DAVID Beckham says his days of appearing naked are over. The soccer superstar made the claim at the launch of a new range of underwear bearing his name.

At the function, Beckham admitted that his children hated seeing his underwear adverts. He said his sons' reaction on glimpsing their dad in his latest unclad ad campaign was: "Oh my god, Daddy, not again."

He said nudity was out because he now had a baby daughter. He would no longer wander naked in the corridors of his Beverly Hills mansion either. "With the boys it's not a problem because they're naked all the time, but with a little girl it is different," he said.

Fancy a whipping, my dear lady?

ACTRESS Keira Knightley shocked people this week when she suggested that the English enjoy spanking in the bedroom.

Speaking about her raunchy role in the film A Dangerous Method, the 26-year-old beauty said the fuss about the sadomasochistic scenes was because "prudes secretly like it".

In the film, Knightley appears topless and tied to a bed while her co-star, Michael Fassbender, who plays a psychoanalyst, spanks her behind.

She told The Sun that the scenes had not caused much of a storm in the US. "In England, it's got mentioned all the time.

"I don't know what that says about us. We obviously like spanking, but I don't really know."

Crossing lines and borders

GOLFER Phil Mickelson is on the warpath over claims that he has been playing off the fairways in his marriage.

The TMZ website reports that the golfer is so angry over accusations that he had an affair and fathered an illegitimate child that he has instructed his lawyers to take action.

The internet accusations also made scurrilous claims about his wife, implying that the Mickelsons were both cheating on each other.

He said the allegations were vicious and untrue.

TMZ reports that the sports star tracked the IP address of the writer to a service provider in Quebec. He now he wants a Canadian judge to force the service to assist him to identify the offending gossiper.

I think it's time for the tittle-tattle writer to get nervous, very nervous!

Collegial cupid hard at work

WHEN did you last flirt with someone at work? If a new poll is to be believed, more than half of all workers flirt with colleagues at the office. And one in four admits to smiling or making eyes at work pals daily.

The poll results, published in The Sun, found that teachers, accountants and politicians were among the flirtiest professions. The study of 1000 people found that the top three ways of seducing a co-worker was by eye contact, a smile or giving them flowers.

So, with Valentine's Day coming up, watch out for that smiling colleague who is bearing flowers.

The hairy truth about Harry

HARRY Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will bare all in his latest film. He has already performed nude on stage, but this time his vital statistics will be captured in a movie.

The Sun reported this week that the millionaire actor said he was "comfortable" performing in the buff. He is set for naked escapades in his new film, Kill Your Darlings.

Radcliffe had been told by his director not to trim any hair "down there" for filming. The actor said he was not used to "maintaining" his body hair. "This is way too much information, but I don't like girls with nothing down there. It freaks me out."

As he said, that's just way too much information.