Anything Dad can do... Becks and sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz strike a stunning pose on their surfboards as they paused for photo op in Malibu surf

By SARAH BULL

Strike a pose: David Beckham and his sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz put on a show for the paparazzi in Malibu by leaning on surfboards with their hands on their hip

He usually only strikes a pose if there's a hefty number of zeros after the pound sign.

But David Beckham fooled around with his three sons in front of the paparazzi while playing in the Malibu waves.

The football ace, along with Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 6, propped themselves up on their surfboards, gave their best brooding glance and perched their other hand on their hip.


Like father, like sons: The Beckham boys appear to have adopted David's sporty nature as they all hit the waves together in their wetsuits


Hiding: After posing for the photographers, David and his sons appear to be shielding themselves from the paparazzi behind their boards


Gordon Ramsay and his family, who are close friends with the Beckhams, also had a dip in the water.

The celebrity chef was spotted visiting the ever-growing brood this weekend.

However, after meeting baby Harper Seven, Gordon still managed to squeeze in some surfing with pal David, as the pair hit the waves with their families.


Surfin' USA! Gordon Ramsay hit the surf in Malibu, California, with close friend David Beckham and their families after visiting his new goddaughter Harper Seven



Smiles all round: The pair appeared in good spirits as they showed off their surfing skills in the sea


Donning a wetsuit, Gordon laughed and joked as he tried to catch the best waves with David's oldest son Brooklyn.

Despite reports Gordon has been asked by the couple to be Harper's godfather, the Beckhams' spokesperson insisted there were no plans to have their daughter christened, adding their younger son Cruz hadn't been christened either.


Let's get this one! Brooklyn can't hide his excitement as he prepares to boogie board on a huge wave with Ramsay

Also on the day out was Gordon's children, Megan, Jack, Holly and Matilda, as well as his wife Tana, who gave the surfing a miss, instead choosing to soak up the sunshine on the beach.

Meanwhile, Victoria was also absent from the beach, instead choosing to stay inside with baby Harper in the luxurious $150,000-a-month mansion the pair are renting for the summer from Steven Spielberg.


Getting tired? Beckham's boys have been photographed surfing frequently over the past few weeks


Going again: Little Cruz Beckham looked as though he coudn't get enough of the surfing action


The seven-bedroom, ten-bathroom mansion was custom-built for Spielberg and looks out on to what has been called 'the most exclusive piece of sand in the world'.

Pierce Brosnan, Dustin Hoffman, Danny DeVito and Goldie Hawn all live in the area.

A neighbour said: 'It's very peaceful and relaxing for the Beckhams. I've seen Victoria on the beach watching the dolphins with the family. She must feel like she's in heaven.'

A source close to the Beckhams, who are worth an estimated £165million, said: 'As soon as Victoria saw pictures of the house she told David it was the perfect place to relax and recover after the birth of the baby.

'David didn't think twice and signed a lease straight away.'


Scream! Brooklyn looks slightly scared as David lifts and throws him in the water



What's so funny? Earlier in the week, Beckham was pictured messing around in the water with his three sons


Since then, the footballer and his sons have been frequently seen on the beach, often with their bulldog Coco.

Earlier this week, David was spotted snapping pictures of his three boys catching the waves in Malibu - and it seems the trio are becoming keen surfers thanks to the amount of time they have been spending in the sea in recent weeks.

Victoria has yet to be seen following the birth of baby Harper on 10th July, apart from a Twitter picture of the former Spice Girls star with her beautiful little girl.

And David recently revealed baby Harper is already a fashionista in the making, with a growing collection of fashionable garments.


Clinging on: Cruz holds tight to his father as they enjoy the sunshine and the warm water


Wet and wild: David displayed his muscular physique in a black pair of swimming shorts and surf top


Speaking about the two-week old baby girl, the former England captain, 36, said: ‘Everything Victoria’s put on her so far looks amazing, she's got a great wardrobe already.

'My wife is going to definitely take care of that.’

And even though Victoria had to have a fourth caesarean, Beckham said the couple were still keen for ‘one more’ baby.

He said: ‘Are we done now or will we see any more in the future? We'd like one more.

'We've always said we'd love a big family and five was the number. If we're lucky enough, then we hope to have one more. Victoria's doing amazingly well. So we'll see.'


Taking a break: The Beckhams potter around on the sand chatting to former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, with Romeo sporting a Wayne Rooney shirt


Here's your hat back: Ramsay's wife Tana (pictured in the cream hat) sat the surfing out




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Zara's VERY merry wedding knees-up: A vodka fountain, takeaway chips and why Tindall didn't reach bridal suites until 2pm

By Rebecca English, Rebecca Evans and David Wilkes


Dishevelled but happy: Zara leaves Holyrood House the morning after the wedding party, while Mike Tindall, still in his morning suit well into Sunday, takes stock of the impressive surroundings


Even by their own spectacular standards, it was one heck of a party.

After a night of hard-drinking revelry with their wedding guests, Mike Tindall and his royal bride Zara Phillips did not arrive back at their suite in the Palace of Holyroodhouse until 2pm yesterday.

While Zara had managed to change into her favourite flip-flops, skinny jeans and a baggy linen top, Tindall was still wearing his morning suit and had clearly not been to bed.

The dishevelled features of many guests bore testimony to the excesses of Saturday night. Prince Harry’s eyes looked as baggy as his denim shirt and jeans, while Zara’s brother Peter spent 15 minutes trying to work out how to get his golf clubs, daughter Savannah’s push-chair and wife Autumn’s hat box into the boot of his car.

Well groomed: What a contrast! A perfectly coiffured, delighted Mike and Zara leave Canonbury Kirk en route to
Holyrood House where the revelry that would continue well into the following afternoon got underway


He then accidentally drove off with Tindall’s kit bag and had to bring it back ten minutes later.

Despite the presence of the Queen and every senior member of the Royal Family, Saturday’s wedding had got off to a less than auspicious start when the broken-nosed groom turned up to church chewing on a piece of gum accompanied by his best man, fellow rugby player Iain Balshaw, complete with black eye after falling off his moped.

And the post-ceremony reception, held at the 12th Century palace, Her Majesty’s official residence in Scotland, was even less regal. Guests knocked back ice-cold shots from a vodka fountain while morning-suited revellers nipped out for takeaway chips in the early hours.

Fortunately, the Queen had already left in order for the ‘young ones to let their hair down’ – a gesture she might well live to regret when she gets the cleaning bill.

And it wasn’t just the youngsters who over-indulged. Zara’s father, Captain Mark Phillips, was found snoring in an armchair in his hotel bar at 2.30am.

As one royal source said: ‘It was just a family knees-up. Your archetypal wedding, really. Except with a lot of royals and rugby players. And a lot of drinking. In fact make that a hell of a lot of drinking.’

Here, we reconstruct the events of a very untraditional royal wedding.

All partied out: Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie take home a flower arrangement each

The groom’s £350 shoes

The England rugby player, his best man Iain Balshaw and ushers had their morning suits made to measure by Savile Row tailor Cad & The Dandy to accommodate their imposing bulk. They wore £350 Oliver Sweeney shoes.

Celebrity guests

Every senior member of the Royal Family, plus a smattering of showbusiness faces including TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher and Coronation Street actress Katherine Kelly, 31, who plays Becky McDonald.

Also present were motor racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart, whose wife, Lady Helen, is Zara’s godmother, and equestrians including William Fox-Pitt.

A rousing Jerusalem

On the front of the order of service were the initials Z and M entwined in italic script. The hymns included Jerusalem which, according to one source at the church, ‘was a big hit with all the rugby boys’, as well as Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and Amazing Grace. One woman guest told the Queen how wonderful it had been to hear such a loud rendition of Jerusalem. ‘Well, we’ve had enough practice at it,’ the Queen replied.

As well as religious readings, Princes William and Harry read jointly from Zara’s favourite childhood novel, The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams.

The tomboy bride

Zara’s £3,000 off-the-peg dress by the Queen’s favourite couturier, Stewart Parvin, garnered a mixed reception.

Most thought the sporty tomboy, who arrived seven minutes late for the 3pm ceremony at Canongate Kirk, looked refreshingly feminine and were delighted that she had plucked it off the rails of her local boutique (the White Room in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire).

In particular they loved her choice of full-length cathedral veil which was perfectly set off by her elegant chignon and the Queen’s Greek-inspired ‘Meander’ tiara, given to her as a wedding present by her mother-in-law, Princess Andrew of Greece, Queen Victoria’s great-granddaughter, and passed on to Princess Anne in 1972.

Some, however, thought the ivory silk faille and duchess satin gown a little, well, ‘meringuey’.

But to be fair to a woman who spends her life in jeans and jodhpurs mucking out horses, she was never going to compete with a certain other royal bride.

And at least she forsook the flip-flops she wore to Friday’s wedding rehearsal for a pair of Jimmy Choos.

Get much sleep? Mike Tindall is seen arriving at The Palace of Holyroodhouse, wearing the same clothes he wore yesterday. Zara Phillips looked radiant in a pair of white jeans and a beige top

The pair emerged a little later and Mike had finally changed out of his wedding gear into something a little more casual

Charles’s speedy exit

Arriving at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in glorious sunshine, the newly-weds and their guests were treated to a rendition of Scotland the Brave by the Royal Scots Association Pipe Band.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh stayed long enough only for a quick glass of bubbly and a congratulatory kiss before returning to Balmoral by helicopter at 5.50pm.

Charles and Camilla left even earlier, after just 45 minutes, to spend a week at the Castle of Mey.

Hat trick: The Countess of Wessex with her wedding hat and husband Edward looking bleary eyed

Princess Beatrice and her boyfriend Dave Clarke leave Holyrood earlier today

A soppy speech

Best man Balshaw jokily described how Tindall’s choice of cars showed how he has moved up in the world since he started dating the Queen’s granddaughter.

‘He’s gone from a Ford Mondeo to an Audi to a Range Rover to a chauffeur-driven car,’ said Balshaw, getting the biggest laugh of the night for a joke he had taken straight off an internet guide to writing wedding speeches. Zara’s father, Captain Mark Phillips, said how proud he was to be part of this ‘triangle’ – a reference to the fact that he, his ex-wife Princess Anne and her second husband Tim Laurence are all neighbours and get on well.

Tindall’s speech was said to have focused on his devotion to Zara. ‘For a tough nut he is actually quite soppy when it comes to her,’ a royal source confided.

Snow leopard cocktails

With the ‘old fogies’ out of the way, it was time for the rest of the guests to let their hair down. At 6pm in the marquee a sit-down dinner included lobster and crayfish cocktail, Scottish venison with dauphinois potatoes and a chocolate fondant with strawberries.

The bride's brother Peter Phillips with his wife Autumn and their daughter Savannah after the celebrations


As well as the usual wine and champagne, guests were offered a potent cocktail known as a Snow Leopard containing amaretto and cachaca with cream, rose water and coffee.

A jazz band played and by all accounts the bride, who was already ‘rather merry’, got up on stage and grabbed the microphone on several occasions.

The real entertainment, however, kicked off just after 10.30pm when revellers took to the dancefloor.

Several hundred green golfing umbrellas had been laid on in case the weather turned and a number of guests began to fence with them on the dancefloor.

Breakfast with Mum

The music stopped but the drinking didn’t. It appears that the bride and groom stayed up at the palace all night with Harry and the other royals.

Tindall was driven to the Balmoral Hotel at 7.45am to have breakfast with his parents, Linda and Phil, who were staying there. Meanwhile Zara showered and changed and then came out to join him, with the couple arriving back together at Holyroodhouse at 2pm.

The couple finally left at 3.45pm in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes E380 which dropped them off at Edinburgh Airport.

Happy couple: Tindall in his suit when he married the Queen's granddaughter, Zara, in Edinburgh on Saturday

The platinum bands

MIke Tindall and Zara Phillips exchanged simple platinum wedding bands which were bought by the groom. Royal brides such as Kate Middleton use Welsh gold handed down through the family, but as a non-HRH Zara had to make her own arrangements. The band matched her exquisite platinum and diamond engagement ring which was also bought by Tindall.

Zara's platinum wedding band, bought for her by her husband, matched her exquisite diamond engagement ring perfectly

Beautiful: Zara makes her way to the wedding reception after marrying the England rugby star

Romantic: Veil and tiara complement Zara's sleek blonde hair

Because this ceremony was not in a cathedral, Zara was able to expose those rather wonderful arms, honed by all those warm-blooded steeds

Married couple: Above all, commentators noted that Zara and Mike, as well as the Royal family, looked relaxed and happy

Not the average family wedding: Prince Harry, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Linda Tindall, Princess Anne and Philip Tindall enjoy the sunshine after the wedding ceremony


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Kapow! Christian Bale leaves Tom Hardy with ripped trousers during fight scene on set of new Batman movie

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER


Kapow: Christian Bale and Tom Hardy fight it out while filming scenes for upcoming movie The Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh today

Fight scenes on the set of new Batman movie The Dark Night Rises were never going to be a walk in the park.

But when Christian Bale and Tom Hardy got into character today to film scenes for the action flick it literally left one of the stars with ripped clothes and bumps and bruises.

Bale, who plays Batman, was on the front steps of Gotham City Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Hardy, who plays villain Bane.


Flashing the flesh: Hardy - why plays villain Bane - ended up with a 'wardrobe malfunction' of ripped trousers after the fight sequence


Winter battle: Bale got into character on the set that was flooded with fake snow and got his fists ready for action


The two actors fought it out and onlookers saw elbows flying and plenty of action to whet the appetite of fans of the comic book series.

At one point in the fight scene Hardy's pants had a wardrobe malfunction as his whole thigh was showing out of his villain outfit.

The scene had hundreds of extras dressed as police men and bad guys fighting and there was also a snow machine on hand blowing onto the scene as they fought.


Pow: Batman and his arch nemesis duke it out face to face in the much anticipated film based on the famed comic book series


Causing a commotion: The scene had hundreds of extras dressed as police men and bad guys fighting in front of the building


Christian choreography: Bale practised his moves earlier on in the day wearing his normal attire


That particular action sequence will be for the storyline that depicts a breakout of convicts from Blackgate Prison.

The building they used for the fake prison was the Software Engineering Building.

Earlier in the day, Bale arrived on the set wearing a grey T-shirt and black shorts and practised his fighting choreography on the stairs.


Put em up: The outspoken Terminator star looked ready for action surrounded by the out of costume extras and crew members


Battle vehicle: Hardy is seen standing on top of a car that they were calling a tumbler that was in camouflage colours


Gas guzzler: The large vehicle looked menacing on the streets of Pennsylvania


Big production: Onlookers were eager to get a glimpse of the movie set which shut off street in the Oakland area of city


Location: Bale appeared at a press conference about The Dark Knight Rises where local politicians were calling the movie another step in the Pittsburgh's makeover from the Steel City to another Hollywood destination


Tom Hardy is seen standing on top of a car that they were calling a tumbler that was in camouflage colours.

The Dark Knight Rises also stars Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Caine and is set to be released in July 2012.

Last week, Bale appeared at a press conference about The Dark Knight Rises where local politicians wre calling the movie being shot there another step in the Pittsburgh's makeover from the Steel City to another Hollywood destination.





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Make mine a plus three: Pregnant Jessica supported by daughter Honor and husband Cash at Spy Kids premiere

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Blooming beautiful: Pregnant Jessica Alba looked radiant today as she attended the premiere of her new movie Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World in Hollywood

She's due to give birth any day now.

But Jessica Alba still managed to squeeze in a public appearance today as she attended the premiere of her new movie, Sky Kids 4: All The Time In The World, today in Hollywood.

The stunning actress was supported by her husband Cash Warren and three-year-old daughter Honor at the event.


Red carpet royalty: The actress wore a full-length maxi dress with a star pattern


Jessica looked stunning in a floor-length black and white, star patterned maxi dress.

She wore her hair in a stylish updo and cradled her bump as she posed for photographs on the red carpet.

At one point her co-star Joel McHale jokingly hid her burgeoning belly behind his suit jacket as they had a group snap taken along with Jeremy Piven, who also appears in the film.

The movie is the fourth in the Spy Kids franchise, but the first time Alba has had a role.


We're coming too: She was supported by her husband Cash Warren and three-year-old daughter Honor


She plays the part of retired spy Marissa, who is thrust back into action along with her two step children, played by Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook, after maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world.

In a recent interview, Alba revealed that her three-year-old daughter thinks she is old enough to 'drink vino and drive'.

Little Honor Marie is set to become a big sister when her mother and dad Cash Warren welcome their second child later this year.


Cute: the father and daughter share a giggle as they arrive to support Jessica


And appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Alba said her new status has convinced Honor that she is ready to become an adult.

'She's excited, she says she's going to actually be the mommy [and] I'm going to be the grandma. That's the way she phrases it,' she said.

'My girlfriend asked her, "Are you excited about being a big sister?" And she's like, "Yeah, because I'm going to be a grown-up. I'm going to drink vino and drive."'


Hiding the bump: Co-star Joel McHale covers Alba's burgeoning belly with his jacket as the pose with fellow co-star Jeremy Piven


Cast call: From left, Piven, Alexa Vega, writer/director Robert Rodriguez, child actors Mason Cook and Rowan Blanchard, Alba and McHale

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