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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The Gutter Sniper: Coping with ‘Victoria Beckham for Vogue’ - a step-by-step plan

March 16th, 2008 admin

You may have noticed that Victoria Beckham is on the cover of this month’s Vogue. I know, I know, it’s sacrilege. Initially we were going to ignore this (denial always being the best way of coping with trauma). It has, however, become increasingly clear that this cannot continue.

The Victoria Beckham cover, it would seem, is a matter of considerable social - some might even say moral - concern. Not only have we received a number of emails pointing to the matter - including one, we should mention, from fellow Indy blogger and bastion of All Things Decent, Ethics Girl - but we have also begun to crave understanding - some kind of explanatory balm for our wound.

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Victoria Beckham’s No Bulge Men’s Jeans

March 16th, 2008 admin

Victoria Beckham is looking to expand her fashion empire besides the fashion reality show she is already doing. Posh is coming out with a line of men’s jeans.

And she has some interesting opinions on men’s bulges.

“I think guys should wear jeans big and baggy, with a big pair of boots or flip-flops—exactly how you see David when he’s out in his jeans and T-shirt,” she advises.

“Do not pull them up tight and have your bulge showing. Let it hang!”

The cost to let it hang? The jeans retail for $220 - $285. Shit!

Victoria says, “These are not skinny jeans. They are what I call proper men’s jeans. If you are a man that likes really skinny jeans, very fashiony, this isn’t really the line for you.”

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Victoria Beckham: Just a normal working mum

March 16th, 2008 admin

Victoria Beckham: She’s just like you and me. Well, if you take away the money, the contacts, and the fabulous wardrobe anyway!

After picking up the boys from their exercise class yesterday, Ms Beckham heads to the Westfield Mall to buy Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz new baseball caps. It just never stops when you’re a busy working mum of three (and international superstar), does it?

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Victoria Beckham’s Family Shopping Spree

March 16th, 2008 admin

While her husband  David continues on his soccer tour of duties,  Victoria Beckham spent the day with her three handsome boys: Brooklyn, Romeo and baby Cruz.

Mommy Posh Spice took the athletic young men to a gymnastics class in Sherman Oaks, followed by a trip to the Westfield shopping mall in Century City and Barney’s in Beverly Hills.

Dressed in fancy new outfits, the boys show off their sense of fashion - which was clearly inherited from their fashionista of a mother, Victoria.

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Victoria Beckham has 10 Hermes Birkins bags

March 16th, 2008 admin

Victoria Beckham loves Hermes Birkins so much hubbie David had one specially made in lilac from ostrich skin for Christmas, costing a whopping £12,000. It’s just one of 10 she owns in a rainbow of colours, totalling just under £60,000.

In plain leather, the bag costs £4,500 and comes with a three-year waiting list… but Posh is such a good customer, we bet she doesn’t have to wait.

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Victoria Beckham fires off against Britney Spears

March 13th, 2008 admin

THE artist formerly known as Posh Spice has reignited her feud with troubled popster Britney Spears. Just what has ruffled the feathers of the normally serene Mrs Beckham?
Beckham, who first fell out with Spears when the Toxic star reportedly refused to sit next to her at prestigious Los Angeles’ hotel Chateau Marmont last year, has now blasted the 26-year-old for not having any personal input into her perfume line.

Speaking about the launch of her new dVb denim range for men, Beckham said: “I’m a complete control freak and I want everything to be perfect. I’m not doing a Britney Spears and just putting my name on something and saying, ‘Sell this perfume.’

“This is a real passion of mine. People think all I do is go shopping like a miserable cow, but, in actual fact, I work b****y hard.”

The mother-of-three also revealed how she likes her soccer star husband to wear his denims.

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Cheryl Cole

March 10th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Cheryl Ann Tweedy

Nickname
Chez
Chezza

Height
5′ 3″ (1.60 m)

Spouse
Ashley Cole     (15 July 2006 - present)

Trivia

Ranked #2 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women 2005.

She has three brothers and a sister.

Engaged to footballer boyfriend Ashley Cole in June 2005.

She was the first girl to make it into Girls Aloud.

Friends with Victoria Beckham.

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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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