The Beckhams In America: They Are Not Amused On Ugly Betty
AMERICA gave the world Paris and Lindsay, and we suffered in silence. Now Britain has given America Posh and Becks, and Americans are not amused.
Despite all the UK hype about the enormous American appetite for the Beckhams, most people on this side of the Atlantic couldn’t give a toss.
That could be one of the reasons why “Victoria Beckham: Coming to America” was downgraded from a reality TV show to a one-hour NBC special on Monday night. Another reason could be that the idea was crap in the first place.
To see why, you only have to look in the New York Daily News this morning, where columnist Mike Lupica calls David Beckham a “fading star” and rips “ditz” wife Victoria a new vagina.
“David Beckham was once a great soccer player, but those days are gone,” writes Lupica under the headline INVASION OF THE BRIDIOTS. “Soccer people say he still has enough game to be the best soccer player in America, but that’s somewhat like saying the first “Rush Hour” movie was best.”
Meanwhile Lupica reserves the majority of his tirade for vapid Victoria. “It was probably inevitable that television would get around to a ditz like Mrs. Beckham. We’ve had shows about worm-eating and wife-swapping and nannies tougher than Lawrence Taylor, and Anna Nicole, and Paris Hilton herself. Junk upon junk,” he pronounces.
Singling out a scene where Victoria is pulled over by a traffic cop and tells the camera she didn’t know “whether to pose or get arrested,” Lupica chortles. “When I heard that, I was thinking that if you could get arrested FOR posing, she’d already be doing more time than the Unabomber.”
Other newspapers have not been kinder. The New York Times describes Victoria as “somewhat famous for being sort of famous, and is photographed a lot in Britain, a nation so open to media hypnosis that a Web site devoted to the ripening of a 44-pound wheel of cheddar has received more than a million Internet hits.”
And Linda Stasi, writing in the New York Post, gave the show NO STARS, declaring that: “If this weren’t a one-shot deal and people were exposed to her vapid, condescending behavior on a weekly basis, she’d not just be unwelcome in America, she’d be run out on a rail.”
Stasi describes the show as “an orgy of self-indulgence so out of whack with, er, reality that you’ll sit there slack-jawed at the gall of these people who think we are that stupid.”
Er, we thought you were that stupid, Linda. What do you expect after foisting your celebutards on us for years?
Posh Beckham will play herself in two episodes of the hit TV show, Ugly Betty. Reportedly she will be paid $140,000 for her services.
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October 24th, 2007 at 7:28 am
She doesn’t look very comfortable.
And it looks like she’s almost smiling.
I’ve never seen her smile.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Pago Pago buddy thats the real west….what were you thinking Jersey?
July 20th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Santa Fe is the midwest? Where is the actual west now then.. Hawai?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Im in the Midwest now. Santa fe New Mexico and I get the English humor…let me get something to drink, since the humor is so dry.lol
The problem is most Americans are morons with a low IQ .. But not all of us. mostly though English tv is relegated to the Public viewer supported tv channels PBS.. Back to the subject ….Posh Posh Posh I hope she dies her hair Red for a while .. and randy was correct about my wood in the forest comment. Posh is a cute little spinner wouldnt you say?
July 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Interesting thought Anonymous.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Could the hair be real enough to pull her by?
July 19th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Well it’s official, no one I can find out here in the great midwest gives a toss.
And saying that Americans dont understand English humor is not the point, it may be largely true but if you want to win over the people you give them what they want, not what they dont understand.
Becks should grab her by the hair and drag her home before she makes him as big a laughing stock as she is. He actually used to be very good at something, a claim she cant make.
I wonder, if they didn’t have the three boys how long would he stay married to her?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Mr Softy - knowing what Americans mean by “wood”, I think you are a dirty little boy, saying something like that!
Have to say though - LOVE the tits! Oh, sorry, forgot - they’re not REAL are they - but then nothing about Posh is, is it?
July 19th, 2007 at 5:21 am
But who does’nt love Posh with implants ….the wood is in the forest
July 19th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Very funny interview . I personally as a Yank enjoy the humor of the mother country. although ive weened off the tit as Ive grown older. But as a tot i really liked Monty and the boys and Red Dwarf …Hitchikers and of course Prisoner cell block H , The prisoner, Mrs Peel, Im not a number Im a free man ,
Bond James Bond , lmao
July 18th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Victoria Beckham would make Frank Lloyd Wright proud: she is cantilevered.
July 18th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Just wondering really as I don’t have implants, do they cost more by weight, and its not just a case of bigger boobs but more expensive ones?
Oh dear the flat chested nouveau riche will do anything to flaunt it, shame they never had it in the first place….