David Beckham Accidentally Shaves Bald Patch While Grooming Buzz Cut

David Beckham’s attempts to cut his own hair didn’t quite go as planned.

“What have you done?” David’s wife, Victoria Beckham, asked the 50-year-old retired soccer star in a Saturday, July 19, Instagram video.

David, who was posing shirtless, held one hand over his scalp before offering an explanation.

“The thing of the clippers fell off my head [and] fell off the clipper,” he said, eventually removing his hand to reveal a bald patch in the center of his cropped haircut. “It’s not funny.”

As David continually stressed that “the clipper head fell off” while in use, Victoria, 51, had her own thoughts about how the new ‘do looked from an outside perspective.

“It does not look good,” she said. “I’m going to always be honest with you, but it looks terrible.”

Victoria also shared footage of the moment via her Instagram Stories with the caption, “Be honest …. it looks terrible!!!” (David famously told Victoria to “be honest” during an interview for his Beckham docuseries when she brought up how they both seemingly came from working-class backgrounds.)

David has rocked a number of different hairstyles through the years, including a now-infamous buzz cut when he played soccer for Manchester United in the early 2000s.

“I had a hairdresser at the time called Tyler,”  David recalled in the 2023 docuseries. “I said to him, ‘I’m gonna cut my hair,’ and he was like, ‘Are you sure? You really want to do that?’”

David chopped his then-signature blond locks anyway, which even surprised coach Sir Alex Ferguson.

“Alex said, ‘David, take the cap off.’ And I said, ‘No,’” he recalled. “I never did it to create attention. I’m not that person.”

For Victoria, she mused that David’s short cut marked the transition when he started “going from a boy to a man.”

“It’s only natural that you’ll start flexing your muscles, right?” Victoria quipped of David’s independence over his grooming. “And don’t all kids rebel against their parents?”

David and Victoria, who got married in 1996, went on to welcome four children of their own: sons Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 22, and Cruz, 20, as well as daughter Harper, 14.