It was amazing, absolutely amazing. The Rumba show was just thousands of people, really in a great mood, just all having fun. That was amazing.

Yeah, and I spoke to a few artists on the you know day, after they had finished their performance and they said you know it was a trial and error thing, with them, for Melbourne and there was a few things that you know went wrong, that they'll learn from for Sydney. Anything like that happen with you, or were you completely happy with your performance?

Oh, I was really happy! [laughing] um, the audience were amazing, they were really happy, I mean when I was thinking, what to use and I kind of handed the mike over to them, they were singing every word, and you know for me a good performance is when you enjoy it, and I really enjoyed it! So.. it must have been a good performance! [laughing]

oh yeah!

You went pretty well! How about Sydney? Well you see, you've got here now, have you noticed any differences? Melbourne? Sydney? Do you like one better than the other, can we play off the two cities here?

Oooh, no. Go on, I can't do that, no but Sydney is amazing. It's got so much depth to it, and obviously so many beautiful things to see and oh.. I'm in my heaven at the moment. It's been amazing.

You wouldn't have seen much though, would you? And the weather's been just shocking.

I know but, it's still Summer for me, cos in England it's freezing! [laughing] So, I'm quite pleased, no but I've just been on a boat, and obviously saw you know the opera house, and the bridge.. oh you know it's amazing. Really good.

We've had overcast weather, terrential rain. Good normal sorta UK weather.

Yeah, exactly! You know I feel right at home! Yeah, I've had a great day!. I've also met... he's gonna kill me.. Ian Thorpe?

Aah, yeah.. he's lovely.

And he's such a sweetheart!

Why's he gonna kill you? You about to forget his name?

Yeah, cos I nearly forgot his name! [laughing] No, he's such a sweetheart, it was good.

Emma, we should ask you, obviously we have a lot of pop acts here in Australia. Have you met any of these ones, like Bardot, and some of these Aussie...

I've met Bardot, who are lovely, lovely girls! I also met another group, the other day, now I might've.. is it Lush? Lash? Losh?

Lash! Lash, yes.

Lash.

Aren't they great?

Well, I haven't actually heard their stuff! But I bumped into them and they were asking for my autograph, and they're really sweet! And then they sent me, um a cd of theirs, so I'll have to have a listen to it.

Yeah. They're good.

They're kind of like Hole. They're a 4 girl, rock..

Oh, wow! I like that! Oh, that's good. Cool.

Yeah, they're great. They're great. So who are some of your favourite artists, back home even?

Oooh, um.. back home. Well, I'm a Janet Jackson fan. I'm a Destiny's Child.. umm, there's a new girl called Indere (? Never heard of her, so I don't know if I've spelt the name correctly), who you might have heard of she's got a great album out at the moment. There's lots. I listen to all types of music, a bit of disco, a bit of motown, you know, I like all types of music.

We're actually talking to Janet Jackson tomorrow.

Ohh! Ooooh!

She's gonna talk to us live via satellite.

Yes, she is. I've heard about that.

Yeah.

She gave me a call, says she, you know be coming! [laughing]

You two, you know you're like, chummy showbiz mates. Isn't that great? To have showbiz a friend like that?

Yeah, you know.

[Goes to music break ]

It's the hot30.com countdown. Byron Cook sitting in for Kyle, who is sick, Jackie is here and Emma Bunton is still here this is great!

[laughing] I'm still here. Kyle is sick, where is he?

Yeah, he came down with a bit of something.

He's got a bit of flu, has he?

Yeah, he's said he's had about 4 showers and he can't stop shaking, so God knows what sorta symptoms.

Oh dear.

At least he's showering now.

He's just been drinking too much! He's been out for the night!

Something I've wanted to ask is that actually is that I've read, you're thinking of buying a place next to Victoria's. Is that right? Victoria Beckhams, or is that all just another rumour?

No that's just not true. All a rumour.

And speaking of rumours and things that float around. I've lost track of what is with the Spice Girls now...

Me too!

[ Byron and Jackie laughing]

I mean I think we've supposed to have split up around 50 times, probably. Um.. you know we're the best of friends, we're really supporting each other, we've you know our solo careers, and that has just been the best having them there to help, and vice versa. And you know we've talked about maybe touring again, but we've got nothing planned at the moment. We're just kinda concentrating on solo.

Did you, have you started university? Have you done university?

I was at college for two years, I did a BTEC (?) in performing arts and got a diploma which was great.

Do you wanna go back to that? Like when you've had enough of singing and stuff? Do you wanna get in to more...

Oh God no, I'm too busy with the album, and I'm having a great time. I really am, and being able to travel around the world. It's been fantastic. I mean my album now has gone gold in the UK, and is doing so well throughout the world.

That's fantastic...

Thankyou!

...Seriously gold in the UK that's a lot of records, cos gold in Australia is about 10 copies.

[Jackie & Emma laughing]

Gold in the UK, gold in the UK, that's quite a lot of. Do your parents ever sortof like, Emma stop all this rock and roll, go back and do a bit of study? Do they ever you know, like, is there still that vibe?

Oh no, they're really proud of what I do, and I do everything very naturally, and I just enjoy my life.

[Commercial break]

It's Byron filling in for Kyle, Jackie O and Emma Bunton. We were very rude. We didn't have a formal thanks for coming in and goodbye.

No, don't be silly.

So we.. we thought we would keep you here, so we could do this formal..

Okay.

Keep.. stick around for like 10 minutes, just so we can say goodbye!

[Emma laughing]

Just say bye, catchya later, great!

It was worth waiting around for [laughing].

No, thankyou so much. Are you gonna come down to Rumba tomorrow?

We all, yeah.. everyone's gonna be there. It's gonna be a huge event in Sydney.

Fabulous.

And do you know who else is gonna be there? Jason Biggs. Have you seen American Pie?

I've met Jason the other day. Yeah, he a lovely guy. He's really sweet, we had a bit of a laugh with him.

He is funny. So he's gonna be there and loads of other people. So, and good luck tomorrow, it should be awesome.

Thankyou so much. I hope you enjoy it.

Just looking at the schedule here, you're being introduced by Thorpie.

He gave me a present today! Sweetheart, he is.

What was the present?

[laughing] I can't tell you!

Ohhhhhhhhh! Now we've gotta find out!

We will..

Okay.

..We will find out. Oh, you're gonna tell us? Oh my God.

Oh my God.

[Emma laughing]

Did he give you that watch?

Yeah.. Isn't that lovely?

Are you serious?

No, I am serious.

I'm not sure what people thought it was. This is radio after all, and they probably thought, Oh my God you can't give them that.

That is..

It's got diamantes all around it..

How mad is that?

How much is it? What do you want a price check?

No, I said 'How mad is that?'

Yeah!

That is just amazing...

Well, I mean he's obviously [whispering] sponsored by them..

[Byron laughing]

Yeah, I know, but why didn't he give me one? I've met him more than you have!

Isn't that nice? So, thankyou Ian!

[ Emma and Jackie laughing]

That's so shallow!

[ Emma and Jackie laughing]

We are shallow!

On that note, bye bye!

Bye!

[ Emma laughing]

Bye bye!

Bye!

--This interview was transcribed by LukeP--