NEW YORK- Americans got a closer look on Tuesday at Los Angeles-bound
celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham, but some had trouble recognising
likenesses of the fashionable duo unveiled at Madame Tussauds wax museum.
Wax figures of David (L) and Victoria Beckham (C) are welcomed
by a wax figure of U.S. President George W. Bush at Madame Tussauds in New York
January 23, 2007. [Reuters]
New York's Madame Tussauds museum put on display figures of the football idol
and his wife, a former Spice Girl, dressed for the red carpet. They were draped
in an American flag and greeted by U.S. President George W. Bush holding a sign
saying "Welcome to America."
The couple will move to the United States in August when Beckham begins a
five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy football team in a deal worth
$250 million (126 million pounds).
Figures of the couple, dubbed by the museum as the "Brad and Angelina of
England," were loaned by the museum's London counterpart for two weeks and will
be displayed in an "Opening Night" party scene featuring celebrities in evening
wear.
But some museum visitors had trouble identifying the pair. "I don't know
them," said New Yorker Rosanne Pelligrini, 54. "Oh wait, is that the soccer
player. What's his name? Begins with a B?"
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