[Harry!]

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THERE'S nothing like a good old-fashioned 10-year reunion to separate the wheat from the chavs. And no one has been more vindicated in this department than Victoria Beckham. The year 2007 may have been a relatively quiet year by the Beckhams' usual standards -- no mishaps involving PAs -- but it has been a triumphant one for Posh, and the Spice Girls' current comeback only serves to cement this fact.


In fact, watching Mrs Beckham up dancing with the old gang this time round is sort of like watching the X-Factor finalists perform a duet with "real" celebrities. It just doesn't look quite right. Victoria B might be little more than a trumped-up footballer's wife in many people's eyes, but by God, she is now the most famous footballer's wife in the world. Next to her super-celebrity status, the rest of the Spicies look more like desperate wannabes lucky to be sharing a stage with such media royalty than actual performers, which can't be good for the group spirit, but is working fabulously for Mrs B.

Of course, being Victoria Beckham is hard graft. In the past year alone, she's had to uproot with family to America, make a documentary about said move, do some charity (befriending Tom Cruise, Will Smith and their wives) not to mention her quick zip over to the Paris Ritz on the day the Diana inquest jury were there, just to snap up some extra limelight. You or I wouldn't have the time, energy or inclination for such work, but to Victoria, just being Victoria has been a career coup.

And no one could accuse her of needing this reunion to help save a flagging career -- her career is going swimmingly. In fact, much like the old, rather naughty saying involving a dog, licking and some balls, Victoria's only doing this gig at all, because she can.