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Victoria Beckham

Newly arrived Angeleno Victoria Beckham may get an A for personal style, but her HTML skills get an F. She claims her site is currently under construction, but it takes real work to make a profile page look this bad. And she’s got a rude awakening for her in the very near future. According to her January blog post “Greetings from LA,” the then-house-hunting star was “trying to work out how to get from Santa Monica to Malibu, and from Brentwood to Bel-Air,” because the kids want to go to Disneyland. Bad news, Victoria, the Magic Kingdom isn’t on the Westside. (Nick Ut / AP)

By Patrick Day

July 18, 2007 12 AM PT

Times Staff Writer

Nature abhors a vacuum, and in the near-limitless universe of MySpace, a lack of real celebrities could only last for so long. Pick your favorite movie or TV star, and chances are good you’ll find them on MySpace. But just because that’s Reese Witherspoon’s face smiling back at you, doesn’t mean Reese Witherspoon is sitting at her laptop somewhere struggling with the intricacies of HTML code.

For every star like Zach Braff, who has decided to jump full-on into the MySpace arena and maintain his own profile, there are dozens of celebrities too busy, too uninterested or just too out of it to be bothered. Too bad for them, because someone else has taken the opportunity to create their profile anyway. And besides being more than just a fan page, these profiles have taken the liberty to adopt, expand and even mold the public persona of the celebrity they claim to represent.

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