Thread: Posh's TV show backfires as bid to woo America

This makes me soooo happy. I can't stand her.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070717/...HMPDjHp8pH2ocA

Victoria Beckham's bid to woo Americans has backfired with damning reviews of a reality TV show that she hoped would overturn her image here as a sour-faced diva.

The New York Post called Monday night's show "an orgy of self-indulgence" and described Beckham as "vapid and condescending."

Beckham, 33, wife of British soccer legend David Beckham, arrived in Los Angeles last week in a media blitz promoting the couple as style icons and mega-celebrities both on and off the soccer field.

David Beckham has signed a $250 million contract over five years with the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team.

Victoria Beckham, Posh in the 1990s British girl band The Spice Girls, had hoped Monday's prime-time reality special "Victoria Beckham: Coming to America" would showcase her humor and personality to a nation which has heard much but knows little of her outside pictures.

"I think people will really get to see what I'm really like. I'm just a normal girl from London. People can have preconceptions because of the photographs they see of me and the stories they read," she told reporters last week.

Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times said that such reality shows "rely on a fish-out-of-water conceit but in Beverly Hills she is a fish-in-Evian, one rich, blonde, spray tanned wife-of among many."

Viewing figures released on Tuesday showed that the NBC program documenting Beckham's house-hunting, attempts to get a U.S. driving license and lessons on surviving an earthquake was the third-most watched show in its time slot on Monday.

Some 4.9 million people tuned in, but more watched repeats of ABC's "Wife Swap" and two CBS sitcoms.

"Beckham, who is bizarrely constantly posing even in her own home, offers insights about how major a certain purse is or how her new phone has changed her life," Linda Stasi wrote in The New York Post.

Gail Pennington of the St Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: "To the Brits, they are Posh and Becks. To most Americans they're- who?"

Beckham, who plans to push her jeans, sunglasses and perfume lines in the United States, said last week she hoped Americans would appreciate her dry, British sense of humor.

"If people like it, that's great. If they don't, I'm not losing any sleep over it," she said of the TV special.

I like some brit humor. Young Ones, Are You Being Served, AbFab, Graham Norton, Eddie Izzard & Tracey Ullman Ed vs. Sppencer, & others., but shes just a self-fish, glutonous, plastic surgery victim and dont we have enough of those in America already....

I could never take joy in someone elses downfall... but that being said, I really just do not like this woman. I tried, I really did, I even watched part of the first episode to try and be "wooed"... but I just couldn't take it.

I had no desire at all to watch that show. Most any show where it's all about following the celeb. and their high life style I am not into.

I've never seen anyone so full of theirself. BTW, the two of them are featured in this month's issue of "W" and most of the photos look like they should be in a men's magazine. She sits there in underwear with her legs spread as wide as she can. Classy.........NOT!

Originally Posted by Pepsi4me

She's a has been who's trying to grasp at anything to get in the spot light.

TOTALLY!

DH says that David Beckham is totally gay