{"id":961307,"date":"2026-05-15T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:10:15","slug":"david-beckham-becomes-uks-first-billionaire-sportsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/961307\/","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham becomes UK&#8217;s first billionaire sportsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former United midfielder Beckham is now a co-owner of American club Inter Miami, estimated to be Major League Soccer&#8217;s most valuable franchise at $1.45bn (\u00a31.07bn).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 51-year-old, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c17pzezw7l9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knighted in November,<\/a> is also a brand ambassador for companies such as Adidas and Hugo Boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victoria Beckham&#8217;s wealth has primarily been generated from her fashion label, having originally found fame as a member of the Spice Girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Promoters Barry and Eddie Hearn have joined Britain&#8217;s billionaire club, with their combined wealth estimated at \u00a31.035bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry Hearn is the founder and president of Matchroom Sport, one of the leading promoters across boxing, darts and snooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His son Eddie is Matchroom&#8217;s chairman and promotes British boxer Anthony Joshua, who is the eighth highest sports figure on the list with \u00a3240m, one spot above his heavyweight rival Tyson Fury (\u00a3162m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven-time F1 champion Sir Lewis Hamilton is fifth (\u00a3435m) while England football captain Harry Kane and two-time Wimbledon champion Sir Andy Murray are joint 10th (\u00a3110m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former United midfielder Beckham is now a co-owner of American club Inter Miami, estimated to be Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-961307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116578053593051433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}