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David Beckham’s alleged affair with his former PA Rebecca Loos – a timeline: from being spotted outside a nightclub and cheating claims to ‘making himself the victim’ in the Netflix docuseries

Rebecca Loos and David Beckham allegedly had an affair. Photos: @ThatGWanker/X; AP
Rebecca Loos and David Beckham allegedly had an affair. Photos: @ThatGWanker/X; AP

  • Football legend David Beckham has had his fair share of scandalous headlines over the years – particularly his alleged affair with Rebecca Loos while married to his wife, Victoria Beckham
  • Almost 20 years after Loos gave her shocking tell-all interview on Sky News, the former model and reality star slammed Becks for ‘making himself the victim’ in the new Netflix docuseries

Now that the whole world has binged new Netflix docuseries Beckham, you’d have to be living under a rock to not know anything about the former footballer’s alleged cheating scandal with Dutch model and reality TV star Rebecca Loos.
Rebecca Loos and the Beckhams were embroiled in a relationship scandal in the early 2000s. Photos: @RedandLegs/X, AFP
Rebecca Loos and the Beckhams were embroiled in a relationship scandal in the early 2000s. Photos: @RedandLegs/X, AFP

We look back at David Beckham’s alleged affair with his former personal assistant when he lived in Madrid 20 years ago – and what she had to say about Beckham.

September 2003: David Beckham is seen with a brunette at a nightclub in Madrid

Rebecca Loos was identified as the mystery brunette whom David Beckham was spotted with in Madrid. Photo: @RebeccaLoos_/X
Rebecca Loos was identified as the mystery brunette whom David Beckham was spotted with in Madrid. Photo: @RebeccaLoos_/X
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The affair scandal began with Beckham’s move to Madrid to play for the football team Real Madrid in the summer of 2003. In September, a few months after the move, Beckham was spotted on a night out with a mystery brunette in Madrid, the Guardian reported. The person was later identified as Rebecca Loos, his personal assistant in the Spanish city.

April 2004: Rebecca Loos claims she and Beckham had an affair

Rebecca Loos, the former personal assistant of David Beckham, poses before her TVshow called Shownews in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2004. Photo: Reuters
Rebecca Loos, the former personal assistant of David Beckham, poses before her TVshow called Shownews in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2004. Photo: Reuters

On April 4, 2004, the UK’s News of the World newspaper published a story that alleged Beckham had an affair with Loos, who had since been fired as his assistant. Later that month, Loos gave a tell-all TV interview with Sky News, in which she said they had first slept together the night they were spotted at the nightclub in September.

“I think the chemistry between David and I was so strong, and people were not happy because I was being very unprofessional and he’s a married man,” she said, adding: “We dropped off the other two people in the car and started kissing quite passionately all the way back to the hotel. It was like magnets, pretty amazing.”

The infamous Rebecca Loos during her younger years. Photo: SCMP Archives
The infamous Rebecca Loos during her younger years. Photo: SCMP Archives