David Beckham wasn't always the one for Victoria - and she even took another man's name before marrying him. The fashion designer, 50, was engaged to another guy when she was young and used his surname on merchandise in the early Spice Girls days. Electrician Mark Wood was her first fiancé in her teen years and he lived with her at her parents' lavish £400,000 home in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire.
The pair met when she was 14 years old and he was working for her parents' electrical company. In 1994, just after Victoria auditioned to be Posh Spice, Mark popped the question. Despite not being married, Posh began calling herself Victoria Adams Wood, and even splashed the name on early merch.
But Mark was left heartbroken when she ended their six-year relationship just as the band was taking off. "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 report.
