The House of Beckham

Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosive tell-all account of the real lives of David and Victoria Beckham.

As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple have together built a multi-billion-dollar global brand. For decades, adoring fans have been captivated by the glamorous world they have created, while their unrivaled fusion of showbiz, fashion, sports and celebrity has been cultivated alongside the image of a strong marriage.

When the much-trailed Netflix documentary Beckham aired in 2023, viewers were offered an even more intimate insight into their private lives. Produced by the Beckhams themselves, the series raised many questions, not only about their success and personal relationship, but also about the ruthlessly successful management of their image in the media. Are their lives really as perfect as the Beckhams would like the world to believe?

Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their sports and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.

©2024 Tom Bower (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Bending the House of Beckham

Great, gossipy investigation of fame, money, and power. The narration by Claren Saward is excellent and the Beckham family is revealed as ruthlessly ambitious at the same time that they come off as appealingly charismatic. It's quite a combination and Bower blends all their disparate qualities into a fascinating narrative.

If you hate the Beckhams…

This is your book. I was not able to finish this smear campaign of a book.

very negative

Not really a fair review of Beckham family. I regret buying t this. I also found it boring.

Idk—- seems like a book that only looks at the negatives

I felt that this was an intentional takedown of the Beckham’s. No couple is all bad or all good. I still live Posh & Becks

So much negativity!

I was really disappointed in this book. I really enjoyed the Netflix series and thought this might give more information. Instead, every single page was criticizing, every single movement that the Beckham’s ever made! Seriously, it was almost painful to read. It just felt as if the author went out of his way to nitpick every aspect of their life and put a negative spin on it.

Wow !

If even half of what is claimed in this book is true, these 2 have done a number on all of us and are the cheapest, narcissistic, lying couple ever!

Incredibly boring

I’m a fan of Tom Bower but this was almost painful to listen to. Maybe it wasn’t the best topic for me but it just wasn’t interesting and I didn’t end up finishing the book.

I should have believed the other reviewers

Extremely negative. There was not one sentence of positivity in this book. The author paints the Beckhams as terrible humans. No person is 100 percent awful. But this book paints them that way. Don’t waste your money.

People want their illusions, as is clear by the reviews

Tom Bower is a well seasoned and respected journalist. He comes with receipts, as he’s been sued a few times - to prevail every single time, as he is, above all things ‘investigative.’ Bower gives a careful, provocative, revealing look into the Beckham marriage, which is a business arrangement; and keeps his hands off the children, except the very basics of their lives and trajectories as they glint off their parents, trying to find what might/might not work for them. It’s a picture of excess and what excess does to the human soul. It’s a clear picture of the costly ravages which illusions, publicity, and lies carefully manipulated for public consumption does to the souls of also - nations. Quite sad really. The Beckhams aren’t enviable. They’re slaves to their public image. No freedom there. No reality. No honesty. Not much love. Narcissistically looking at their own reflections, constantly: they do very little, to no good, in the world. What a waste of lives - that’re now (illustratively) echoing down generations.

Unvarnished

Wow. And I just watched the Netflix series on the family. What a different story.