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Why did David Beckham turn down an appearance on ?
In a 2004 episode of The Simpsons, Marge Simpson makes a Christmas speech mocking David Beckham for an alleged extramarital affair. Apparently Boy Spice didn’t laugh, and when an offer came for him to do a cameo in Springfield, he turned them down.
What creative endeavours has Pelé engaged in since retiring?
Pelé has published several autobiographies, starred in documentary and semi-documentary films, and composed various musical pieces, including the entire soundtrack for the film Pelé in 1977. He has acted in fictional TV shows and films, most notably appearing alongside other footballers of the 1960s and 1970s, Michael Caine, and Sylvester Stallone, in the 1981 film Escape to Victory, about an attempted escape from a Second World War Nazi POW Camp. Pelé was also the first sports figure featured in a video game with the Atari 2600 game “Pelé’s Soccer.”