People: Is she a rich, spoiled brat? Oh, pish-posh
Victoria Beckham insists that she’s “just a normal girl from London” who happens to be “living quite a surreal life” with her soccer star husband David and their three young boys.
Americans can judge for themselves when the newest British import is seen in a one-hour TV special, “Victoria Beckham: Coming to America,” airing Monday at 8 p.m. on NBC.
It follows Beckham, better known as Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, as she prepares to move to the U.S. for her husband’s July 21 debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.
“People really get to see what I’m really like. I have quite a dry sense of humor, which I hope is going to translate to Americans,” she says.
Beckham calls herself “a working mum” who is focused on developing her signature line of clothing, sunglasses and perfume.
She adds that her family was “so excited” about relocating that her boys “actually think they’re moving to Disneyland.”
They’ll make do in a reported $22 million, 13,000-square foot villa in Beverly Hills, where neighbors include Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
David Beckham appears briefly in the special, but viewers won’t see the couple’s three sons – Brooklyn, 9; Romeo, 4; and Cruz, 2.
“We don’t ever allow the children to be photographed or filmed. We like them to be normal kids,” Beckham says. “I didn’t want any of my friends in there, either.
“This isn’t a reality show, it’s a documentary about me,” she explains. “Anything we do professionally, we try to keep the children out of it. We don’t sort of traipse them up and down the red carpet.”
Among the executive producers of the special is “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller, who managed the Spice Girls pop group that launched Beckham to fame.
If ratings are good, she could be offered more television work. But other than the recently announced Spice Girls reunion tour, Beckham denied she’s planning to resurrect her showbiz career in Los Angeles.
“I’m certainly not using this as a springboard to launch any sort of solo career, you’ll be glad to hear,” she says.
As for the Spice reunion, she says, “I want my kids to see Mommy on the stage doing what I used to do, and I want David to see it again.”
If you think you know Posh from reading the tabloids, she says forget it. Case in point: Beckham denies a report that her husband gifted her with a $1.8 million diamond-encrusted vibrator when their third son was born.
And she has a warning to paparazzi gearing up to stalk the couple:
“We’re going to be quite low-key. We’re not out every night. We’re probably a lot more boring than people think.”
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