Mel B’s girl Angel Iris proclaims her Spice Girls heritage

March 18th, 2008 admin

As Victoria Beckham and her bandmates have seven children between them, there’s a long list of contenders for the title of baby of the Spice bunch.

In the running of course is Emma Bunton’s seven-month–old son Beau. And at 22 months, Bluebell, Geri Halliwell’s daughter, might just be in with a shot for the title.

Yet no one has staked their claim quite as winningly as Angel Iris Murphy Brown, Mel B’s youngest by former flame Eddie Murphy. As she tucked into a snack offered by her mum in LA on Monday the little girl wore a bib bearing the words ‘Spice Baby’ in multi-coloured letters.

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The Return of the Spice Girls Tour

March 18th, 2008 admin

It was intended to be a big thank you and a fitting farewell to their fans, but in June 2007 when the Spice Girls announced their plans for ‘The Return of the Spice Girls’ Tour, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Victoria Beckham could have had little idea what a huge success their tour would turn out to be. Now the five girls can look back on 47 sell-out shows ¯ a success backed up by Sennheiser technology.
As usual, the Spice Girls’ series of concerts broke all records: in London they filled the O2 Arena 17 times, and they gave six concerts in the New York area, including a sold-out show at the legendary Madi­son Square Garden arena. Their farewell tour took the five girls across North America and Europe, in the company of Sennheiser’s wireless technology.
The Spice Girls sang using very special microphones: their SKM 935s were lavishly adorned with rhinestones; even the earpieces on their evolution wireless monitor receivers were decorated. The band used (much plainer) evolution wireless guitar systems and all the microphones were used with EM 550 twin receivers.
“For the Spice Girls tour we needed great sounding vocal mics with rock-solid radio performance,” explains Ray Furze, the tour’s FOH engineer. “The 935 capsule proved to be an excellent choice. We had no radio drop outs on the whole tour and I found they were highly resistant to feedback, even with all five mics 20 metres in front of the PA.”
Monitor technician Matt Napier adds: “After Ray Furze and I reviewed all the radio systems that were available for the Spice Girls tour, it quickly became obvious that Sennheiser was the logical choice. With five girls, lots of quick changes and a huge set, not only would we need equipment that sounded good, but something that was durable and had rock-solid RF.”

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Bunton laughs off Spice Girls infighting reports

March 18th, 2008 admin

Emma Bunton has fiercely rejected reports the Spice Girls comeback tour was blighted by infighting, insisting the band’s official reason for ending the trek prematurely was genuine.

The stars thrilled fans last year by announcing a reunion world tour, but left thousands of concertgoers in Asia, Africa, South America and Australia heartbroken when they decided to quit the roadtrip early, on February 26.

However, Bunton is adamant the group decided to stop performing to be with their families - as they stated at the time - and is mystified by rumours the singers fell out and couldn’t bear to be in each other’s company.

She says: The tour was special for everyone. We were having the best time, contrary to some reports. We were supposed to be at each other’s throats when we were actually having a great laugh.

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Emma Bunton

March 12th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Emma Lee Bunton

Nickname
Baby Spice

Height
5′ 2″ (1.57 m)

Mini Biography

Emma Lee Bunton was born on the 21st January 1976 in Finchley, North London to parents Pauline, a karate instructor, and Trevor, a milkman. They split up when Emma was 11, and she stayed with her mum. She also has a younger brother, P.J. (Paul) who she is very close to. Emma’s career began at an early age when she started doing modeling work for such things as Mothercare, Mentadent P toothpaste and Polly Pocket. She attended the famous Sylvia Young Drama School in London, during which time she auditioned for several TV parts including that of Bianca in “EastEnders” (1985), but none of them really panned out. She can be seen briefly in both “EastEnders” (1985) and The Bill, but only in minor parts. It wasn’t long after she left Sylvia Young’s that she joined the Spice Girls (after the original 5th Spice Girl, Michelle Stephenson, left). 2 albums, 8 No. 1 singles and a film later and the Spice Girls are still going strong. Emma is due to appear in the BBC musical drama ‘Sleeping Beauty’ which is in filming at the moment and will be out by the end of the year. The Spice Girls 3rd album, “Forever” was released in November 2000 and reached the #2 spot on the UK charts. It also features the Spice Girls’ 9th #1 single, “Holler/Let Love Lead The Way”. Since then, the Spice Girls haven’t worked together again. In April 2001, Emma released her first solo album “A Girl Like Me” which featured her 1999 cover of Eddie Brickell’s “What I Am” and Emma’s own #1 hit “What Took You So Long”. In 2003, Emma released her second solo album, “Free Me”, which includes her four hits “Free Me”, “Maybe”, “I’ll Be There” and “Crickets Sing For Anamaria”. Her promo tour lead her to the US in early 2005, where a remix of “Free Me” was a popular club track.

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Keeley Hawes

March 11th, 2008 admin

Date of Birth
10 February 1977, London, England, UK

Height
5′ 9″ (1.75 m)

Spouse
Matthew Macfadyen     (8 October 2004 - present) 2 children
Spencer McCallum     (December 2001 - 2004) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Son, Myles (born 2000) with first husband Spencer McCallum

She was spotted in Oxford Street in London by an agent who inquired if she modeled. She began her modeling career from that point on and continued for nearly a year, before being cast in her first movie role, “Karaoke” (1996) (mini).

Attended the Sylvia Young Theater School which also produced stars Emma Bunton (Spice Girls) and Nick Berry.

Her dad and two brothers are all London cabbies.

Keeley left her husband just after 5 months of marriage. She began dating Matthew Macfadyen (her co-star from the BBC TV series “Spooks” (2002)) shortly after but maintains she never had an affair whilst married to McCallum.

Married Matthew Macfadyen in a very private ceremony in their local Registry Office in November 2004.

Gave birth to a healthy little girl named Maggie just before Christmas 2004

Youngest of four children.

Gave birth to son Ralph in September 2006.

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Spice Girls

March 10th, 2008 admin

The Spice Girls are a BRIT Award-winning English girl pop group formed in London in 1994 by Humera ‘Bu’ A, consisting of Geri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm. The girls were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, “Wannabe”, in 1996. The song went on to spend seven weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, and helped establish the group as an “international phenomenon”.They went on to release three studio albums and thirteen singles, selling in excess of 55 million records worldwide. The group is one of the most successful and biggest girl groups of all time, due to their increasing record sales, reunion tour, merchandising, record sales in different countries, record breaking achievements, such as Wannabe being the biggest single released by a female group of all time, and iconic symbolism such as the union jack dress, “Girl Power”, and their nicknames.

Under the guidance of their long time mentor and manager Simon Fuller, the group embraced merchandising and became a regular feature of the British press. Each member of the group was given an alias by Top of the Pops Magazine in 1996, aliases which were adopted by the group and media alike. According to biographer David Sinclair, “Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognized group of individuals since John, Paul, George and Ringo”, and the group was “a social phenomenon that changed the course of popular music and popular culture”. In 1997, the Spice Girls released a movie called Spiceworld:The Movie.

The members went their separate ways in 2001 (although a break-up was never formally announced) to focus on their solo careers. On 28 June 2007 all five re-formed before the launch of their Reunion Tour in December, alongside the release of their Greatest Hits album. In December 2007, the Spice Girls made a programme called Giving You Everything, which showed the beginning to the current reunion of the Spice Girls. In February 2008, the Spice Girls announced that they were ending their tour in Toronto on 26th February 2008. While they are currently on hiatus, they have stated on their official blog, “Who knows what will happen next!”

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Victoria Beckham

March 10th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Victoria Caroline Adams

Nickname
Posh Spice

Height
5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

Mini Biography

Victoria Adams was born April 1974. She does not like being called Vicky. Instead, call her Posh, which stands for the best of everything (an old luxury liner term, P.O.S.H. stood for “Port Out, Starboard Home”– the best rooms). Growing up, she didn’t like being driven to school in her father’s Rolls Royce (they were very wealthy; later, as Posh, she would have an image of someone who revels in wealth). Victoria began as a dancer before eventually landing a spot as a member of The Spice Girls. While in college, Victoria was briefly in another band. After completing the 3-year course at Lanie Arts, she answered an ad in “The Stage” magazine, which was looking for 5 girls who could sing and dance. Victoria was picked, history was about to be made. (Victoria had met: Emma who had been in a play with her when they were kids; Geri while auditioning for a role in Tank Girl (1995); Mel C. attended a rival school when they were 15; and Mel B. at the audition for the forming of the band.) The Spice Girls became fantastically successful, achieving international fame. The wildly popular Spice Girls performed at sold-out concerts, did tours, and of course the Spice World (1997) movie. Victoria married soccer player David Beckham, and they had a son in 1999.

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Emma Bunton’s marriage plans

March 9th, 2008 admin

Emma Bunton and fiancé Jade Jones are reportedly planning to marry this summer.

The 32-year-old Spice Girls star and former Damage singer - who have a six-month-old son, Beau, together - have decided it is time to cement their eight-year relationship by tying the knot.

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Spice Girls are ‘like one big family’, says Mel C

March 8th, 2008 admin

WASHINGTON: Smashing rumours of an alleged rift between the Spice Girls members, Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm insisted that the girls are “like one big family.”

Mel C has claimed that though the all-girl band wanted to complete their recent reunion tour as scheduled, being mothers and having commitments made them end the trek prematurely.

However, the 34-year-old claimed in an interview with RollingStone.com, that their cancelling the tour in between has nothing to do with a rumoured feud.

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