Team Beckham call in police over 'Beckileaks' email hack as David fears more shocking revelations may emerge from 'banter' messages to his advisors about other celebrities

• Former England captain's reputation is left in tatters following damning emails
• Police launch a probe in Portugal, where documents were hacked from PR firm
• First batch of emails allegedly show lengths he would go to be made Sir David
• Becks now worried about further leaks of 'banter' messages about other celebs

Police have been called in to investigate the 'Beckileaks' email hack with David Beckham concerned that more shocking revelations could emerge.

The former England captain has seen his reputation tarnished after damning emails between the superstar and his team of advisers were leaked.

The emails allegedly showed how desperate Becks was to ensure he was made ‘Sir David’ – and the lengths to which he would go to achieve his goal, even using his charity work.

When his campaign failed, he allegedly lashed out with an expletive-littered outburst.

Police officers have launched a probe in Portugal, where 18.6million emails and documents were hacked from servers of Doyen Global, the firm run by Beckham's PR chief and friend Simon Oliveira.

Team Beckham is now said to be worried that more private correspondence between Oliveira, Becks and his confidant and close friend David Gardner, who served as best man at the Beckham wedding in 1999.

It is thought the private messages include 'banter' about several well-known figures, according to The Sun on Sunday.

The leak comes as a bitter blow to the popularity of Brand Beckham, which has been carefully cultivated over several years by David and Victoria.

The criticism was led by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who branded the former Manchester United and Real Madrid footballer as 'repulsive'.

Piers, 51, tweeted: 'RIP Brand Beckham. No one will be envious of David Beckham by tomorrow.

'They will be sickened by him. I think we can forget about "Sir David Beckham" ever happening.'

Becks was said to be defiant last night, insisting the emails were sent 'in the heat of the moment' and he did not care about being knighted, according to the Sunday Mirror.

Ironically, one target of his wrath was a real diva – Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, who was awarded an OBE in the same year that the footballer’s much-anticipated gong was unforthcoming.

In an email to Oliveira, Beckham allegedly wrote: ‘Katherine Jenkins OBE for what? 

'Singing at the rugby and going to see the troops plus admitting to taking coke? F****** joke.’

Jenkins, 36, had previously admitted in an interview with The Mail on Sunday that her life was almost ruined by cocaine and ecstasy. Yesterday she declined to comment.

Meanwhile, a source close to the former Manchester United star told The Mail on Sunday that his foul-mouthed rant was written ‘in the heat of the moment’.

The source said: ‘David is just like any normal person and he was extremely disappointed that he wasn’t deemed worthy of becoming a Sir.

‘He is a passionate man. He gets very passionate about his work and particularly about his country, Great Britain. That’s what drives him.

‘He spent a lot of time and effort getting the London Olympics to the UK which had such a positive effect on so many people, but for it not to be acknowledged made him very emotional. Who wouldn’t be?’

The series of emails was released by Football Leaks, the sporting equivalent of WikiLeaks, via European media. They were dismissed by a Beckham spokesman who said they had been ‘hacked and doctored’.

The cache includes allegations that Beckham, a Unicef ambassador, demanded £6,685 from the charity for a business-class flight for him to attend an event in Asia. He never took the flight because his sponsors had provided a private jet.

Football Leaks claimed emails suggested Beckham used his charity work as part of a conscious effort to win an honour – something he denies.

Beckham reacted angrily when Oliveira suggested he should put $1 million into a prize-giving Unicef dinner in Shanghai, Football Leaks claimed. 

The footballer, who has an estimated net worth of £280 million, allegedly replied: ‘I don’t want to put my personal money into this cause… If there was no fund, the money would be for me. This f****** money is mine.’ 

French investigative site Mediapart, which published the Football Leaks material, alleged Beckham wanted to use his personal fund, named ‘7’ after his former shirt number at Manchester United, to promote his business activities.

‘Humanitarian causes were just a stepping stone for his personal affairs, and to project his image among advertisers,’ claimed a source close to the leaks.

Beckham, who received an OBE in 2003, allegedly ranted at members of the Honours Committee in an email after missing out on a knighthood in 2013, calling them a ‘bunch of c****’. He added: ‘Who decides the honours? It’s a disgrace.’

By 2013 Beckham’s playing career was over and he expected a fitting honour. That November, one newspaper even published a front-page story under the headline ‘Arise Sir David’, suggesting it was a certainty.

Ahead of Beckham’s appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show, Oliveira allegedly wrote in an email to the programme’s producers: ‘Maybe Jonathan should ask about the knighthood and say he should get it. What do you think? David is up for it.’

Beckham learned a few weeks after the show that his bid had failed.

The following year Oliveira urged him to intervene in the Scottish independence debate because ‘clearly the right thing is that we stay together due to our history and because we are stronger’. 

He advised Beckham: ‘I also think your support will play well with establishment and in turn help your knighthood.’ He replied: ‘OL let’s do it.’

A spokesman for Beckham said: ‘This story is based on outdated material and taken out of context from hacked and doctored private emails from a third party server and gives a deliberately inaccurate picture.’

Unicef said last night: ‘David has given significant funds personally.’