Celebrity Mound

For a meet-and-greet with Beckham, Jeanne Kelly bid $7,000 at a Feb. 2 charity auction at the home of Rudy Giuliani’s former finance chairman, Michael Gooch, to benefit Charley’s Fund, which raises money to cure Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

The package, a present for Kelly’s son, Conor’s, birthday, was to include round-trip flights and two nights at an LA hotel for them both, with Beckham to meet the boy and sign a jersey for him. Mother and child were also promised two VIP field seats to Saturday night’s Galaxy game.
The Kellys were scheduled to leave last Friday. But, Kelly says, she got a call Tuesday from Darren Brown at Charity Sports Auctions, which sold the package to Charley’s Fund, saying it was canceled. “They told me there was a breach of security and David’s not doing it,” Kelly told Page Six.

She has not been refunded her money, and neither has her sister, Diane, who bought the same $7,000 package for her 13-year-old son. “They’re keeping us in the dark,” said Kelly. “Conor is heartbroken. He said, ‘Doesn’t Beckham know it’s my birthday present?’ He is my son’s hero.”

Kelly says she feels awkward about asking for the money back because it went to charity. “It puts me in a funny spot,” she said.

Brown told us Charity Sports Auctions got the Beckham package from the LA-based entertainment group ACE. Max Soto, the president of ACE, told Page Six the event has just “been postponed,” adding, “It was never intended to be promoted on David alone. There were internal issues.”
Beckham’s agent, Jeff Raymond, says neither Beckham nor the Galaxy was even informed of the event and, “It’s unfortunate they lost their money. David would never not honor charity he was supposed to do.”

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The latest Emporio Armani underwear ads show David Beckham in all his glory, but rumor has it the soccer star may have had some help filling out his tighty-whities. The “enhancement” buzz started shortly after a 100-foot tall image of David wearing the famous undies made its debut at Macy’s in San Francisco earlier this week, and some found David’s form too good to be true.

That’s when sleuths at the Daily Mail uncovered a photo of Becks on the beach sporting a similar look. The surfside shot, taken in 2006, features the L.A. Galaxy player in a white bikini with one notable difference from the Armani pics — the fabric appears less, um, inflated.

The paper offered a side-by-side comparison and speculated that the difference could be the result of digital manipulation, but a spokesperson for David denies the claim.

“There wasn’t any enhancement to that said region,” the rep insisted.

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