{"id":20156,"date":"2025-09-13T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:22:06","slug":"i-had-dinner-date-with-the-beckhams-poshs-behaviour-struck-me-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20156\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I had dinner date with the Beckhams \u2013 Posh’s behaviour struck me’ | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Rooney insists Victoria Beckham<\/a> is much funnier than she’s given credit for. Rooney<\/a> has opened up about dining with the former Spice Girl and his former England team-mate, David.<\/a> while they were living in Spain.<\/p>\n

Rooney joined Manchester United<\/a> 12 months after Beckham’s departure to Real Madrid,<\/a> although the duo had already played together at international level. Rooney has recalled spending time at Beckham’s Spanish residence, where he was accompanied by fellow England internationals, including Frank Lampard.<\/a> Speaking on his Wayne Rooney Show podcast<\/a> for the BBC<\/a>, he said: “I remember years ago we got invited to Becks’ for dinner.<\/p>\n

“Opened the door and bumped his head. But yeah that was surreal and we sat there with Becks and Victoria having dinner, it was like…’ Co-host Kelly Somers then asked: “What was dinner? Was it posh?<\/p>\n

Rooney, 39, revealed: “No. We met up with Becks and Victoria, me and Coleen, when he was at Madrid, and went for dinner then and we were having kebabs.”<\/p>\n

Rooney singled out Victoria’s sense of humour, saying: “He’s obviously a great lad and Victoria’s such a lovely woman and funny. A lot funnier than people would think.”<\/p>\n

Beckham’s spell in Madrid lasted four years before he made the revolutionary switch to the MLS as he joined LA Galaxy. Viewed as a surprising move at the time, the former England captain’s choice opened the door for the likes of Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Ashley Cole to make the transition to the States.<\/p>\n

He spent five and a half years in Los Angeles and secured consecutive MLS Cup triumphs. Victoria was also a popular figure among his Galaxy team-mates and their families, including Carlos Pavon, whose son, Carlos Pavon Jr, has fond memories of socialising with the Beckhams.<\/p>\n

Recalling one particular social engagement, he told the La Pelota Al DIEZ podcast: “It was the birthday of one of his sons. They had a party in a giant park and there were inflatable trampolines and the whole team was there, his whole family was there.<\/p>\n

“I was playing with his son on the inflatable trampoline and we were jumping, and then out of nowhere, I notice the kid’s mum comes in, David’s wife, Victoria She started jumping with us and I was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this with Victoria Beckham!’<\/p>\n

“Everybody saw when she came in and started jumping with us, so when I came out, I think they all saw my surprised face, like, ‘Wow, that just happened.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney insists Victoria Beckham is much funnier than she’s given credit for. Rooney has opened up about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,21240,156,21241,111,139,69,21242,21239,21238],"class_list":["post-20156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-david-beckham","tag-entertainment","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sense-of-humour","tag-victoria-beckham","tag-wayne-rooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}