Victoria and David Beckham will celebrate their 25 year wedding anniversary on July 4 but the Spice Girl nearly ended up with her childhood sweetheart. The fashion designer was first engaged to Mark Wood, living with her fiancé at her mum and dad's home in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire. She even used Mark's surname in the early days of the Spice Girls, after first meeting him as a 14-year-old schoolgirl at St Marys High in Cheshunt.
Her electrician beau proposed in 1994, soon after she had auditioned for the girl group that would change her life. She began calling herself Victoria Adams Wood but as the band took off, she made the decision to end their six-year relationship. "It wasn't the right person for me, I wasn't enjoying myself, so that had to end," she told Channel 4 .
"But I didn't give him the ring back either! I've still got it because it was a wicked ring. Isn't that horrible? It makes me sound really materialistic." For Mark, at first he had nothing but nice things to say about his ex.
He told The People in 1997: "It was a very special relationship. But that part of my life is over. It's sad because we were together for a long time.
But she's got what she always wanted and I'm proud of her." Then all hell broke loose a decade later when Mark dished on their sex life in a 2004 Channel 5 documentary called Victoria Beckham's Secrets. He was reportedly furious after she told ITV documentary, Being Victoria: "For some reason we got engaged.
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