Both the Beckhams have aggresively courted publicity for many years now, aided and abetted by the lower echelons of the press. It would be difficult for any UKer not to kno0w who they are, whether interested in football or popp music, or not.

With the sort of blanket coverage this pair gets a lot of people get fed up with having the exploits of the Beckhams forever seeming to be of the greatest national importance. We are treated to this information whether we like it or not. Very much like Paris Hilton over here. I would guess that there would be a sizeable chunk of the population of the UK who would be glad not to hear anything more about their lives at all.

I just hope that, in the USA, their lives stay in the pages of magazines like Hello, rather than leaching into the general press and onto the TV news.