Posh gives up singing

You cannot say she didn't try. But after numerous attempts at a solo music career, Victoria Beckham has announced that she is ready to hang up her microphone.

The former Spice Girl, who has spent thousands making an album that will never be released, says she wants to concentrate on a new career as a clothes designer.

What is more, she admits for the first time what we have all guessed - that she was never that good at singing.

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"I think it will be difficult for me to continue with my music career," Mrs Beckham, 30, said yesterday.
"The music industry is not what it was. It seems to me that people will readily accept me dedicating myself to fashion.

"I know that I could never become the best singer in the world. I am conscious of that.

"However, everything to do with fashion comes naturally to me.

"I'm living in Spain and I have two sons. This takes up most of my time. 'The rest is taken up with design, which is my great passion in life. I don't think I'll ever feel that passion for music again."

Mrs Beckham, who is expecting her third child in March, is the only former Spice Girl not to have had a solo number one.

She last released a single a year ago but despite masses of publicity it still reached only number three.

An album worth of material that she had recorded, largely with rap producer Damon Dash, was later scrapped and she was dumped by her record label, Telstar, last Christmas.

A few months later the label, which had given her a £1.5million deal, announced that it was closing.

Sources close to Mrs Beckham say her manager Simon Fuller has told her that he does not believe the British public want to buy her records, however good they are.