Victoria Beckham

Paula Abdul may be done with American Idol, but her kindness in judging will remain – as Victoria Beckham plans to be nice when judging the contestants on the hit music show.

Also, like Paula, Posh expects she and Simon Cowell will not always find themselves in agreement.

“I like that fact that’s he’s honest. I think he’s very funny,” Victoria told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Friday. “He has a very tongue-in-cheek British sense of humor, which I have too. I’m looking forward to a bit of banter. I hope he does give me a little bit of a hard time. I love that. I feed off of that.”

The two judges don’t know each other well yet, but she says, “He is the only man in the music industry who turned down the Spice Girls and said we would never work.”

The 35-year-old was asked if she would fill Paula Abdul’s shoes of being the nurturing judge and responded with, “I want to be nice to people. I know how it feels to stand there and be judged. I don’t want to shatter anybody’s drea, but at the same time there’s nothing wrong with constructive criticism.”

Does Mrs Beckham feel guilty or apprehensive about taking Abdul’s spot? “I don’t. I’m a spiritual person and I believe that you get back what you put out there, and I hope she does something that is bigger and better. There’s something great for her around the corner, I’m sure.”

After flying out of LAX Airport yesterday, Mrs Beckham is currently in Denver watching the first round of auditions.