*Emma thinks she's called ammE because the only time she sees her name, Emma, tattooed on her bottom is when she reads it in the mirror.

*When on her own, Mel B, often sits and writes poems.

*Victoria gets clothes-trapobic in lifts and often flashes punters on the way up

*Before the Spice Girls met Geri was a soft-porn princess and a prize presenter on Turkish TV games shows.

*Emma has to dryclean her undies because they are leather.

*Mel C is known as "pizza face" to her younger brother, who says she didn't eat one chip when they were on a Caribbean holiday.

*Geri told schoolmates that she was born on a plane.

*Emmas Mum is a black belt karate instructor.

*Victoria used to get dropped at school in Daddys Rolls-Royce.

*Geri spiced up Brad Pitts paella when they met in Madrid for a romantic rendeznous in 1997.

*Victoria did not like her school friends calling her Vicky - but now the other Spice Girls call her Sticky Vicky!

*In the early days Geri was the only one with a car. A 10 year old fiat uno in pale green, all the girls would squeeze in and drive off with the music blaring, laughing and screaming out the window.

*Geri was not a very good driver in the fiat and the car had many bumps and scratches where she misjudged turns and distances.

*One of Victoria's first purchases when the money started coming in was a sports car, MG.

*Mel B won Spectacle Wearer of the Year in 1997.

*The Spice Girls claim their most exciting souvenir from their world travels so far has been the roll of toilet paper they swiped from South African President Nelson Mandela

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