My favourite aspect of this now well-documented story about little Romeo Beckham modelling for the (sometimes dismissed as ‘trashy’) label Burberry, is that now it is NORMAL for a boy to follow in his father’s footsteps, not as a footballer, but as a pin-up.
You Go Romeo!
QRG: ” it is NORMAL for a boy to follow in his father’s footsteps, not as a footballer, but as a pin-up.”
…which of course means that Harper Seven will be the only one with Daddy’s footballing talent and that one of the other sons will end up in a boy band (incidentally, did you know that some of Liverpool FC’s players briefly had the metrosexy soubriquet the ‘Spice Boys’?).
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