The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007

Dec. 6, 2007 — -- This year one power couple made such an impact that they earned two spots on the list of "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007."

David and Victoria Beckham sat down with Barbara Walters for their first interview together since their British invasion earlier this year.

The hottest soccer star and the poshest of the Spice Girls are an unstoppable celebrity juggernaut, combining sports, television, fashion, music and pure sex appeal. How do they feel about being called the sexiest couple in the world?

"Ooh, I love that," Victoria told Walters. "I haven't heard it before, but I love it."

The Beckhams came "across the pond" so David could play soccer for the L.A. Galaxy. But that five-year deal, reportedly worth up to $250 million with incentives, is just a small part of the Beckham brand, which includes Victoria's reunion tour with the Spice Girls, their DVB fashion merchandise and endorsement deals — reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

It's a far cry from David's modest beginnings in the suburbs of London.

"My father used to take me onto the field every day," David told Walters. "He was obsessed by soccer and he just put it into me. I joined a team when I was 8, and it went on from there. And it's all I ever, all I ever wanted to do, you know."

David said this year has been a difficult one for him on the field. "On the soccer side, it's been tough because it's more frustrating than ever. … I've never had so many injuries in such a short space of time," he said. "And I play soccer because it's my passion."

While David was discovering his passion as a child, about 20 miles away, Victoria Adams was growing up with her two younger siblings. She says she always wanted to be famous.

"The most important thing about being famous — it gives you a voice," she said.

As David became an international soccer star, Victoria found her voice as Posh Spice, a member of one of the best-selling girl groups of all time — the Spice Girls.

When David saw a music video of the group, he says he knew he was looking at his future wife.

"I said, I'm going to marry that girl," he said.

"I think it was the cat suit, wasn't it?" asked Victoria.

"Definitely, the cat suit," David replied.

The couple met when Victoria attended one of David's games with her manager.

"He just introduced me to David, and what I loved about him — all the other players were at the bar with their friends getting drunk, and David was there with his family, with his mother and his father and his younger sister," Victoria said. "And I love that about him, you know."

Their own family includes three boys: Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz.

"I'd love more children," said David. "I'd love two more children. I've always wanted a big family, I love, I love big families so…"

What does his wife have to say about that?

"I think this is the first she's heard about this," David said. "Now she knows, you know, I really want two more children."

Victoria isn't just a soccer mom. She recently reunited with the Spice Girls and this week returned to the stage for the first time in seven years. She dismisses rumors that she and her fellow band members didn't get along.

"Things get made up all the time," she said. "You know, of course we argued. But, you know, it's been great getting back together, and it's been as if we never actually split up."

She also has a career in fashion, with the couple's DVB line. "I'm not one of these celebrities that'll just put my name on anything," she said. "I love to create."

Victoria often makes headlines for her weight and how slim she is, but she attributes her small size to being "very, very health-conscious," she said. "I've never been one to eat lots of junk food."

The Beckhams have frequently been photographed with another power couple: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

"They are the nicest family," said Victoria, adding that Cruise never tried to introduce the Beckhams to Scientology. "They have their beliefs, but they have never, ever tried to press those on us. We're just, we're friends. We have a laugh with them. And they're just very kind wonderful people."

Something else that makes the Beckhams stand out in Hollywood? They have been married for eight years, and together for 10.

"I think that's great, and for the two of us to still be able to not just love each other but, but to really still laugh after so many years is really important," said Victoria.

Is this relationship forever? "Of course it is," said David. "We wouldn't have got married if it wasn't."

This year Justin Timberlake has been showing us why he's the new king of pop, bringing "sexy back" with four No. 1 singles, four movies, a hit album and a sold-out tour — not to mention a racy little skit he and comic Andy Samberg did for "Saturday Night Live." In it, two cocky singers package their packages as Christmas gifts for their girlfriends.

How does he describe the skit for which he won an Emmy?

"Well you know, I think it's a thoughtful Christmas gift for somebody …" Timberlake said, laughing.

And as for bringing sexy back, where had it gone?

"I have no earthly idea," Timberlake joked to Walters.

Justin Randall Timberlake was born 26 years ago in a small town near Memphis, Tenn. At age 11, he went on the talent show "Star Search." He lost, but the following year he was cast on "The Mickey Mouse Club," and at 14 he joined the boy band N'Sync. It became one of the biggest bands in the world.

After seven years, Timberlake, the breakout star of the group, left to write and produce his own sound. Many dismissed him as a pretty face and his music as shallow pop, a description he didn't like.

"I was … 20 years old and wanted to get as far away from that as possible," he told Walters.

Now, he said, "pop is short for popular, so … I don't think you can be too sad about, about being in that category."

Solo, Timberlake became a megastar. He's the only former boy-bander who's even hotter on his own. And at a time when music sales are declining, Timberlake's are bigger than ever.

Timberlake once said that being on stage is the closest thing to a holy experience he could imagine.

"It becomes, kind of a meditation to be on stage," he said. "It's about having a moment or a dialogue with the crowd. However small or large they may be."

Timberlake's personal life has also been on the upswing in the last year. After two very public relationships — and two very public breakups — first with Britney Spears and then with Cameron Diaz, now there's a new relationship, with actress Jessica Biel.

"She's a wonderful, wonderful person," Timberlake said.

When asked whether he thinks it will last, Timberlake said, "Well, I'll work on that."

So far so good?

"So far, so great," he said.

Does that mean that the man Rolling Stone magazine called the "New King of Sex" thinks he's sexy? He couldn't say for sure, but added, "I'll hold onto that title for as long as I can."

MySpace, the social networking site, is bigger than Google, Yahoo and YouTube, and its founders, Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, might have more friends than anyone on the planet.

MySpace has millions of users in more than 23 countries, and it is changing the way we communicate. The team behind it — 32-year-old Anderson and 41-year-old DeWolfe — preside over the online empire from their hip new sprawling headquarters in Los Angeles. It's the one office in America where going on MySpace is encouraged.

DeWolfe and Anderson met seven years ago when DeWolfe was an executive at an Internet company and Anderson was applying for a job.

"The thing I love about him is he always has a million different ideas when most people don't have any," said DeWolfe.

MySpace was one of those ideas. Anderson's inspiration was Friendster, a popular networking site that banned self-promotion. Anderson thought if you allowed members to promote themselves, you could really grow.

"He said, we could create the next, you know, huge portal on the Internet and do it all around social networking, and it's gonna be the biggest thing ever," recalled DeWolfe, adding that his initial response was, "I said, 'Oh let me think about it.'"