Secrets of Beckham’s ‘affair’ goal
New book reveals details of David’s alleged ‘cheating’
DAVID Beckham has allegedly cheated on his wife Victoria throughout their tempestuous 25-year marriage — with one fling even finding him in bed with a model, according to a new book. While British journalist Tom Bower’s tome, “The House of Beckham,” has little new to say about one of the world’s most famous couples, it includes a list of the soccer star’s extracurricular affairs, which — when put all together for the first time — makes for shocking reading.
Bower paints a picture of a husband and wife bound together by bitter ambition, but who have been brought to the brink of divorce multiple times.
One source who knows the couple told Page Six of the book, “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.
“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.”
David’s former personal assistant Rebecca Loos infamously claimed they had a fling back in 2004 — but also said she walked in on him in bed with Spanish model Esther Cañadas. It allegedly happened when a screaming Victoria phoned Loos in a bid to track her husband down one night.
The athlete was at a party at his Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo’s villa, and it was 3 a.m. when Loos found him down in a bedroom. Bower writes how Loos knocked and told him, “David, I have your wife on the phone.”
As he came to answer the call, Loos claims she saw Cañadas in the bed. “I looked at him, very hurt,” she told a friend. “I thought I was the only one.”
David did not mention Loos by name in his 2023 Netflix documentary “Beckham,” only saying that the era was a “difficult” time for his wife, adding, “Victoria is everything to me.”
David the ‘victim’
Victoria, meanwhile, admitted that “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.”
Loos, now a 47-year-old married mom-of-two, spoke to the Daily Mail about the documentary, which has been a huge hit for Netflix.
“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,” Loos said. “He is indirectly suggesting that I’m the one who has made Victoria suffer.”
Model Celina Laurie said she slept with David in Denmark in 2002, Bower writes.
Danielle Heath, a beauty salon owner, also alleged she had an affair with David at the Beckhams’ Madrid home, which he has always denied.
The book starts at the Glastonbury music festival in 2017, where David, now 49, was said to be “smitten” with high society model and DJ Lady Mary Charteris as they partied in a secret club.
“He also attracted the attention of a glamorous Australian bikini model,” writes Bower.
However, David’s fun came to an abrupt end when Victoria flew in from New York, landing in a Somerset field by helicopter.
She was reportedly furious her husband had not replied to her phone calls and had dispatched a search
party to find him.
“Within seconds they were embroiled in a ferocious argument,” writes Bower. “There was no hassle until she landed.”
The couple’s son, Brooklyn — now 25 and the eldest of their four kids — was there that weekend and tried to play peacekeeper.
As the couple stood by the side of the stage to watch Ed Sheeran play, Victoria put her arm “protectively” over Beckham while Charteris stood nearby.
She ‘beat him up’
A year later, David, now 49, told Australian TV that marriage was “hard” and “complicated” — much to Victoria’s upset, according to the book.
Bower also writes that David and Hollywood actress Charlize Theron could not “take their eyes off each other” at a draw for the 2010 World Cup. “The body language between them is electric,” a delegate is said to have murmured.
When David was at his agent’s office in London, the book also claims, the former England player “always looked like he was evaluating each woman. Some longed for his attention. Others would later say he was rather creepy.”
As for Victoria, 50, the more unhappy she became, the more she resorted to surgery — she’s believed to have had five boob jobs, going up and down in size — Bower writes.
At one point, the book claims, Victoria complained her breasts had become “wonky raspberries” pointing in “different directions.”
There have been moments of pure unhappiness in the Beckhams’ marriage, with plenty of serious chatter about divorce, according to the book. Victoria was seen slapping David hard around the cheek after the pair made a united front for the cameras in the wake of the alleged Loos affair, yelling at him, “It’s my way or the highway.”
The former Spice Girl — who went by Posh Spice during her pop-star career — once admitted to a London tabloid of the cheating speculation: “I actually physically beat him up. I punched him in the face.”
Bower claims the pair stayed together for “Brand Beckham” because they are worth more together than apart.
Their ambition has taken them from the UK to the US — where David played with the Los Angeles Galaxy from 2007 to 2012 — and back to the UK again. The athlete is now the co-owner of the Inter Miami CF soccer team, while Victoria started her own fashion line in 2008 and later moved into beauty.
While her range has famously lost money over the years, the latest figures from Victoria Beckham Holdings show revenues increased 44% — to £58.8 million in 2022, versus £40.9 million in 2021.
Yet the Beckhams, known for their lavish lifestyle, are said to be both cheapskates.
Lousy tippers
According to the book, Rebecca Loos once told how David — said to be fearful of having his image dented — refused to tip a waitress at Madrid’s Hard Rock Cafe, then sent her back with a wad of cash when the woman complained that she survived on tips and “expressed her anger that someone so famous and rich could be so mean.”
Victoria allegedly refused to tip on a £115 ($145 US) bill while dining with her mother-in-law and kids at a Pizza Express cafe in the UK. And the couple reportedly served German Liebfraumilch wine that cost less than $4 US a bottle at a UNICEF charity gala held at their home.
On a trip to the Philippines for UNICEF, Bower writes, David asked to be reimbursed $6,685 ($8,449 US) for business-class seats — telling his colleagues, “There’s no way this should be costing me anything.”
And when the Beckhams joined Sir Elton John on his yacht, the superstar allegedly dubbed them the “Takeums” after they failed to tip his staff.
In May, the Sunday Times Rich list put the Beckhams’ net worth at £455 million ($575 million US), up from £425 million ($537 million US) in 2023.
This is mainly due to Lionel Messi signing with David’s Inter Miami, sending the club’s value to over $1 billion.
David also has a stake in Authentic Brands, the world’s largest sport and entertainment licensing company, which owns the fashion brands Reebok, Juicy Couture, Ted Baker and Hunter as well as the rights to the estate, name and image of celebrities including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Muhammad Ali.
David and Victoria have also appeared in lucrative ad deals, including for Uber Eats during the Super Bowl in February.
Writes Bower: “The Beckhams’ extraordinary property is a particularly modern story of aspiration and ambition fulfilled.”