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After a Japanese survey revealed that his endorsement would sway eighty percent of local consumers, David Beckham began to appear in ads for a variety of Japanese products, including Castrol motor oil and Meiji chocolate. The latter company later honored him with a 15-foot scale-model statue, made, of course, entirely of chocolate. Beckham's response at the unveiling ceremony? He laughed out loud.

David Beckham once visited what was described to him as a “secluded beach” in Bangkok, Thailand. He soon arrived, and found a hundred fans waiting to meet him. It was also in Thailand, in 2000, that a fan paid him the ultimate tribute: placing a gold-plated foot-high statue of David at the foot of the main Buddha in Bangkok’s Pariwas Temple, in a spot reserved for minor deities, forcing monks in the monastery to kneel and meditate before his likeness.

"In Ireland, someone recently broke into a wax museum, and undressed the wax figures of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler,...