There's commitment. Thank you so much Kirra. Grace is on the phone.
Hhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Graaaaccccceeee!
Welcome to Australia, it's great to have you here.
Oh, thank you sweet heart. It's lovely to hear from you, are you excited?
Yeah. Oh my god, I've never talked to anyone popular, except Kyle and Jackie O.
[Emma laughs]
We're not that popular though. Have you got anything you want to ask Emma?
Yes, what's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you
on tour?
Well, I think one of the worst things was I actually fell over at one of the MTV awards and it was awful in front of thousands and thousands of people and I had a little skirt on so I'm sure they saw my knickers.
Lucky you had some on.
I know.
It could have been much, much worse.
So that was the most embarrassing part.
So did the curtain open and they go "Ladies and gentlemen.. Emma
Bunton!" and you just fell over?
No.. well I was in the middle of the dance routine.
Oh no.
It was very scary and horrible.
Is that the kind of thing were you just go home and think "Oh that's
it, my careers over"?
Yep, I actually walked off the stage and cried. [Laughs]
Ohh, you poor thing! We'll take one more call. Hi Shaz.
Hey Emma.
Hi Shaz.
Welcome to Oz.
Thank you so much, I'm so excited to be here.
I hope you enjoy your stay.
Thank you so much.
I was wondering if you could satisfy my curiosity...
Ohhhh..
..and tell me the one thing you want to do here in Oz?
Oh, do you know what, there is a lot of things. I'm quite a big shopper
and I've heard there are some great designers so I'd like to go and have
a shop. I want to go eat lots of sea food cause its not very good at
home.
It's all old and frozen.
It is. Yeah, so shop, eat, just have a look around. I've got my band
here, so I think we're going to go out on Sunday and have a walk around.
Excellent, thank you very much.
Thanks for calling!
If you want to have a chat with Emma, ring now, we'll play some more
songs now, Lisa Left Eye Lopes with Block Party.
I like this.
[Plays song]
We're going to take a few more calls, people desperate to say hi, Welcome you to the country, isn't that nice?
It's lovely.
We're good people here you know.
[Laughs] Are you?
--The above part of the interview was transcribed by Nicole--
We're not really as dumb as other countries think that we are.
[Emma Laughs]
'Cos everyone thinks that we just live in a big desert and just walk
around with cowboy hats on, that couldn't be further from the truth.
No! People don't think that!
Don't they?
No, not at all!
The American's do. The American's think that of us.
Oh, really?
They go, "I thought we would have seen kangaroos just walking around
the street."
[Emma Laughs]
No, we are civilized here. Let's take a few more calls. Natalie, hi.
Meet Emma Bunton.
Oh my God! Hey...
Hi Natalie!
I'm so excited to say 'Hi' to Emma.
Oh, it's lovely to speak to you. How are you?
Good, how are you?
I'm very good, thank you.
I so can't wait 'til Rumba.
Yeahhh! We're getting ready to Rumba!
Yeah, um... so I just have a question. What was the best thing
about recording your new album?
[Gasp] Oooh, well I think the best thing about it was that I was just
able to write about everything that I wanted. I wanted to write a track for
my girlfriends, a track for my Mum. Just everything was from the heart,
really. And also, it's for all the girls out there because I write a lot
about emotions and things that we all go through so that was...
Girl Power.
Girl Power, that's what it was about. Definitely.
Cool, thanks.
Thanks Nat.
Thank you sweet heart.
Can't wait to see you there.
See you there, darling!
I'm ready to Rumba!
[Kyle and Emma Laugh]
Ohhh.
Alyse, how ya doin'?
Hey guys!
Hiiii!
Hello Emma!
Hi Alyse.
Oh, I can't believe I'm speaking to you!
[Emma Laughs]
When you used to be one of the Spice Girls I was like the
biggest fan!
[Gasps] Oh, brilliant!
Yeah, um... welcome to Australia.
Thank you.
Everybody's glad you're here.
I know, I'm so excited. Bit nervous but very, very excited about
tomorrow.
Yep, um... I was just wondering who you're looking forward to meet
at Rumba.
[talking rapidly] Oooh, well there's lots! I mean I've been lucky
enough.. I've... I've met Nelly Furtado and I've met um... uhh... who else
is there?
Craig David?
Craig David, I've met Craig David. So I would like to meet some of
the Australian... um... bands. I think that would be quite interesting.
That'll be excellent for you.
There might be some handsome men in there.
Yeah, there are. Don't worry about that.
[Emma Laughs]
Oh, well what? Name one good looking, handsome man that sings in
this country.
Ahh.. Selwyn.
Oh.
Ahh, see? She got you there.
[Emma Laughs]
Ok, there's.... we'll give you twenty bucks.
I'll be looking out for him.
Well done Alyse, thanks very much for that.
That's ok, Byeee!
See you Alyse. Byeeee!
Ok, look one more thing before you go Em'. We gotta um... draw a
major prize here, we've been running a competition over the show for the
last couple of weeks. Someone's gonna win the chance to be the roving
reporter at Rumba.
[Emma Gasps]
We're just gonna dial 'em up now. The
winner. We've been giving people the chance to dance on stage.
Oh, right...
Yeah, and we'll um... we'll surprise her in a second.
[Gasps] Ok.
Just hang on one minute, we'll just dial up.
[Phone Rings]
Hello? [Answers phone hysterically]
Hello, is that Marianna?
Yes, it is! [Still hysterical]
Hi, it's Emma Bunton here! You've won the Rumba competition!
[Marianna squeals with excitement. Emma and Kyle laugh]
Oh my God, I think I'm gonna cry!
Are you excited?
Yes!
You're gonna be the roving reporter. D'ya reckon you've got what it
takes to wander around at Rumba...
Yes!
...with a camera crew, just sort of popping in on all the super stars
to see how they're goin' behind stage?
Oh my God!
[Laughs] That's gonna be fantastic!
Oh my God!
Ok, this is the deal. You're the roving reporter for the Hot 30.com
and Rumba TV. You'll have the chance to report on everything you see, live
on camera...
Oh my God.
...we'll video the whole thing for ya, package it up towards the end
of the night and we're gonna play it back on the big screens in front of 40
or 50 thousand odd people so they can see how much of a great TV producer
you actually are.
[Squealing] Oh my God!
Also... also you'll win your own Packard Bell PC computer and Intel
webcam. That's yours. You... you own it.
Oh my God.
Well done! [claps]
Thank you so much!
If you keep balling like that you're gonna have to ruin your mascara
and reaply. You realise that, don't ya?
[Marianna and Emma Laugh]
We are gonna see you at Rumba, video camera in hand my little girl.
Yahhh! Oh my God!
I will see you tomorrow.
Oh!
[Kyle Laughs]
It's all thanks to Paul Mac's new single "The Sound of Breaking Up"
and Packard Bell featuring Intel Pentium 4 Processor.
[Both Emma and Kyle take a huge gasp]
Take a breath!
Next...
[Emma Laughs]
We're going to go and ah... cross down to the red carpet at the AFI
awards. All the super stars are in town.
Ooooh, they're all here today, aren't they?
Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, they're all struttin' their stuff and now
we're gonna see what Jackie's [she's the co-host alongside Kyle] little take of it on there... um is
down there. She's all dressed up in a nice little... in a glitzy little
frock.
Oooh, lovely!
Yeah, very nice! She never dresses up like that to come into this
show.
[Emma Laughs]
Always tracksuit pants and thongs. Flip Flops you call 'em, don't
you? Flip Flops.
We do, Flip Flops.
Emma thanks very much for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow. The
Melbourne Rumba...
Thank you so much for having me!
And then, ah the following Saturday in Sydney. You're gonna be here
for a while.
Absolutely, I'm gonna be here for a long time.
Enjoy the country. Lovely to meet you, we'll see you soon.
Thank you! See you soon. Byeeee!
--This part of the interview was transcribed by Melissa C--
