Victoria Beckham's firm is threatened with closure after failing to file its accounts on time

Victoria Beckham's style label has been formally warned it may very well be closed down after failing to file it accounts on time

Pouting former pop singer Victoria Beckham was so thrilled to study she would obtain a New 12 months OBE that she was accused of breaching official protocol by making information of the honour public.Pouting

If solely Posh Spice took such an in depth curiosity in her monetary affairs.

I can reveal that her style label, Victoria Beckham Ltd, has been formally warned that it may very well be closed down for failing to file its accounts on time for the third 12 months operating.

The enterprise, which she arrange in 2008, was served with a 'discover of obligatory strike-off' by Firms Home on December 6.

'Until trigger is proven on the contrary,' the letter mentioned, 'Victoria Beckham Restricted might be struck off the register and the corporate might be dissolved,' by February 5.

It then knowledgeable Mrs Beckham and her fellow administrators that the corporate, which loved a turnover of greater than £34 million in 2014, and all its property would then 'belong to the Crown'.

This is able to be acutely embarrassing when Victoria meets the wearer of the Crown to gather her OBE, which she is because of obtain within the Queen's New 12 months Honours.

The 42-year-old designer's disgrace might be heightened by the actual fact it is not simply Victoria Beckham Ltd that is because of be closed. Its guardian firm Beckham Model Holdings Ltd was additionally served with a strike-off discover, on December 13.

That enterprise, established in 2014 together with her former England captain husband, David, as a director, had a turnover of £51.5 million that 12 months. 

Victoria Beckham Ltd was established in 2014 with David as a director.  The corporate had £34 million turn-over nevertheless it registered a revenue of solely £1.23 million.

The Beckhams are on vacation within the Maldives, from the place Victoria posted a photograph on-line yesterday of their five-year-old daughter, Harper, trying over the ocean because the climate turned.

Showing to pay tribute to actress Debbie Reynolds, who died on Wednesday, Victoria wrote subsequent to the snap: 'Singing within the rain.'

Victoria Beckham shared this image of Harper ready for the solar beneath her brolly on the seashore within the Maldives

Regardless of the £34 million turnover of Victoria Beckham Ltd, it registered a revenue of solely £1.23 million.

The enterprise scraped into the black thanks to assist from her husband, with out which the corporate would have made a close to £four million loss. A spokesman for the Beckhams declines to remark.

Nevertheless, a pal of the couple insists that it's merely an administrative drawback.

The pal says the accounts for each firms have been audited and signed off by their boards.

'They've been despatched to Firms Home, however I perceive that there's a backlog,' the pal says, insisting: 'There aren't any monetary issues.

'This late submitting has not impacted the enterprise in any means.'

Since Fifty Shades Of Gray turned a worldwide phenomenon, promoting greater than 125 million copies, there have been a string of experiences of injuring themselves whereas indulging within the sado-masochistic practices featured within the erotic novel.

Creator E. L. James is unrepentant. 'What?' the Londoner exclaims. 'It is not a frickin' guide!

'Look, this isn't Proust. It is not a polemic for 21st-century manners. It is not a How To. It is a enjoyable means for girls to flee.'

BBC cameraman's daughter James, 53, sees herself as a simple goal for criticism.

'I am an chubby, middle-aged girl writing a horny story,' she says.

'It is all pejorative. It is superb to have your Captain Marvels for older males.

'We reside in a misogynist society. Something girls do for different girls is denigrated.'

Chain gang disgrace of Marco's son

Fiery Marco Pierre White was often known as the restaurant world's enfant horrible when his exploits included slicing open the again of a chef's jacket and trousers with a knife after he complained of warmth within the kitchen.

However his troubled son Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, is the one humiliated this week as he started 120 hours of neighborhood service for fraud, clearing garbage in Wiltshire.

White, whose closely tattooed physique was hidden in a hoodie and orange high-viz jacket, had dishonestly used his ex-girlfriend Carina Evans's financial institution card.

Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, was humiliated this week as he started 120 hours of neighborhood service for fraud, clearing garbage in Wiltshire

There was a time when his father (pictured collectively) was often known as the restaurant world's enfant horrible when his exploits included slicing open the again of a chef's jacket and trousers with a knife

Sir Paul McCartney was so faraway from regular life and guarded by flunkies in The Beatles that he did not deal with any money for a decade.

Macca has been recalling the early days of his subsequent band Wings, which started life taking part in impromptu college gigs and touring in a ramshackle van in 1972.

The primary night time was in Nottingham, with proceeds from the 50p tickets shared with the scholars' union. 'That flummoxed me,' Macca, 74, confesses. 'I hadn't seen cash for at the least ten years. The Beatles by no means dealt with cash. After the present we walked round Nottingham with £30 in coppers in our pockets.'

 

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