One Spice Girl has smelly hair and one's always on the loo but it's Sporty Spice who has the biggest secret...
POSH SPICE LIVES IN A HAUNTED HOUSE! we live in an old converted school and my mum keeps seeing the bottom half of a school mistress walking up the stairs. We thought she was going mad because senile dementia runs in our family, but then my dad saw it. We have ghost dogs too apparently. I've never seen them, but they're there, I know!
GINGER SPICE THREW UP UNDER THE TABLE! I like my food, in fact I'm on that seafood diet, you know, you see food and you eat it! But sometimes the food in Japan is a bit too fancy for me. The last time we were there I was sick under a table in a restaurant, I just barfed it all back up. It was all fiddly posh food, raw eggs and things!
POSH SPICE HAS NEVER READ A BOOK! I have a really short attention span so I've never in my life succeeded at reading a book from cover to cover. The only thing I ever read is Elle magazine. I'm useless at watching films too, they're boring. Two hours is too long to still still and not talk or do anything!
BABY SPICE IS NAUGHTIER THAN SHE LOOKS! Sometimes we nick things from hotels, like towels and stuff. But the other girls always make me hide them in my case when we check out because they think I look the most innocent and I'm the least likely to get caught. Recently we nicked two pillows - don't asked how I sneaked them out!
BABY SPICE IS ALWAYS ON THE PHONE TO HER MUM! My mum is my best friend in the world and I miss her so much when we're away! I'm always on the phone to her, in fact when we were in America I'd sometimes ring her up to three times a day! I kept thinking of things I'd forgotten to say, and then I'd think, "Ooh, I didn't say goodbye very nicely," so I'd call her back again. My phone bills, as you can imagine, are massive, when I'm away from home!
SCARY SPICE WAS GREAT IN THE SACK... RACE! I used to love sports day when I was at school. I was best at either the egg and spoon race or the sack race. I always used to win the sack race and that race when they tie your leg to someone else's.
POSH SPICE HAS THREE PET DOGS! We have three Yorkshire terriers - Bambi, Truffle and Lucy, but my dad makes them live in the garden because they wee all over the floor. They aren't actually outdoor dogs, but they've lived for longer than they've meant to so it can't have done them any harm. Actually, they probably don't like the thought of living inside because that's where the ghostly dogs live!
GINGER SPICE LIVES NEXT DOR TO THE SPICE GIRLS' ELDEST FAN! My neighbours have started going through my rubbish would you belive? Not my next-door neighbour, no. He's a little old man and must be our eldest fan. He fancies Emma, and whenever I see him he talks about the war and 'that blonde one' (ie, Emma). Bless him!
BABY SPICE HAS A TOP TIP! I have a top tip for female TOTP readers! If you have blonde hair that goes greasy like mine does, cover it in talcum powder and all the grease will disappear!
SCARY SPICE WANTS TO MEET JAMIROQUAI! I really like Jamiroquai's latest album so I'd like to meet him to have a chat! What would we chat about? I'd aske him what he keeps under his hat. I wouldn't take it off though because I've heard he actually has smelly hair. In fact, that's what we could talk about, smelly hair. My hair smells terrible you know!
POSH SPICE ONCE DID A CAR BOOT SALE! One day my mum decided we should do a car boot sale. So we got up early and headed off, but when we arrived I didn't like it so I sat in the back of the car all day, leaning out of the window in the hope of getting a tan!
SPORTY SPICE HAS A SECRET! The biggest lie that I've ever told is that I'm good at football. I'm not. I'm pretty rubbish at it actually. Everyone assumes I'm good because I play but it isn't true. I'm in a girls' team, but I don't really play for them anymore because I'm never there. Hello to Rickmansworth ladies' team!
SCARY SPICE USED TO WIND UP THE STAND-IN TEACHERS AT SCHOOL! I used to talk all the time during lessons, me. And the teachers used to love trying to catch me out by saying, "Melanie Brown, what did I just say?" But the thing the stand-in teachers didn't know is that I could listen to them and talk at the same time, so I'd always be able to answer them back and cut them down, heh heh!
GINGER SPICE CAUGHT FLEAS FROM MADONNA! (WELL SORT OF) When we were in Rome we stayed in this big hotel where Madonna had stayed. Anyway, when I got up the next morning, I was covered in flea bites because the bed I'd slept in had been flea-infested. Not very pleasant!
POSH SPICE USED TO BUNK OFF PE! I used to dread PE lessons at school because it would mess my hair up. So every time we had to do it I'd get my mum to write a note ans say I was injured. I'd sit on the side and watch... she's good like that, my mum!
POSH SPICE FANCIED SOMEONE FOR 10 YEARS! When I was 11 I fell in love with this guy, but it took me until I was 21 to snog him. We stood on my mum's doorstep and he kissed me. I thought, "Yessss, at last!"
SPORTY SPICE RODE ON A CAMEL! When I was on the beach on holiday in Tunisia, me and my brother decided to have a ride on this camel. It turned out to be more scary than fun though. A fly landed on my leg, so I brushed it off, but the camel - which had two humps incidently - must have felt something and let out this screechy 'reeeeeeaaaaaar' noise. We jumped off as quickly as we could after that!
SPORTY SPICE HAS JUST SPENT £8,000! The most money I've ever spent was £8,000 and it was on a holiday for my family. We went to the Caribbean around Christmas time!
POSH SPICE HAD A VERY POSH GARDENER! My dad used to have one of those lawn mowers which you could sit on and drive. Me, my sister and brother used to have rides on it when we were younger! But my best gardening story is about our old gardener. He used to garden for the Queen Mum! There, total proof that I am Posh Spice!
GINGER SPICE IS V ACCIDENT PRONE! I get electric shocks from things, that's why my hair's this colour! Quite often when I plug a telly in I get a shooting pain up my arm.
GINGER SPICE IS ALWAYS LATE FOR EVERYTHING! Usually, when we're supposed to be somewhere, I'm locked in a toilet or something. The other day at the airport we were flying to America, and I just popped to the loo but when I came back everyone had boarded the plane and I had to leg it down to the check-in, thinking, "Please wait, please wait." But when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. I missed a live TV thing the other day cos I was on the loo - the others had to carry on without me.
BABY SPICE IS A BIT OF A POET! When I'm bored I really like writing poetry. I'm not bad at it either. My favourite poem is one I wrote when I was younger about firework night. It went: "It's firework night, the fire is bright, tonight's the night the sky's alight, the fire crackles, the fireworks pop, out comes the food, it's piping hot, the fifth of November do you know what that means? Sausages, potatoes, bangers and beans." Good, eh? I did it all by myself when I was 12 and my teacher didn't believe me, she thought I'd copied it out of a book!
POSH SPICE HAS COREY HAIM'S PHONE NUMBER! He's a friend of ours. We met him when we were in the studio recording 2 Become 1 and we swapped phone numbers. I don't ring him anymore but I did, he's a really nice guy. Did I go out with him? That's a nosey question! No, I'm not into that kind of baggy jeans look.
SCARY SPICE STOLE A PAIR OF KNICKERS FROM MARKS & SPENCER! The only time I've ever stolen anything was when I was 12. I knicked a pair of knickers from M&S, and when I madfe it out of the shop my heart was beating so fast I swore I'd never do it again. I just slipped them into my bag but i'd never do it again because I just know I'd be caught. It was a silly thing to do, I know!
GINGER SPICE CAN'T PUT ON A DUVET COVER! If anything in life gives me a nervous breakdown, it's putting on a duvet cover. It takes ages. I have a tip though, you turn it inside out and throw it around a bit, but beware, it doesn't always work. My duvet is orange with big checks.
POSH SPICE DOES THE SAME POSE ON PURPOSE! I always look moody in pictures on purpose. The thing is I don't think I look very good when I smile, so when the camera goes click, I always do the same pose because I know I'll look OK. People think I'm the serious one, but that's not the case. Oh no, I can be quite a comedian when I want to, honestly!
GINGER SPICE'S SISTER DOES ALL HER WASHING! I live with my sister now, so she very kindly does all my clothes washing for me. Every so often I do a big dish wash for her to say thanks - you know, slam all the dishes in the sink and go mad!
SCARY SPICE IS BRILLIANT AT KNITTING! I'm really good at sewing and knitting. My grandma taught me how to knit one, pearl one and all that. I've knitted all kinds of things before, like rugs, and I once made some pillow case cushions for my mum!
BABY SPICE ONCE CAUSED A RIGHT COMMOTION! One night I was out in the bar with all my friends, I was with this boy I wanted to snog but we didn't want our friends to know. So, we went upstairs and found a secret place, but while we were there, all you could hear in the bar, "Emma, Emma where are you?" Our mates went on a hunt for us, looking everywhere. But they didn't find us, heh heh!
SPORTY SPICE HAS A BAKED BEAN PROBLEM! I'm the world's most organised person at home! In fact, I'm quite scary. All the tins of baked beans in my kitchen cupboards have to face the same way, and there always have to be four tins, and if not, definitely an even number. So you see, I should be Scary Spice!
SCARY SPICE COLLECTS TROPICAL FISH! I have a collection of tropical fish at home, one is called Emma and there are all these stripy ones that swim together really poshly, and I call them Victoria's School of Training! Actually, I'm getting a cat soon, but I want a black moggy so it can be the king of the alley in my street. Everyone where I live has posh cats like Persians, so I want mine to freak all the neighbours out!
POSH SPICE IS LOOKING FOR A HOUSE HUSBAND! I am the world's most domesticated person. I can't wash up to save my life, let alone hoover, iron or clean my surfaces. So when I get married it will be to a man who can do all that kind of stuff for me. Any offers, please send you CV to Posh Spice, care of Top of the Pops Magazine...
GINGER SPICE THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO POP HER CLOGS! A couple of months ago, Posh Spice and I went to see the Buddy Hlooy play, and afterwards we were on a mini-jet flying to Paris. I was half asleep when we hit all this turbulence and in my dream I was thinking, "Oh God, this is it!" Then, when we landed in France, we were late and had this nutty driver who kept going down one-way streets the wrong way. I nearly died so many times that day!
SPORTY SPICE USED TO LOOK LIKE A POODLE! When I was younger I was absolutely desperate for a perm. Eventually my mum gave in and agreed but it went really wrong and afterwards I looked like a poodle. My hair hasn't been the same since actually. It was a nightmare.
POSH SPICE GOES TO A POSH HAIRDRESSER! I used to sit under one of those weird hairdryers when I went to the hairdresser, but I didn't like it because I didn't think it was very glamorous. So now I have my hair done at this very posh place and this hairdryer thing comes down over my head like a halo and revolves around. It heats your hair, only it does it more evenly! It's very exciting, one of the most enjoyable things I do, definitely!
SCARY SPICE KNOWS HOW TO THROW A GOOD DINNER PARTY! Indeed I do! The first rule is, don't bother cooking anything yourself because it will go wrong, so order a take away. Then, invite all your mates and play a game where everyone has to stand up and pretend to be a character. Obviously, you have to have very loud music playing all the way through, in the hope of annoying the neighbours!
BABY SPICE CHEATS AT MONOPOLY! I always cheat when I play Monopoly, although I don't get away with it very often. This smirk sort of covers my face and everyone turns to me and says, "You're cheating aren't you Emma?" The best way to cheat is always make sure you're the banker, that way you can acquire spare funds! My favourite new game is Outburst but unfortunately it's very difficult to cheat!
SPORTY SPICE LOOKED LIKE A CHIPMUNK! I haven't been to the dentist for years and I really should go. It was having my wisdom teeth out that put me off. I can remember coming around from the anaesthetic and laughing, and then crying, and then laughing again. When I saw my face, well, it was absolutely huge and I looked disfigured. I had to walk through Liverpool town centre looking like a chipmunk and everyone kept staring at me. I felt even worse the next day because I had lasagne for tea and it all got stuck in my stitches!
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