Here’s a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can’t touch you if you’re out doing something interesting.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07

Well, it was back on January 31, 2010 when my wife broke the news to me during breakfast while she was reading the local newspaper. “Your girlfriend is scheduled to co-host ‘The View’,” she told me, hiding her grin behind the paper. “Veronica?” I asked, decently surprised. “Yes,” she answered, “Victoria Beckham, indeed.”

Well, it is very obvious that Victoria – or “Veronica” as I call her affectionately – Beckham is not my girlfriend, but every now and then the little lie comes in handy at occasions when I refuse to explain to my wife where I had been, or where I was about to go. Such occasions include shopping for Valentine’s Day and similar, innocent activities. “I’m going to see Veronica,” I would tell my wife, and she knows enough not to ask any further. “You wish,” is her usual response.

In fact, I don’t know much about the former Spice Girl besides being married to soccer superstar David Beckham. Sometimes my wife needs to point her out to me when she appears on TV. However, one little fact about Victoria Beckham was stuck in my brain for several years. In 2005, despite “writing” a 528-page autobiography, she admitted that she had never read a book in her life.

Now, think about this for a minute. A woman, who admitted she had never read a book in her life, is going to be a guest co-host of a live weekday talk show (The regular co-hosts include Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd.)

I couldn’t help but to verify the information, and I found a brief article on HuffingtonPost.com. Then I logged on to YouTube.com to watch a clip of her guest appearance on The View in September of 2009. I endured the swooning about her spike-heeled shoes and the grey dress she had designed herself. She also admitted that she would not wear such a dress in an airplane; she usually changes right after she enters the plane.

That was not only the point where I, decently disgusted, stopped the clip, but also started wondering about the bizarre world of celebrity.

It would have been interesting to watch the show – Sorry, I missed it – and see how Victoria dealt with her new role where she might have to prepare for topics other than fashion and music. The question is, how would she handle, for instance, Dan Brown talking about his latest novel, The Lost Symbol? After all, the movie is not out yet.