David Beckham 'working on a programme' for BBC One

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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David Beckham is set to begin a TV career in the UK, as a presenter for BBC One.

The channel's controller Charlotte Moore gave an interview to the Sunday Times in which she said that the former England football captain was working on a programme for them.

She didn't give details of what the programme would be, but did reveal that it would not be about football, with the newspaper speculating that it could concentrate on fatherhood or modelling.

David retired from football last year and became the owner of a Major League Soccer franchise in Miami, with his other projects including modelling and charity work.

He will appear in BBC's Sport Relief coverage later this month, alongside Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst in an Only Fools And Horses sketch.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.