Rebecca Loos, a Dutch media personality and former glamour model.
The allegations led to Loos appearing on several reality television series, magazine covers, and in other media for a few years thereafter.
Who is Rebecca Loos?
Rebecca Loos was born in Madrid, Spain, but holds Dutch citizenship.
Her father, Leonard Loos Bartholdi, was a Dutch diplomat, and her mother, Elizabeth Loos, is originally from Surrey, England.
Loos was privately educated at Runnymede College in Madrid.
She is a second cousin of Piers Morgan, who was editor of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper when Loos initially gained media attention.
Career
Rebecca Loos became the personal assistant to former England national football team captain David Beckham when he transferred to Real Madrid in July 2003.
Her employment was terminated a few months later and Loos subsequently gave an interview to the British tabloid newspaper News of the World in April 2004, alleging that she and Beckham had conducted a four-month affair whilst he was married to his wife Victoria.
The claims were never corroborated and were dismissed by Beckham as “ludicrous”, although he did not mount a legal challenge to the story.
Shortly after the newspaper coverage of her alleged affair with Beckham, Loos commenced a career as a media personality. In 2004, she briefly appeared as a hostess on the Dutch TV programme Shownieuws.
In October 2004, Loos made a controversial appearance on the reality television programme The Farm, a Channel 5 version of the Raidió Teilifís Éireann show Celebrity Farm.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals accused producers of pandering to a “morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals”, while People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Mediawatch-uk demanded the show be taken off the air.
In 2005, Rebecca Loos appeared on the ITV network reality television show Celebrity Love Island.
The same year, Loos took part in a staged wedding ceremony with American fashion model Jenny Shimizu for the television programme Power Lesbian UK to protest against America’s laws on same-s3x marriage.
It was broadcast in the United States as Power Lesbians on Logo TV. The two had a relationship for a period thereafter. Loos has stated that she is bisexual and “has been ever since was a teenager.”
Rebecca Loos played for the England Women’s football team in a Sky TV charity event in 2006.
In April that same year, she also ran the London Marathon, and raised more than £7,000 in sponsorship for the British Red Cross.
Later, in May, Rebecca Loos appeared on The X Factor: Battle of the Stars alongside James Hewitt, in which she famously received a negative reception from judge Sharon Osbourne.
Rebecca Loos was a contestant on the Spanish version of Survivor in 2007, in which she came third.
In November of that year, she appeared in Sky TV’s Cirque de Celebrite in which she was one of two new contestants introduced midway through the series.
In 2008, Rebecca Loos was a guest on The Podge and Rodge Show.
In September, she had a part in a Dutch feature film called Mijn vader is een Detective (English: My father is a detective).
In October, she took part in the Dutch version of 71 Degrees North (71 Graden Noord).
Loos has been featured on the covers of Playboy, FHM, Nuts, Zoo Weekly and other men’s magazines and lad mags.
Rebecca Loos net worth
Rebecca Loos net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $10 million.
She made most of her money from her modeling career and her media appearances.
She also received a large sum of money from News of the World for her exclusive interview about her alleged affair with Beckham in 2004.
ALSO READ: Who is Rebecca Loos married to? Get to know all about her husband and Children
THANK YOU for constantly reading stories on AtinkaNews. You are free to share this story via the various social media platforms . Kindly follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Telegram.
