| Rebecca Loos | |
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Rebecca Loos at party hosted by Emma Basden, 2006 |
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| Born | Rebecca Loos 19 June 1977 Madrid, Spain |
| Ethnicity | Anglo-Dutch |
| Citizenship | Dutch |
| Occupation | Reality TV star, TV presenter, Glamour model |
| Net worth | £1 million (estimated) |
| Television | Celebrity Love Island The Farm Extreme Celebrity Detox Temptation Island The X Factor: Battle of the Stars |
| Website | |
| www.RebeccaLoos.com | |
Rebecca Loos (born 19 June 1977) is a Spanish-born Anglo-Dutch model and media personality, who was brought to media attention following claims that she conducted an affair with the married football player David Beckham—while employed as his personal assistant. These allegations made her into a media personality, and she has since appeared on several reality television series, magazine covers and in other media.
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Loos was born in Madrid, Spain, but has Dutch citizenship.[1] Her father was Leonard Loos Bartholdi, a Dutch diplomat, and her mother, Elizabeth Loos, is originally from Surrey, England.[2] Growing up, she was privately educated at Runnymede College in Madrid. After moving back to Madrid in 2002, Loos worked for an American investment bank. She is a second cousin of Piers Morgan.[3]
When the former England football captain David Beckham moved to Real Madrid, Loos became his personal assistant during the transition period, alongside SFX agent and the former Australian international footballer Andy Bernal, who spoke Spanish fluently.
Beckham and Loos worked closely together both professionally and socially,[4] and Loos claimed that she became an "alternative wife." Victoria Beckham was initially not 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, leading them to spend almost all their time together socially, and a four-month affair was the alleged result. Victoria Beckham was recently quoted in W magazine saying the alleged affair only made their marriage stronger.[5]
In April 2004, British tabloid newspaper The News of the World published a story claiming that Loos and Beckham had an affair.[6]
Shortly after the newspaper coverage of her relationship with Beckham, Loos came out publicly as bisexual, saying "I am indeed bisexual and have been ever since I was a teenager."[7]
In 2005, to protest against America's laws on gay marriage, Loos married American fashion model Jenny Shimizu for the television program Power Lesbian UK.[8] It was broadcast in the United States as Power Lesbians on LOGO which profiled successful lesbians in Los Angeles. The two had a relationship for a period thereafter.
On 17 July 2009 in Oslo, Loos gave birth to a son, Magnus Leon Loos Skaiaa. The father is Norwegian doctor Sven Christjar Skaiaa.[6][9]
On her homepage, Rebecca writes: "We have named our beautiful son Magnus Leon Loos Skaiaa. He was born in Oslo in the early hours of 17 July weighing 3.3 kilos. As is well we are home and enjoying every minute of this new little person in our lives."
Rebecca moved to Norway in 2009 and still lives there with her partner, son and their two dogs.
In 2004, Loos briefly was a hostess on the Dutch TV program Shownieuws (along with the former Eurovision Song Contest singer Gerard Joling who represented the Netherlands in 1988.)
In October 2004, she appeared on the reality television programme The Farm, a Channel 5 version of the RTE show Celebrity Farm, in the course of which she masturbated a boar to collect its semen.[10] The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals accused producers of pandering to a “morbid and sordid fascination with farm animals” while PETA and Mediawatch-uk demanded the show be taken off the air.
In 2005, Loos appeared on the ITV network "reality" TV show Celebrity Love Island.
In 2006, she played for the England Women's soccer football team in a Sky TV charity event. In April of the same year, Loos ran in the London Marathon, and raised over £7000 in sponsorship for the British Red Cross, and later in May appeared in The X Factor: Battle of the Stars along with James Hewitt – in which she famously received a negative reception from one of the judges, Sharon Osbourne and the show's audience alike.
In 2007 Loos was a contestant in the new season of the Spanish version of Survivor in which she came third. In November 2007 she appeared in Sky TV's Cirque de Celebrite in which she was one of two new contestants introduced mid-way through the series.
In 2008, Loos was a guest hostess on The Podge and Rodge Show.
In September 2008, she had a part in Dutch feature film called Mijn vader is een Detective. In October she took part in the Dutch version of 71 Graden Noord filmed in Norway.
Loos has featured on the cover of Playboy, FHM, Nuts, Zoo and other men's magazines.