First, the Beckhams conquered the world of football, then fame, then fashion, and now, documentaries. Following the success of David Beckham’s smash-hit Netflix doc Beckham, Victoria Beckham has decided to try her hand at a tell-all docuseries.
Set for release this autumn, filming for Victoria Beckham’s Netflix documentary is already underway, with camera crews following the fashion designer’s day-to-day life as she navigates the running of her eponymous beauty and fashion brands.
Beckham, the 2023 documentary that charted David Beckham’s footballing career and rise to fame, was an undeniable success. The four-part doc offered unparalleled access into the Beckham family’s personal lives. It featured sit-down interviews with David and Victoria, as well as his friends, family members, and former Manchester United teammates.
Directed by Academy Award-winning director and Succession cast alum, Fisher Stevens, the Beckham documentary may have painted a pretty portrait of England’s unofficial royal family — but it didn’t pull any punches.
In one of the documentary’s most memorable moments, David Beckham himself pulls up Victoria Beckham on her claims that her family were “very working class.” Peeking his head through the door into the interview room, David asks, “What car did your dad drive you to school in?” Victoria Beckham reluctantly reveals: “A Rolls-Royce.”
Meanwhile, episode three touched upon David Beckham’s alleged affair with former assistant Rebecca Loos. It was the most context ever offered by the Beckham family on the rumoured affair, resurfacing the claims. Rebecca Loos is still making headlines in 2025, over 20 years on from the rumoured affair, and recently addressed the controversy as part of her appearance on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Even though David would later reveal that filming his documentary made him “nervous”, the Beckham series gave viewers a real, seemingly unfiltered insight into the Beckham family for what felt like the first time.
And they were rewarded for it. The documentary shot to first place in Netflix’s Top Ten, amassing a record-breaking 30 million views and 145 million hours of viewing time in its first three weeks of release. It went on to land five Emmy nominations, securing the win for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
Beckham’s success prompted Victoria’s follow-up project, with Posh Spice set to drop a documentary series all of her own. But will the famously tight-lipped, microscopically media-trained matriarch reveal anything at all?
David pushed for Victoria to do her own documentary
On the one hand, the Victoria Beckham documentary looks set to be a very different project from what we saw in Beckham. According to David Beckham, the documentary looks back at Victoria Beckham’s 30-year career, first as a pop star during her tenure in the Spice Girls, then as a fashion designer.
“It wasn't the easiest thing to get her to agree to, but in my opinion she was the star of [my documentary],” David told NBC’s Today show this January. “So I just thought this is the opportunity, because she's been working on our brand for the last 18 years, and she's unbelievably hard working, and no one gets to see that.
“So I convinced her to actually let people see what she does every day and what goes into her business. She's a very clever and hard-working lady, so I want people to see that.”
Will the Beckham family feature in her Netflix documentary?
Reading between the lines, that means: a lot of VB business, not a lot of VB’s personal business. However, Victoria has confirmed that a “little bit” of her family life has been filmed. “[Netflix] have filmed a little bit of David and the children because they’re such a huge part of everything,” the mother of four told Bloomberg, teasing that David’s sections “might end up on the cutting-room floor.”
However, it has been widely reported that two very prominent family members, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham, will not feature. The eldest Beckham child and his wife have been engaged in an alleged “feud” with the rest of the Beckham family for over six months, marked by their continued absence from family events and refusal to acknowledge Beckham family milestones on social media.
“The children hardly feature — it’s simply not a case of Brooklyn and Nicola being cut, as they weren’t in it to start with,” a source told The Sun in July. “This is very much a project focusing on Victoria’s [transition] from pop star to businesswoman and designer.”
True to this, the log line of the documentary reads: “Her Posh Spice days may be behind her, but today Beckham is on a journey to build a fashion empire — and now, fans will be able to see the story behind it all.”
Will the feud be addressed in Victoria Beckham’s documentary?
With Brooklyn and Nicola reportedly absent from the documentary and its focus centred around Victoria’s businesses, it’s looking very unlikely that her documentary will veer into feud territory.
Victoria Beckham’s Netflix documentary also has a different director from the Beckham doc, with Fisher Stevens hanging up his director and interviewer cap this time around.
In a strange turn of events, Stevens was recently spotted at Sunny Hill festival with pop star Dua Lipa and British DJ Kim Turnbull. The very same DJ who recently came out of a relationship with Romeo Beckham and claimed she was being treated as a “scapegoat” for the Beckham family feud.
Victoria’s documentary will instead be led by acclaimed director Nadia Hallgren, who directed Michelle Obama’s four-time Emmy-nominated Becoming documentary.
Becoming was described by Vulture as a “sleek and generally self-celebratory affair”, while the Guardian dubbed it a “carefully authorised” documentary. It received widespread praise, but critics were careful to note that it wasn’t exactly balanced. “Inevitably, it’s the things that don’t get asked that stick out,” Peter Bradshaw wrote in his Guardian review.
A Netflix favourite, Hallgren has recently acted as series director on “Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE” in 2024 and on the Emmy-nominated “Civil: Ben Crump” (2022), both for Netflix.
