Celebrity singer Siobhan Donaghy has recalled she and the other Sugababes thought “whatever” when they met former footballer David Beckham ahead of their Oxfordshire reunion dates.

The singer has been speaking to the media ahead of their shows at the Wilderness Festival at Cornbury Park this August.

Donaghy revealed that the group were too distracted by Victoria Beckham, formally part of the Spice Girls, to care about her husband.

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The 38-year-old singer said: “I remember meeting her and being so excited because I was a huge Spice Girls fan. We all were.

“In year seven I got loads of girls together and I was like: ‘Right, we need to make a band. We need to perform like the Spice Girls.'”

Beckham, 49, who is now a fashion designer, married her then-England and Manchester United midfielder husband in 1999, and they went on to have four children.

The Beckhams now have a £12million Costwolds home on the Great Tew estate near Chipping Norton, according to reports. 

Recalling meeting the star, Donaghy said: “I love that David Beckham was sat outside the room and none of us even noticed him.

“We were like: ‘Whatever…’ She was really lovely, she gave us a little pep talk before we went on and it was quite nice.

“She was like: ‘Have fun.’ She was trying to relax us and make sure we weren’t nervous. She was really lovely.”

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The Sugababes also recalled recording Too Lost In You with Diane Warren in LA which featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 romantic comedy film Love Actually.

Buchanan said: “We knew it was going to be on our album, not for a soundtrack and then later on, obviously they approached us about that, which was really lovely.

“It was a great time. I remember one of my memories about that song was we were shooting the video and I got this weird eye infection and I remember my eye swelled up massively.

“Then we had to shoot, I don’t know if you can remember, we had to shoot with my hair over my eye.”

Sugababes originally featured Buena, Buchanan and Donaghy in the original line-up between 1998 and 2001 before they lost the right to record and perform under the name following a number of radical line-up changes.

After briefly reforming under the moniker MKS around 2013, they regained the right to use the Sugababes name in 2019 and have seen gone on to perform a packed-out set at Glastonbury.

The girl group will perform at London’s O2 arena on September 15 as part of their tour which includes dates in Warrington, Oxfordshire and Liverpool.