One of South Africa’s most famous daughters, Charlize Theron, has joined football’s David Beckham and Ethiopian running great Haile Gebrselassie at the World Cup draw in Cape Town.
She was set to help FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke carry out the draw, which is expected to net 250 million television viewers around the world, on Friday. [...]

A mystery celebrity has shelled out eight million rand (about $1 million) to rent a palatial Cape Town property during next year’s soccer World Cup.
The month-long deal is the biggest the South Africa has seen, says Ronnie Matthews Estates director Clinton Braude.
He said: “The villa has been rented to an undisclosed international celebrity to use [...]

Football superstar David Beckham is reportedly “inconsolable” after losing his granddad to cancer.
Joseph West, 83, who died at his home in North Islington, London, is credited with introducing him to the game.
Beckham was in South Africa for tomorrow’s World Cup finals draw when he found out, his wife Victoria reportedly calling him in tears [...]

Footballer David Beckham is to boost charity Sport Relief next year by getting his entire family to design t-shirts.
The 34-year-old has roped in wife Victoria, 35, as well as sons Brooklyn, 10, Romeo, seven, and Cruz, four, to help raise money by designing limited-edition t-shirts for the appeal in March.
Victoria was originally only going to [...]

Nicole Kidman has become the face of a bid for Australia to host the World Cup that is culminating in a mega-media event in Cape Town this week.
Kidman, like David Beckham for England, touts Australia for the Cup as a “safe pair of hands”
for ”The No Worries World Cup” in a short film made by [...]

Footballer David Beckham is reportedly a secret smoker, who loves to smoke Cuban cigars.
It has been revealed that the 34-year-old star, who was recently pictured with an asthma inhaler, enjoys smoking the luxury hand-rolled cigars, but that his wife Victoria, 35, bans him from lighting up indoors at their LA mansion.
A friend of Beckham said: [...]

David Beckham and other footballers could lose millions of pounds after buying expensive apartments in Dubai.
The 34-year-old is not the only footballer that has invested in the £1 million villas on the islands shaped like a palm tree.
Other Premier League players to have bought property include Michael Owen, David James, Joe Cole and Kieron [...]

Hopes never rode higher on David Beckham than at a Seattle MLS game the LA Galaxy team saw within its grasp. But the bid eluded the embattled team and Beckham was seen toting a puffer at half-time in photos that surfaced.
The sighting was a reported first, even though the waning soccer star is a known [...]

Footballer David Beckham says he finds his son Brooklyn’s homework ‘complicated’ so he sticks to helping him with his reading.
The 34-year-old has three sons with wife Victoria, 35, and Brooklyn, 10, is the oldest. David admitted that Brooklyn’s homework often leaves him puzzled.
Talking about Brooklyn, he said: “I sat down with him the other day [...]

David Beckham suffered penalty-shoot-out heartbreak with the LA Galaxy Sunday as his team lost the MLS Cup Final.
The 34-year-old England midfielder saw his side lose 5-4 on penalties, despite burying his own, in an intriguing encounter in Seattle at the Qwest Field stadium.
Beckham showed from the off he was up for the game, clattering [...]