David Beckham responded in joky fashion when a former England teammate asked him about his alleged affair with Rebecca Loos.
After Beckham left Manchester United from Real Madrid in the summer of 2003, the England captain was rocked by allegations that he had a four-month affair with his personal assistant Rebecca Loos while wife Victoria was living in the UK with their children, Brooklyn and Romeo.
Loos, a glamour model born in Spain but with Dutch citizenship, made the claims in an interview with the News of the World in April 2004 and later told Sky’s Kay Burley that Beckham was an "amazing lover" and they "couldn’t keep their hands off each other".
She also added that Beckham "knows how to please" and was "not afraid of a woman’s body. Beckham slammed the rumours as "ludicrous" but inevitably many people within football were wondering if there was any truth.
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Former Wigan, Fulham and Hull midfielder Jimmy Bullard had the courage to ask Beckham about the situation. Bullard was never capped by England despite making the squad for 2010 World Cup qualifiers in 2008.
According to the former Soccer AM host, he quizzed 'Golden Balls' when spotting him in the bar when Fulham players were in the same hotel as Real's stars.
"But they were soon back when I asked about the rumours that he’d had an affair with the Beckhams’ former nanny Rebecca Loos," he wrote in his autobiography Bend it like Bullard.
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"'What’s happening with Loosy and all that then?’ I said to him. ‘Come on, open up!’
“He started to laugh. ‘To be honest, she fancied Victoria, not me!’ was his reply.
“We all started to laugh. ‘That’s a great “Get Out of Jail Free” card, that is, Becks,’ I said. ‘Don’t give me that, what’s the true story?’
“But he told us he was being serious. We laughed even more."
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The allegations are addressed by the Beckhams in his new four-part Netflix documentary, with Victoria revealing she "resented" her husband in that period - which she deems to be the most difficult in their marriage.
In 'Beckham', she comments: "Did I resent David? If I'm being totally honest, yes I did. If I'm being honest it's probably the most unhappy I have ever been in my entire life.
“It wasn't that I was being unheard, I chose to internalise a lot of it because I was always mindful of the focus that he needed.
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"It was the hardest period for us. Because it felt like the world was against us. Here's the thing, we were against each other, if I'm being completely honest.
"Up until Madrid sometimes it felt like us against everybody else but we were together, we were connected, we had each other.”
Topics: David Beckham, Manchester United
Josh Lawless