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From The Sun:

IT’S official: VICTORIA BECKHAM is huge in America.

The former SPICE GIRL-turned-designer topped the list of US Elle magazine’s best selling issues of 2008, shifting 413,000 copies.

Posh blew the competition out of the water, outselling homegrown cover star CARRIE UNDERWOOD by around 160,000 mags.

But it was ANGELINA JOLIE who reigned supreme as the magazine queen – her Vanity Fair cover sold over half a million copies.

At the other end of the scale, Oscar winning actress HILARY SWANK only inspired 27,000 people to fork out their change when she fronted the mag.

Salvatore Landolina, Goal.com

David and Victoria Beckham were planning to buy the famous Castle Sforzesco in Milan according to reports, but they have been told they can’t.

A report in Datasport.it claims Victoria has been looking for a permanent residence in Milan, and the Sforzesco Castle, which operates as a museum, ticked all the right boxes in terms of grandeur and opulence. Datasport suggested Victoria’s plans were to invest in the castle and make it the family home, but still keep the museum open in order to make a financial return.

However, Milan city council have reacted to the plans and the celebrity pair have been met with a stern ‘no’. The authorities have no intention of selling a piece of Italian heritage, the castle being a national treasure. Reports suggest the Beckhams were ready to make the castle their home, but it seems they will have to find another dwelling in or around the fashion capital.

There were voices that Victoria wanted to buy a whole floor of the Armani hotel which is being built in the city, but those plans were also scrapped, when she assumed she could wave her cash for the castle.

Beckham is currently on loan with the Rossoneri from Los Angeles Galaxy until the end of the season, but various reports have claimed he could be back in Milan in November when his deal with the MLS side expires.

Next year’s must-have: A part in SpongeBob SquarePants. Leave it to Victoria Beckham to be way ahead of the curve.

The erstwhile Spice Girl—and, much more importantly in this scenario, the child-pleasing mother of 4-year-old cartoon-loving Cruz—has lent her voice to an upcoming half-hour episode of the absorption-friendly Nickelodeon favorite.

Anyone familiar with Beckham’s work in Spice World will be pleased to hear that the fashionista won’t be straying too far from her comfort zone, and will be playing Queen Amphitrite, a Brit-accented goddess of the sea.

The Posh One follows in the kid-friendly footsteps of Johnny Depp in recording a role for the hit show. The Oscar nominee voiced surfer dude Jack Kahuna Laguna in a 10th anniversary-celebrating special, SpongeBob vs. the Big One, airing April 17.

Beckham’s episode, entitled “Neptune’s Party,” is scheduled to air in summer 2010.