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When the band ended four years later she moved seamlessly into television, hosting music programmes, appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Have I Got News For You (where she famously labelled the Spice Girls "Tory scum") and later becoming a presenter on The Culture Show, before moving to host one of the most popular shows on 6 Music radio.
Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010
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Yet these matters are less well-known and esteemed than his immense wealth, the purported tensions of his marriage to a pop star of no great ability but, as sometime member of a pert little group of girlie singers called the Spice Girls, celebrated enough in her own right, his own range of branded products, his variable haircuts, his plentiful tattoos.
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Inglis is more likable when he's slavering over Monroe than when he's disapproving of "a pert little group of girlie singers called the Spice Girls".
A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis Lara Feigel 2010
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The stick-thin star will channel her brief stint as a pop singer (in the 90's biggest joke known as The Spice Girls) to critique and advise next season's contestants.
Nicole Williams: Celeb Career Thermometer: Paula Abdul vs. Victoria Beckham 2009
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If the Spice Girls were the naughty-but-likeable girls who mucked about at the back of the class.
Archive 2008-09-01 juliette 2008
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If the Spice Girls were the naughty-but-likeable girls who mucked about at the back of the class.
Don't'Cha Wish Your Girlfriend Was a Bitchy Dead Eyed Skank juliette 2008
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The Spice Girls are the biggest British export since the Beatles, and they've spawned a slew of shameless imitators.
Wannabes 2008
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After all, this is a man who famously called the Spice Girls his "heroes" -- although, in that case, I suspect he was playfully engaged in the Xhosa tradition of praise singing, which is the opposite of whatever South Africans might call 'playing the dozens.'
Roderick Spencer: Notes From Mandela's 90th Birthday in London 2008
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Nothing else adequately explains why Nelson Mandela would call the Spice Girls his heroes.
Roderick Spencer: Notes From Mandela's 90th Birthday in London 2008
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It's probably not an overstatement to say that the Spice Girls were The Beatles of average-looking, questionably-talented, ruthlessly-marketed lowest common denominator forgettable pop music – and now the Spice Girls are back!
chained_bear commented on the word Spice Girls
"The association" of spices with sexuality and seduction, dating from antiquity, "runs so deep as to have intruded into modern pop culture. In the late 1990s, the Spice Girls shot like a gaudy, squawking comet through the outer orbits of pop stardom before, in obedience to the Newtonian physics of celebrity, the acrimonious plummet back to Earth and bustup. Part of what made them spicy was ... their feisty sex appeal. Subliminally or otherwise, they honored a grand tradition. Here is the entry for 'spicy' in the Collins English Thesaurus: 'Aromatic, flavoursome, hot, piquant, pungent, savoury, seasoned, tangy, broad, hot, improper, indecorous, indelicate, off-colour, ribald, risqué, scandalous, sensational, suggestive, titillating, unseemly'--all in all, not a bad summary of the discussion at hand and the perfect epitaph, oddly enough, for the Spice Girls."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 221
December 5, 2016