Victoria Beckham Show Attacked by Critics

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

In an effort to woo Americans, Victoria Beckham stars in her one-hour reality show that she expected to alter her representation in America as a diva with too much attitude.

Yet on Monday night, her show was completely savaged by unflattering critic reviews. The New York Post calls it, “an orgy of self-indulgence”. Beckham also gathered rather unpleasant descriptions such as “vapid” and “condescending”.

Originally conceived as a 6-part series, the reality show “Victoria Beckham: Coming to America” was cut back to a one-part special because sufficient materials for a series did not exists. Despite that, the program was proclaimed to reveal Victoria Beckham’s life and showcase her “wicked sense of humor and style.”

When the program aired, it proved to be a major setback to Victoria Beckham, wife of British soccer icon David Beckham.  Produced by Simon Fuller and Beckham’s manager, the show ironically portrayed Mrs. Beckham as “a fish-in-Evian, one rich, blonde, spray tanned wife-of among many,” according to Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times. Ms. Stanley adds rather brutally by describing Beckham as, “somewhat famous for being sort of famous and is photographed a lot in Britain, a nation so open to media hypnosis that a website devoted to the ripening of a 44-pound wheel of cheddar has received more than a million Internet hits”.

Victoria and husband David Beckham arrived in LA last week in a media spotlight staging the couple to be style icons and big celebrities both on an off the soccer field.

Planning to push her own lines of sunglasses, jeans and perfumes in the United States, Victoria expressed, while plugging the show, her hope that America would understand her dry sense of humor. Consequently, the critics didn’t. They found Victoria Beckham’s driving, house-hunting and consuming champagne “irritating and confounding”.