Posh Spice Laid Low with Viral Meningitis
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Friday September 1 1:15 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who canceled
television appearances in Germany this week due to headaches,
is suffering from viral meningitis, a spokeswoman said Friday.
The pop singer had been ill for the last few days but her
condition was being ``blown out of all proportion'' by the
media, the spokeswoman told Reuters.
``The doctors suspect that it's viral meningitis,'' she said.
``She's absolutely exhausted and she's been told to rest and
that's it. She's at home at her mum's lying on the sofa.''
Meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes of the brain or
spinal cord, is caused by either a viral or bacterial infection.
The viral variety tends to be accompanied by headaches and
vomiting but, unlike bacterial meningitis, is not potentially
deadly and usually runs its course without treatment.
Britain's Mirror newspaper reported Friday that Posh Spice flew
home by private jet after heeding a doctor's advice to cancel
her German appearances.
The tabloid quoted an unidentified friend of Beckham's as
saying she had suffered a severe migraine headache while
filming at a studio in Cologne Wednesday evening.
``Sick And Betrayed''
The health scare in Germany came on the same day as the singer
and her husband, England football star David Beckham, dropped a
legal bid to block a book based on personal details revealed by
former bodyguard Mark Niblett.
``She is under such stress. As well as the legal action, she has
had endless promotions to do and it has all taken its toll on
her,'' the friend told the Mirror. ``As for Niblett, she feels
sick and betrayed by what the man has done to her.''
``Posh and Becks'' -- the insider's look at the celebrity couple
penned by Andrew Morton, author of a bestseller on the late
Princess Diana -- will hit bookstores in October.
After first seeking a total ban, the couple -- who have their
own book coming out in the autumn -- sought to have 2,500 words
excised from the final 60,000-word draft of Morton's book.
Wednesday, after two days of negotiations, the Beckhams' lawyer
said they had settled the matter with Michael O'Mara Books.
Details were not disclosed.
O'Mara hailed the outcome as a ``complete victory'' and said
several hundred ``relatively trivial'' words had been trimmed.
The publisher said his side argued the Beckhams often disclosed
their private lives to the media and that the book about them
was in the public interest.
Niblett, 40, who stopped working for the Manchester United
player and the singer in May, was not involved in the case.
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