Honestly I have loved that Easy V is now a Real lady! 😂

She has a Netflix documentary out next month. Wonder if the girls will be featured.

I can see Melanie C or Emma potentially being in it. Melanie was in the Beckham documentary but was the only one wasn't she?

I'm still pissed we are getting this and not the Spice Girls one, like seriously pissed.

21 hours ago, Spiceboy said:

I can see Melanie C or Emma potentially being in it. Melanie was in the Beckham documentary but was the only one wasn't she?

I'm still pissed we are getting this and not the Spice Girls one, like seriously pissed.

Yeah me too. Such a f***ing downgrade... Specially since Victoria will not dive into her music career that much other than a few moments on how she used to be a popstar etc... if it was a documentary about that, I would lap it up! Alas...

I coud see Emma being in it as they seem close, same with Mel C.

Anyway, I will wait to see what the documentary is about and then see if I can be bothered.

Question: is this a 1-episode documentary or a series?

3 episodes series

OK at least it doesnt look like she is poking fun at the Spice Girls or her singing, so far! I will watch the first episode and then probably swich off when it gets to the fashion stuff

I saw some people complimenting the fact she is crying as a vulnerability thing, but honestly it falls flat to me when she is crying about not being recognised enough while sitting on the balcony of her multi-million massion with a massive land of her country estate behind her. I don't know...

Edited September 18Sep 18 by Mr.X

The rich also cry..

She can have vulnerabilities even if she is rich. She has had a career of being rich but ridiculed it must have played on her mental health a lot.

However I can understand your point too tbf.

Edited September 18Sep 18 by Spiceboy

21 hours ago, Yousee said:

The rich also cry..

Well, she has a doco to sell. Nothing more satisfying than a come-to-Jesus-let-it-all-out moment.

Seated for this after watching the trailer!

It'd be rude not to crack out the Vicky B Pepsi glass for the occasion x

Quite an extensive interview with her in The Sunday Times Style magazine today. It's behind a paywall so I'm sharing it here:

Victoria Beckham: ‘It takes a lot to make me cry, but I did cry’

The former Spice Girl wanted to make it in fashion, but she had to prove herself. Now, a new Netflix documentary highlights the struggles

Victoria Beckham is in recovery. After years of addiction, the former Spice Girl has turned a corner. “I was a control freak,” she says with the comical solemnity of a disgraced but repentant politician. “I am not sure I am one any more. I am healed.” She pauses for dramatic effect and then cackles like a fishwife.

The reason for Beckham’s sudden personal enlightenment? Her new three-part Netflix documentary, Victoria Beckham, which drops this week and which she spent a year making: talking to camera, revisiting her past, both her failures and her wins, and finally laying herself bare after a lifetime of obfuscation.

The documentary covers her years as a Spice Girl, the impact they have had on her life, the hurdles of launching her own luxury fashion label in 2008 to an initial chorus of derision, her struggles to turn a profit (in 2024 revenues grew 26 per cent to almost £113 million, up from £89 million in 2023) and the dogged determination it took her to get there, culminating with her triumphant autumn/winter 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week in March.

But the above details, apart from the official trailer that drops two days after our interview, in which Beckham is seen crying while her husband assures her that of course she can make a ham and cheese sandwich, are all mere speculation because, unusually, no one (not even members of the press) has been allowed to see the docuseries in advance of its premiere. Why would Netflix choose not to drum up the noise for a show that is likely to be a global hit? I guess we’ll soon find out.

Beckham and I are sitting side by side on a long sofa in a large, glass-doored meeting room at her slick office in Hammersmith, London, where young hipster employees (baggy trousers, boxy jackets, mullets and piercings etc) mill around outside chatting and laughing.

Their boss is, of course, very differently attired. Her mid-length brunette hair is gently waved, her face immaculately made up and glowing. She’s wearing a grey pencil skirt, a white T-shirt, a black oversized blazer (all Victoria Beckham label) and a pair of burgundy, spike-heeled Saint Laurent mules (a thin gold chain dangles from one ankle), her tanned legs crossed with ballerina-like precision. A Hermès Birkin bag (she is thought to own more than a hundred) sits above hefty art books on the low coffee table in front of us, next to which is a huge raw crystal amethyst bowl. “I’m a big believer in the healing powers of crystals,” she says when I comment on it. “I am an energy person. I carry crystals in my handbag and put them by my bedside.” Two other large crystals (of the diamond variety) adorn her fingers.

So why did she finally agree to make the documentary? “I’ve been defined by a four-year period in my life. That was the Spice Girls,” she says as if we need reminding. “It’s taken me almost two decades to fight that and I feel that only now can I look back and talk about it. I’m not going to lie, being asked questions about when I was in the Spice Girls was quite triggering. And I’d say those were the most difficult moments. It was almost like therapy for me.”

While the documentary’s promotional material primarily focuses on her fashion story, she continues talking about the band. “I love the Spice Girls,” she says, “I really do. And it’s been great reflecting on that time. The other night I had dinner with Emma and Geri, and Mel B messaged me at the weekend. I still speak to all of the girls. I’m so proud of everything we did. I wouldn’t have been who I am now if it wasn’t for the Spice Girls, 100 per cent.”

The spoils of her music career are displayed on a window ledge behind us: various Brit, MTV and Ivor Novello awards. On another are mini, Labubu-like sculptures by the artist Kaws and further down are school portraits of Harper, her only daughter, now 14.

When we meet, Beckham says she has not yet seen the final edit of Victoria Beckham, which seems extraordinary. How is that possible when we’re three weeks away from its release? Perhaps even more extraordinary is the fact she agreed to do it at all. Was it to do with her husband’s phenomenally successful four-part documentary, Beckham, which aired in 2023 and has since garnered well over 30 million views?

“If I’m being completely honest, I didn’t love me in that documentary,” she says of her husband’s. But she changed her mind when the now famous clip — the one where she declares herself to be a working-class girl, only for David to remind her that she was driven to school in a Rolls-Royce — went viral. It felt like a candid, unrehearsed moment, which she assures me it was. “Totally. He was meant to have left for work but was watching the monitor in another room,” she says of the moment David put his head round the door.

“I was surprised by how positive the feedback was with what I brought to it. David’s documentary made me realise how good it feels to be wrong. I like being wrong. I was wrong, and bring it on. I love that.”

David gave his two cents’ worth on the Today show in America earlier this year when he said: “[Making her own documentary] wasn’t the easiest thing to get her to agree to, but in my opinion she was the star of mine.” If the “ham and cheese sandwich” incident in the trailer is anything to go by he might well end up being the star of hers.

But whatever the show holds, there’s no denying Victoria Beckham has been successful at the one thing nobody thought she was capable of — growing a bona fide, globally respected, high-end fashion label. Was there anything she said no to talking about? “No. I mean, I touch on my family, I touch on the Spice Girls, the problems we’ve had with the business, you know, the money we’ve lost — there have been lots of triggers. I cried. Like I said, I haven’t seen the final edit, but yes, I did cry. It takes quite a lot to make me cry, but I did cry. You know, I’ve earned my place to show in Paris, I’ve earned the respect.”

What was her biggest hurdle? “That I was just a celebrity brand. But the difference is I wanted to learn the industry, not just throw out something that might promise a return. I wanted to understand and learn my trade. I haven’t talked before about the struggles that the business has been through. We’ve all seen the headlines, but this is the first time I also talk a lot about the business journey and how it hasn’t all been easy.”

Back in 2008 she entered the fray, designing a tightly edited ten-dress collection, and then in 2017, following a £30 million investment by the private equity firm Neo Investment Partners, she expanded her line and went on to start showing in Paris in 2022. I wonder if the involvement of a private equity firm pushed her too far, its focus trained on turning a quick profit, as is usually the case. But she’s having none of that. “They were always more than just about money. They have been incredibly involved. They know about luxury. I won’t give away too much but it’s actually contradictory to what you just said. I picked very well.” She’s right. The fact the firm is still invested speaks to that.

It strikes me as I listen to her how impressively contained and measured she is. There are no obvious traces of her girl band beginnings. She is assertive, eloquent and precise, like a CEO or a friendlier Anna Wintour. And she has good reason to be proud: her clothes — mostly monochromatic, slimline and sophisticated dresses in expensive fabrics that retail somewhere between £600 and £2,000 — have become red carpet staples, worn by the likes of Phoebe Dynevor (in diaphanous pale pink tulle and lace at last year’s Met Gala), Zoe Saldaña, Kim Kardashian, Helena Christensen, Adwoa Aboah, and notably now by the Princess of Wales, who wore one of her suits when she presented the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design at an event hosted by the British Fashion Council this spring.

Perhaps her greatest accolade, however, is the now constant presence, and implied endorsement, of Wintour on the front row at her shows. “I had to prove myself to her,” she says. “She didn’t come at the beginning. But I have to say, she has been incredibly supportive and kind. But did I have to work for her approval? Absolutely. I had to work for a lot of people’s approval.”

As someone who loves fashion so much, she must have been relieved to have a daughter after three sons. “All our kids have their own sense of style. Harper is very appropriate in the way she dresses. She’s got her own style — her jeans and, you know, her little top and her ballet pumps. She’s a little mini-me — she’s very similar to me. She’s a good girl. She’s incredibly funny — she’s got a very dry sense of humour.”

When it comes to family, she says she and David are “really close to the kids. Harper’s still 14, so she’s living at home. So is Cruz, who is 20. I see both of them every day. Romeo doesn’t live at home, so I see a little less of him.” I am told that questions about the recent tabloid speculation about a fall-out with their eldest son, Brooklyn, will not be answered, which, I think, is fair enough.

Beckham tells me the family have dinner round the dining-room table every night. “David’s such a good dad,” she says. “He’s so hands-on. When he’s home, he makes Harper lunch, he makes her breakfast. He made her a salad the other day for lunch and cut a tomato in the shape of a heart for her.” She laughs. “By the way, all our vegetables come from our vegetable patch in the country. David’s very proud of his vegetables and he loves a Sunday roast and he always cooks Christmas dinner.” He sounds like a good husband. “It’s just nice to come home at the end of the day and relax and laugh,” she says. “I think people don’t realise how funny he is and we both like to laugh a lot, and I find that quite relaxing and calming.”

Surely there are some marital peculiarities? “David likes his own fresh book,” she says. What does that mean? “I’ll read a book and then pass it on to my mother or my sister. But David insists on a fresh book.” Plus, it turns out he’s not above the occasional tease. “I was wandering around the house in the brightest red lip yesterday and David was like, ‘Oh, wow, you made an effort for a Sunday at home.’ I’m like, ‘No, no, I’m wear-testing this.’”

Wear-testing, it turns out, is what beauty brand founders do before they launch a product. “I like to try everything out,” she says. “I’m really involved with the development process of all of the make-up, all of the formulas.”

Her eponymous beauty brand was an instant hit when it launched, in part because of her online tutorials that get millions of views, but more importantly because her products are widely considered to be excellent. Then came her astute collaboration with the German biomedical scientist and skincare brand founder Augustinus Bader, most recently to create a skin-enhancing foundation. “The success has been phenomenal, and that’s another thing I’m so proud of — for a fashion brand to be taken seriously and have credibility in beauty, that’s tough, but then to be taken seriously in skincare, that’s even harder.”

So what does it take to keep her life as a businesswoman and mother of four going? Beckham’s routine is not for the faint-hearted. She gets up at 6.30 every morning, works out for half an hour and then, when David returns from taking Harper to school (“we tag-team school run drop-offs and pick-ups, depending on our work schedules”), the pair do a one-and-a-half-hour session together with their trainer. So she trains for two hours a day? “Yes,” she says. She also uses her LED mask for half an hour daily while listening to podcasts. “I fall asleep with it on.”

She says she doesn’t watch television, so does she listen to music while training — the Spice Girls maybe? “No,” she says. But it turns out the children do. “We were on holiday this summer, travelling around in the car with Romeo, Cruz, Harper and one of their friends, and they were listening to the Spice Girls.”

Speaking of music, she mentions she saw Oasis at Wembley Stadium in July, her old contemporaries from the Nineties. “I just think their mum must be so happy,” she says of the Gallagher brothers reconciling. “It must have been really tough on the mum, the boys not talking for all those years. And I just think as a mum, that must be … she must feel so happy to see her boys getting on.”

She pauses for a moment, lost in thought, before returning to business. “As to your previous question — why I decided to do the documentary — it’s because I love this industry. I have so much respect for it. It’s an industry everybody participates in whether they acknowledge it or not — the reason being it’s illegal to go out without any clothes on.”

The fishwife cackle explodes once again as she heads back to work.

Victoria Beckham starts on Netflix on Thursday

I'd like to know if the documentary is worth seeing: if there's enough about the Spice Girls/interview of the Spice Girls.

I cancelled my Netflix over a year ago, but would temporarily resubscribe if it's spicey enough!

This is dull and completely surface level. All of the scenes felt unnatural and it's clear she's not comfortable with a camera following her daily life.

On 09/10/2025 at 08:02, Yousee said:

I'd like to know if the documentary is worth seeing: if there's enough about the Spice Girls/interview of the Spice Girls.

I cancelled my Netflix over a year ago, but would temporarily resubscribe if it's spicey enough!

Apparently just 20 minutes of the overall documentary covers Spice Girls stuff 😔 and none of the other girls are talking heads in it.

On 09/10/2025 at 09:42, colinn said:

This is dull and completely surface level. All of the scenes felt unnatural and it's clear she's not comfortable with a camera following her daily life.

Seems the reviews largely agree with you, there's a very "meh" reaction to it overall. One review said that we don't learn anything we don't already know, another called it a puff piece.

I don't think I'm in any rush to watch this, oops.

I enjoyed it but yeah there was barely any talk of the Spice Girls, really that should have been the main focus for the first episode,

Love seeing her back on tv again tho she’s so funny

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Yikes!...

Well, the doc is nice overall but everything is so scripted, even the emonial moments.

I enjoyed it but it's too surface level. I don't mind that she focused mostly on the fashion business but it does not show her creative process or how it's Victoria Beckham that sets her apart from other celebrity fashion brand. Yes, we know she has the drive but she doesn't how she works with that drive.