David Beckham, the former England soccer captain, and his wife portrayed as Mary and Joseph. On photo: Madame Tussaud’s celebrity nativity scene, with wax replicates of star couple Victoria and David Beckham depicting Mary and Joseph; photographed in December 2004.

Victoria Beckham, 33, spoke out for the first time about Rebecca Loos, who claimed to have had an affair with her husband David Beckham while working for him in Spain in 2004.

Loos was Beckham’s personal assistant when he played for his former club Real Madrid. Rebecca' comments hit headlines as the couple set off for a new life in Los Angeles, where David Beckham is being unveiled as an LA Galaxy player.

Posh Spice has stated that her football star husband David cheating on her made their marriage stronger.

Victoria told W, a US fashion magazine: “I’m not going to lie. It was a really tough time. David and I got through it together. No one said marriage was going to be easy.

“But now we’ve come out stronger and happier. It’s even better now than when we were first married.”

Her comments accompanied a new, the most glamourous US photoshoot of the Beckhams (still shot in Spain though).

The couple adorn the cover of the magazine with Posh in a skimpy mesh swimsuit and her husband showing off his heavily-tattooed torso.

But it is the nine-page photo spread inside that will really raise eyebrows.

One shows David, 32, reclining on a bed wearing just a pair of tight white briefs.

Others see David helping Victoria into, or out of, her suspenders. The pictures in the August issue of W were shot in Spain by top photographer Steven Klein.

The magazine says the pair are “determined to become the new American idols”.

There is little interest in soccer in the US and showbiz observers are divided over whether the couple can make it big.

An interesting arrival of the star couple in the States...