The much anticipated 'fly on the wall' documentary (I use the word documentary with tongue firmly in cheek, and it's not my own), about the Beckham's move to Los Angeles is on ITV tonight at 9pm, entitled: Victoria Beckham: Coming to America.
It was meant to be a series, but strangely, and I find this hard to believe, they just couldn't gather enough material that would have substantiated one. Matters were not helped by the fact that Mrs Beckham apparently shot down almost every idea the production company had, and a little more embarrassingly, none of her newly acquired celeb friends would feature.
So you have two people, who though admittedly are talented in their respective fields (i.e. football and shopping), are not actually that interesting - not even in a maladjusted verbally challenged way the Osbourne's were. So, the producers, smart people that they are, did the only thing they could and scrapped the series idea and stuck all the best bits (i.e. the only bits), into a one-off show. If that doesn't tell you something about just what truly fascinating and substantive lives the Beckhams lead, then I don't know what will. Also, according to sources, a lot of the material is staged (*gasp* - No! surely not?) with hair and makeup people and even assistants played by hired actors, and not 'real' people.
One review on the Daily Mail website, reads as follows:
Photo: One of many which appeared in W magazine. C/o Hollywood Rag
It was meant to be a series, but strangely, and I find this hard to believe, they just couldn't gather enough material that would have substantiated one. Matters were not helped by the fact that Mrs Beckham apparently shot down almost every idea the production company had, and a little more embarrassingly, none of her newly acquired celeb friends would feature.
So you have two people, who though admittedly are talented in their respective fields (i.e. football and shopping), are not actually that interesting - not even in a maladjusted verbally challenged way the Osbourne's were. So, the producers, smart people that they are, did the only thing they could and scrapped the series idea and stuck all the best bits (i.e. the only bits), into a one-off show. If that doesn't tell you something about just what truly fascinating and substantive lives the Beckhams lead, then I don't know what will. Also, according to sources, a lot of the material is staged (*gasp* - No! surely not?) with hair and makeup people and even assistants played by hired actors, and not 'real' people.
One review on the Daily Mail website, reads as follows:
Having just watched the show as it aired here in the US, I felt compelled to say that I currently feel quite sorry for Victoria. It seemed like she was trying far too hard, but she really did fall short of the mark. For the whole show, it felt like she was trying to demonstrate how witty she could be and that she had no problem poking fun at herself. But overall, she came across as snobbish, rude, ignorant, fake and completely self-obsessed. I watched 'Being Victoria Beckham' back in 2002 and felt that she generally came across as quite down-to-earth, fun-loving and sweet - the kind of person you'd like as a friend. After tonight, it's abundantly clear that somewhere, at some point in the past five years - she has lost the special spark that helped to make her famous in the first place. She may find it hard to believe, coming from what people perceive to be 'the land of the fake', but the Victoria from five years ago would be getting a much warmer welcome in LA.Comments here tomorrow or following the show tonight welcome.
Photo: One of many which appeared in W magazine. C/o Hollywood Rag
4 comments:
Don't you find those pictures strangely unsexy? Because she is like some kind of robot - personality-less. Or maybe because she is so scrawny? Or maybe because you can imagine her barkig directions at everyone, and not actually flirting with David on the shoot! Whatever it is, those pics are Wrong!!
Did you see the bit when she gets her drivers license and the DMV guy says: Now you can go get yourself a Mercedes. And she says: "Yeah, well, actually I have a Bentley." This to a guy that's probably struggling to put his kids through college. Way to go to endear yourself to 'the people.'
Also, in a different clip, she says one of the best things about moving to the USA will be the fact that they are unknown and can lead more private lives. This coming from a woman who signed up to have a camera crew follow her every move, and even alerts the paps when she is going to be somewhere.
I'm sorry, my views on her haven't changed. If anything this show confirmed what a completely vacuous, self-obsessed, waste of space she is.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Agree with the above points.
Laughed when she said "we are going to arrive quietly, low key" then there were hundreds of paps at the airport. Like she hadn't had her people tip them off!
Did you see the words on the screen right at the beginning where they basically admitted that much of it was acted.
And when she says to her "PA" every girl needs a fat friend.....
Way to go, Posh!
A complete waste of an hour's viewing. I should have known better.
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