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Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham and their Spice Girls counterparts (Emma Burton, Geri Halliwell and Melanie Chisholm) attended Roberto Cavalli's Menswear Winter 2008 fashion show.
The pop band dropped by the show to thank Cavalli for designing their concert costumes.
FLICKS OF MJB, DENZEL, TAMALA JONES, SPICE GIRLS, AND NICK CANNON
Mary J. Blige and Denzel Washington paid a visit to BET's "106 & Park" where they promoted their projects. Aren't you glad to see Mary J Blige took a brief from her fur-wearing habit? Denzel bought along his "The Great Debaters" co-stars Nate Parker and Denzel Whitaker.
Tamala Jones, Daphene Duplaix,Nick Cannon (all tattooed up), Brian White, Terry Crews, and couple Denyce Lawton and Wesley Johnathan were at the Young Hollywood club for Christmas Party and Toy Drive.
The Spice Girls performed their hit song, "Mama" at London's O2 with their children on stage.
Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Burton, Victoria Beckham, and Geri Halliwell of The Spice Girls launch their luxury Virgin Atlantic plane, "Spice One" earlier today.
The popular band also open up about life as a Spice Girl and Geri Halliwell's 1998 abrupt departure via a documentary:
Melanie "Mel B" Brown has lasted longer than her contemporary counterparts on the hit series, "Dancing with the Stars". And here she is doing "The Waltz" and "Pasa Doble".
"The Waltz". This clip has clips of Mel B's Spice Girls members: image source
Personally the competition is between Mel B and Jennie McGrath. Be sure to tune into the results show tonight.
VIDEOS FEATURING RIHANNA, SPICE GIRLS, NAS AND JAY-Z
Rihanna performed her MJ-inspired hit "Don't Stop the Music" at the popular German TV show, "Wetten, Das...". Click here to see pictures of Rihanna from this performance.
Spice Girls endorsed the UK-based grocery chain, Tesco, for the holiday season.(Tesco is sort of like Target.) In the commerical, the pop band goes Christmas shopping. Visit here for additional footage and pictures.
For VH1 "Storytellers", Jay-Z performed two of his "American Gangster" singles-"I Know" and "American Dreamin'". "American Gangster" the album was released this past Tuesday. If "American Gangster" becomes number one on the Billboard charts, Jay-Z will join Elvis and The Beatles for having the most #1 albums. (The Beatles have 19 #1 records. Essentially "American Gangster" would become Jay-Z's 10th number one album.
"I Know"
"American Dreamin'"
The video treatment for Nas and The Game single, "Hustlers" off "Hip-Hop is Dead" record surfaced over the weekend. Nas is currently promoting his new record which is excepted next month.
The video treament for the Spice Girls's "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" debut today at 4 PM EST on The Today Show's official website. Headlines is the lead single from their upcoming "Greatest Hits" album. The all female English pop group filmed the "Headlines" video two weeks ago at the Pinewood Studios in London. Baby Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice and Sporty Spice are back!
Melanie Brown is still in running for "Dancing with the Stars" championship. In the clip, Melanie juggles her Spice Girls reunion, her illness, and her TV gig. There's a little bit of footage from the upcoming Spice Girls music video with Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton. The threesome urged viewers to vote for their friend. For week five, Melanie performed the samba to the classic hit "Spice Up Your Life".
"Headlines" is the lead single off the Spice Girls' upcoming "Greatest Hits" album:
Personally, "Headlines" sounds like a mix of their old hits "Mama" and "2 Becomes 1". Earlier this week, Melanie Brown and Victoria Beckham were spotted at LAX on their way to London where they will join the rest of the Spice Girls to film the "Headlines" music video.
Learning from her Eddie Murphy baby drama, Melanie protected her assets from her current husband Stephen Belafonte. Rumor has it that Mel B got Stephen to "...sign a form confirming she is the sole owner of the Hollywood Hills home". [source]
Melanie Brown did her thing recently on "Dancing with the Stars". Each week, I tune in to see Mel B out do herself. This week she did the Jive with her dance partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
According to a reader that attended a taping of the show, the dancers and celebrities backstage gladly take pictures with fans during commerical breaks. Melanie Brown reportedly squeezes in time with her family.
-new Spice Girls promo shot-
As you tell by now, this show has become of my guilty pleasures. Melanie Brown fans will be delighted to know that her girl group, Spice Girls, recently dropped a new single, "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)". This new song will serve as the lead single off the group's "Greatest Hits" album which drops November 12th.
And in related news, the Spice Girls has leased a Boeing 757 which they have nicknamed Spice Force One.
With her daughter Phonex Chi inches away, Melanie Brown indulges in some lite smooch fest with her boyfriend. [source]
Mel B's back to work singing at a free concert after taking several months off to enjoy the birth of her second child (re: Eddie Murphy's baby girl). Sadly enough, she's STILL rocking her favorite (I-have-these-in-every-color) boots. Click out this new promo picture of The Spice Girls. [source]
What's up with Posh being the center of attention?! Didn't Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm sung lead on most of their earlier hits?! Anyhow the UK pop band added four new shows to their tour Vancouver, Canada on December 2nd and San Jose on the 4th and then Beijing and Shanghai on January 8 and 10. A message on their official website says: “we’ve had over 3 Million ticket requests… that is MAJOR!” The 14-city tour will start in Canada on December 2 and ends on January 24, 2008 in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. [urban-hoopla]
Having a Spice Girl as a friend pays. In this case, Melanie Brown is reaping in the benefits of such. Via Panache Report, Gerri Halliwell celebrated the news her band mate Melanie Brown's baby daughter was Eddie Murphy's child by buying Brown a $14,000 diamond and white gold necklace.
The sisterhood that is Spice Girls. TOP: June 2007 and BOTTOM: May 1997 {picture source}
Moving right along....
Above and below is Mel B at the airport with her children and rumored boyfriend Stephen Belafonte earlier last week. She and Stephen were spotted several times since word of the Spice Girls reunion caught wind:
Break out your old copies of "Spice World", those bubblegum collect-them all wrappers, your old Sketchers platforms, and your British swagger---the Spice Girls have reunited for a special 11-city world tour. Mel B and the girls just wanted to give a proper farewell to their fans worldwide.
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, Mel C "Sporty Spice", Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton and Mel "Scary Spice" B from The Spice girls have announced an 11-show reunion tour throughout December and January. They will perform around the world with shows in Los Angeles on Dec. 7; Las Vegas on Dec. 8; New York on Dec. 11; London on Dec. 15; Cologne, Germany, on Dec. 20; Madrid, Spain, on Dec. 23; Beijing on Jan. 10; Hong Kong on Jan. 12; Sydney, Australia, on Jan. 17; Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 20; and Buenos Aires, Argentina on Jan. 24.
"We are going to celebrate the past," Beckham said of the tour, which kicks off Dec. 7 in Los Angeles. Visit their official website here. [urban-hoopla]
Word has that Avril Lavigne has her sights set on teaming with Shakira via song. The pair have been photographed hanging out together in and around Las Vegas. So if you're wondering how Avril and Shakira would sound together, don't! After all, Avril has work with Lil' Mama on the "Girlfriend" remix.
[picture source] So I ask what's your thoughts on a possible Shakira/Avril song? Drop a comment or two...
Overheard Hoopla
Spice Girls are recording a Christmas and a comeback album! [PEOPLE]
Mýa posted a new song called 'Escape' on her official MySpace page. She also posted the lyrics in a new blog entry. Click here to go to to her MySpace page. Click here to go to the 'Lyrics' section of this site to read the lyrics.
The real Anna Nicole Smith minus the ever present aloof character:
Anna discusses her life post-Daniel. [props to Nick & World Star Hip-Hop] Via People, Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail:
Paris Hilton on Friday was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation by repeatedly driving with a suspended license. "[Hilton] disregarded everything ... and didn't care and kept driving," said Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer.
Via AP, Paris was escorted out of the courthouse alongside her father:
A judge sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail Friday for violating her probation. Hilton, who parlayed her name and relentless partying into worldwide notoriety, must go to jail on June 5 and she will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled after a hearing. The judge ruled that she was in violation of the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
And just where is her sister Nicky Hilton:
Paris hung out with her sister Nicky the day before:
Kanye's girl, Alexis Phifer, doesn't have to worry about that her mother-in-law. Via People,Dr. Donde West, Kanye's mother, recently open up on her soon-to-be daughter in law: "I think she's a very outstanding young woman. She's quite talented, very intelligent, very creative. Very sweet, thoughtful, generous. I can't think of one negative thing I would say about her, even in private!"
Brad Pitt and baby Shiloh, who turns 1 at the end of the month, enjoy some daddy-daughter bonding in Prague.
Shiloh playfully held good dad Brad’s sunglasses and took baby steps into a tent made out of a cardboard box.
Geri Halliwell & Mel B at the Ivy restaurant, London:
It's not a Spice Girls reunion without the leopard prints via Melanie B! Word is that Melanie Brown is taking Eddie Murphy to court to take a paternity suit. Mel B is so serious with her money swagger. Can't knock her hustle...
