The Beckham family had a run-in with Mark Niblett, their former bodyguard which was fired and then wrote a book about them(Story), in the Cottons Hotel's(near Knutsford) liesure club. When they ran into him, the Beckhams including Victoria, David, Victoria's sister Louise and father Tony launched a spree of insults at him. Niblett is aparently a member of the leisure club and often frequents the gym in the afternoon. This was the first time the Beckhams have seen Niblett since he worked for them. A hotel guest said:

"The Beckham party had booked two sunbeds and were waiting around for their turn. Victoria's dad spotted Mark Niblett and a friend working out. Pretty soon the family had gathered by the gym window and started shouting and gesturing at Niblett. As he left the gym the insults continued. At one point it looked like David was going to follow him into the changing room but the leisure club manager managed to calm him down."

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Happy New Year everyone! It's been a great year for SpiceNews, looking forward to 2001! Spice Girls, 2001 & Forever.

Madonna and Victoria Beckham are battling each other to purchase the same £10 million mansion. It's a 22 room Wantage House in London's Notting Hill and was put up for sale by Lady Harlech, widow of the ex-British Ambassador to Washington.

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Thanks Chris Todd.

Estuardo Herrera(from Mexico): Where will you put your next tattoo?

That's a very personal question. I think on my arm, if I can find any space.

Valentino(from Chile): Why did you get yourself a gold tooth?

Because I liked the way it looked, I saw it on someone. I liked it and so I bought one for myself.

Claudia Pozo(from La Paz, Bolivia): Do you see your future with the Spice Girls?

I see my future the same way it is now. I like it very much, working with the Spice Girls. But I also like singing as a solo artist. I hope to continue what I'm doing.

Javier Valencia(from Venezuela): Is it true that you have plans on doing something with Bon Jovi?

Yes there were rumors going around that he and I would be working together, but unfortuanatly nothing came out of it. I have always been a fan of Bon Jovi.

Juan(from Buenos Aires, Argentina): I am curious, did you sing with playback audio on the MTV Europe Music Awards? If yes, why?

Yes, like many other artists. Basically because we didn't have time to rehearse. It was easier for us and we had time for a laugh this way.

Thanks Sandra Prieto, Vivian, and Raluca.

Thanks Q.

Thanks to Angie Hung / db578.

Thanks Christian S..

"Support Children Nationwide and help sick kids everywhere by just giving up something you love for a day, a week or even for the rest of your life. I'm going to be giving up sweets and chocolates, although I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to last."

• Spice Girls - Holler (TOTP Germany) (6.6MB)

I know it's not new but I hadn't seen it before, and it's not frequent that the Spice GIrls perform it so I thought everyone else might want to see it as well.

Thanks to Angie Hung.

Thanks to all who wrote in to correct it.

hey cyberspicers!

what a year it's been!...but, before we all dash off to cosy down and do our own Christmas stuff with our families, we wanted to say one huge THANK YOU for all your love and support throughout the year...you're the best!!

Just in case you're wondering what we're going to be getting up to over the break, we've all done our own little Christmas lists on the website so you can tune into what makes Christmas Christmas if you're a true Spicer ...can't say we all agreed on stuff like Best Christmas Song or Worst Pressies though!

http://www.spicegirlsforever.co.uk/

..But the really exciting news is that now you can have your say on oour website too!
We're launching two brand new features--a letters page and a review section...and we wanna hear from YOU!!! So, once you've filled your face with Christmas Pud, drop us a mail and let us know how y2k was for you--and, of course, let us know what you think of our new album...and any other stuff that rings your bell

http://www.spicegirlsforever.co.uk/

Dunno about you, but we got tired of licking envelopes and buying stamps yonks ago so we've come up with some cool Spicey e-cards for you to send this Christmas...and a screensaver too...hope you like them (let us know!)

Before we go, we wanted to add a festively spesh competition for you all, so check out our Special Stocking Compo--all you have to do is guess which stocking belongs to which girl, based on its contents--and you could win it!

http://www.spicegirlsforever.co.uk/

But, most importantly of all, millions of Happy Christmas wishes to all of you--you're never far from our thoughts. Have a very special time!

loads of love, peace and girl power

Melanie C, Victoria, Melanie B and Emma

Thanks to Angie Hung.

Thanks Tamir.

"I just say 'hi, how are you? And they go silent and you're like, 'hello, is there anybody there?' That makes me giggle."

Top 10 Albums 2000(dotmusic)
1. Madonna - Music
2. Mel C - Northern Star
3. Spice Girls - Forever
4. Robbie Williams - Sing When You're Winning
5. Britney Spears - Oops
6. Steps - Buzz
7. Westlife - Coast to Coast
8. Kylie Minogue - Light Years
9. The Corrs - In Blue
10. All Saints - Saints and Sinners

Top 10 Singles 2000(dotmusic)
1. Madonna - "Music"
2. Spice Girls - "Holler"
3. Mel C - "Never Be The Same Again"
4. All Saints - "Pure Shores"
5. Robbie Williams - "Rock DJ"
6. Britney Spears - "Oops I Did It Again"
7. Kylie Minogue - "Spinning Around"
8. Westlife - "My Love"
9. Geri Halliwell - "Bag It Up"
10. Christina Aguilera - "What A Girl Wants"

Thanks to Angie Hung.

Mel C is only giving Christmas gifts for Emma, the other two girls are off of her Christmas list "Because they are. And that's it."

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Highly doubt it, probably a really sorry story made up by the tabloids.

• 300k Quicktime
• 100k Quicktime
• 56k Quicktime

Sorry again for no local copy!

"What do you call three dogs and a blackbird? The Spice Girls!"

One of the guests at the party said:

"He seemed really pleased with his joke and kept telling it to different groups of people. He just didn't seem to understand it came across as racist and sexist."

Spice Girls publicist Alan Edwards said:

"The Spice Girls would not like to dignify Mr Fox's tasteless joke with any comment. His remarks speak for themselves."

'A source close to the girls' says: "They've been joked about and abused enough over the years to develop a tough skin. But this amazingly crass joke, which is offensive to women and borderline racist, turns their stomachs. People like Mr Fox are the first to pontificate on other people's behavior yet their conduct is clearly suspect. I hope he's proud of himself. And he'd better not bump into any of the girls sometime soon."

After word of the joke hit the media, Fox made this statement:

"In repeating a widely circulated joke I very much regret if anyone was offended. I naturally apologise if any offence was caused."

I totally have zero disk space to put audio/video files on at this point, the account they used to be put on just for a bit until replaced by something new got shut down :( So therefor no local copies on this. So again for the time being, if anyone has any disk space they can loan me that is LEGAL, aka I can legally link files on that server from this page(this does not mean xoom, or tripod, or any of that crap), and that can do AT LEAST 50k/sec, please email me. At the same time I'm working on another resolution for this since it's quite ridiculous for this site not to have any disk space for files.

• Cover & Back
• DVD
• LLLTW Poster
• Holler Poster

"David and Victoria asked for theirvisit to be kept quiet. Somehow we achieved that. They have given all the youngsters that met them a wonderful boost for Christmas.''

On Sunday after the party Mel went Christmas shopping in London with daughter Phoenix Chi.

I'm all setup here on the East Coast now and updating again. Big thanks to Weazel for a gret job on the updates while I was gone.

-Joz

• Singapore's "8 Days Magazine" had an interview with Mel B. She stated that the Girls would do a world tour around the end of next year and visit countries they haven't been to in a long time like, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
• Spice Girls are number 1 on Argentina's Musica Total.
• Mel C was in Canada over the weekend at an HMV store, and performed for around 3,000 to 5,000 people. She stated in an interview afterwards, there will be no Spice Tour next year, she herself would be touring, she will be returning to Canada in March, and among other things, the girls ARE NOT breaking up.
• If you happen to be in Indonesia on December 25th, be sure to turn to TPI (Televisi Pendidikan Indonesia), at either 11.00PM or 10.00AM I've gotten mixed emails so I'm not sure, on the 25th for "Spice Girls 'LIVE' at Earl's Court" Be sure to check your local listings for times.
• A Spicenews.com reader from Brazil sends word that 'Forever' has sold over 100,000 copies, check out Virgin Brazil for more info, also another reader sends that Directv will be showing 'Party in the Park 2000' on December 21st.

Dr. Dre, the man who took controversial rapper Eminem under his wing may not respect the troubled all-girl band's music, but he has some good words to say about Mel C., Sporty Spice, -- who has had a year beset with weight and depression problems, as well as the disappointing sales of the Spice Girls's recent third album "Forever."

Here's what he had to say...

"I'm a big fan of the Spice Girls -- but not because of their music! My favorite? I'd have to say Sporty Spice because I hung out with her one night.

"We talked for close to hour in a bar in Hollywood -- just kicking it around.

"I loved her personality."

First I must say sorry for the lack of posting yesterday, I'll make up for it today, Joz hit me the same time I was reloading my home system, so it took a little longer than I hoped to get it back up and running. Anywho, back to the news, oh and if you have any questions/comments send a mail over my way at weazel@spicenews.com

-Weazel

• On Cover - Cute pic of MelC in the snow.
• Article

Well I'm out of here, flying off to the East Coast for the holidays with the rest of the family. I'll be updating during the holiday break as well, but first need to get situated over there and put together a pc as well. In the meantime Weazel will be updating SpiceNews. Look for me to be back updating sometime next week.

-Joz

Best Pop Album 2000
1. Madonna - Music
2. Mel C - Northern Star
3. Steps - Buzz
4. Robbie Williams - Sing When You're Winning
5. Spice Girls - Forever
6. Britney - Ooops
7. Kylie - Light Years
8. Craig David - Born To Do It
9. All Saints - Saints and Sinners
10. Westlife - Coast to Coast

Best Pop Single 2000
1. Madonna - "Music"
2. Spice Girls - "Holler"
3. All Saints - "Pure Shores"
4. Mel C - "Never Be The Same Again"
5. Robbie - "Rock DJ"
6. Kylie Minogue - "Spinning Around"
7. Britney Spears - "Oops I Did It Again"
8. S Club - "Reach"
9. Westlife - "My Love"
10. Ronan Keating - "Life Is A Rollercoaster"

Thanks matt shepherd.

Melanie B's solo debut album Hot is set to be released on February 27th in the US.

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Thanks to Spice Girls Asia.

• Part 1 (10.5MB) - "If That Were Me" Performance.
• Part 2 (19MB) - Band Introduction, Northern Star, other Spice Girls solos, word association, Frank Skinner comments, etc.
• Part 3 (16.7MB) - "Never Be The Same Again" Performance, Clubbing, more solo album questions.
• Part 4 (15.6MB) - What have you been listening to?, boyfriend, Christmas plans, about shooting of "I Turn To You".
• Part 5 (13.3MB) - Coping with the tabloids, Spice Fights, Forever Entering US Charts, more word association.

"I don't hate them, but they can't come back to me now. I had this one great song for them. Now I've offered it to someone else, All Saints!"

This now makes more sense out of that little song that he did in which he sang "the Spice Girls broke my heart" when he introduced them at the EMAs(Story).

Dear British Media, Get a life. Yeah this one's from The Sun. WOW, who cares about something as dumb as that!? They are really running out of things to do at those tabloids.

Thanks Case.

Thanks to Luke Peterson.

Here is a picture of tanned-up Emma in the Ocean Club.

Thanks Case.

Melanie B is planning on having another child and starting a family with her current love Max Beesley. She has allegedly been telling friends excitedly that they are going to try for a baby. However she does not have any plans to wed again, still bruised from her divorce to Jimmy Gulzar.

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• Getting Some Tips
• Carrying Her Bags

Thanks Jason.

• Melanie B - Player's Club Advert.mpeg - (4MB)

• Melanie C - I Turn To You (Live On Regis).mpeg - (23MB)

• Worst Single: "Holler"
• Worst Video: "Holler"
• Worst Album: Forever

{ } = Sarcasm
Wow, those British teeny-boppers may be even funnier than the American ones.

"Of course we would've liked it to be more successful. At the end of the day, we haven't worked as hard on the promotional side as we did on the previous two records, mainly because we do want to have a life as well as a career. It's to be expected that if you're going to work your ass off, every day of the year, of course you're going to have more success. We're trying to find balance in our lives now. Two of the girls have got babies, we have solo projects. We're just happy to have a good album, and the fans who have it are enjoying it. As people discover it and get to hear it, it will be more successful in the future. We definitely feel this is the best Spice Girls album ever."

"Next year is probably going to be a year of more solo work. Right now, we haven't got anything planned, specifically, as a group. We're enjoying what we're up to at the moment. Nobody's leaving the band, and we're not splitting up. We're taking a bit of time out and exploring things for ourselves. When we started, we were young and hungry and wanted success. We still want it, but we've now had two, three years of living that crazy life, and we've missed other things a little bit. It's a change of pace for the Spice Girls, that's all."

If anybody can get a vidcap MPEG of it, or at least Mel's part, please contact me.

Mel and me are quite free with our bottom burping. Us girls can all identify each other by their smells. We'll be like, 'That one's yours, Mel!' We know each other that well, so you can't get away with anything."

LOL

The song "WOMAN" will be a B-Side on the next Spice Girls single.

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Thanks Jorge Araujo.

• Melanie C feat. Frank Skinner - Baby It's Cold Outside.mp3

Thanks JudgeJulez.

"We really want to get this on air, it shows for the first time who the Spice Girls really are. It is raw footage and is fascinating in the light of what the girls became. Not surprisingly they don't want us to show it and solicitors' letters have been flying around. But we really want to put it out."

Mel C has purchased her mother's best friend, Rachel Thomas, a £120,000 flat in N.London on Muswell Hill as a Christmas gift.

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Emma Not Engaged

There has been a lot of speculation and press that Emma is getting engaged to Jade (Damage) today (5.12.00). There is no truth in this story whatsoever.

Thanks Spice-Birthday.

Thanks PrincessPosh!

Thanks David Ciudad Sesmero.

• Luxury Belgian chocolates
• The Top Ten CD's of 2000
• A magnum of champagne
• A hair straightener
• Baby wipes
• A designer dress from Maria Grachvogel
• A Wale Adyemi jacket

"There's a couple of decent tracks on it, Holler and Let Love Lead The Way are OK. And there's one other track called Oxygen but the rest of it is rubbish. They sold about seven copies of Forever in America. That says it all. All I said in the first place was that they aren't as popular as they used to be and then they started to slime us and said that we weren't big in America. Would we sing on a Spice Girls' TV Special? There'll never be one because they're not legends. But you have to give credit to the Spice Girls. At the end of the day they did put England and Ireland back on the map."

Wembley TV is currently auctioning signed copies of Melanie's 'Northern Star' album as well as her latest single 'If That Were Me', to raise money for the charity 'The Big Issue'. Just click here to go there. There is also QuickTime video there of Mel talking about her latest charity single "If That Were me", as well as Mel talking about her trip to America which is just underway. Here are local copies of those movies:

• Melanie C - Message - New Single.mov
• Melanie C - Message - Off To America.mov

• Melanie B - Commercial - White MelB.mpg - (10.5MB)

Thanks Michael Holden.

Thanks MarcoL.

• Melanie C - Interview - Frank Skinner.mp3 - (2.6MB)

Tech Info:
It's actually an IRC Channel so you can just connect through any IRC Client(like mIRC), it's #SpiceChat on irc.webchat.org. If it flies, we'll need more channel ops... email me if interested and v.familiar with IRC.

• MelB & Emma - Interview - What Makes You Holler (MTV ByteSize).mpeg - (4.8MB)

Thanks to Luke Peterson.

Site News: Links Updated

Thanks to Luke Peterson.

Mel C will be spending her holidays at home with her family in Liverpool.

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"She is really flattered and can see by the amount on offer that they mean business. Victoria is serious about continuing to work as a TV presenter, but she does have a lot of other projects on the go at the moment. In particular she is currently writing songs for her solo album and if more material is to be released she knows the promotional work will really eat into her time and would make a TV job almost impossible. But the deal is very tempting and Victoria is still not sure what to do about it."

Concentrate on the music babe.

Thanks Angie Hung / Kenny's Ho.

"To think that, until a year ago, I was one of those people who say: 'I'm not having children, I'm not getting married, I've got too much to do.' But now I'm really looking forward to it. I love babies. I've always loved children because I'm from a big family with a lot of cousins so I'm really looking forward to it all. I would like to have a family. Being around Brooklyn and Phoenix makes me realise that. I just can't let go of them, they're both so gorgeous."

Jade says:

"We both hope to marry soon. Emma's my girl and I'm so happy with the way things are. When people see us out, they must be able to see how happy we are just to be in each other's company."

"Would I be more scary if I was white? Racism is everywhere and if we can start admitting it and realising it, then things will begin to get better. It may not be possible to change people's minds overnight, but it's good to start making them more aware."

Here are a couple pics of white MelB:

• White MelB 1
• White MelB 2

If anybody can get a vidcap MPEG of it please contact me.

Here is a local copy of their watered-down text-transcript.