David Beckham Reflects on His Headline-Making Buzz Cut in 2000
08.10.2023 - 14:03
/ justjared.com
David Beckham is opening up about his looks over the years.
The 48-year-old soccer star spoke out in his Netflix docuseries Beckham, sharing the dramatic story of what happened behind the scenes when he got a buzz cut in 2000.
“I had a hairdresser at the time called Tyler. I said to him, ‘I’m gonna cut my hair’ and he was like, ‘Are you sure? You really want to do that?,’” he began.
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He said his Manchester United Coach Sir Alex Ferguson confronted him about the change ahead of their game against Leicester City in March that year.
“And [Ferguson] said, ‘David take the cap off.’ And I said, ‘No.’”
“Stubbornness,” his coach recalled. “And then I said, ‘Oh well.’”
When David debuted his new buzz cut on the field during the game, the game commenters noted, “the blonde locks have gone” and “the sight of the skinhead will take a bit of getting used to.”
“I never did it to create attention. I’m not that person,” he explained.
“When David Beckham shaved his head, I honestly thought a member of my family had died. Because my phone went off,” James Clarke, a Manchester paparazzi explained. “The panic in people’s voices that this… We haven’t got it documented yet.”
“Literally kids, ‘I want to be David Beckham, I want to shave my head. And schools were having to write in, ‘No shaving of heads,’” he continued.
Wife Victoria Beckham recalled him shaving his head was a moment where he “starts going from a boy to a man.”
“And it’s only natural that you’ll start flexing your muscles right? And don’t all kids rebel against their parents?,” she said, alluding to Sir Alex’s role as a secondary father figure.
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