to you. He's going to ask for your number. (He still has the
London-to-Manchester plane ticket on which you wrote it.)"
Beckham joined Manchester United as a 16-year-old trainee in 1991 but when he met
his future wife, he was still poised on the brink of being a household name. The Spice
Girls had become an overnight sensation after the release of "Wannabe" in 1996, so
indeed, Posh Spice was the more famous of the two.
"She stalked me," David joked to W in 2007 when asked how they met before
acknowledging, "I fancied her."
In fact, he claims he saw a Spice Girls video in 1996, before they met in person, and
said to his Man U teammate Gary Neville, "'That one there, that's the girl I'm going to
marry.'"
"I'm quite shy. I just waved from the other side of the bar," David recalled, noting that
he actually blew it on that particular day by not asking her out.
A week later, Victoria and a fellow Spice Girl attended another game, and he made
sure to get her number in the lounge afterward that time. She wrote it down on the
aforementioned plane ticket, he called her the next day and drove down to London later
that same night to see her.
As it turned out, they had grown up 15 minutes away from each other in working-class
families and both of them had planned to be big stars.
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