It seems that David Beckham's wife Victoria and Wayne Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin will have to shed their maidenly modesty, if they fancy a swim during the World Cup soccer championship to be held in Germany later this year.
Clothes reportedly banned in the pool complex at the England squad's hotel in Germany. As well as a swimming pool, the hotel's spa features steambaths, saunas and massages but clothing is strictly taboo.
"It's no place for modesty. Like most spas in this part of the world, clothes are a no-no - and men and women strip off together. I'm sure they'll find it great fun," a source at the Schlosshotel Buhlerhohe in Germany's Black Forest was quoted by The Sun, as saying.
The secluded five-star hotel has been handpicked by coach Sven Goran Eriksson as England's World Cup HQ this summer.
Players' wives and girlfriends will be free to come and go, although they will be booked into a different hotel in nearby Baden-Baden.