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Rebecca Loos

Birth name	Rebecca Loos
Born	June 19, 1977 (age 29) Madrid, Spain
Official site	Official Homepage Official Fan Site
Notable roles	Celebrity Love Island, The Farm, Extreme Celebrity Detox, Temptation Island and The X Factor: Battle of the Stars

Rebecca Loos (born on June 19, 1977 in Madrid, Spain) is a glamour model who was personal assistant to English football (soccer) player David Beckham, with whom she claimed that she has had an adulterous relationship.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
2 Major media appearances
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Loos was born in Madrid, Spain, the daughter of a Dutch diplomat and an Anglo-Spanish mother. Growing up, she was privately educated. After moving back to Madrid in 2002, Loos worked for an American investment bank, looking after bankers.

When former England football captain David Beckham moved to Real Madrid, Loos became his personal assistant during the transition period, alongside SFX agent and former Australian international Andy Bernal, who spoke Spanish fluently.

Beckham and Loos worked closely together both professionally and socially^[1] and Loos claimed that she became an "alternative wife". Victoria Beckham was not initially happy in Madrid, and wanted to develop her UK music career, so she spent much of her time in England. Loos claimed this resulted in Beckham becoming bored, them spending almost all their time together socially, and that this led to a four month affair^[2].

Loos sold her story to the News of the World tabloid newspaper in April 2004, disclosing that they had had a whirlwind affair that included text messages of a sexual nature - those were later published. Further revelations covered Victoria Beckham. The story generated a huge amount of publicity in the tabloid press, launching Loos's career as an ephemeral celebrity.

Shortly after the newspaper coverage of her relationship with David Beckham, Loos came out publicly as bisexual, saying "I am indeed bisexual and have been ever since I was a teenager"^[3]. In 1999 while in London, she had a series of lesbian lovers, including media personality and glamour model Abi Titmuss and estate agent and TV presenter Emma Basden with whom she would enjoy a long term relationship. Loos boasts about her sexual prowess, especially her ability to turn heterosexual females into lesbians ^[4].

In the period before Celebrity Love Island, Loos had her breasts enlarged from 34C to 34D. During the transmissions of Celebrity Love Island in May 2005, Loos kissed Abi Titmuss and then cuddled up to Calum Best in the Love Shack.

In 2005, in protest at America's laws on gay marriage, Loos "married" famous fashion lesbian model Jenny Shimizu for the TV program Power Lesbian UK [1]. It was broadcast in the USA as Power Lesbians on LOGO which profiled successful lesbians in Los Angeles. The two shared a relationship for a period afterwards.

In 2007, she is currently dating fellow Treasure Island participant and former New Zealand rugby league player Matthew Ridge ^[5].

[edit] Career

In 2004, Loos briefly presented Shownieuws on Dutch television together with former Eurovision Song Contest singer Gerard Joling who represented the Netherlands in 1988. Her appearance was short-lived, partly due to the strength of her English accent when speaking Dutch. Loos failed to attract the ratings producers had hoped for and was dropped from the show^{[citation needed]}. She has since posed nude for a pictorial in the Dutch edition of Playboy, with further appearances in lad mags Nuts, Zoo and FHM and other magazines.

In October 2004, she appeared on the reality television programme The Farm, a Channel 5 version of the RTE show Celebrity Farm. At one point Loos was famously given the task of masturbating a pig to collect its semen. The broadcast of this provoked controversy, attracted complaints. The RSPCA weighed in on the controversy, criticising the show's producers for "morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals".

The incident generated tabloid headlines once again for Loos. It was also viewed by some commentators as an apt example of the depths to which Z-list celebrities would plumb for public exposure, and the lengths to which the producers of reality television would go to in order to satisfy the interests of viewers^{[citation needed]}.

In 2005, Loos appeared on the ITV reality show Celebrity Love Island, where she sparked up a relationship with the model Calum Best. Their relationship managed to cause a stir in the British tabloids when the pair discarded their microphones and disappeared in the resort's toilets together for fifteen minutes^[6]. In 2006 she played for the England Women's football team in a Sky TV charity event.

During an interview with British newspaper News of the World in December 2006 Loos revealed she is currently filming a reality TV show in which she teaches "lotto lout" Michael Carroll the art of seduction and good manners, named 'Teaching Mike'.

[edit] Major media appearances

2004 - Presenter, Dutch television with Gerard Joling
2004, October - Participant on The Farm.
2004 - Dream Team, an Sky football-based TV series. She played a bisexual masseuse.
2004 - Extreme Celebrity Detox for Channel4.
2005, Summer - Participant on the ITV reality show Celebrity Love Island
2005, Autumn - Presenter of documentary Power Lesbian UK for the Logo (TV channel)
2006, January - Celebrity model in the Dutch edition of Playboy magazine.
2006, April - Participant in the Belgian/Dutch version of the reality show Temptation Island.
2006, April - England team member in Sky One's Celebrity World Cup Soccer Tournament (losing 2-1 vs. Brazil in the final).
2006, May - Contestant in The X Factor: Battle of the Stars celebrity show, singing along with James Hewitt. The pair were voted out in the 4th (out of 8) shows on June 1, 2006.
2007, February - Appeared on New Zealand's reality TV show Celebrity Treasure Island.

[edit] Trivia

Rebecca owns 2 dogs, pugs named Bubu and Maximus which have made several appearances in magazines and TV alongside their owner.
During Extreme Celebrity Detox, while performing the Tao ritual session for sexual energy, Loos squeezed an egg-shaped object between her legs - then lifted a bottle of water that was attached to the egg by a piece of string. When asked how she found trying to get in touch with her sexuality live on TV, she responded: "I was curious and because we never knew what was coming next, that added to the excitement. But there are some things that should be done in private."
During The X Factor, Sharon Osbourne publicly humiliated her after one of her performances saying, "You should try doing tomorrow's performance with your knickers on because it will help warm up your voice.... You have a very bad vibe that comes from you....you have nice boobs, though, you've had a very nice boob job."
2006, April Loos ran in the Flora London Marathon, and raised over £7000 in sponsorship for the British Red Cross