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Posh dismisses Scientology claims
Wednesday 11 July 2007
In an interview to be broadcast on NBC's 'Today' show on Thursday, Posh Spice says the couple have been a source of support to her family as they prepare to move to the US and describes the couple as "wonderful" people.
She says: "There's been so much made of the Scientology - the this, the that. They are genuinely lovely people. Wonderful family."
Beckham denied the issue of scientology ever came up. "They do their thing. We do our thing. They are a wonderful family," she says. "She's a very strong, sweet, lovely girl. She's helped me so much with the move. She's genuinely a nice girl."
Yesterday, Beckham insisted she was "just a normal girl from London" who happened to be "living quite a surreal life" with her soccer star husband and their three young boys.
Americans will judge for themselves, when the newest British import is seen in a one-hour NBC special, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America, set for screening on July 16.
"It's funny. People really get to see what I'm really like. I have quite a dry sense of humour, which I hope is going to translate to Americans," Mrs Beckham said by phone to Los Angeles from her UK home where boxes were piled up ahead of the family's move today. "I'm incredibly blessed and I wanted to show that to everybody."
David Beckham appears briefly in the special, but viewers will not see the couple's sons - Brooklyn, nine, Romeo, four, and Cruz, two - or their best friends, Cruise and Holmes.
"We don't ever allow the children to be photographed or filmed. We like them to be normal kids," she said. "I didn't want any of my friends in there, either."
Other than the recently-announced Spice Girls reunion tour, Victoria denied she was planning to resurrect her showbiz career in Los Angeles.
The Spice Girls tour is set to open on December 7 in Los Angeles, reuniting the five-member girl group that sold millions of records in the 1990s before breaking up in 2001. A greatest hits album with a couple of new songs will be out in December. The women now have seven children between them.
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