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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Victoria Beckham: Heeled of Dreams

If you throw it, they will come. Won't they?

Continuing her new policy of dressing like some after-hours Second Life avatar whatever the occasion, Victoria Beckham throws out the first pitch at the Dodgers-Mets game.

Having been convinced by a mysterious voice that she should indulge in the whimsical project of building a new life in Los Angeles, Victoria now becomes the second most self-regarding person ever to attempt to benefit by association with baseball. (No one's knocking Costner off that top spot.)

Despite her studied indifference to how the USA will receive her - "I hope [the Americans] like me," she told reporters, "but if they don't, I'm not going to lose any sleep about it" - something in that high-heeled trainered determination tells us she won't rest till she's singing the Star Spangled Banner acapella at the Superbowl.

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