Baking and beekeeping: Former football star David Beckham now indulges in slew of hobbies

David Beckham says trying new things such as baking and gardening has been "one of the positives of the lockdown". PHOTO: AIA
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SINGAPORE - If you were wondering how famous family The Beckhams were keeping active and healthy under lockdown, you need look no further than patriarch David Beckham's Instagram feed.

His latest pursuit? Beekeeping and tending to a homemade hive. The global football icon has taken up the unusual new hobby while sheltering in the Cotswolds in England with his fashion designer wife Victoria and three of their four children - Harper, nine, Cruz, 15, and Romeo, 17.

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