Spice Girls - ages?
I'm guessing this is right place to ask this, rather than the music forum.
I was wondering if there are any Spice Girls fans on here who know if when they first started out, they lied about their ages to appeal to a younger audience.
I read in the paper over the weekend that it's Victoria's 40th birthday soon, which makes her about 6 months younger than me, yet I was under the impression that she was about a couple of years younger.
Also, I have an old copy of Guinness Book Of Hits Singles and Mel C is featured in it and it lists the record that was at number one when she was born, yet on a TV programme the record she mentioned was number one when she was born was from the year before.
I know magazines/papers, etc often get ages wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if they were told to knock a year or two off their ages.
I was wondering if there are any Spice Girls fans on here who know if when they first started out, they lied about their ages to appeal to a younger audience.
I read in the paper over the weekend that it's Victoria's 40th birthday soon, which makes her about 6 months younger than me, yet I was under the impression that she was about a couple of years younger.
Also, I have an old copy of Guinness Book Of Hits Singles and Mel C is featured in it and it lists the record that was at number one when she was born, yet on a TV programme the record she mentioned was number one when she was born was from the year before.
I know magazines/papers, etc often get ages wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if they were told to knock a year or two off their ages.
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What did Mel C say was number one? It was Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody.
As I say, it might be a complete misconception on my part, though Howard and Mark from Take That have admitted a couple of years were taken off their ages when Take That started, so I did wonder.
Merry Xmas Everybody came out in December 1973, and was still number one when Mel C was born in Janaury 1074. Bohemian Rhapsody was released in November 1975 but was still number one in January 1976, so I think the record book got her birthday wrong.
Indeed. Although Geri was born in 1972, rumours were flying about how she'd lopped 2 or 3 years off her 'actual' age during her Spice Girls heyday but it wasn't proven & still isn't.
I hope I look as good as Mel C if I live to be nearly 1000 years old.
I've never understood why that can't be checked out. Aren't birth certificates viewable as a public record if you go to Whatever-it-is House?
The blond girl from B*witched was the worst though, saying she was 23 and then exposed by the press as actually being 28.
mel b - 29/5/75 - 39 next month
emma - 21/1/76 - 38
mel c - 12/1/74 - 40
geri - 6/8/72 - 42 this year [gawd that is frightening lol]
I don't think they necessary lied, they just acted and dressed younger especially mel c and emma. I remember a few years ago my sister and I were talking and cant mind how it came about but I said I thought they were about 16/17 when wannabe came out and my sister laughed and went 'no john they were all in their early 20s'. I didn't believe her until I dug out an old spice girls book I had which had each girls biography on it, read their date of births and did the maths!! I was shocked!!
Haha, oops!
These days I'm older than at least 3 of them...
She looks good considering she is 940 years old;-):D
Under recent age discrimination legislation it is illegal to ask for your age on employment application forms etc. Not sure if that applies here though.
The giveaway is the complete employment history going back 30 years.
Obviously a vampire. She wasn't called scary for nothing.
The actual reason Geri looks older than her years is a sad one. Its purely down to her many eating disorders. That's what it does to you.
I was born in 1971 and was the first year of GCSE's so she must be older than me, unless GSCE's were staggered in, but I don't think they were?
Geri 44
Mel B 43
Victoria 40
Mel C 39
Emma 38
And actual ages (*according to wikipedia, however valid that is)...
Geri 41
Mel B 39
Victoria 40
Mel C 40
Emma 38
2 out of 5 and I badly overestimated Geri and Mel B.