Upset Over Madame Tussauds Nativity Scene

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David and Victoria Beckham have taken centre stage this year as Madame Tussauds approaches the Christmas story with a twist of its own. The popular museum, world-renowned for its waxworks of famous people, has decided to give Posh and Becks the leading roles as Joseph and Mary in their nativity scene.

The life-size replicas of the couple, dressed up in ancient robes, appear alongside a host of other famous replicas which have been re-garbed for the occasion. Bringing the infant Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh this Christmas are the Three Wise Men from the west rather than the east: George Bush, Tony Blair and Prince Philip.

The three shepherds who complete the scene are non other than the bible-quoting gangster from Pulp Fiction, Samuel L Jackson; Hugh Grant - complete with a lamb in hand; and comedian Graham Norton. Meanwhile the sultry angel Kylie Minogue strikes a seductive pose above the manger.

But don't expect to see Hugh Grant checking out the holiday role his wax double has taken on. Hugh recently indicated that he was less than impressed with the replica of himself at the famous London waxworks.

"In 1994, they asked me whether I wanted to work with them in creating a wax figure and let myself be measured up. To make sure the result was good, I played along and let every inch of me be measured," the popular actor was quoted as saying. But he added: "The result is awful! They ought to put my figure into the chamber of horrors alongside the mass murderers."

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Madame Tussauds gets into the holiday spirit with their celebrity nativity scene

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David and Victoria Beckham looking "divine" in their roles as Joseph and Mary, with Kylie Minogue as a seductive angel hovering overhead

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Bringing the infant Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh this Christmas are the Three Wise Men from the west rather than the east: Tony Blair Prince Philip and George Bush

- Hello

Victoria Beckham as the Virgin Mary!

This is bizarre...

Ill probably guess that there is some sort of underlying reason to using these certain people in the scene?

It's probbaly just that their wax figures were in a pose that would work with a nativity scene. Kylie's figurine was in that position wearing a sexy red dress from her concert. I guess Posh & Becks were posed like that vefore, all they had to do was drape robes on them.

I think it's funny to have George W as a wise man. Good on them for that.

That struck me with the George bush and Tony Blair thing...

But Im also wondering...

That little lamb Hugh Grant is holding?....did he get it off the street? And how much did he pay for it?

Celebrity nativity 'to be annual event'

Madame Tussaud's will make its "celebrity nativity" an annual event despite controversy over the scene involving Victoria and David Beckham.

But a positive reception from "the vast majority" of the 10,000 visitors means it will stay and be repeated. The museum received seven phone calls of complaint yesterday.

A spokeswoman said: "It is almost certain it will become an annual event. People will be able to vote for which celebrities they want each year."

The Rev Rod Thomas of evangelical group Reform said: "Anything that invites us to laugh at what God did is something He will take very seriously."

- This Is London

Beckhams' nativity scene closed after vandal attack

Waxwork figures of Victoria and David Beckham dressed as Mary and Joseph in Madame Tussauds in London were damaged in an attack.

The figures were removed and the controversial nativity scene closed off because of the vandalism, said a spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds last night. "There was some damage caused to the figures of David and Victoria by a member of the public earlier today."

A man in his twenties queued behind other visitors before repeatedly punching the waxwork figures and escaping into the street. The spokeswoman could not confirm the extent of the damage, or say how it happened. The nativity scene also features Tony Blair, the Duke of Edinburgh and President George Bush as the three wise men, and Kylie Minogue as an angel.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England earlier criticised the scene. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said: "To have a very special part of Christianity depicted in this way and its most precious symbol, which is the coming of God into the world in Jesus Christ, seems to me to be not just disrespectful to Christians, it is also disrespectful to the heritage of Britain and does damage to the culture of this country."

- Independant

The severed heads of David and Victoria Beckham

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That's creepy. Imagine if you were David/ Posh and you got sent the other person's wax head in a box? You'd bloody well flip out for a while before you realised it was wax. Nasty.

that is creepy


In the scene, the thing that got me is they put Bush, Blair and Prince Phillip as the three wise men says a lot about their opinion of Blair and Bush, eh? Same boat as dumb-ol'-Philly-baby