Emma Bunton News

Saturday February 2, 2002.

Spiceys To Reunite On Channel 5? No! -- [ From Spice News ]
MTVAsia.com reported that Channel 5, the uk TV station the Spice Girls launched back in 1997, have offered each Spice Girl including Geri £1,000,000 to reunite for the channel's 5th birthday. They would have to perform one gig and appear in the channel's promotion on radio, TV and press in the week of March 29.
When asked by SpiceNews, Channel 5 told us that they are "aware that rumours have been circulated regarding this story" but that "there are no plans to stage such an event."

Victoria basically also denied this rumor on Radio 1 yesterday, she was quoted saying:

"No, I don't want to do a duet with one of the other Spice Girls. I've got to establish myself as a solo artist first. A Spice Girls Greatest Hits album is the only real plan for the future."

Saturday February 2, 2002.

Emma's Biggest Fan Not Aware Of The Spice Girls -- [From Spice News ]
For four and a half years, Emma Bunton has been friends with 13-year old Jyotsna Akter, a girl from
Bangladesh. Through the charity World Vision, which has just launched a new recruitment campaign,
Emma gives money each month to help support Jyotsna, her family, and the community she lives in.
And though the two have never met, Emma and Jyotsna have steadily built a firm friendship. Emma says:

My mum saw the World Vision advert in a magazine. In Jyotsna's first letter she thanked me for being
her sponsor and told me that it meant she was able to go to school. I was so moved to receive her
picture. I took one look at the beautiful smile on her face, proudly posing for the photograph, and a real
lump rose in my throat. I love getting her letters every few months, she always tells me things like the
latest marks she got at school. It sounds stupid but it really makes me proud of her. I don't think she
knows anything about the Spice Girls. I've sent her some pictures, just snaps of me at home or with
the dogs. I just want her to see me as me - a friend from England.

Our worlds are so different. I remember clearly how I was at 13. I wasn't interested in boys, I was very
much a girlie girl. I had a close group of friends but we'd always be falling in and out of favour with each
other. It's so petty compared to what Jyotsna has to go through. I also remember starting my period
aged 13, which is quite young. My mum told me, `You're a young lady now' and I thought, `Not yet, wait
a minute!' It was a very strange time for me and I hope that in the future Jyotsna will be able to talk to
me about stuff like that - and ask me anything if she needs to.

Their unique friendship has taught Emma not to take life for granted:

At the end of last year, Jyotsna sent me a letter which made me burst into tears. "I'd been working all hours, I had PMT and so when Mum rang I was ratty and snapped, `I'm too tired to speak now.' But Mum told me to listen for a minute, and she started reading out the letter from Jyotsna - about how she was working hard and looking after her brother. It really put everything into perspective, and I suddenly felt very ashamed.

As someone who adores children, Emma's happiest moment was when she became an aunty for the first time last November:

My younger brother PJ, who's 22, has a gorgeous baby boy called Alfie, and from the moment he was born I had this total, unconditional love for him. I'd planned to return for the birth, but Alfie was two days early. I was so upset I couldn't be there as I was working in Copenhagen. I had interviews all day but I kept my mobile phone on and my mum would ring every five minutes with the latest labour update!

Even though me and Jade have been together for a while, we're not ready for that yet. We haven't talked about getting engaged or anything.

Mel (B) often goes to the gym in the evenings, so she'll leave Phoenix with me and I'll get her ready for bed. She calls me Amma, she can't yet say Emma, and when I ask how much she loves me she sweetly replies, `Too much'. I don't often get to see Brooklyn, Victoria and David's little boy, because he lives further away. He's growing up so fast!

Despite having her own successful singing career, Emma misses performing with the other girls, and is adamant that they WILL sing together in the future:

One of my fondest memories is being on tour together. We'd get room service and have a pillow fight. But we're still in regular contact, texting and calling each other. Mel C is one of my neighbours, so she'll pop over and bring a bottle of wine. My girlfriends are very important to me. My house is crammed with pictures of them all, and among all those is Jyotsna - because she's my friend too, now.

Saturday February 2, 2002.

Em's kiss for a miss   --   [From The Sun ]
LIP-SMACKING Emma Bunton spices up her life on a night out — by puckering up to a mystery girl pal.
Baby Spice Emma, 26, was caught in the clinch outside the swanky London nightclub Kabaret in the early hours.

                                   Pretty good friends ... Emma and pal            Pictures: EAGLE/MATRIX

Maybe the songbird was just feeling peckish.

Saturday February 2, 2002.

Showbiz People: Real World -- [From Sunday People ]
Children worldwide have always adored Emma Bunton. But as the star supporter of a new charity campaign launched this month, the pop sensation tells SUSANNA GALTON how one of her biggest fans is a little girl who has never even heard of the Spice Girls.
With her Barbie blonde hair and baby doll looks, it's easy to see why Emma Bunton became the favourite Spice Girl for kids. And now she's grown up, it's her young fans who Emma will always cherish the most.

"People used to ask me, `All your fans are kids, how do you feel about that?'" says Emma, 25. "But I think it's totally flattering. Children are our future, they're so uncorrupted and I love that."

And for the past four and a half years, there's been one particular girl who's remained especially close to Emma's heart, 13-year-old Jyotsna Akter, from Bangladesh.

Through the charity World Vision, which has just launched a new recruitment campaign, Emma gives money each month to help support Jyotsna, her family, and the community she lives in. And though the two have never met, Emma and Jyotsna have steadily built a firm friendship.

"My mum saw the World Vision advert in a magazine," says Emma. "In Jyotsna's first letter she thanked me for being her sponsor and told me that it meant she was able to go to school. I was so moved to receive her picture. I took one look at the beautiful smile on her face, proudly posing for the photograph, and a real lump rose in my throat.

"I love getting her letters every few months, she always tells me things like the latest marks she got at school. It sounds stupid but it really makes me proud of her.

"I don't think she knows anything about the Spice Girls. I've sent her some pictures, just snaps of me at home or with the dogs. I just want her to see me as me - a friend from England.

"Our worlds are so different. I remember clearly how I was at 13. I wasn't interested in boys, I was very much a girlie girl. I had a close group of friends but we'd always be falling in and out of favour with each other. It's so petty compared to what Jyotsna has to go through.

"I also remember starting my period aged 13, which is quite young. My mum told me, `You're a young lady now' and I thought, `Not yet, wait a minute!' It was a very strange time for me and I hope that in the future Jyotsna will be able to talk to me about stuff like that - and ask me anything if she needs to."

Their unique friendship has taught Emma not to take life for granted.

"At the end of last year, Jyotsna sent me a letter which made me burst into tears. "I'd been working all hours, I had PMT and so when Mum rang I was ratty and snapped, `I'm too tired to speak now.'

"But Mum told me to listen for a minute, and she started reading out the letter from Jyotsna - about how she was working hard and looking after her brother. It really put everything into perspective, and I suddenly felt very ashamed."

As someone who adores children, Emma's happiest moment was when she became an aunty for the first time last November.

"My younger brother PJ, who's 22, has a gorgeous baby boy called Alfie, and from the moment he was born I had this total, unconditional love for him.

"I'd planned to return for the birth, but Alfie was two days early. I was so upset I couldn't be there as I was working in Copenhagen.

"I had interviews all day but I kept my mobile phone on and my mum would ring every five minutes with the latest labour update!"

Emma confesses she gets a little broody, but quickly adds: "Even though me and Jade (her boyfriend from R`n'B band Damage) have been together for a while, we're not ready for that yet. We haven't talked about getting engaged or anything."

So at the minute the pair of them are happy just to babysit for other people's children - including Phoenix Chi, bandmate Mel B's little girl.

Emma, who lives in Hampstead, north London, says: "Mel often goes to the gym in the evenings, so she'll leave Phoenix with me and I'll get her ready for bed. She calls me Amma, she can't yet say Emma, and when I ask how much she loves me she sweetly replies, `Too much'.

"I don't often get to see Brooklyn, Victoria and David's little boy, because he lives further away. He's growing up so fast!"

Despite having her own successful singing career, Emma misses performing with the other girls, and is adamant that they WILL sing together in the future.

"One of my fondest memories is being on tour together. We'd get room service and have a pillow fight. But we're still in regular contact, texting and calling each other.

"Mel C is one of my neighbours, so she'll pop over and bring a bottle of wine. My girlfriends are very important to me. My house is crammed with pictures of them all, and among all those is Jyotsna - because she's my friend too, now."

World Vision have organised sponsors for almost 70,000 children around the world. If you're interested in becoming a sponsor, call 01908 841212 or log onto www.worldvision.org.uk

Sunday February 3, 2002.

Emma to be dropped   --   [ From Daily Star -- Thank to Innocent-Boy for posting this on the Spice Girls Dotmusic Forum ]
Emma Bunton is set to lose her solo record deal, Bitches can reveal.

Execs at virgin are said to be dissapointed with Baby Spice's chart performances. Her last single, we're not gonna sleep tonight scrapped into the top the charts at no20

Despite selling more than 40 million albums worldwide with the Spice Girls, Emma has not proved at all populuar in her solo career.

She is in the headlines more for her partying and lover: Jade Jones of Damage, than ger music. Last night a source said: its fsir to say that Emma hasn't exactly had a brilliant solo career. Despite having huge amounts of cash invested in her by her record company

the other three spice girls have had mixed sucess in the charts

Mel b lost her solo deal with virgin last year while victoria beckhams next single A mind of its own is out this month - a vital release for her.

The bigges winner to date has been mel c. Sportys Spice's first solo album Northern Star proved a massive success.

Despite facing the axe, Emma looked like she didn't have a care in the world when we caught up with her at the London club Kabaret with a close female 'friend'

plies, `Too much'. I don't often get to see Brooklyn, Victoria and David's little boy, because he lives further away. He's growing up so fast!

Despite having her own successful singing career, Emma misses performing with the other girls, and is adamant that they WILL sing together in the future:

One of my fondest memories is being on tour together. We'd get room service and have a pillow fight. But we're still in regular contact, texting and calling each other. Mel C is one of my neighbours, so she'll pop over and bring a bottle of wine. My girlfriends are very important to me. My house is crammed with pictures of them all, and among all those is Jyotsna - because she's my friend too, now.

Wednesday February 6, 2002.

-- RUMOUR WARNING --     [ From A Girl Like Emma 2001 ]
As Mandy Moore gets set to record her new album, our own Emma Bunton has been rumoured to be lending a helping hand. That's right, it has been rumoured that Emma will appear on the album as a producer. Nothing confirmed yet.
-- RUMOUR WARNING --

Wednesday February 6, 2002.

A World Without You to be next single -- [From A Girl Like Emma 2001 ]
After announcing that no more singles were going to be released off of Emma's debut album "A Girl Like Me", it appears that "A World Without You" is to be the next single. No release date is slated. More info as it develops.

Friday February 8, 2002.

Emma's Performance at Royal Albert Hall -- [From Spice News and Love Peace and Girl Power ]
Emma Bunton performed at the Albert hall with heart-throb Marti Pellow. They teamed up for a duet of Al Greens 'Lets Stay Together' before Emma performed 'What Took You So Long'.

Picture 1    Picture 2     Picture 3

Friday February 8, 2002.

Emma's Lonely Nights without Jade -- [From Love Peace and Girl Power ]
Emma Bunton is clearly coping well while boyfriend Jade Jones is away. Damage singer Jade in in New York with the rest of the band working on their new album. Meanwhile blonde Em has been consoling herself by hitting the town. On Tuesday night she went to the Eve Club in Regent Street, London, for the launch of her friend DJ Nikki's night, and partied away with Snatch Star Ade and another male pal. A pal of Jade says "Jade and Emma only have eyes for each other."

Thursday February 14, 2002.

WE'RE NOT GONNA SLEEP TONIGHT AUSTRALIAN RELEASE PUT ON HOLD -- [ From Spice Girls Australia ]
Mark Poston, the Spice Girls label manager at EMI Australia said that "Due to negative comments on key Radio stations around the country" the single has been put on hold.

FROM WEBMASTER of SG Australia: So now they let the radio stations control what gets released and when? Aussie fans better start stepping forward and being heard, if we want all the singles reelased, we have to start requesting them on all of the radio stations and video shows, so get requesting now!

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