Victoria Beckham

Profession: Style icon
Place/Date of Birth: Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire, 17 April 1975
Associated with: David Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Mel C

Victoria, 33, who has recently been on a reunion tour with her bandmates, apparently sat awkwardly in a corner while she waited to be given a table.

The source added: "She was twitching in her seat and constantly checking her BlackBerry. She looked upset to be sitting there alone."

Beckhams to adopt girl? - Feb 5 2008
David and Victoria Beckham could be planning to adopt a baby girl, according to reports.

The showbiz couple, who already have three sons, have often talked about wanting to expand their brood and friends now say that since David’s trip to Sierra Leone in Africa, adoption could be on the cards.

One of the footballer’s friends told Grazia: "Adoption is something David has been talking about for some time. He first mentioned if after Cruz (two) was born - just saying he thought it was an amazing thing to do."

Another source close to Victoria, 33, said: "Victoria loves kids and it is her dream to have a little girl. It’s clear they both think adoption is great. It’s early days but it’s fair to say that they’re putting the wheels in motion and discussing whether to adopt from Africa, America or the UK."

And it seems the pair have been getting some tips from their showbiz friends in Los Angeles, including Tom Cruise, who adopted two children with former wife Nicole Kidman.

"Tom’s told [David] about how much pleasure he has gained from raising Connor and Isabella," said another source.

Posh causes tea rush - Jan 17 2008
Victoria Beckham is partly responsible for increased sales of tea, according to reports.

A vintage tea from the Tibetan border of China called Pu-Erh has been flying off the shelves at Whittard of Chelsea after magazine reports that Posh, Jerry Hall and Joss Stone are guzzling it by the gallon for its believed metabolism-boosting qualities.

Sales of the niche large leaf tea have risen by 26 per cent at Whittard of Chelsea.

Giles Hilton, the tea and coffee "nose" at Whittard of Chelsea, says Pu-Erh has been drunk for its medicinal properties by the people of Yunnan, on the Tibet provinces, since the T’ang Dynasty .

"Our Whittard stores in Russia, Chile, Australia and America, in Boston and San Diego are similarly experiencing a boost in Pu-Erh tea sales," he explained. "We have always stocked it in a few selected stores and have now introduced it to 60 UK shops, due to customer demand. There is no doubt that Pu-Erh is fast becoming the ’brew du jour’."

Posh tops annual worst dressed list - Jan 9 2008
A decade after singling out the Spice Girls, a top US fashion critic has put just one of them - Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham - at the top of his 48th annual worst dressed list.

Acid-tongued critic Mr Blackwell, who was designing dresses for the rich and famous when he started the list in 1960, attacked entertainment’s biggest stars in the latest compilation of fashion follies.

Other stars listed for their fashion disasters included singers Amy Winehouse, Fergie, Kelly Clarkson and Jessica Simpson, and film star Lindsay Lohan.

Insisting it’s all in fun to encourage fashion consciousness, Blackwell heaped venom on Posh, his top choice on the list.

"Forget the fashion spice, wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty Posh can really wreck-em," he said in a statement.

Blackwell listed the Spice Girls as No 1 in his 1998 worst dressed list, deriding the group as "the only spices on the planet that have no taste".

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Biography

Victoria Caroline Adams was born to a wealthy Hertfordshire family in 1975, in fact so wealthy her father, the owner of an electrical wholesale company, reportedly drove her to school in a Rolls Royce (much to her embarrassment).

Victoria wanted to be famous from a young age, taking dance lessons after watching Fame and attending the Jason Theatre School in Enfield from the age of 8 until she was seventeen. This was when she secured a place at the Laine Arts Theatre College in Surrey and began auditioning for bands.

In March of 1993, when she spotted an ad in The Stage: "Are you between 18 and 23 and are able to sing and dance? Are you street-smart, extrovert, ambitious and serious about it?" Victoria joined Geri, Mel B and Mel C along with a girl called Michelle (who would later be replaced by Victoria’s childhood friend Emma Bunton) in winning a place in the Spice Girls. After a rocky start the group signed to Virgin Records and became the biggest girl group ever, releasing hit singles and albums year after year, making a succesful feature film and becoming one of the most influential bands of the nineties and inspiration to millions of young girls.

However, the Spice Girls’ bubble eventually burst as Geri left to pursue a solo career and although the remaining four released a few more singles the magic had gone and after recording a final album they went their seperate ways. Victoria bided her time before launching her first solo single, Out Of Your Mind, in collaboration with Truesteppers and Dane Bowers. The single coiincided with the release of Sophie Ellis Bextor’s collaboration with Spiller and resulted in a chart battle which Sophie won. The defeat reflected badly on Victoria and her solo career seemed to go from bad to worse. Her next single, Not Such An Innocent Girl found itself up against Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, which only served to highlight the difference in quality between Victoria’s efforts and those of established pop stars. Her debut album was released two weeks later and on managing to only just edge in to the top ten Victoria was dropped by Virgin.

On hooking up with former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, Victoria decided to take a more R&B influenced turn, against her manager’s advice. She began a friendship with Damon Dash who not only assisted Victoria in her musical direction but signed her up to model for his Rocawear label. A dounle A side, Let Your Head Go/This Groove, was released in the week following Christmas 2003 but charting at number 3 in the single chart’s least competetive week it was considered a commercial flop. The single remains Victoria’s last release although she has regularly returned to the studio to work with, among others, Cathy Dennis. Several tracks remain unreleased and Victoria claims that she’ll only sing again if the Spice Girls reunite.

Concentrating on her fashion career, Victoria as previously designed for Rock and Republic as well as modelling for Rocawear and Maria Grachvogel. Her second book (her first was an autobiography, Learning to Fly), That Extra Half An Inch: Heels, Hair and Everything in Between, cemented Victoria’s influence as a fashion icon.

In 1997 Victoria met British footballing icon David Beckham and before long they were the country’s most talked about couple. Victoria fell pregnant two years later and following the birth of their first son, Brooklyn, the couple were married in a lavish ceremony at Ireland’s Luttrellstown Castle. Despite rumours of David’s infidelity and problems moving between Britain and Spain for his career the Beckham’s marriage remains strong and they have had two further sons, Romeo (born 2002) and Cruz (born 2005). The family plan to move to Los Angeles later this year with plans to create a relaity show based around the move. Meanwhile rumours of a Spice Girls reunion persist. We might get Victoria back in front of that mic yet.

March 2008