David Beckham reveals biggest fashion faux pas

THE star famous for bizarre style choices has confessed to the look he regrets most of all as he visits Australia to support the royals.

DAVID Beckham has revealed his greatest fashion faux pas — wearing a traditionally African hairstyle to meet peace activist Nelson Mandela.

“There’s one picture I have in my house of me and the great Nelson Mandela and I had corn rows,” he said, in an interview on the Sunday Project. “So I’m sat there with an amazing, inspiring man and I’m sat there with corn rows.”

White people who wear the ancient African braids have come under increasing criticism in the years since Beckham met the anti-apartheid icon in 2003.

The soccer star was known for bizarre style choices, including a sarong and a matching head-to-toe leather outfit with his wife.

David Beckham was open about his relationship with Victoria and tabloid scrutiny during his interview on The Project.

Beckham, who is in Australia to support Prince Harry and the Invictus Games, also discussed attending both royal weddings with wife Victoria in the interview with Lisa Wilkinson.

Asked whether it was hard to think of suitable presents, he said: “You have to keep it very simple.

“It’s such a great day for the family, it’s such a great day for our country, because I was brought up in a household to love the royal family.”

Beckham said he regretted sporting cornrows to meet Nelson Mandela in 2003.

Beckham said he couldn’t care less about what people think of his relationship with wife Victoria and wasn’t bothered by the constant media speculation surrounding his marriage.

“Do you get sick of the tabloids?” Wilkinson asked.

“No, I’ve grown to kind of ignore some of the negative stuff that’s said,” David replied. “I think if you know each other, if you know you’ve got great friends, great family behind you, the thing we have to do is protect our children.”

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Wilkinson asked David what the “secret sauce” was to making his marriage to Victoria last.

“I think marriage, marriage is always about hard work,” he answered.

“You know your children — they want your time and they deserve your time, and we are hardworking, and we feel that that is the right way to bring up our children to prove and to show to them that actually, you have to work hard to be successful.

“To have been married for the amount of time that we have, it’s always hard work, everybody knows that, but you make it work, you make difficult situations like travelling away, being away from each other, you make it work.”

David opens up about his marriage in an interview with Lisa Wilkinson on The Sunday Project

In a post on Instagram, Wilkinson said she had been surprised by David’s openness when discussing his marriage. “Charming? You bet. And completely candid about so many areas of his life I thought might be off limits,” she said.

Victoria and David married in 1999 and have four children together; Brooklyn, 19, Romeo, 16, Cruz, 13, and Harper, 7.

Beckham revealed he was a “softie” with the kids, and that his wife regularly ribbed him about it. He said they enjoyed the spotlight surrounding them, with the former Manchester United player admitting he was “shocked” by his continuing popularity.

“They don’t dislike it, to be honest, they enjoy it as well,” he laughed. “There’s a few benefits.”

David and Victoria Beckham have been married for 19 years. Picture: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff

David’s ex assistant Rebecca Loos

In 2004, David was accused of having an affair with ex-assistant Rebecca Loos while he was playing for Real Madrid in Spain.

In June, the couple were forced to quash rumours of a rift after untrue rumours spread on social media that David was linked to another woman.

A Beckhams spokesman rubbished claims they were divorcing as a “crock of s***”.

David and Victoria will both be in Sydney next week to attend the Invictus Games as the sports star is an ambassador for the event.

— Catch up with Lisa Wilkinson’s interview with David Beckham on Channel 10’s The Sunday Project here.