Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (NBC, Monday July 16, 8:00)
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From NBC.com:
This revealing special hour delves into Victoria's larger-than-life world to reveal, among other things, her wicked sense of humor and style. Her willingness to poke fun at her image leads to some of the most insightful and hilarious moments, as Victoria enlists her tight circle of friends to shop for a new home and acclimate to life in Los Angeles.
(taking her driver's license picture)
Now the DL pic taking is funny.
I can't wait to see it! I love Victoria! I saw the preview and it looks really cute and funny! I'll be sure to check out Jay Leno tomorrow, too!
Anyone watching her on Leno right now? She's so funny and down-to-earth.
(I love her when she's not looking so Haute Couture all the time!)
She was telling a story about when she and David bought a blow-up doll from a sex shop and put it in one of Victoria's dresses. She said the paparazzi were following it around for three days.
Then she said she didn't understand why the doll had the : O expression, because it's very unattractive.
She also said the blow-up doll thing will be on Monday's special.
(I love her when she's not looking so Haute Couture all the time!)
She was telling a story about when she and David bought a blow-up doll from a sex shop and put it in one of Victoria's dresses. She said the paparazzi were following it around for three days.
Then she said she didn't understand why the doll had the : O expression, because it's very unattractive.
She also said the blow-up doll thing will be on Monday's special.
AHHH!
Jay just said she had a beautiful smile and she said she's lately become self-conscious that she always looks like a "miserable *****" (her words, not mine) in photos.
Jay just said she had a beautiful smile and she said she's lately become self-conscious that she always looks like a "miserable *****" (her words, not mine) in photos.
I watched that and thought it was totally cute. I had only seen all the "miserable *****" (haha) looking pics of her in magazines and thought she kinda seemed like a bump on a log, but it totally changed my mind about her. She's got a cute personality and I'm excited to see the show!
I also thought she was a miserable ***** from the expression in all of her photos. But I have to say that she was quite charming and funny on Leno.
The NYpost pans her show, but she does talk about handbags!
SHORT CHANGED
By LINDA STASI
July 16, 2007 -- NBC should get down on its knees and make a giant no vena of thanks that soccer star David Beckham was called back to Europe before it could finish filming his relentlessly self-promoting wife's reality series, "Victoria Beckham: Coming to America."
And, while we're at it, the aforementioned relentlessly self-promoting wife should do the same.
If this weren't a one-shot deal and people were exposed to her vapid, condescending behavior on a weekly basis, she'd not just be unwelcome in America, she'd be run out on a rail - whatever that means.
Anyway, the proposed series, now downsized to a one-hour "special," is an orgy of self-indulgence so out of whack with, er, reality that you'll sit there slack-jawed at the gall of these people who think we are that stupid.
What's shocking is that it's from Simon Fuller, the "American Idol" genius.
The Beckhams drive to become as famous in the U.S. as they are in the U.K. is driven, of course, by Beck's signing a $250 million (yes, million) contract to play for the LA Galaxy soccer team. Good luck.
Until soccer can have as many commercials as football, baseball or basketball, it will never be covered as big time on U.S. TV. And without soccer taking hold, I don't think they will ever achieve their dreamed-of status as the most famous couple in the U.S.
Tonight's special opens with Victoria - a former Spice Girl who had the great, good fortune to marry the world's best looking man - fretting over how much she has to do to prepare to move to America. She's got to find a house and a manicurist! Oh, the pressure.
The announcer then informs us that everything we thought about Victoria Beckham is probably wrong! Really?
I, for one, have never thought anything about Beckham - and now, I think even less.
She frets that there are paparazzi at the airport to meet her - as though it weren't all set up. "Maybe they thought Madonna was on the plane," she says displaying modesty that is about as real as her hair color. Dear God.
She then introduces us to her "best friends" who, like poor Paula Abdul's, are on her payroll - the hairdresser and the makeup artist who travel with her.
She then goes to a set-up luncheon with "The Beverly Hills Socialites" club at this nightmarishly overdone rococo mansion filled with much older women - all blondes - who have so much unfortunate plastic surgery they look truly frightening. Sad. Really sad - but then again who is Beckham to come here and make fun of these women by pretending not to?
For reasons I hope never to understand, Marla Maples is there too - the youngest by about 40 years.
Beckham, who is bizarrely constantly posing even in her own home, offers insights about how major a certain purse is or how her new phone has changed her life.
Her entourage laughs at everything she says as though they were hanging with Dave Chappelle, and clings to her every thought as though she were Stephen Hawking.
The "special" which NBC calls an "exclusive" inside look at Victoria's larger-than-life life smacks of too much fame, too much money and too much time spent believing the hype for all concerned.
"Victoria Beckham: Coming to America"
Tonight at 8 on NBC
The NYpost pans her show, but she does talk about handbags!
SHORT CHANGED
By LINDA STASI
July 16, 2007 -- NBC should get down on its knees and make a giant no vena of thanks that soccer star David Beckham was called back to Europe before it could finish filming his relentlessly self-promoting wife's reality series, "Victoria Beckham: Coming to America."
And, while we're at it, the aforementioned relentlessly self-promoting wife should do the same.
If this weren't a one-shot deal and people were exposed to her vapid, condescending behavior on a weekly basis, she'd not just be unwelcome in America, she'd be run out on a rail - whatever that means.
Anyway, the proposed series, now downsized to a one-hour "special," is an orgy of self-indulgence so out of whack with, er, reality that you'll sit there slack-jawed at the gall of these people who think we are that stupid.
What's shocking is that it's from Simon Fuller, the "American Idol" genius.
The Beckhams drive to become as famous in the U.S. as they are in the U.K. is driven, of course, by Beck's signing a $250 million (yes, million) contract to play for the LA Galaxy soccer team. Good luck.
Until soccer can have as many commercials as football, baseball or basketball, it will never be covered as big time on U.S. TV. And without soccer taking hold, I don't think they will ever achieve their dreamed-of status as the most famous couple in the U.S.
Tonight's special opens with Victoria - a former Spice Girl who had the great, good fortune to marry the world's best looking man - fretting over how much she has to do to prepare to move to America. She's got to find a house and a manicurist! Oh, the pressure.
The announcer then informs us that everything we thought about Victoria Beckham is probably wrong! Really?
I, for one, have never thought anything about Beckham - and now, I think even less.
She frets that there are paparazzi at the airport to meet her - as though it weren't all set up. "Maybe they thought Madonna was on the plane," she says displaying modesty that is about as real as her hair color. Dear God.
She then introduces us to her "best friends" who, like poor Paula Abdul's, are on her payroll - the hairdresser and the makeup artist who travel with her.
She then goes to a set-up luncheon with "The Beverly Hills Socialites" club at this nightmarishly overdone rococo mansion filled with much older women - all blondes - who have so much unfortunate plastic surgery they look truly frightening. Sad. Really sad - but then again who is Beckham to come here and make fun of these women by pretending not to?
For reasons I hope never to understand, Marla Maples is there too - the youngest by about 40 years.
Beckham, who is bizarrely constantly posing even in her own home, offers insights about how major a certain purse is or how her new phone has changed her life.
Her entourage laughs at everything she says as though they were hanging with Dave Chappelle, and clings to her every thought as though she were Stephen Hawking.
The "special" which NBC calls an "exclusive" inside look at Victoria's larger-than-life life smacks of too much fame, too much money and too much time spent believing the hype for all concerned.
"Victoria Beckham: Coming to America"
Tonight at 8 on NBC