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A PR worker has been suspended from her job after spreading a false rumour that David and Victoria Beckham were getting divorced.

The girl messaged the untrue information to family members from her work account on Friday.

But the email was made public when it was screen-grabbed and shared online, where rumours were already swirling.

The gossip spread so quickly that bookies Paddy Power suspended betting on the famous couple getting a divorce and the Beckhams put out a statement slamming the reports.

The Spice Girls star and her husband of 19 years are said to be furious about the email.

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The PR company, The Communications Store, has now released a statement saying that the rumour did not originate from the girl or her employer.

A spokesperson said: "In this case, a junior employee was commenting to her family members on gossip that was already circulating on Twitter.

"Although that should never have happened, she did not originate anything. The HR team at TCS are dealing with this member of staff in the correct manner."

After the rumours circulated on Friday, the Beckhams issued a statement to shut them down.

In a statement, reps for the couple said: "There is no statement due or divorce.

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"This is just fake social media news. This is all very bizarre and an embarrassing waste of time.

"There is no statement due, no divorce, and a lot of Chinese whispers and fake social media news."

Hours earlier, Paddy Power had said they would no longer accept bets on Victoria and David, who share children Harper, six, Cruz, 13, Romeo, 15 and 19-year-old Brooklyn, ending their marriage.

"We've decided to suspend betting on the separation between Posh and Becks," a spokesman said.

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The 'bizarre' claims came just 17 months after David shot down reports they only stayed together for their multimillion-pound brand.

"People have talked about 'Do we stay together because it's a brand?' Of course not," he told Desert Island Discs in January 2017.

"We stay together because we love each other. We stay together because we have four amazing children."

Victoria Adams, as she was known then, met David at a charity football match in 1997 and they began dating after David got her number from a friend.