Recently in an interview on the UK based TV show This morning David Beckham revealed plenty about adjusting to life in America, his celebrity friends, holiday plans, and how he prefers to sleep nude. When asked what he preferred, pajamas or know pajamas, he sheepishly grinned: “No pajamas.”
The Six Million Dollar Man, Beckham, also spoke about how well the family is settling into the American Life.
On adapting to life in the USA: “I think the most important thing for us was that the kids settled. And the boys have settled, they love their school; they love their way of life. To be honest Romeo keeps saying awesome a lot and there are other little certain things that they keep coming out with. But I’m from London, so is Victoria. I’m a little bit more common than my wife but them hearing my accent they sound as if they’re from London and that’s how I want them to sound. But they are getting little parts of the American accent.”
On having celebrity neighbors: “I always get star-struck. Even if I’m in the coffee shop, you see someone buying a coffee and you’re like, is that who I think it is and you don’t want to look and be a fan but you can’t help it.”
On his friend Tom Cruise: “He’s been working in Berlin and he back in LA now and I’m looking forward to just hanging with him and just having some fun.”
On his Holiday plans: “I love London, I love being back in England and I love being back in London. It’s where I’m from, it’s where Victoria’s from and Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without being back here.”
On wife Victoria’s busy schedule and reuniting with the Spice Girls: “She’s been busy since we arrived in America. Since I’ve been away she’s been dropping the kids off at school and then going straight to rehearsals. She’ll start rehearsals at nine, have a half-hour break and finish and be home at seven, so she’s working really, really hard at the moment. It’s definitely going to be an amazing show. She loves being with the girls, she loves being back with the girls and doing something that she’s not done for quite a few years now. Victoria always says all our boys know what daddy does. He plays football in front of all these people but they’ve never seen actually what mummy used to do. So that was one of the reasons why she really wanted to do it. It’s going to be amazing. All the boys are going to love it but especially Romeo; Romeo’s the performer in the family. He’s going to be the next Justin Timberlake hopefully.”
Becks also posted an entry on his blog about his game aginst Sydney FC and his charity “The David Beckham Academy”. As reported on Styletraxxs, Beckham, celebrates the two year anniversary of his Greenwich based football academy, “The David Beckham Academy.” The “Academy” is the largest and most hi-tech sporting facility of its kind in Europe; and has welcomed over 20,000 children and almost 1,000 schools to use the facility for free as part of its national free schools day visit program.
From Becks Blog...
Hello from Australia,
I’m really happy to have finally made it over - the people have been amazing and I’ve been made to feel really welcome. I’ve always wanted to visit Australia as well as New Zealand, which I’m off to on Thursday, so it’s a great feeling to be here.
I’m writing this to you the day after our game against Sydney FC. It was disappointing to lose the match even though it was a friendly, as I always want to win, but I was pleased to play the full game and of course, score a goal. I practice free kicks enough, so it’s always a great feeling when they go in.
The atmosphere in the Telstra Stadium was amazing and it was a really entertaining match for the 80,000 fans. We really enjoyed playing, despite the result, and now look forward to the game against Wellington Phoenix on Saturday.
I was a bit worried when I went over on my ankle. I thought it might be the same injury I’d had for Real Madrid on the last day of the season, but I managed to play on and finish the game ok, so thankfully it wasn’t that bad.
This Thursday is also the 2nd anniversary of The David Beckham Academy in the UK. I went along to the Academy last week, and you’ll be able to see my video footage of the day on davidbeckham.com later this week. But as I’m in Australia at the moment I can’t be there on Thursday, so I would just like to say thanks to all the coaches and staff for their hard work over the past two years and also a big thank you to all the children that have visited and enjoyed the Academy.
That’s all for now. I’ll let you know how New Zealand goes.
David”