No one could avoid David and Victoria Beckham’s 25th wedding anniversary celebrations on Thursday, July 4. However, many have forgotten that Posh Spice was engaged to a certain Mark Wood before the former football player.
There is life before David Beckham. If the former footballer and his wife Victoria were celebrating their 25the wedding anniversary with lots of vintage photos Thursday July 4th that Daily Mail: However, he remembered that the singer was engaged to another man before the athlete put the ring on his finger. The lucky one? A certain Mark Wood, formerly an electrician in his father’s company, was then responsible for installing anti-theft alarms on behalf of an electronics supply company.
It is noteworthy that the tabloid published black and white photos in which Mark Wood appears with slicked back hair, a denim shirt and a ring in his ear. Victoria Adams, leaning on his back, hugs him, smiling. In another photo, Posh Spice is lying down with her head on her former companion’s chest and her hands on his waist.
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Meeting in high school
The couple met in the 1980s at St Mary’s High School in Cheshunt, when the young lady was 14. The two end up moving in together in Adams’ lavish £400,000 (€471,000) home in Hertfordshire. In 1994, Mark Wood took his courage in both hands and proposed to Victoria. The latter, 20 years old, admits. Then she just auditioned to join the Spice Girls.
However, two years later, the couple broke up after six years of love. However, for some time the young girl continued to call herself Victoria Adams Wood, even using this name on the first Spice Girls spin-off. However, the former couple does not remain on good terms. In the documentary Being VictoriaIn 2002, the singer announced. “We got engaged for I don’t know why. His job was to set alarms. If only it had remained in the closet where I first saw it, at my mother’s.”
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“He was not the right person.”
Comments that do not meet the taste of the main stakeholder; Two years later, the latter was connecting the translator wannabe In a Channel 5 documentary titled Secrets of Victoria Beckham. In particular, she assures that “the breast she has today is certainly not what she had then.” Intervention, which the spokesperson of Channel 5 explains with the following words: “Mark was very hurt by what he said and has no intention of keeping quiet about what makes Victoria blush.”
Regardless, the latter does not weaken his words even on the set of “Big Breakfast”. “He wasn’t the right person for me, I wasn’t having fun, so it had to end,” she explains. She also claims she never returned her engagement ring. “I still have it because it was a crazy ring.” The following year, Victoria Adams met David Beckham while attending a football match. Love at first sight is immediate.
Mark Wood is heartbroken and trying to continue the relationship. That same year, he sang his former partner’s praises in columns People. “It was a very special relationship,” he assures. But that part of my life is over.” Before adding: “It’s sad because we were together for a long time. But he got what he always wanted and I’m proud of him.” Since then, Victoria Adams has become Victoria Beckham and has four children with David: Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 21, Cruz, 19, and Harper, 12.
Source: Le Figaro
