Mel SladeFootball WAG Mel Slade has revealed she felt lost in the WAG scene before Victoria Beckham befriended her earlier this year.

Mel met Arsenal and England striker Theo Walcott when he played for her local team, Southampton FC and the two seventeen year olds have been dating for nearly a year. When Theo was picked to be part of England’s World Cup team earlier this year, Mel was thrust into the WAG world.

Mel told Arena magazine recently that she met her fellow wives-and-girlfriends on a pre-tournament visit to Portugal: “Victoria invited us up to their villa. I kept looking in the mirror, going, ‘Do I look nice?’ I’d only come for the weekend so I hadn’t packed much stuff. I just wore shorts and a top.”

“Before I met Victoria I thought she’d be a bit stuck up but she was lovely. She gave me jeans and stuff from her label.”

“She was always looking after me. She’d come over, just seeing how I was. It would have been a bit daunting to walk into a room the first time, they’re all sat there and no one introduces themselves, so it was nice of her to do that.”

“It gave me someone who I could go to and say hello. She was really friendly.”