Did you hear the Beckhams were coming to America? We know why David Beckham is coming - to ignite interest in American Professional soccer - but his wife Victoria's attempt to unseat Paris Hilton as L.A.'s most popular celebrity ditz is being met with hostility. Her reality mini-series, "Victoria Beckham: Coming to America," was so bad it was edited to a one hour special and has been dubbed by critics as "an orgy of self-indulgence".
For starters, Victoria is shown setting up her new home in Los Angeles when she says: "It's exhausting being fabulous."
The New York Post reviewed the show and observed that the intimate look at the life of Posh Spice "smacks of too much fame, too much money and too much time spent believing the hype for all concerned."
"You'll sit there slack-jawed at the gall of these people who think we are that stupid," the Post wrote.
The show was being promoted to show Victoria's "wicked sense of humor" but critics who viewed it say it only shows her "vapid, condescending behavior".
The New York Times, which described Victoria as being "somewhat famous for being sort of famous, and is photographed a lot in Britain," wrote that she "does appear to be pleasant and not without a sense of humor. But that isn't quite enough to carry viewers through an hour of house hunting, sunbathing and applying for a driver's license."
Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times said that people in the US have been "underwhelmed" by the arrival of Posh Spice. "If you're looking for a bad driver, we have Lindsay Lohan, who does it better."
"If you're looking for rich, we've got Paris Hilton, and if you're looking for thin blondes, if you fire a cannon in Beverly Hills, you hit 100 of them.
"It's a very competitive market, even for a Beckham."
