If celebrities were born chavs

IF this is how Posh and Becks would look as chavs - this is the real-life Beckhingham palace we think they'd keep.

After it emerged this week a Norwegian artist painted his home in the iconic Burberry design, we figured there were more worthy occupants than him out there.

So we trawled the internet and came across this hilarious family portrait of David and Victoria, part of a set of pictures titled "If celebrities were born as chavs" at FunLobby.com

The digitally-altered makeunder snaps target everyone from Britney Spears to the Olsen twins and even a hillbilly version of Tom Cruise.

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Not even Johnny Depp could save himself from the humiliation despite having just been voted the hottest man on earth for a second year.

As trailor trash in a flash, the Pirates of the Carribean star also joins Sarah Jessica Parker and Pamela Anderson as live-in contenders for this ultimate chaved-up palace.

The house, a former toilet block, has put the Scandanavian town of Larvik, Norway, on the map.

At a cost of thousands of pounds, Jens Werner, 33, took several weeks to cover the entire building in the famous beige, black and red tartan design, a once iconic design for all of chavkind - much to the fashion label's furore.

Jens celebrated halloween by putting a pumpkin outside his house - not that his pad, a former toilet block, wasn't scary enough

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The company's signature print, the Haymarket check, became synonomous last decade when fake copies of the brand became readily available among football hooligans. It formed the new chav subculture, and has gone on to be ridiculed by hit TV comedy Little Britain.

Burberry, famous mostly for their luxury trenchcoats as well as handbags and fragrances, has since re-built its image with advertisements in Vogue, Tatler and Harper's Bazaar.

But what would Harry Potter actress and Burberry model Emma Watson think of the unusual ode to her new employer? Perhaps she'd wave her magic wand and wish it disappear.

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