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Lego not child's play - ask Beckham
TOY JOY: David Beckham loves to build with Lego bricks with his kids.
What calms football icon David Beckham these days?
Not a game of football nor his wife Posh Spice, but playing with Lego building bricks.
The former England football captain has spoken again about his love of the children's toy, reported UK newspaper The Mirror.
"When the kids come home from school, we'll often play one of their favourite games, like Connect 4," he said.
"They also love Lego. So do I... I think Lego sometimes helps to calm me down."
He told the Sunday Times Magazine he loved making Lego creations with his children and even bought a model of London's iconic Tower Bridge.
"The last big thing I made was Tower Bridge," he told the magazine. "It had about 1,000 pieces."
The model costs £210 and is more than 90cm long. It has more than 80 windows, a black taxi to drive across and a drawbridge which opens and closes, reported Daily Mail.
Beckham moved back to the UK from Los Angeles last year with wife Victoria and children Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
They now live in a luxury west London home.
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Lego-mad Beckham even has a Lego Taj Mahal, a 5,900-piece kit that is no longer sold by Lego and has become a collector's item.
A second-hand one on Amazon is priced at about £1,300. One model was on sale for more than £2,900.
But despite its value, Beckham said he never finished building the marble mausoleum.
He said in a Q&A by search engine Yahoo in 2010: "It's going to make me sound really weird, but when I was in Milan, I had such a big amount of time on my hands that I found online that there's a Taj Mahal Lego that you can buy."
Beckham added: "I know it's not a career but I love doing it. My boys are the same - they're obessed with building Lego."
His love of Lego is so well-documented that his career highlights were even immortalised in plastic blocks last year by Japanese film-makers Mori Pictures.
Another personality who found joy in Lego is Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, who has said that building Lego models aided his recovery from a 480kmh jet car crash that nearly killed him in 2006.
"Lego saved my life. It's really good therapy for a brain injury," he told The Mirror previously.
In the magazine interview, Beckham gave an account of his average day in his new family home in Kensington, west London.
He only spends five minutes getting ready for the day, he revealed, and likes going to his local pubs for a pint because "the people there know me".
Beckham also relaxes by cooking or drinking a glass of red wine.
He added that he had met Prime Minister David Cameron "quite a few times too", but added: "He's a really nice guy, but I'm not sure I could go and invite myself to Number 10 in the same way."
TOY JOY: David Beckham loves to build with Lego bricks with his kids.
What calms football icon David Beckham these days?
Not a game of football nor his wife Posh Spice, but playing with Lego building bricks.
The former England football captain has spoken again about his love of the children's toy, reported UK newspaper The Mirror.
"When the kids come home from school, we'll often play one of their favourite games, like Connect 4," he said.
"They also love Lego. So do I... I think Lego sometimes helps to calm me down."
He told the Sunday Times Magazine he loved making Lego creations with his children and even bought a model of London's iconic Tower Bridge.
"The last big thing I made was Tower Bridge," he told the magazine. "It had about 1,000 pieces."
The model costs £210 and is more than 90cm long. It has more than 80 windows, a black taxi to drive across and a drawbridge which opens and closes, reported Daily Mail.
Beckham moved back to the UK from Los Angeles last year with wife Victoria and children Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
They now live in a luxury west London home.
TAJ MAHAL
Lego-mad Beckham even has a Lego Taj Mahal, a 5,900-piece kit that is no longer sold by Lego and has become a collector's item.
A second-hand one on Amazon is priced at about £1,300. One model was on sale for more than £2,900.
But despite its value, Beckham said he never finished building the marble mausoleum.
He said in a Q&A by search engine Yahoo in 2010: "It's going to make me sound really weird, but when I was in Milan, I had such a big amount of time on my hands that I found online that there's a Taj Mahal Lego that you can buy."
Beckham added: "I know it's not a career but I love doing it. My boys are the same - they're obessed with building Lego."
His love of Lego is so well-documented that his career highlights were even immortalised in plastic blocks last year by Japanese film-makers Mori Pictures.
Another personality who found joy in Lego is Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, who has said that building Lego models aided his recovery from a 480kmh jet car crash that nearly killed him in 2006.
"Lego saved my life. It's really good therapy for a brain injury," he told The Mirror previously.
In the magazine interview, Beckham gave an account of his average day in his new family home in Kensington, west London.
He only spends five minutes getting ready for the day, he revealed, and likes going to his local pubs for a pint because "the people there know me".
Beckham also relaxes by cooking or drinking a glass of red wine.
He added that he had met Prime Minister David Cameron "quite a few times too", but added: "He's a really nice guy, but I'm not sure I could go and invite myself to Number 10 in the same way."
