Another excellent reason to avoid the West End

Those of you who were wondering how the shameless cash cow We Will Rock You didn’t kill off the modern West End musical will be delighted to hear that David Beckham - The Theatre of Dreams is in the works:

“Beckham’s story is a modern-day fairytale of heroes, villains, love, Manchester United and what it means to lead your country,” explained Mark Archer, the songwriter behind this celebration of Beckham’s first 33 years. “His rise from obscurity to international stardom, his universally acknowledged gifts as a supreme sportsman, and his Hollywood lifestyle all have the elements of an aspirational fable.”

With football and celebrity

An Ethiopian princess fit for an Italian Playboy

Few people in football have enjoyed extra-curricular activities as much as retired Italian defender Francesco Coco. The self-confessed ‘drugged-up gay who lives in nightclubs’ has dated supermodel Gisele Bündchen (the current WAG of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady), and also a string of Italian lovelies such as Francesca Lodo and Manuela Arcuri. These days, however, he solely devotes his attention to 32-year-old model Saba Wesser.