Sporty Spice Melanie C and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell have made up after over a year of rumored bitterness between the two. It happened on Friday night at the Music For Life Charity. Mel C approached Geri a little bit before the show began and the girls chatted for 20 minutes. Melanie C told reporters afterward:

"Everyone thought there was going to be a cat fight, but there never was because there was never any animosity between us. We have spoken and we are still friends. We were very close before and there is no change. We didn't talk about work at all, we talked about boys and things."

Rumour

Spice Girls will debut their new single "Right Back At Ya" at the upcoming 2000 Brit Awards.

Melanie C has been nominated for the Best British Female award at the Brit Awards 2000. She is running against Gabrielle, Beverly Knight, Beth Orton, and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.

Brit Awards will be giving the Spice Girls an Outstanding Acheivement Award this year:

"The Spice Girls have smashed most world-wide record books in their own way much as the Beatles did in the 60s."

Spice Girls have released a statement:

"We are overjoyed to have been asked to accept this award. We are still young and have, we hope, many more years to enjoy being part of the great British music scene. Spice Girls started out as five and we feel this award is in recognition of the great achievements of all five."

Both the Spice Girls and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will be performing at the award show. But the girls were unable to say whether former singer Geri Halliwell would join them to receive the honour. A spokeswoman for the group was asked if Geri would accept the award with them. She said:

"Nobody knows yet, nobody has had that discussion yet. The Girls only found out this afternoon."

Melanie C posts at http://c3.vmg.co.uk/spicegirls/nowspice :

AND TALES OF A MEL C IMPOSTER!

What's all this then ?! Imposter at large ! - C'mon hands up - who's the culprit. Right listen up.....there's a few cheeky wotsits out there who have been pretending to be me (how could you !) I was busy doing some promotion in Belgium for Northern Star and I bumped into a few fans. Andddddd they told me that they had been sending me e-mails and I had been e-mailing them back ! Well, I have to be honest and the only way I talk to everyone is via the spice office and this website and telling them what I have been up to. Sooooooooo for the record I have not been e-mailing anybody so steer clear of anybody pretending to be me. 'Cause it isn't. Hope you are all well. Belgium is fab and I have already made loads of new friends over here.

Northern-Star.co.uk has been redesigned. Here's Melanie C's official statement:

Hiya,

I really hope you had a brill holiday. I know I did ! I just wanted to let you in on what I am up to. I am on holiday at the moment to charge up my batteries after the best year ever. Although having said that I am still going down to the American Music Awards to present an award on the 17th January (you know me I love to keep busy !)

UK News
Anyway back in Britain , the new single from my album Northern Star is coming out on the 6th March. I am so thrilled with the success of the album that I will even be releasing a fourth single later in the year. Anyway about the next single! It is going to be called "Never Be The Same Again" and I wrote the track with the incredibly talented pair, Rhett Lawrence and Paul F Cruz. Also because Rhett had previously worked with TLCs Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes we asked her to do a solo rap section which is totally fab.

There will be 2 cds for the single. On the first one there is a radio version of "Never Be The Same Again" and a mix from Lisa. Also if you whop the cd in your computer and you can play the video from it. (I'll tell you more about that in a minute). Finally there is a Rick Rubin mix of a totally brand new track "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", which I am really excited about.

On the second single you get the full album version of "Never Be The Same Again" as well as 2 live tracks. I played the Paradiso Club last year and because it was so much fun we have used "Closer" and "Goin Down" from there.

Melanie C just recently performed at the Music For Life Charity. Melanie performed "Northern Star" and "Never Be The Same Again".

In an interview with Melanie C this morning on BBC Radio 1, Melanie was asked about how she takes all the criticism critics have given her on her solo work. Melanie said:

"I was very naive when I realised the album. The thing is the Spice Girls is half of me, whereas my solo material is the whole of me. I wasn't prepared for all the criticism I got and I took it very badly. But people can think what they want. The thing is, other people's opinions have got nothing to do with you, because you are the only one that really knows yourself."

Melanie C has decided to give all proceeds of the "If That Were Me" single to homesless charities:

"Because of the success I have had with The Spice Girls, I now have a lot of money, more than I ever thought I'd have in my life. I've got a really beautiful flat. Sometimes I just sit there and think, 'God, I live in the most beautiful place and some people don't even have a roof over their head'. That's what the song If That Were Me is about. My first contribution is in writing this song and I will give the proceeds to charity. That's just the beginning. I want to take an active role in helping homeless people. It's something I feel very strongly about. The great thing about being a celebrity is that you can draw people's attention to issues like this. You could say I'm on my soapbox about homelessness."

Melanie C recently attended the NRJ awards in Sweden, thus officially departing the US.

Melanie C will make a special guest appearance on this week's episode of ABC's(US) television show Norm. Norm and his date run into Melanie C at the "American Rock 'n Roll Music Awards." The show airs tomorrow(Wednesday) at 8.30pm.

Check out the article in the articles section.

The Spice Girls have signed an exclusive three-year deal to perform a series of shows online for subscribers at http://www.cyberconcerts.com. One London newspaper worked out that if 10 million people paid £10 each to watch Sporty, Scary, Baby and Posh strut their stuff, £100 million would be made from one concert. Even if the Spices took just half that cash they'd end up with £12.5 million each, not bad for one night's work. http://www.cyberconcerts.com is run by ex-Pink Floyd manger Mark Morrison and TV producer Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield said:

"We have to sit down with the Spice Girls and work out where we will do our first show with them, but it won't be until 2001."

The Spice Girls have made official updates at http://c3.vmg.co.uk/spicegirls/nowspice here is what Melanie C has to say:

Melanie C: "It's all go again with the new single coming out. It's called "Never Be the Same Again" and will be out at the start of March. TLCs Lisa Lopes does a sound rap on it. What's more there's a new track on there also called "I Wonder What It Would Be Like". I will be touring again later as the first one went down so well. Byeeeeeeeeeeee. Then of course there is the next Spice album which we have nearly finished. We may well tour later in the year when we release it. Phew!

Melanie C will be performing at the Music For Life concert which is a charity concert for the Christie's Against Cancer Appeal.Geri will also perform. This is what co-ordinators have to say:

"Geri is going to close the concert and Sporty is opening it."

A reminder that Melanie C will be on VH1's(US) The List tonight. This particular episode of it will be LIVE at 11pm East Coast, 8pm West Coast!

Melanie C spoke to press at AMA's. This is what she had to say about solo and Spice plans:

"This year I'm gonna be devoting all my attention to my solo record and so I'm gonna do it justice. I'm gonna be out on the road touring Eurpoe, South East Asia, and the beautiful United States Of America!"

When asked about the Melanie G and Jimmy Gulzar split, she said:

"All I know is Melanie's fine, the baby's fine, and it's all very happy and amicable. You know shit happens. That got me out of that one didn't it!" she laughed.

Visit http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Trailer/9798/connection.html for a clip of the new track, "If You Wanna Have Some Fun" by the Spice Girls.

Melanie C presented an award along with rap star DMX at the 27th annual American Music Awards on Monday night. Melanie wore a black skirt with a black leather spaghetti-strap tank top.

Visit Spicenews.com for a clip of Melanie C singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" on theLate Late Show with Craig Kilborn!

Transcripts of the PI episode with Melanie C can be viewed in our articles section.

Rumour

The third Spice Girls album has been pushed back again until November. The first single would be released in September or October.

"Never Be The Same Again" will be Melanie C's first US single! It will be released some time next month. Melanie will be shooting the video for the song with Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez from TLC next week. Melanie says that she is getting along well now with Left-Eye besides a bumpy time when "Northern Star" was released.

Thanks Joz

Melanie C is in the January/February issue of Sugar Magazine(UK). It features an interview and new pictures.

Thanks Louis Koo.

Melanie C is one of the people to be dressed by Tommy Hilfiger for the American Music Awards at which she is a presenter. Melanie is expected to wear a chambray eyelet crystal beaded open-back top and white leather jeans with flame applique.

Thanks Louis Koo.

Rodney Reveals the third Spice Girls album is no where close to being finished. Speaking to Launch Rodney said:

"I'm doing nine songs on the album, executive producing the album. I'm due to work back with them at the end of this month, so hopefully it will come out and we'll win Grammy's next year for that one. I want to do a rock song with them. You know, when I think of the Spice Girls, I think of them as entertainers and performers, so I'm going to try to make songs that I know they can perform to and do live and see people go crazy to, and all that kind of stuff. I'm trying to mix it up. Basically, I'm giving them a new sound, but at the same time I'm attempting to do something different myself, which is do what they do but add my flavor to it. It's like a mixture of what I do and what they do, and bringin' it home, you know?"

http://c3.vmg.co.uk/spicegirls/nowspice has been updated with new goodies.

Melanie C will be a guest on VH1's(US) show The List next Friday, January 21st.

Melanie C turns 26 today! Happy Birthday Melanie!

Melanie C will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn this Friday night(Saturday morning) on CBS(US) in addition to being on Politically Incorrect on the same night. The show starts at about 12.35am.

Melanie C was recently on Much Music's show Rapid Fax for a quick interview in which she said that "Never Be The Same Again" is the next single off her album Northern Star, along with "Go!" for a double-A side.

Melanie C asserts that if Lisa refuses to let "Never Be The Same Again" be released she'll re-edit and exclude Lisa's vocal, or she'll change the single to "If That Were Me".

Read the article in out articles section.

Melanie C has topped a poll by Melody Maker magazine as unsexiest woman of the year.

What is wrong with those people?

Melanie C will be on ABC's comedic discussion show Politically Incorrect(US) this Friday Night. Check local listings at http://abc.go.com/pi/listings/index.html .

MuchMusic's(CAN) Top 99 videos of 1999 included Melanie C's "Goin' Down" at #56, and "Northern Star" at #71. The Spice Girls' "Goodbye" was #80. That makes 3 Melanie C songs!

Check out the Audio section for the new Spice Girls MP3's of their new tracks aired at the Christmas concerts.

Watch Melanie C present an award at the 27th Annual American Music Awards on January 17th at 8pm(all time zones).

CD:UK reports that the Spice Girls new album will be entitles Spice 2000.

What do you think? I kinda don't like it.

The Spice Girls' Live At Wembley home video came in as the tenth highest selling music home video reports Billboard Magazine.

The Spice Girls ballad "Goodbye", released 1998, came in #51 of MTV's(US) Top 99 Videos of 1999.

Thanks Joz