Gail Porter says Victoria Beckham BANNED the crew from making eye contact during Top Of The Pops appearance – leading an iconic Scottish band to swear at her!
Victoria Beckham didn’t want people to look her in the eye when she appeared on Top Of The Pops, former host Gail Porter has claimed.
During an appearance with Dane Bowers where they performed Out Of Your Mind during a live show, Posh reportedly didn’t interact with anyone on set.
Prior to their arrival on set during the 2000 appearance, members of the crew were reportedly warned by her team not to stare at the celebrity duo.
Gail: ‘Victoria and Dane’s people had banned anyone from making eye contact with them while they were there, so it was super awkward.
‘And lovely Travis [the band], I was looking at them and they were making w***er signals [rude gestures].
Dance it out: Victoria Beckham didn’t want people to look her in the eye when she appeared on Top Of The Pops, former host Gail Porter has claimed (pictured on the show)
Smouldering: During an appearance with Dane Bowers where they performed Out Of Your Mind during a live show, Posh reportedly didn’t interact with anyone on set
Gail: ‘Victoria and Dane’s people had banned anyone from making eye contact with them while they were there, so it was super awkward’
‘So anyway, I am standing going, “It’s Gail Porter, it’s still No1, it’s still Top Of The Pops’, and because the cameras can’t see them, please welcome to the stage Victoria Beckham and Dane Bowers, Out Of Your Mind.”
Following the performance, Victoria and Dane apparently froze on stage because they weren’t sure whether the cameras were filming them.
Gail claims that they continued to stay put until after she left the stage. MailOnline have reached out to representatives for comment.
Gail became a household name thanks to regular appearances on The Big Breakfast, The Movie Chart Show, VH1 and iconic BBC music show Top Of The Pops.
In 1999, her popularity – boosted by modelling jobs with the likes of cult lads mags FHM and Loaded – led to a nude photograph of Porter being projected on the Houses of Parliament without her consent as part of a Guerilla marketing campaign.
But the former pin-up, recently insisted she earned little money during the early years of her mainstream career, citing the amount she received per episode on Top Of The Pops as one of her lowest earners.
She told The Telegraph: ‘I think £500, and then you’ve got 20 per cent to your agent, then you’ve got to pay your rent.
Singing: Following the performance, Victoria and Dane apparently froze on stage because they weren’t sure whether the cameras were filming them
Old times: Gail presenting an episode of Top Of The Pops in 2000 – according to the star she was paid £500 per show
‘All the front covers of magazines, I never got paid for any of them.’
Weighing up her biggest payday, Gail says a voiceover for a Sainsbury’s commercial provided a moderate income.
‘It was a few hundred quid a week, and you can’t complain about that,’ she recalled. ‘But other than that, I can’t remember well-paid jobs.’
Gail previously admitted she wasn’t paid for her magazine work, at a time when lads were at their commerical peak.
She told the Daily Star: ‘I never got paid for anything that I did – I never got paid for FHM, GQ, or a lot of the magazines that I did.
‘Some of the others may have got paid, but I never did and I was quite vulnerable at the time.
‘They were saying “This is going to be great for your career, it will be great fun, and think of the pics you can give your kids when you’re older.'”
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