'Brand Beckham' tarnished by leaked emails claiming to show footballer exploited charity work

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David Beckham fears more ‘personal’ revelations from email cache after cops probe leak as wife Victoria jets out of country
'Brand Beckham' tarnished by leaked emails claiming to show footballer exploited charity work and blasted Honours Committee as 'c***s'

BY MICHAEL HAMILTON AND JONATHAN REILLY
5th February 2017, 2:05 am


COPS were called in last night as David Beckham feared more revelations would emerge from a cache of leaked emails between him and his advisers.

The superstar, whose image was tarnished by messages claiming to show he exploited his charity work as part of an effort to win a knighthood, is now scared about what more will come out.

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David Beckham is reportedly fearing yet more revelations will emerge from leaked emails
It comes as it was confirmed a police probe had been launched in Portugal, where his PR chief Simon Oliveira’s Doyen firm has its HQ.

The former England captain’s representatives have spoken to specialist investigators in Portugal about the shattering leaks.

Yesterday, as Becks faced a backlash over the scandal, wife Victoria, 42, was spotted at Heathrow as she jetted out of the UK for New York Fashion Week.

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Wife Victoria Beckham yesterday jetted out of the country for New York Fashion Week following the emails scandal
Meanwhile Beckham, who blasted the Honours Committee as “unappreciative c**ts” for not making him a Sir, was seen at a London skate park with son Brooklyn, 17.

The dad of four and Unicef ambassador has given more than £1million to the charity, as well as raising £4.3million for it through his Beckham 7 fund.

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Meanwhile David Beckham held his head high while taking son Brooklyn to a skate park in London

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The couple’s eldest son, 17-year-old Brooklyn
He fears private conversations between himself, Oliveira and best man David Gardner will be published.

These are said to include “banter” about well-known figures.

Yesterday The Sun told how Beckham criticised the Honours Committee’s decision to make singer Katherine Jenkins an OBE.

His team demanded Unicef pay for a £6,685 business-class flight for a charity trip although sponsors had laid on a private jet.

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David Beckham is said to be fearing private conversations between himself and PR chief Simon Oliveira and best man Dave Gardner will be published
And Beckham moaned that involvement in the Ingenious Media tax avoidance scheme was stopping him winning the knighthood.

The bombshell dossier was obtained by the Football Leaks website and published by European sites including Der Spiegel, L’Equipe and El Mundo.

Beckham’s team, who have said the emails are hacked and doctored, are focusing on the person behind the leak.

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The Sun yesterday revealed that emails from Beckham’s account reportedly called the Honours Committee “unappreciative c**ts” for not making him a Sir
A total of 18.6million emails, communications and documents were accessed from the servers of Doyen Global, the sports management firm run by PR guru Oliveira, 43.

The bombshell material was taken in 2015 and last year, and contains three years’ worth of information.

Many messages involve Gardner, best man at the Beckhams’ lavish 1999 wedding.

A source said: “David fears some very personal details are set to be released, especially as he often speaks very candidly about all sorts of things going on his life.

“Gardner has been with David since day one and is one of his closest confidants. They share pretty much everything.

“David is also very close to Oliveira, who has been with him for years and been instrumental in building up his brand.

“Over the years they have spoken in detail about David’s career and his life after football, as well as the mundane talk about the business.

“At the same time they are friends who have a bit of banter so there might be a fair bit of embarrassing material in the emails too.

“It would be the same with anyone’s emails being read in public.”

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The Unicef ambassador has given more than £1million to the charity
Sources in Portugal said yesterday the country’s Policia Judiciária was investigating the hacked emails, which have been dubbed Beckileaks.

A source said: “The cyber-crime unit is involved and they are taking it extremely seriously. It has gone right to the top.

“They have confirmed they are investigating a serious case of football leaks, without actually naming Beckham.

“But the feeling is that they have spoken to Beckham’s people and they are very keen to get to the bottom of this and find the hacker.”

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Cops in Portugal are now investigating the source of the hacked emails
David and Victoria have spent years building up Brand Beckham and are extremely conscious of their public image.

Beckham has 32.6million followers on Instagram and uses the site to promote his family life, global travels and business interests. He has been a goodwill ambassador for Unicef since 2005.

He runs his own DB7 foundation and also heads a separate charity with Victoria.

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Actress Priyanka Chopra poses with Beckham, whose Unicef 7 fund has raised over £4.3million since 2015
Beckham’s Unicef 7 fund has raised more than £4.3million since it launched in 2015 — money which has been used to support children all over the world.

More than £500,000 has been sent to train teachers and fund schools in Bangladesh, where around 2.6million children do not regularly go to school.

Another £800,000 has helped support children with disabilities who experience discrimination in central and Eastern Europe.

The fund has also sent money to projects in Latin America and Africa, and Beckham himself visited a centre in Swaziland which supports kids living with HIV.

HIS HELL AS HATE FIGURE

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BECKHAM became a national hate figure after he was sent off during the 1998 World Cup against fierce rivals Argentina.

Then 23, he was blamed for England’s exit from the tournament in France. Fans were so furious that a sarong-clad effigy of him was hanged outside a London pub. More controversy followed with Beckham hit by a flying football boot in 2003 after a post-match bust up with Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson. And in 2004 the star’s PA Rebecca Loos, right, claimed she had been having an affair with him behind the back of wife Victoria. Beckham called her claims “ludicrous”.

But emails showed how Beckham, worth an estimated £280million, complained about being approached by Unicef’s ambassador relations manager Chloe Edwards about contributing cash.

In one he allegedly wrote: “Chloe asked me outright which I was p***ed off about . . . I don’t want to do it and won’t do it with my own money.”

Yesterday he faced criticism over the leaked emails, led by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who tweeted: “Oh. My. God. RIP Brand Beckham…”

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The scandal has split Beckham’s fans, with many criticising the footballer whilst others called for him to receive knighthood
But there was also a swell of support calling for Beckham to be knighted from fans online.

Under the hashtag #SirDavidBeckham, many defended him as a national hero who scored vital goals for England and helped London win the 2012 Olympics.

A source said of the leaked emails: “These were private messages between David and his most trusted advisers. They were never meant for public consumption and should have remained confidential.”

Unicef’s deputy executive director Justin Forsyth also backed the global star. He tweeted: “For over 15 years David Beckham has been a dedicated and passionate @UNICEF Ambassador, helping many thousands of children.”

 

Couldn't care less.

Was a reasonable footballer and has done a lot of good since, both for charity and creating wealth. If he's having a laugh with mates and calling a **** a **** or whatever, it proves he's not a robot.

 

Trust that total two-faced twat Piers Morgan to jump on the band-wagon - what an attention seeking **** he truly is

 

Victoria's been giving poor David a roasting over the breakfast table, over why Andy and Kim got their knighthood before the Beckhams. It's enough to make a girl want to scratch someone's eyes out

 

What a NON STORY. I was completely disinterested until I saw the words 'Morgan' and 'Piers' If anyone is a c*nt, it's him. Total arsehole who should have done time for insider dealing AND he is an intellectual dwarf.

 

Wow, Victoria is chubbing out a little in this photo...

 

Much, much much better than just a reasonable footballer.
Drinkwater is a reasonable footballer.
I do wonder sometimes if you'd know a good footballer if you fell over one!

 

Ok better than reasonable but nowhere near the world-class he was portrayed as. If he looked like Luke Chadwick he'd have had a good Premier League career, not much more.

 

Completely disagree.

We'll leave it there.

 

Actress Priyanka Chopra poses with Beckham

 

Agree. Decent, nothing more.

 

Nah. You're wrong mate.
His first touch was the best of his generation as an England player, as was his delivery from out wide. Then there was his general passing and free kicks. Add to all this a fantastic engine that meant he ran all game every game too.

Decent? I could name hundreds of players who have been decent and none of them would have played very often for their Countries or indeed Man Utd and Real Madrid.

World class is always subjective, but he was a lot closer to that end of the spectrum imo.

 

OK Col, we know your opinion and mine and Watford's etc. I know you're a big admirer. I'm not. He won One Champions League with ManU and zero with Real Madrid and zero World Player of the year awards. He is no Messi or Ronaldo, We'll leave it there ok?

 

Beckham was no Messi or Ronaldo, but he was a player I think both would have liked behind and out wide right of them to supply some of their bullets.

 

I never said that he was a Ronaldo or Messi. They are two of the greatest players to have lived imo.

I simply don't agree with your assertion that he was merely a decent player. Our Pawel is a decent player. Do you think he's as good as Beckham was?

Also, what you fail to mention is that he was twice runner up for FIFA world player of the year and was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
He won the Premier League 6 times, the FA Cup twice and as you say, the Champions League.
As for Real Madrid. He won La Liga there in his final season.

 

Completely agree. I think some people, particularly when it's another clubs player and they've been retired a few years and what not, simply just forget/choose not to remember how good some of these guys actually were. Beckham is "one of" the greatest wingers in PL history.

 

OK, the only thing I would say is, I saw something on facebook where 15,000 Man United fans voted their all time ManU11 during Alex Ferguson's tenure as Manager and Beckham strangely is not included. That says it all.

 

15,000 is hardly representative and probably is an indication of people not liking him, rather than judging him purely on footballing ability.

Anyway, I don't think we're going to get anywhere. You think he was a "decent" player, I think he was much better than that.

 

ok - and 1 runner up in world player of the year, 1999.

Leave it there.