By Katy Hallam,Mark Jefferies
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The new Netflix series featuring Victoria Beckham and her husband David is packed with surprising and shocking revelations. The former Spice Girls star takes centre stage in this new documentary about her life, which charts her rise to fame with the girl band before she transitioned into fashion and established her own brand, which competes with major designer names at Paris Fashion Week. However, there are also elements not included in the documentary that you might be anticipating or on the lookout for. Read more Strictly’s Tom Skinner’s twin girls rushed to hospital after both have seizures Here are some of the biggest surprises we noticed as we got our first glimpse at the series. Despite the ongoing feud within the Beckham family, Brooklyn Beckham was not expected to feature in this documentary or even be mentioned. However, he does make a brief appearance, reports the Mirror . He is on screen for approximately five seconds as he is shown arriving at his mum’s fashion show in Paris last year. In contrast, his sister Harper appears in several scenes, dancing with her mum for a social media video, trying on a dress and later in the closing credits presenting an award to her mum. In a surprising twist, Victoria suggests her husband is at least partially responsible for her appearing so unhappy or at least not smiling in some red carpet photos. As they prepared to head out for the evening in episode one, Victoria revealed: “Here’s a fact, I’ve looked miserable for all these years, because when we stand on the red carpet, this guy(Becks) has always gone on the left. Okay. “Now I didn’t realise that when I smile, which I do! I smile from the left, because if I smile from the right I look unwell. So consequently I’m smiling. I’m smiling on the inside, but no one ever sees it, so that’s why I look so moody.” Reflecting on their early romance, David remembers: “When I met Victoria, I couldn’t find one thing about her I didn’t like, not one thing. I mean, I could find a few now! Back then she was this mythical person. “At that time the Spice Girls were so big, and I was just a footballer in Manchester, and no one knew that we were dating. But in all honesty, I was so excited. I wanted everyone to know that I was dating Posh Spice.” Speaking about love, he continues: “I fell hard and fell quick. And within two years of being together, we were married and with one kid.” Victoria shared her perspective: “I wasn’t really looking for anything, you know, I was having fun with my friends. But when I met David, I’d never felt that connection with anybody before. We’ve been married for 25 years, and we have grown and changed together.” Victoria’s fashion label endured substantial losses for several years despite earning critical praise. Matters improved when her business partner David Belhassen came on board and examined the financial records. Notably, a court once revealed how Elton John splashed out £293,000 on flowers in 20 months, and Victoria’s spending habits weren’t far behind. David Belhassen revealed: “For years, she had people telling her what she wanted to hear. I remember one of the expenses was the office plants, because she loves plants, and it was costing like £70,000 a year. “And then there was someone who was coming to water the plants for £15,000 a year, and that’s only the beginning. So I went to her, and I decided to just tell the truth exactly the way it is, and I didn’t know how she would react. And I said, Victoria, we have to change everything, restructure the business, and that’s going to be painful.” When her fashion enterprise was performing terribly, it created difficulties at home as well as professionally. Victoria would weep daily whilst David grew increasingly worried as he poured millions into the venture. Victoria explained: “It’s been a hell of a journey. I almost lost everything. And that was a dark, dark time. I used to cry before I went to work every day, because I just felt like a firefighter. “We were tens of millions in the red. Yes, I’m going home to my husband, but I’m going home to my business partner as well, and so I would talk to him about it. I had to, he was invested, and I hated it. I absolutely hated it.” David added: “We both sat there, and, you know, we looked at what I’d invested, and I think part of that conversation broke my heart, because Victoria is a proud woman. When we met, she was a lot richer than me. She actually bought our first house in Hertfordshire, known as Beckenham palace. “So for her to have to come to me and say, ‘we need some more money, the business needs more money’. That was hard for both of us, because I didn’t have the money to keep doing this. And eventually I was like, this cannot continue.” Victoria Beckham is now friends with designer Donatella Versace, but their relationship didn’t start off perfectly when they first connected in 1997. Donatella reached out because her daughter was a big Spice Girls fan. Victoria recalls: “I got invited to go to the Versace show by Donnatella. They got a private plane for me to Milan. I go into the Versace store and they tell me that I can get whatever I want. I couldn’t believe it. “I selected a black leather dress, and I remember trying on the dress, looking in the mirror, and saying to someone that worked in the store ‘I really like the dress, but how about, let’s tighten it here, shorten it here, let’s take off the sleeves. How about we basically redesign the whole dress’. I really can’t believe I did that. So rude.” Grinning about it now, Donatella reveals in the Netflix documentary: “You shouldn’t do it. The fact that she dare! Then I realised it was better on her the way she did it, she knows her body.” Twelve months later the Spice Girls disbanded and Victoria found herself in Manchester. She embarked on a solo career but it now appears she was almost operating on autopilot during this time to keep herself occupied. She revealed: “I went from being up here with a Spice Girl, being on tour, traveling the world. Everything was so fast, we were like a tornado. And then all of a sudden it stopped.It was so extreme. “One minute I’m spreading word of girl power, and then the next minute, I’m a wife in a flat in Manchester, not really having any friends, living a long way away from my family. And I found that transition really, really difficult. It felt really lonely.” Victoria was amongst a group of WAGs who were present at the Euros with their partners staying in a neighbouring hotel. It was a summer filled with celebrations and in the documentary she nicknames the England players the HABs – Husbands and Boyfriends of the WAGs. Victoria revealed: “I remember seeing one of these wives that had bought so many designer clothes and had so many bags she couldn’t get in the revolving doors of Baden, Barden hotel. “I look at those pictures and I smile, but when I look back and think, why? I suppose there was an element of attention seeking, if I’m being completely honest, it was at a time when I didn’t feel creatively fulfilled.” The series concludes with David and Victoria in the Cotswolds contemplating their future. In a light-hearted moment, David quipped: “I’m almost 50 you’re 51. What’s next? Another baby? To which Victoria responded: “My god, no, we’ve still got so much that we want to do. I’m not stopping yet. “.