T hey say don’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging it by its contents page? Scanning the list of chapters in The House of Beckham, Tom Bower’s allegedly “explosive” book on the celebrity couple , will certainly give you a good impression of what you’ll be getting. Wreckage! Shame! Agony! Cheapskate! Sex Scandal! Downfall! Warfare! It’s safe to say this relentlessly mean book hasn’t been written with the blessing of Posh and Becks (or Thin and Thick, as Bower reminds readers they were often referred). But is it really as scandalous as it looks? Here are some things we learned from it.
At Glastonbury 2017, David had been partying like the true man of the people he is (ie in a secret VIP club alongside Lady Mary Charteris). Apart from having to march over to a stranger and demand that he delete a picture he’d just taken that showed him standing near an unnamed lady friend, he was having a blast. “There was no hassle until she landed,” said one source, with the “she” in question being a helicopter-riding Victoria Beckham .
Furious that Golden Balls had ghosted her all weekend, she apparently dragged her husband into a furious argument, and their son Brooklyn was left to pick up the pieces. According to the book, the reason Rebecca Loos could no longer keep the story of her affair with Beckham to herself was because he had refused to tip a waitress at Madrid’s Hard Rock Cafe, only coughing up after she wrote a heartfelt note to Loos describ.
