Yesterday I went to the Spice Girls press conference at the Vue Cinema in the 02 in Greenwich. Not very handily located for the mainly W1 based press crew, the location was all based around some strange longitude/latitude thing the pr company had come up with. The conference was due to start at 12.30 but was delayed till slightly after 1 (some say due to the cinema not being full enough) . Richard E Grant introduced a video to 'remind' us who the Spice Girls were, and then brought them on stage.

• 
  

  The photographers were allowed 5 mins of flash time with all the girls together before the talky bit of the conference began. It was a bit chaotic, with people shouting "VICTORIA! VICTORIA OVER HERE! LOOK RIGHT!" constantly. This seems to have lead to no photos having them all looking in the same direction. As the paps were told to sit down, one of them collapsed and all the photographer started taking photos of this dude on the floor. It was completely inexplicable.

  
  


• 
  

  Victoria's breasts looked ridiculous, Mel C still had that bad fringe, Geri was hippy but amazing, Emma was mega pregnant, and Mel B looked hot!

  
  


• 
  

  I was a bit scared to ask anything because of my bloody beef.

  
  


• 
  

  Victoria barely said anything, to the point where Mel B had to prompt her directly. Geri basically took over.

  
  


• 
  

  Mel C looked a bit uncomfortable all the way through it. She was only there because Geri "had a gun under the table"

  
  


• 
  

  Emma looked the dictionary definition of a beaming mum to be.

  
  


• They did actually seem like a bunch of friends meeting up for the first time in ages pissing about. It was just like being back in 1996.

Anyway, everything is in the news. You know the score. But it was utterly amazing to be there. I was a massive fan of the band in their day (just ask to see my special scrapbook!) and it was hard to not whoop and squeak all the way through it. Seriously one of the best hours of my life. Photos here onwards.