Ah come now people. The Beckhams are a young family and doing ok at that and we feel the need to berate their every move? It's a sunny day here and they haven't killed anyone and we should be above the cheap tabloid pot shot taking.

Ok so he erred on the side of 'morality' once - considering the temptation he has that's not a stoning sin in my book.

According to their respective families as they grew up as kids, he was always training on the footie field and she spent a lot of her time in singing/dancing classes. No drugs, no alcohol, no underage pregnancies, no petty criminal records, no hanging around on street corners making a nuisance of themselves - not that bad as role models are they?

Now they have kids of their own, are great parents and fully supported by close knit families. No hanging the kids out of first floor windows a la Whacko Jacko style, no draping them in aunty Maud's curtains and no over used nannies.

I'd rather my kids have their posters on their walls than some coke snorting minor celeb who gets in the gutter press for throwing the occasional punch as they fall out of a club at three in the morning charlied up to the nines.

Oh but I feel so affronted - they are on my tv screen, then turn it off, quit the whining and do something else.

They are doing no harm, if some say they make kids aspire to unrealistic goals of stardom instead of the more tried and tested academic paths - then ask yourself why your child has grown up like that. Like all teen idols they are here and now. People place too much importance on them, and unless you are from the generation that still has teen idols, you ain't never got get it.