When Posh Spice married the bad-boy soccer player, many people were skeptical that their marriage would have legs. But David Beckham and Victoria Beckham have proven the haters wrong and have remained happily married for 25 years. However, the pseudo-British royals do share some similarities with the actual royal family in that there is plenty of speculation that their British marriage is not built to last. Appearing on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” David recounted how the two first met when Victoria came to watch one of his matches while he was playing for Manchester United, noting that of the Spice Girls, she was “obviously his favorite.” The first meeting led to another, and after getting her phone number on the back of a train ticket (which he still has), the rest became history as the two built a life and family together, including their four kids: Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, and Harper.
In between their fated meeting and now, David and Victoria have weathered round after round of rumors that their allegedly strange marriage was not meant to last, with Hello! reporting that rumors boiled over in 2018 that their representatives had to release an official statement saying, “There is no impending statement, no divorce,” and called such writings as these, “very bizarre and an embarrassing waste of time.” Well, we will have to agree to disagree — we’ve noticed a number of red flags that persist to this day. Whether it’s old wounds that have never quite healed or ambitions that the ridiculously wealthy couple still have, we’re not entirely sure that the Beckhams will go the distance.
How many affairs is too many?
David Beckham has been accused of cheating not once but twice — if not more. In 2003, Rebecca Loos served as David’s personal assistant in Madrid before being terminated a few months later. Then, in 2004, Loos dropped the bombshell allegations in the UK tabloid “News of the World” that she and David had an affair. She later told Sky TV in an interview that they slept together a few times and engaged in sexting as often as 30 times a day. While David denies the affair, in the Netflix documentary “Beckham,” Victoria opened up about the fraught time, saying, “But when we were in Spain, it didn’t really feel like we had each other either … I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was and how it affected me.”
But as soon as the couple weathered one affair allegation, another popped up. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a model named Sarah Marbeck claimed to have a two-year affair with David while his team, Real Madrid, was in Singapore, with the two maintaining a string of adulterous text messages. The outlet also reported that Victoria discovered the texts while pregnant with their second son, Romeo Beckham, and noted that Marbeck told an outlet, “When we made love David told me, ‘I know what we are doing is wrong but I can’t help it.'” Perhaps most shockingly, David reportedly even cheated on his cheaters, with PageSix reporting that in the tell-all book “The House of Beckham: Sex, Money, and Power,” first-mistress Loos once caught David in bed with yet another woman and sadly told a friend, “I thought I was the only one.”
They may be married to their brand
With so much adultery in the air, one might think that Victoria Beckham would cut her losses no matter how devilishly handsome David Beckham is. But much like the rumors of infidelity, the couple has constantly battled against divorce rumors, with Victoria triumphantly telling W Magazine in 2007, “David and I got through it together. No one said marriage was going to be easy … But the fact is we’ve come out of everything we’ve been through stronger and happier. It’s even better now than when we were first married.” Years later, trouble in paradise reared its head when fans noticed that Victoria’s infamous “DB” tattoo had disappeared in an Instagram video. Victoria again assuaged rumors when speaking to “Today,” explaining, “I think that the media started to speculate was I leaving my husband. No. I was just a bit sick of the tattoo.”
Some speculate that the secret to their long-lasting marital success might be that it is actually a marriage of convenience, with true love having set sail years ago. In “The House of Beckham: Sex, Money, and Power,” author Tom Bower wrote that the couple is bonded by money after making a deal years ago to preserve their family unit for the sake of their brand. It’s a different kind of separation rumor and one that David denied when he referenced the fact that he and Victoria renewed their wedding vows in 2017. During an interview with “Desert Island Discs,” he explained, “People have talked about, ‘Do we stay together because it’s a brand?’ Of course not. We stay together because we love each other.” Whether for love or money, we still think there are enough rumors here to make the marital forecast look iffy.
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