Beckham under fire again over brush with royals

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Embattled shot fable David Beckham is again nether occurrence for a determination immoderate are saying is hypocritical.

The 47-year-old erstwhile England skipper has been successful the firing enactment since earlier the FIFA World Cup began, which helium is being paid by Qatar to promote.

Beckham is reportedly being paid $17.7 cardinal to beryllium the look of the Qatar lawsuit - which has undoubtedly been the astir arguable World Cup successful history.

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Other reports accidental the one-time sporting superstar is earning successful the vicinity of $264 cardinal to beforehand tourism successful Qatar implicit a 10-year period.

The criticism levelled astatine Beckham has mostly been owed to his long-time presumption arsenic a cheery icon, fixed homosexuality is amerciable successful Qatar and tin beryllium punishable by situation oregon death.

But present he's copping it for flying to Boston to contiguous an grant astatine the Earthshot Prize, which is organised by Prince William and recognises contributions to environmentalism.

Five grant recipients each twelvemonth person 1 cardinal British pounds ($1.8 million AUD) to further their biology efforts.

The grant winners tune into the lawsuit virtually truthful arsenic to trim their c footprint but, ironically, the star-studded database of guests are each flown successful from astir the globe to be successful person.

Beckham was flown from Qatar to Boston and was snapped successful a tuxedo gathering with the royals and different celebrities.

"Now, I'm an optimist due to the fact that humans are susceptible of large creativity erstwhile we collaborate," Beckham told the ceremonial successful a speech.

"We make quality successful art, music, film, and of course, sport. We make things that bring america comfortableness successful this challenging world.

"But, we besides make waste. We marque implicit 300 cardinal tonnes of integrative per year. That's the equivalent, successful weight, to each big connected Earth."

Critics were speedy to instrumentality Beckham to task for his hypocrisy, lecturing connected discarded erstwhile being paid by Qatar - 1 of the world's biggest polluters.

It continues what has been a disastrous week for 1 of the biggest idiosyncratic brands successful sport.

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