Yes I sent emails but in heat of the moment
DAVID Beckham yesterday confessed to sending the shocking leaked emails that have rocked his millions of fans worldwide.
But he has told friends they were written “in the heat of the moment” after he was passed over for a knighthood – and that some of them had been “doctored”.
The former England and Man United was alleged to have branded the honours committee “unappreciative c***s”.
But yesterday he insisted: “I don’t care about being knighted.”
And sources say he is determined to continue working with UNICEF, insisting he had not helped the charity just to boost his chances of becoming a Sir.
Beckham, 41, was spotted yesterday watching son Brooklyn at a London skate park after the wheels of his knighthood bid were pulled from under him by a website leak of emails from him and his close aides.
Friends say he claims the content of some of the emails has been changed.
The leaks reveal he wrote to long-time PR man Simon Oliveira after missing out on being a Sir in 2013.
After working for charities, including children’s charity UNICEF, and helping to front the London Olympics he had been a hot favourite to get the honour.
Referring to the New Year Honours OBE for opera star Katherine Jenkins, who had confessed to taking drugs in the past, Beckham is said to have raged: “Katherine Jenkins OBE for what? Singing at the rugby and going to see the troops plus taking coke. F***ing joke.”
Blasting the honours committee, Beckham, who won an OBE in 2003, said: “I expected nothing less. It’s a disgrace to be honest and if I was American I would of got something like this 10 years ago.”
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in the emai l s , and those are the most damaging to his image as a caring children’s ambassador.
In one released by the website Football Leaks, Beckham is said to have demanded UNICEF pay £6,685 for a business class flight to visit children affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines – despite his sponsors paying for a private jet.
Yet the charity’s chiefs have shelled out huge sums in the last five years “managing high profile supporters” thought to include ambassadors like Beckham. A close adviser to the star also reportedly said in one email that his UNICEF work produced a ‘ halo effect’ for him. Another showed PR man Oliveira suggesting he put a million dollars (£800,000) into a UNICEF prize- giving dinner in Shanghai. The leaks show Beckham replied: “I don’t want to put my personal money into this cause. To pour this million into the fund, is like putting my own money in. “If there was no fund, the money would be for me. This f***ing money is mine.” But a friend of the star said: “The one thing David is very proud of and feels can’t be faulted is his work for UNICEF. He has not only donated his own money, he has raised millions to help vulnerable children around the world. “More importantly he has worked with the charity over the last 15 years. “The fact that there are these hackers who are selectively in som e instances
Sometimes you say things in private anyone would say and you don’t really mean it CLOSE FRIEND IN DEFENCE OF BECKHAM’S ALLEGED RANTS