Jack Goldstein - 101 Amazing Victoria Beckham Facts

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101 AMAZING VICTORIA BECKHAM FACTS

by

Jack Goldstein and Frankie Taylor

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Published in 2012 by

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Copyright 2012 Jack Goldstein and Frankie Taylor

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Disclaimer: All facts presented in this title were gained from common and reputable sources in print and on the internet. If any detail within this title is found to be incorrect, the author will be happy to publish a corrected version.

Introduction

Are you the worlds biggest Victoria Beckham Fan? Do you know everything there is to know about the ex-Spice Girl and one of todays greatest fashion icons? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your favourite celebrity do you know all of them?

Test yourself and your friends with these handily-packaged facts easily organised into categories for maximum enjoyment. Sections include Victorias fashion, her singing career and some crazy facts about her life. Show everyone that you are the master of VB Knowledge!

Biographical

1. Victoria was born on the 17 th April 1974.
2. She was Christened Victoria Caroline Adams.
3. She was born at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Essex.
4. Victoria grew up in the upmarket village of Goffs Oak.
5. Victoria is 5 foot 4 inches tall - thats 163cm.
6. She is a vegetarian.
7. David and Victorias home in Hertfordshire is known to many as Beckingham Palace.
8. In 2007, Victoria moved to LA with husband David.
9. The move was due to David signing for football team LA Galaxy.
10. It is thought that Victoria had a major influence on the club David had signed for - she would also have been happy if he had signed for a Milan club.

Growing up

1. After watching the musical Fame , Victoria decided she wanted to pursue a career in music.
2. Her parents enrolled her at the Jason Theatre School in Hertfordshire.
3. Then in 1991 Victoria entered Laine Theatre Arts college to study dance and modelling.
4. Victoria has said she was embarrassed by her familys wealth and often begged her father not to drop her to school in their Rolls Royce.
5. She has also said that sadly she was bullied during her time at school and never made any real friends.
6. She has even said that other children would throw rocks at her.
7. She hates being called Vicky.
8. In her teenage years, Victoria was a member of a band called Persuasion .
9. Due to her fathers successful business, Victoria had a financially comfortable upbringing.
10. Victoria had posters of a Manchester United footballer on her wall as a teenager... but it wasnt who youd think: it was hairy Welshman Ryan Giggs!

Fashion - Part 1

1. Victorias favourite fashion labels are said to be Dolce & Gabbana and Donatella Versace.
2. She designed a line of jeans for Rock and Republic.
3. Victoria then designed her own denim range - DVB style.
4. She has also designed a perfume named Intimately Beckham...
5. ...along with a range of sunglasses, bags and jewellery.
6. Victorias London Fashion week debut was as a guest model on the catwalk for designer Maria Grachvogel in the year 2000.
7. In 2006, Victoria spent a period exclusively dressed by Roberto Cavalli for public events; this followed her appearance at Milan Fashion week as a runway model for him.
8. In September 2012, Victoria said she no longer wanted Katherine Jenkins to wear any of her designs. This came after the opera singer had strangely denied rumours that she had had an affair with David - despite no rumours existing up until that point...
9. Sunglasses are a major part of Victorias life - she collects vintage Carreras and Guccis.
10. Fellow model Heidi Klum once gave Victoria a years supply of cupcakes as a present.

Girl Power

1. Victoria rose to fame in the 1990s with the powerful female pop group the Spice Girls
2. In the band, she was known as Posh Spice.
3. In March 1993 Victoria replied to an ad in The Stage looking for girls who were street smart, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance.
4. Two years after this, Victoria and four other girls signed a deal with Virgin Records.
5. One year later the group celebrated their first number 1 single Wannabe . This was the first of many hits.
6. The Spice girls released a total of three studio albums and eleven singles.
7. Their first album, Spice , went ten times platinum.
8. In total, the Spice Girls have sold over 80 million records.
9. The Spice Girls reunited in August 2012 for a performance at the London Olympic Games closing ceremony.
10. They performed a medley of their hits Wannabe and Spice Up Your Life.

Family

1. Victorias mother is called Jacqueline
2. And her father Anthony.
3. Anthony was originally an electronics engineer, who then founded a wholesale electronics business.
4. Jacqueline used to be a hairdresser - perhaps leading to Victorias interest in fashion.
5. Her sister is called Louise.
6. And her brother Christian.
7. Victoria is married to football icon David Beckham.
8. They got married at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland.
9. Victoria has four children with David.
10. Her sons are called Brooklyn Joseph, Romeo James and Cruz David. Her daughter is named Harper Seven.

Solo Music Career

1. Victoria released her debut single on the 14 th August 2000.
2. It was called Out of your Mind and reached number 2 in the UK.
3. It was made in conjunction with UK Garage outfit Dane Bowers and the Truesteppers.
4. To date Victoria has had four top 10 singles.
5. During her solo career she has been signed to both Virgin Records and Telstar.
6. The second single Victoria released was Not Such an Innocent Girl . The release coincided with Kylie Minogues Cant Get You Out of My Head and entered the charts at number 6.
7. Her first album, Victoria Beckham , reached number one in Australia, number 10 in the UK and number 11 in the US.
8. Damon Dash worked with Victoria on her second album. When asked why, he replied Ive seen how much she get photographed!
9. The first single off her second album reached number 3 in the UK.
10. The album itself however was never released, as the record label went bust.

David

1. David first saw Victoria when she was clad in a black PVC catsuit in the Spice Girls video for Say Youll Be There.
2. Right there and then, he said to team mate Gary Neville that she was the woman he wanted, and that they would be together forever.
3. David proposed to Victoria with a three carat diamond ring worth $65,000
4. Victoria responded by giving him an $80,000 engagement band!
5. For their 13 th wedding anniversary, Davids present to his wife was a self-written love book. Ahhhhh!
6. David also booked a $27m Malibu mansion for the celebrations - at a rent of $160,000 per month!
7. Davids former PA Rebecca Loos once claimed that she had had an affair with him, and that they had slept together twice.
8. David has of course denied this, and the allegations have never been proven. Victoria stood by him all the way through the scandal.