It's been a great 4 years and 3 months of SpiceNews.com The entire SpiceNews team would like to deeply thank all of you, the visitors, that came and read the news, and shared your love for the Spice Girls with us. SpiceNews wouldn't be anything without you. We feel as though we have a connection with all of you and it's sad that this ride has come to an end, but it'll always be a great memory. And of course a big thanks to Spice Girls for all the great times, we'll never forget you.

Today marks the end of updates to SpiceNews, but the site will continue to live on as the biggest and most detailed archive of Spice Girls news in the world. If you are interested in continuing to follow the solo careers and lives of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, and Geri Halliwell, a new project has been started for this purpose by the current SpiceNews team + new talent - SoloSpiceNews.com

Thanks for everything, good luck, and goodbye.

'Bend It Like Beckham', the big new British movie featuring TWO of Melanie's tracks, will be hitting cinemas in the UK on 12 April 2002.
The film comedy about two girls desperate to play football like their hero David Beckham despite huge pressure from their parents to be more girlie, contains the tracks I Turn To You and Independence Day.
Independence Day was re-recorded especially for the movie and features brand new lyrics. It will also appear on the original soundtrack available to buy soon.
Due to recording commitments with the new album, Melanie is unsure whether shešll be able to attend the premiere on 11 April..

She also answered more of her fan's questions on the letters section.

Thanks Dez!

Thanks to Dee for these scans.

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Thanks very much to Sam Bennett for these scans.

YAY, this means we finally get to hear the new Independence Day very soon!! :D

Spicenews is in contact with the makers and promoters of the film and we hope to update you shortly on more news regarding this film. We also hope to get one of our excited Spicenews "reporters" into the premiere of the film and give you a report.

Melanie C has just finished recording her second album, and it is due to be released in September 2002.

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According to reports, Mel B is currently working on her own book, to be called 'Catch A Fire', named after one of Bob Marley's songs.

It is said it will include such things as her marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar, as well as memories that she has from the Spice Girls.

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Sigh... *Please* show respect for the people who took the time to upload these screenshots. If you are going to use these images on your site, please give the appropriate credits.

Thanks Asya.

"We don't see a future, don't think we're going to make any more music. You never know, we might decide in a few years time to do a greatest hits record or to do some more shows but right now we have to establish ourselves as solo artists before that can happen."

What I find shocking/important about this is how drastically she said this. Before, statements about the groups' future were all full of "maybe"s and "at some later point"s. Now it's "We're most likely not going to make any more music". And I think she speaks out what about everyone of us feared and refuses to accept - the Spice Girls just faded away and are not likely to come up again. Don't tell me I'm seeing things too negative and all we need is positivity, I had and still have a very hard time reading such a statement by Victoria. It steals the last hope from me and at the same time, it brings back nice memories from earlier times where there was nothing but Spice Girls in my mind. Can this be considered as the final nail in the coffin? We're doing something unusual now, we're asking you to send in your opinion about the future of the Spice Girls. Write an email and tell us what you think, some of the emails will be posted on a seperate page over the weekend.

Please also note that I'm NOT saying the Girls officially split up!

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"They are very supportive of my plans and I am really excited about the future."

"It was one of the scariest moments of my life. For a split second I thought: 'That's it'. I instinctively clutched my stomach as if that was somehow going to protect my baby.

It's hard to explain as it all happened so fast but at the same time, it was as if everything was in slow motion. We were all looking forward to celebrating Brooklyn's birthday and we'd been sitting in the car laughing and joking with each other and then suddenly - bang! - something like this happens. I just thanked God that my dad was driving. He didn't panic and took control.

It's amazing how quickly these things can occur. It's a miracle that we all managed to walk away from it without being injured. I called David straight away to let him know what had happened and to tell him that we were all OK. He was very upset, as you can imagine.

It was absolutely awful but thankfully Brooklyn is too young really to know what happened. It could have been so much worse if it hadn't been for my dad. He's a star."

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After splitting ways with Nancy Phillips, Emma has signed with former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller.

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According to the ever-so-accurate 3am (note the sarcasm), Emma has sacked manager Nancy Phillips. Click here to read the story.

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Thanks Catwoman for the scan, meow meow. :)

grain of salt, grain of salt

"There are two reasons I didn't say anything about my pregnancy before now. The first is that I didn't have my 12-week scan until 10am last Friday [February 22nd]. The press release was put out at 4pm on the same day, once we knew everything was okay.
The second reason was that I didn't want anybody to think that I was releasing information to tie-in with the single which was out for a week beforehand. Only my very close family knew."

Thanks to our devoted spicenews news hound, Luke Peterson.

Much thanks marC for encoding the video.

Thanks to Green Ketchup Woman for sending me the pictures (hee hee hee) and to Twister (Chris Coulson) for removing the background lettering!

Thanks very much to Dee for the scan as well as for braving the cold. :-)