Are the spice Girls all talk and no action? We find out how hard Vic, Em, Mel, Mel, and Geri really are...
RIGHT GIRLS, YOU'VE GOT THIS ROCK HARD IMAGE, BUT WHAT@S THE TOUGHEST SITUATION YOU'VE EVER FOUND YOURSELVES IN?
Victoria: We had to go on this tiny little private jet a while ago and that was pretty tough because we all thought it was going to crash! I've never been so nervous in my entire life!
Emma: When we all went on holiday together we all turned up at the airport a day early by accident! We'd checked out of our hotel, we had no car, no money - nothing, and we ended up staying in this really grotty hotel where you could hear police sirens going past all night. Having said that, it turned out to be one of the most fun nights we've ever had!
Geri: we used to drive around in my little Fiat Uno - the poor thing had such a tough time! - and I crashed it seven times in six months! I nearly killed these girls - they'd all be talking and I'd turn round to join in and we'd end up going up a kerb.
Mel B: I used to go out with a proffesional snooker player and I went to watch him play once. I dared him to do a little wiggle when he bent over to take a shot and he did it! The toughest thing was trying to keep my laughter in, because you've got to be really quiet at snooker and I was dying to go, "Aaarrgh!"
Mel C: The toughest situation for me was at a football match. It was West Ham versus Manchester United and I'm a Liverpool fan, but I had to stand in the Man Utd end. When they scored and everyone cheered it was really hard not to boo! I thought I'd get my head kicked in if I did!
HAVE YOU EVER FALLEN OUT?
Mel C: Yeah, but usually we argue over really silly things, and it always gets resolved because we are good mates. At the end of the day, we want the best for each other and the best out of each other. It's healthy to argue.
DID YOUR SUDDEN SUCCESS CHANGE YOU?
Victoria: It didn't change us as people, but I think you become more aware of the people who surround you. What has changed is that we're really busy now, so we don't get to spend as much time at home and we all like being at home.
Mel B: I've changed because you take on board a lot of things that happen around you, so therefore you gain a lot of knowledge about what's going on. So yeah, I've probably changed a bit and grown up, or become more aware in certain areas.
Mel C: You don't actually change as a person...
Emma: You've got to be careful, though, because you don't want to act as though you know it all.
Mel C: Because we've been all over the world and we've all got open minds - I'd say it's more growing than changing, because you see so many different cultures. It's really exciting.
Geri: I think changing is something positive - it's part of life to grow up, and what you appreciate changes. When I was little I thought about, "Oh yeah, when I'm rich and famous!" but as you get older you realise that other things in life are more important than that.
Mel C: You tend to appreciate the more important things in life...
Geri: Yeah, like the bottom line - things like love and friendship. You learn to appreciate those.
DO YOU LIKE SLUSHY MOVIES?
Victoria: I do! I'm really romantic - I like to watch a nice, soppy film, and I like going for romantic meals. Even though I believe in equality and that, I still like to be treated as a lady as well - why not?!
Emma: I'm a romantic at heart, but I don't like sloppy films, really. Then again, I did like Sleepless In Seattle - I thought that was great.
Mel B: Is True Romance a love story? Does that count, because I did like that. (Erm, well, it's full of gory violence, but I suppose we'll allow it!) Geri: That really was true romance, though, because he (Christian Slater) really went out on a limb for her (Patricia Arquette).
Victoria: I only like it if they get together at the end - otherwise I get the hump and want to fix them up!
Mel C: There is a time and a place for romantic films, but usually I'd rather watch the football. That's romantic, though, because there's so much passion in football!
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBER CRYING, AND WHY?
Mel B: About half an hour ago! Not about anything in particular - sometimes you just feel like it, don't you? It's good to cry - it releases everything and it clears all the bad feelings out of the way. Then you can be happy again.
Mel C: I cried a few days ago when I spoke to my mum on the phone. I've not seen her for ages and she's not been very well, and she sounded really ill, so when I put the phone down I got upset.
Victoria: I cried the night before we had to go away last week. It was because I couldn't be bothered to pack and I was really tired. I was feeling so sorry for myself and I just fell on the floor and started crying - I was just totally exhausted.
Emma: I can't remember the last time I cried! I can't believe it because I always used to cry! Actually, I was quite ill a couple of months ago and it was getting me down so I had a little cry.
Geri: I cried when I watched A Time To Kill (Sandra Bullock flick)... and Dead Man Walking (film about death row) - if you want to cry, watch that film. I know it sounds false to say I cry at movies, but sometimes you do identify with something in it and it lets it all out.
Mel C:(Sarcastically) Oooh, yeah, I really want to cry!
Mel B: I think crying's good because it lets everything out - it's like having a good old giggle, which is good as well.
Mel C: It gives me a headache! I like it when men cry, though.
Geri: Yeah - men should cry and girls should climb trees!
DID YOU GIVE YOUR SCHOOLMATES A REALLY HARD TIME AT SCHOOL?
Mel C: No, I got given a hard time at school, really.
Victoria: I did, too, and I didn't have any mates because nobody liked me. They want to know me now, though!
Mel B: It's give and take - kids can be pretty horrible to each other, but one day you might be horrible and the next day they'll be horrible back to you.
Geri: Yeah, kids can be brutally honest - they call each other 'Fatty' and stuff, but they don't always mean it. I got pinned against a wall and beaten up once, but then again I was cheeky too. Not in a nasty way, though!
Emma: I was terrible at primary school. I was well known for kicking boys in their privates if they wouldn't let me play football with them!
Mel B: That's alright!
Emma: Yeah, 'cause I was the only girl who was allowed to play football with the boys!
HAVE YOU EVER MADE A BOY CRY?
Mel B: I think I have, but it wasn't intentional.
Geri: I have! I threw a stone at my brother anbd it hit him in the eye and gave him a nosebleed! You know what brothers and sisters are like - we used to fight all the time!
Emma: When I was younger I went to a party with a boy and went off with another boy while I was there. He started crying and I told him to stop being stupid! We were really young!
Victoria: I was so horrible to this boy, and he got so angry that he went red in the face and gritted his teeth, and tears just started coming out of his eyes. It was more out of anger than being upset.
Mel C: When I was 13 I had one of those silly boyfriends - you know, the type you only go out with for two weeks? I only went out with him 'cause he kept pestering me to, but I got bored and finished with him and he cried.
WERE YOU A TEACHER'S NIGHTMARE AT SCHOOL?
Victoria: I was really good at school. I wasn't naughty, but we had a maths teacher called Mr. Nutt and I used to really fancy him, which must have been a bit of a nightmare for him because I used to sit and stare at him!
Emma: I was naughty with my friends - we used to push the lockers up against the classroom door so the teacher couldn't get in. You got in big trouble for things like that in those days!
Mel C: I was really cheeky to my dance school teacher - I used to answer back a lot, but that was all.
Mel B: In my drama school there was these huge thick curtains from the floor to the celing, and you always had to scramble around for the opening to get through them. Whenever someone was scrambling around we'd beat them up on the other side of the curtain. One time I was beating someone up, thinking it was a kid in my class, and it was actually my drama teacher! Also, you know me - I've always got something so say, so it was like, "Oh God, shut up!"
Geri: I used to lock my French teacher out of the classroom and we put condoms under the chalk duster to give her a shock when she picked it up!
SOUNDS LIKE YOU WERE A BUNCH OF PRACTICAL JOKERS...
Victoria: We did that one where you tie string around the door handle and then put a bin above the door, so that when the teacher opens the door, it pulls the string and the bin and all the rubbish falls on their head! Those bins you have at school are quite heavy, so it wasn't very nice of me!
Mel B: I pulled the chair away from my teacher when she tried to sit down. I was a naughty brat!
Emma: I had a teacher who used to bring a packed lunch, and when she wasn't looking I'd open her lunch box and take a huge bite out of her sandwich!
Geri: In junior school I pretended I was dead on the floor, but everyone just piled chairs on top of me and covered me in paint so it didn't really work!
Mel C: I can't think of one... sorry!
DID YOU GET INTO FIGHTS?
Victoria: Never.
Mel B: We used to hit each other with rulers and stab each other with pencils! And science was a nightmare because we used to chase people around trying to burn them with a Bunsen burner!
Emma: Yeah, we used to do that. My friend - a boy called Aaron - once burnt my face with a Bunsen burner and I had a really bad scar for ages.
Geri: I had a fight with this girl who had a lisp - it was in my music lesson and we were hitting each other with xylophones! It really hurt!
Mel C: One time this girl followed me home and beat me up because she fancied my boyfriend. I had to defend myself so I hit her back! She was a big girl an' all, and I was only little, but I hurt her - in fact, she limped away! So she'd started this fight and got hurt and I still had the fella - yes!
