This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along. It's Tuesday, the 7th of February. It's racing through. It's amazing, isn't it?

Because yesterday, yesterday was a day and a half as far as I was concerned. Because what were the news about Trump?

He was kind of overshadowed in this country,

only for a brief moment, though, only for a smidgen of time, with David Beckham. And this bizarre

story about leaked emails, because according to what I read in the paper, I've either got this

completely wrong, and in which case, you know, somebody will say, no, that didn't happen.

But here's a sister company to a company that employ him or look after some of his bits and pieces.

So a sister company, so a second company down the line, get a demand from a hacker that unless they get allegedly a million pounds, they're going to release these

emails purporting to come from David Beckham, okay? Clear so far. So the sister company go,

we're not paying it, the next minute they start turning up in the newspapers. So I'm somewhat confused, as indeed you are.

Have the newspapers paid for these leaked emails? Have they done a deal with the hackers? Do the

hackers actually exist? Or as somebody else just said, listen, have a look at what I've got here,

which has got David Beckham's name on it. Now, if somebody's hacked into his emails,

it would be quite easy, I should imagine, if you were a very clever person, to change wording

and everything else. Although David's actually come out saying that, you know, he was in a different

time, because I told you, they weren't new. These sort of appeared a little bit sort of later.

But anyway, it's damaging to the brand. Whichever way it is,

David Beckham, apparently, as I say, take it with a pinch of salt, please, said, you know,

if I was in America, I'd have been given a knighthood by now. Insinuating to a lot of people and

almost, you know, putting the thought in their mind, that it's a case of he's done this charity work to get a knighthood, which is the way the press appear to have been interpreting. And they're sort of saying, well, you know, I give stuff to charity shops on a regular basis. Should I get a knighthood? You know, David Beckham, I think UNICEF have said he's actually given money and everything else. And very shortly,

and it is the backlash. It is a backlash. There was a well-known PR on the television last night.

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