David Beckham: What is his alleged affair Rebecca Loos doing today?

2023-10-05 11:55:00

Rebecca Loos How David Beckham’s alleged affair became Britain’s most hated woman – and what she’s doing today

Rebecca Loos made her alleged affair with David Beckham public

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In their new Netflix documentary, David and Victoria Beckham talk about the affair rumors surrounding the footballer that made headlines 20 years ago. But who was Rebecca Loos, the woman at the center of the scandal?

To tell the story of To understand Rebecca Loos and David Beckham, you also have to understand the press landscape of the early noughties – especially in Great Britain. In 2004, Rebecca Loos, then 26, sold her story to the now-defunct newspaper News of the World. Apparently she received around 300,000 British pounds for it at the time.

David Beckham’s alleged affair: Rebecca Loos sold her story herself

The Dutch Loos said she had an affair with David Beckham that lasted four months. The Real Madrid star was already married to Spice Girls singer Victoria at the time. Beckham himself vehemently denied the allegations, but no legal action was taken. In his new Netflix documentary, the former professional athlete speaks out about the time for the first time. “Honestly, I don’t know how we got through it,” Beckham said. “Victoria is everything to me. Seeing how hurt she was was incredibly difficult. But we are fighters. And back then we had to fight for each other, we had to fight for our family. And what we had was worth it battle.”

Today the Beckhams are still in a relationship and their family has become a brand. While the 48-year-old fortunately survived the alleged affair unscathed – at least in terms of his success – Loos never got rid of the image of the adulteress. Why she took her story to the newspaper herself probably remains a secret. But how it was handled is symptomatic of the British media landscape at this time. Loos was given the nickname “Sleazy Senorita”; the much older and media-experienced Sharon Osbourne attacked her in an episode of “X Factor” in front of an audience of millions and told her to put on her underwear. She was passed from show to show, posing topless and having to put up with the fact that the British public loved to hate her.

The young woman was a hit with the British tabloids. Former Mirror journalist Roy Greenslade told BBC Online at the time that there had not been a major story since Princess Diana’s Panorama interview. “The tabloids got drunk on it. With Diana’s death, they put the Beckhams in their place so they could increase their sales,” he said at the time. “The tabloids always enjoy negative news more than positive news,” says Greenslade.

The British tabloid press of the early noughties was relentless. Loos was called a prostitute and a “Sleazy Senorita”

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While Loos may have initially had the naive thought that the press would protect her, she was quickly proven wrong. “He [Beckham] was the one who was married. He was the one who seduced me. “He was the one who broke promises and behaved badly – but I was the one who was reviled,” Loos himself once said about the time. From today’s perspective, one can say: Loos herself went to the press, but at the same time she became a victim of a public one Hunting. Special According to Loos, Sharon Osbourne’s words had an effect: she became depressed, drank too much alcohol and suffered from loneliness.

Today she leads a life away from the media hype. According to Instagram, the former model has been retreating to the Norwegian mountains for several years. There, Loos practices yoga and meditates a lot. She has a husband and two sons.

Sources: “Daily Mail” / BBC Online

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