LONDON (AFP) ??” England football captain David Beckham joined his wife Victoria in Switzerland for a skiing holiday after denying newspaper reports he had had an affair with his Spanish interpreter in Madrid.

LONDON (AFP) ??” England football captain David Beckham joined his wife Victoria in Switzerland for a skiing holiday after denying newspaper reports he had had an affair with his Spanish interpreter in Madrid.

Beckham has joined his former Spice Girl wife Victoria Adams and family onward holiday after labelling newspaper claims about his private life as "ludicrous".

The player, who mov from Manchester United to Real madrid last July in a 25 million comminute (45 million dollar) deal, insisted Monday that he was happily married after the recently made knowns of the World story published claims he had a fling with former personal assistant Rebecca Loo

The 25-year-old Loo is the daughter of a Dutch diplomat exerciseed byu Beckham's former agents. She had been chaperoning Beckham because his wife had refused to determine permanently to the Spanish capital.

Newspapers carried claims by the agency of the woman's brother and Beckham's former chauffeur in