EXCLUSIVE: Why Posh FINALLY agreed to film her own Netflix show: ALISON BOSHOFF reveals how David Beckham spent nearly a year persuading Victoria to let in the cameras
David Beckham spent nearly a year persuading his reluctant wife Victoria to make a documentary of her own for Netflix – with Posh telling him she simply was ‘too busy’ to let the cameras in.
A source said this week: ‘Victoria has a day job with her fashion and beauty business, whereas David has professional commitments but they aren’t on the same daily scale. The idea came up seriously as soon as David’s docuseries came out and was such a big hit.
‘But she spent a long time saying no to everyone. It was a no from October 2023 until August 2024. Netflix did their best to persuade her but in the end it was all down to David.
‘He was the one who finally got her to say yes.’
The yes came at the 11th hour because the main narrative of the documentary, according to my source, is her struggles and nerves in the lead up to her fashion show in Paris in September last year.
In early footage from the show, shared at a Netflix event on Wednesday night, she is seen horrified after a downpour threatens to wreck the outdoor catwalk under a marquee in the Chateau de Bagatelle in Paris.
In another clip, she is filmed in the back of a car reflecting that she hopes in making the documentary she will find out why she felt driven to launch her business when she ‘didn’t need to’ do so. She wryly observes: ‘I hope this will be like therapy.’
It can be revealed that the series, tentatively titled Victoria Beckham, started shooting in September last year and is expected to film until June, with a release before the end of 2025.
It can also be revealed that it will not feature sitdown talks with her children Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper. They figure in some scenes both at home and at the fashion show, but are not interviewed. Interviewees will include David – she was the star turn in his doco – plus fashion figures possibly including Vogue boss Anna Wintour, a long-time friend of the couple and supporter of Victoria and her fashion ambitions.
It’s not clear whether any of the Spice Girls will be interviewed about their former bandmate. Nothing has yet been filmed of them and there was some sorrow when she refused to join them in their reunion tour in 2019 and also declined all offers to reform for Glastonbury.
Sources say that Victoria has been filmed at work, at home, and even in the gym in the documentary which is being directed by Nadia Hallgren, who helmed the 2020 Michelle Obama documentary Becoming.
