{"id":231259,"date":"2026-06-08T05:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231259"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:54:49","slug":"beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231259","title":{"rendered":"Beckham becomes first British billionaire sportsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Former Manchester United and England star David Beckham has become Britain&#8217;s first billionaire sportsman, according to the 2026 Sunday Times Rich List. Beckham and his wife Victoria&#8217;s collective wealth reached an estimated \u00a31.185 billion ($1.583 billion) this year, the Rich List compilers said. That moved them into second place in the list of<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/sport\/beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Former Manchester United and England star David Beckham has become Britain&#8217;s first billionaire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman-300x199.webp",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231259-beckham-becomes-first-british-billionaire-sportsman.webp",480,319,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}