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Dangerous typo alert: Mail Online claims Harry Styles and David Beckham were lovers

One Direction band member Harry Styles is known for his colourful love life. Former flames include Taylor Swift, Caroline Fleck and Caggie Dunlop. Despite this Mr S was still surprised to read in an article on Mail Online that his list of former loves apparently include Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner and err David Beckham.

Reporting on the 21st birthday bash Styles held in Los Angeles recently, the article listed several of its attendees.

‘The special festivity saw a plethora of famous faces, including Harry’s former love interests Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and football star David Beckham.’

Could it be that the One Direction member once enjoyed a romantic liason with the married footballer, or is the sentence simply missing a comma?

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Mr Steerpike’s colleague Peter Robins writes in this week’s issue of The Spectator of the problem of the dangerous typo. Grammatical errors that have have cost include Nasa’s missing hyphen, the extra ‘s’ that could cost £8.8 million as well as recipes that have led to disastrous dining.

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