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Don't tell the other Spice Girls there are group chats without them
Mel C joins Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton on Heart Breakfast to chat about her new single 'Sweat', her and Emma's Sporty Spice and Baby Spice outfits, and the secret Spice Girls WhatsApp groups...
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Is there a Spice Girls WhatsApp group
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Yes, there is. There's several. I know there's one without me on it. Oh, stop! I know there is, because obviously there's ones without the others
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Now I've let that slip. When the Spice Girls are on hold, some of them carry on working hard, others not so much
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One of those people who's a proper grafter... She's a grafter. ...still knocking them out, Melanie C. Yes
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Woo! Good morning. My friend's here. I know. My mate's here. When was the last time you saw each other
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The other night. Oh, okay. What would a night out with the two of you
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what would that look like? I'll ask that question to Mel. Okay. Oh. We were more sensible these days
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We are more sensible these days, yes. Because the last few times that we weren't so sensible..
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What happened? That's what I want to know about. Well, there was that night we dressed up as ourselves
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Do you remember? We went to a fancy dress party and Mel went as... As the Spice Girls
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Sporty and I went as baby. Hang on. That means you haven't dressed up at all. I know
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I know. Oh, no, we did. We did a pure homage. You know, we went right back
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I got an old dress up from the attic. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Are you telling me that when you go out, you dress up as the..
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It was a fancy dress party. Yeah, when you go to a fancy dress party, you go as the Spice Girls
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We thought it was genius. People really appreciated it. But the thing is, we started really early at Mel's house
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and we started drinking there, and then we went to the party, and I didn't actually last that long at the party
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What happened? I don't remember. I went home. Oh, it's great to see you back together
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Nice to see you. Are we more behaved than we were back in the day, Jamie, when you stopped to interview us
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That was a nightmare. Here's the thing, right? Individually, you guys are as good as gold
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Yeah. As a pack, like a pack of hyenas. What do you call a group of Spice Girls
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A pack. The collective now, a wild, crazy... It was a handful
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It was fun for us, though. I mean, now that you've had so long to kind of look back over some of those years
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what were the best times? Oh, my goodness. I always talk about the really early days
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I miss the camaraderie, having each other to bounce off the performances
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and kind of just how incredible everything was. It was like our ultimate fantasy
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Yeah, it was amazing. And I think what made the public love you so much was you looked like a bunch of girls
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You'd always dreamt of being pop stars. Yeah, I think at first we didn't know what was going on
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We were just travelling, having the best time. Can you imagine? Five girls just from all sorts, walks of life
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It was the best. Yeah. It was the best time. The way that you girls were working back then was just unsustainable Oh totally I think it helped that we had each other Well completely yeah you would you confide in each other yeah confide in each other look after each other yeah each other
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yeah it was nice because when you did an interview if someone wasn't feeling great you go you do it
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today yeah right you can speak today right yeah you can do that you can do the singing was ever
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do you ever do that in the studio no we have actually got that clip though that when you
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interviewed us, Jamie. Chaotic. Uh-oh. That one. This was from The Ozone. Let's have a listen. Was it
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I came here today to have a nice, quiet, cosy little chat with the Spice Girls
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Well, it didn't go quite how I planned. Come on, pretty boy
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The last time I saw you all was on the set of your film. Don't lie, it was
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last night. Jamie, yeah. Look how much fun Victoria's having
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Anyway. How young we all looked. I know. Lots of giggling. What is nice is
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I don't think that you guys really have changed that much. No, I don't think we have
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Yes. And when we get together as well, all of us, we're just the same
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Yeah. That was what, when we toured in 2019, when we did the stadium shows
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I like to add that bit, the stadium shows. Yeah. we literally were laughing at ourselves and each other
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because we just are. You know, people talk about the nicknames and we just are the nicknames
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and everything that they mean. I know that we always talk about various anniversaries
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Is it the 30th anniversary of Wannabe? It is. What's that coming up
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30 years. What were your memories of that single and what that single meant
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Which one? Wannabe. Which one? Luckily your memory hasn't gone. What I remember about Wannabe is the label were really nervous about us releasing it as the first single
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They were very much so. But we knew if it didn't come out first, it couldn't come out at all because it had to be followed
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It couldn't follow anything else because it's just a representation of who we were
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the energy and the ethos of the Spice Girls. It's kind of a mad song
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If you were to kind of look at it, it was a bit like, you know when people talk about Bohemian Rhapsody
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as like just a weird, if you were to break it down
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Wannabe is a weird song. You've put Wannabe and Bohemian Rhapsody in the same sentence
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Of course. Now listen, your new single is called Sweat. It's out on Friday
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Yes. Yes, Friday. How do you, do you often think about what the other girls would make
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of what you do? Or is that something that you're not that? Absolutely. Absolutely
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Absolutely I always want them to love it you know I think it interesting because we were at Victoria launch for her Netflix documentary last week and she talks about there a lot of Spice Girls in that you know and she talks about how important it is and you know
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it's where we come from, it's how we started, we're all fully aware we wouldn't have the
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careers we have now if we hadn't have been Spice Girls, you know, especially with me
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still making music, it's really important that the other girls like what I'm doing
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And I think this album, because there's an album to follow, it's probably closest to
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Spice Girls Are Never because the biggest difference I think with this
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music for me is I'm having more fun. My work always reflects my life
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and I'm 51 now. And it's time to start having fun. I mean, that body
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Is that 51, Jamie? You could learn a few things. What are you saying
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I've let myself go a bit. I think you're looking great. He's very handsome, isn't he
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He's a handsome man. Is there a Spice Girls WhatsApp group? Yes, there is
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There's several. I know there's one without me on it. Oh, stop. I know there is
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Of course there is. I haven't got that one. No, but I... I haven't got that one
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Emma, do you share on the one without Mel on it? No, I haven't got that one. I don't know what she's..
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I promise you. Oh, maybe. I'm being... I'm presuming. No. Is there one without me then
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No, that's what I'm saying. I was going to say, I think you're the only Spice Girl
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where there's a WhatsApp group of the Spice Girls without the Spice Girls
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really and I think you're probably the only person but if there's no there's not one without you
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oh amazing all this time go you and me of course not because obviously
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there's ones without the others now I've let that slip I thought we would do
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a little experiment this morning I want you to pick a to both of you
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pick a Spice Girl that you think will be the quickest to respond to a message
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oh my goodness so what I'm going to do I want you to send them what now right now
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I want you to get your phones out okay and I want you to send send them a text
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put your phones on loudspeaker and we're going to see who gets the reply the quickest
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Oh my gosh. What do you mean? Just a message. So you're going to text us but just say like text me
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Oh blimey, you only have to say text me. You don't have to write them an old message
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I think I'm cheating. Well, Mel's in America isn't she? So she's probably asleep
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She'll be fast asleep. Yeah, that'd be a mistake. Okay, so who have you chosen Emma? I did too
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Oh, that's cheating. What's cheating? Why can't you just play a game
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Because I have to win. Without cheating. You are so... Because I'm competitive and I want to win
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Who did you text? I'm just saying, don't text Emma. Who did you do
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Who did you do? I did Victoria. You did Victoria. I did Victoria and Jerry. Unbelievable
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And you'll vouch for this. Isn't she the... Everyone thinks, oh, baby spies
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Oh, baby spies. So cute. Oh, yeah. Butterwood melt Oh yeah Butterwood melt Exactly Little cheat So So nothing from anyone yet No It a bit early Yeah A little bit early
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What do we think they're doing? I think Victoria's in the gym and I think Jerry's on a horse
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What about Victoria's new Netflix show? Oh, it's so good. So nice
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Yeah. You know, it's really intimate. Obviously, parts with her and David
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their relationship. but her and her fashion business. Yeah, it's really interesting
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It's like a closed world, isn't it? But I was saying to Jamie the other day, you also got to see that side that we love
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the funny side, the, you know, warm, all of those. It's so nice
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And she has got, she is genuinely hilarious. In terms of her sense of humour, she's hilarious
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She is. Hilarious. Not very keen on responding to messages. I know, I mean, look at us
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If it was, you know, if I was texting Mel, or Mel was texting me, Yeah, exactly
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Actually, no, you're a bit slow to text back. She is. Okay, what if you..
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Sometimes it's a whole day I have to wait for her. Oh, God, a minute. That's only because you're texting..
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I think we need to go into our messages here. Yeah, I think it's true. Sometimes I get a message, Emma
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and I'm like, oh, she never got back to me. You're texting Mel on the group that she's not in
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Oh, that she's not in. What was the last message that you texted, Melanie
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Have a look. I said to Emma, love you. Kiss, kiss, kiss
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Oh, for goodness sake. Oh, I see. what's wrong with that what kind of message is that
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that was just a response to something else though right no that was just me having a little moment
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thinking I love Emma and I wanted to tell her this was mine oh here we go
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this was mine beep late as usual just leaving sorry what time are you getting there
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is that right when can we get all you guys back together again
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I know that take us to the pub whenever you want okay you've got all the numbers
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haven't you you've got Mel's number have you still got it it's the same yeah oh is that the time
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oh see we've run out of time oh have we now we didn't get any messages
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back from I know I feel very unpopular oh stop it morning
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what did she say who was it Gerry oh you child Gerry
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bless her which means back to the wrong course no pun intended Mel's new single
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Sweat is out Friday what's coming on with the album album will be next year
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next year but yeah this single will take us into Christmas I want to get everyone sweating perfect
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it's been a joy seeing the turkey back I'm not just drinking too much turkey Jamie Mel C
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let's go thank you love you love you this is hot
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