Simon says....stand and wait

But with her career in freefall, the artist formerly known as Posh Spice is no longer receiving the deference she feels is her due.

The Daily Mail can reveal that her record label Telstar has consulted lawyers about the possibility of dropping her.

And, and it looks like, her manager Simon Fuller does not exactly leap to be at her beck and call.

Victoria, 29, was kept waiting for more than an hour when she arrived at the offices of his company, 19, in Hammersmith, West London. Her face a picture of anger, she paced the car park while Fuller remained off the scene.

Eventually, when he was ready to see her, he emerged for a brief meeting in the car park, looking singularly unimpressed as she presented him with a storyboard containing some of her ideas for a video.

After the couple eventually drove off in Fuller's car, one aide close to him said that making people wait is a tactic he often uses to show who is boss.

Despite all her riches, and the footballing success of husband David, Victoria is still missing the one thing she has always craved - acceptance as a solo artist.

She rejoined Fuller, the man originally behind the Spice Girls, in the summer after she was dropped by Virgin Records.

Yet her music career is in the worst state it has ever been.

And at the centre of it all is her seeming obsession with American rapper Damon Dash.

Both Fuller and Telstar have had enough of Dash - claiming the songs he has recorded with her will be a commercial flop. But she is determined to hang on to him, believing his promises that he can make her a star in the U.S.

Sources at Telstar claim that they are now trying to get out of their £1.5million contract with Posh. The record label is refusing to put out the album she has recorded with Dash, while she refuses to let them put out pop songs she made before meeting the rap star.

'We have consulted lawyers,' a source at the record label said yesterday. 'We have had enough and just want to terminate the contract because she is not providing us with what was promised.

'She won't back down over Damon and the worst thing is that she refuses to come and meet us to discuss the situation. We just want to cut our losses.'

A source close to Victoria said she would be surprised if Telstar dropped her, insisting: 'They need us more than we need them.'

And Dash has already offered to release her music on his record label Roc-A-Fella, part of the Universal music group.

Her relationship with Dash, while platonic, has been cited as a source of recent friction between her and her husband.

Beckham is said to be concerned about the amount of time she is spending with Dash. He believes she should listen to Telstar and Fuller, and release the pop tunes.

Yesterday, however, she flew back to Spain in the morning, seeing her injured husband for the first time in a week.