David Beckham's harsh call for Victoria's fashion empire

While David's company, DB Ventures, made a whopping profit of $50.5 million last year, Victoria's fashion empire isn't doing so well. Photo / Getty Images

David Beckham will no longer plough money into wife Victoria's troubled fashion business – despite it making staggering losses of just over £10 million (NZD $18 million) last year.

Becks, 43, has previously come to Posh's rescue, injecting cash into Victoria Beckham Limited to help her books look more healthy.

However, I understand David now wants her to take full responsibility for running the company – and that he won't bail her out again.

Sources say David, pictured with his wife, is happy she has now found investors who have injected £30 million into the label, so at least her next set of accounts might look more impressive.

One said: "David is super-proud of what Victoria has achieved but he will no longer be putting money in. She has investors now."

Posh, 44, made her biggest loss to date last year, according to accounts released just before Christmas.

In 2016, she was £8.4 million in the red and £4.7million the year before that. By contrast, David's company, DB Ventures, made a whopping profit of £26.5 million (NZD $50.5 million) before tax in the year to December 2017.

Victoria, who in April made a third of her staff redundant in an attempt to make her business profitable, will be hoping that her post-Christmas sale will be a success. She has slashed prices on 230 items of her high-end clothing – many by 50 per cent.

Sale garments include a leopard-print split-sleeve fitted coat, which is down from £2,495 to £1,247, and a drape neck midi dress, now priced at £767.50 from £1,535.

Meanwhile, David is currently negotiating a buyout of shares in DB Ventures held by Simon Fuller, his former manager and long-term business partner.

Fuller, who is credited for creating the Posh and Becks "brand" in the 1990s, is understood to want about £60 million ($114 million) in the deal.