David Beckham is selling his Porsche! He has pledged todonate a portion of the proceeds to charity. This is the carwhere according to Victoria "we shared our first kiss". Thecar is to go on auction at Christie's in London on Monday.The director of Christie's International Motor Cars said:"The sale offers a one-off opportunity to all ManchesterUnited, Spice Girls, and Porsche fans." The car isspecifically a blue R-registered Porsche 911 Carrera S Tiptronic. It is expected to bring in around £100,000.

Victoria has disclosed that after she has her baby she also would like to go into comedy acting. She said: "I'm really interested in American TV, something a little different. I wouldn't mind doing something funny, sending myself up a bit, seeing as everyone else does it so well.

I Want To Pick My Prince, Says Baby Spice Baby Spice Emma Bunton is planning to choose her own handsome prince when she takes the role of Sleeping Beauty.
The Spice Girls star is to play the title role in a multi-million-pound TV production of the story being made for the BBC and hopes to vet her co-star.
She told Channel 5's Exclusive show, in an interview to be screened next Sunday: "I am hopefully going to pick him."

Victoria recently was interviewed by Des O'Conner and revealedthat she doesn't lift a finger around the house anymore. DavidBeckham does all the work at this point, including cookingand cleaning. Victoria also revealed that she cannot cook at all and frequently eats TV Dinners! Victoria said: "I am not very domesticated but David does everything. He is brilliant, he cooks and cleans. I can't cook so I do those ready-made meals that you just pierce the top and stick in for three minutes." The Christmas special will air on December 23rd.

They would have seemed the most unlikely of allies. But former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and cabinet minister Clare Short have joined forces to back a charity campaign. The international development secretary and the glamorous pop singer are supporting an initiative to reduce numbers of women who die in pregnancy.

Ms Short told the charity event that more than 600,000 women die each year as a result of pregnancy and childbirth, 99% of them in developing countries. And she called for a worldwide effort to improve education, contraception and medical facilities in some of the world's poorest countries. Ms Short said: "The international community has set itself a target of saving eight million women's lives between now and 2015. This is an achievable target and we can do it if we have the political will." 'We're proud' She also praised the former Spice Girl for her new role as a goodwill ambassador for the UN, promoting better contraception in developing countries.

She said: "Thank you on behalf of us all for taking on this job. You will be able to do an enormous amount of good and we are all really proud and pleased you are doing it." Ms Halliwell refused to give interviews at the function, at the House of Commons, but her spokesman said: "She is just here in a private and personal capacity to show her support." Two of Geri's former Spice Girl partners are expecting babies. The reception was organised by the charity Marie Stopes International, which promotes access to modern contraception, improve health care and reduce the number of unsafe or illegal abortions. The event marked the 10th anniversary of its Safe Motherhood Initiative.

Baby and Sporty Spice have today of their excitement about their fellow pregnant band members - who are "getting big and lovely". Emma Bunton and Mel C, currently in New York, said the reality of the impending motherhood of Mel G and Victoria Adams was only just beginning to sink in. "We speak to them all the time. They are getting bigger and bigger. "At first it was hard to think they were pregnant but they are big now and its really nice," Emma told GMTV.

Asked about the band's plans were after the babies were born, the pair said they were "still a foursome". "While they are having babies me and Mel are doing different things, but we are best friends and we support everything each of us wants to do. There will still be the four of us and that's lovely," said Emma. She would not confirm plans to appear as Sleeping Beauty in a British TV version of the fairytale. But she said she had been approached to star opposite American sitcom star Cybill Shepherd as the evil queen.

Mel C, who sings on Bryan Adams's new single, is set to take on more solo work. But Sporty, who has taken a glamourous turn on the cover of next month's Cosmopolitan magazine, said that for now she was hoping for another Christmas number One with the group's single, Goodbye. "It would be fantastic if it is, we are so proud of it because we think it's the best thing we haby and Sporty Spice have today of their excitement about their fellow pregnant band members - who are "getting big and lovely". Emma Bunton and Mel C, currently in New York, said the reality of the impending motherhood of Mel G and Victoria Adams was only just beginning to sink in. "We speak to them all the time. They are getting bigger and bigger. "At first it was hard to think they were pregnant but they are big now and its really nice," Emma told GMTV.

Asked about the band's plans were after the babies were born, the pair said they were "still a foursome". "While they are having babies me and Mel are doing different things, but we are best friends and we support everything each of us wants to do. There will still be the four of us and that's lovely," said Emma. She would not confirm plans to appear as Sleeping Beauty in a British TV version of the fairytale. But she said she had been approached to star opposite American sitcom star Cybill Shepherd as the evil queen.

Mel C, who sings on Bryan Adams's new single, is set to take on more solo work. But Sporty, who has taken a glamourous turn on the cover of next month's Cosmopolitan magazine, said that for now she was hoping for another Christmas number One with the group's single, Goodbye. "It would be fantastic if it is, we are so proud of it because we think it's the best thing we have done," she said.ave done," she said.

The Spice Girls are planning a special concert to see in the millennium. According to The Sun newspaper, the girls want New Year's Eve 1999 to be a night to remember and are busy looking for suitably massive venue.The group performed the homecoming concert on their SpiceWorld tour at Wembley Stadium and would be keen to put on the show there.

An insider said: "The girls want to do something special for the millennium and they thought a gig would be great "They want the party to be in England but are looking to beam it around the world so that fans everywhere can see it."

Meanwhile Mel C and Emma Bunton have unveiled solo plans for next year while Mel G and Victoria Adams have their babies. Emma plans to star as Sleeping Beauty in a British TV version of the fairytale. She starts work next spring opposite American sitcom star Cybill Shepherd as the evil queen. Mel C, who sings on Bryan Adams' new single has announced that she plans to take on more solo work.

November 13, 1998

EMMA AND MEL C PICK UP 2 SPICE GIRLS AWARDS AT MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS

The Idea Factory has partnered with Bravado International Group to introduce the official licensed Spice Girls beanbag collectibles. These beanbag dolls will be the fastest manufactured Spice Girls related product from time of announcement as they will hit shelves just after Thanksgiving. "When the band saw the dolls, they instantly went wild over them" remarked Barry Drinkwater, Managing Director of Bravado International Group. Check them out for yourself at www.the-ideafactory.com

Pregnant Victoria Adams has revealed she suffered appalling "morning sickness" - sometimes in the middle of the band's shows. But despite the experience, Posh Spice says she wants two more children with fiance David Beckham. Victoria, 24, who is due to give birth in March, says: "I could have pulled out but I didn't want to, because of the fans, We were playing in 110 degrees and I was prancing about in a PVC catsuit and throwing up at the side of the stage in a bucket," The Sun reports.

She added that she is "totally excited" at the prospect of having a child with the 23-year-old Manchester United star and insists they won't stop at one. Speaking in Esquire magazine, she corrects Beckham when he jokingly says they may have seven children. "Maybe three," she said. The couple plan to marry next year. She is undaunted by critics who say her pregnancy out of wedlock sets a bad example to her fans. She said: "I haven't said, 'Go and get pregnant.' I'm happy and in a stable relationship. "Girl Power is about doing what you want as long as you're sure about it yourself."

She has gone from Ginger to Geri, from a loudmouthed lass to an ambassador for goodwill. In her first British interview since the split, Geri Halliwell tells all to ANNA PASTERNAK

I am waiting to meet Ginger Spice in the SoHo Grand, a hip hotel in downtown New York. Surely the girl who injected the verbal fizz into the Spice Girls will bounce up the stairs, a fawning entourage in tow. As I am waiting for An Entrance, I am totally thrown when a demure Geri Halliwell walks forward and introduces herself. Apart from the presence of her personal assistant and a video camera - the award-winning film-maker Molly Dineen is doing a fly-on-the-wall documentary - everything is alarmingly low-key. Gone is the flaming hair and the aggressive make-up. Her strawberry blonde locks fall simply to her shoulders, her face is virtually free of make-up, and she is wearing a subdued fawn cashmere sweater and black trousers. What strikes me most is how petite, pretty and thin she is. Where is the generous cleavage? What has happened to her bulletproof attitude? It is five months since she unexpectedly quit the Spice Girls, and her metamorphosis has been dramatic: from the feisty, loudmouthed lass who gamely pinched the Prince of Wales on the bottom to the newly anointed United Nations goodwill ambassador who sang at the prince's 50th- birthday party. It appears to have been skilfully executed and, with a multimillion-pound record deal with EMI now in the bag, it's one in the eye for the cynics who wrote her off as history. Anonymity is not on the agenda for Halliwell, who vehemently denies that there is anyone masterminding her new image - although she has hired Matthew Freud's PR company, and a new manager, Lisa Anderson. "You only had to look at me in the last six months before I left to see that I was changing," she says in her low, throaty voice. "What I wore off stage was completely different. When we started the band I was 21, and when I left I was 26. It's natural that people are going to grow up. There is nothing false or contrived about my look." The past few months, she says, have been like an incubation period. "It's as if I've just left a marriage. It's normal that anyone who goes from one extreme to another has a period of adjusting." Halliwell says that she doesn't have second thoughts about her decision to leave the Spice Girls. "I don't regret leaving when I did, but I regret not having the opportunity to appear at Wembley Stadium with them at the end of the tour. That made me feel a bit sad." She also denies that Chris Evans, with whom she was seen shortly before leaving the band, encouraged her to jump ship. "I went to see him on a purely friendly basis. He had no idea what I was going to do as I had no idea myself. I decided what I was going to do on the day. It was a very spontaneous moment when I left." The general consensus is that she had fallen out badly with the others. "It's quite hard to say," she sighs. "At the time, I said there were differences between us and there were, but they were personal. There were adult reasons why I left, but our fans are children and I didn't want to shatter their dreams. I wanted to play it low, I didn't want a whole media exposé, which it could have been, so I agreed to take a back seat and give them the space they deserve." She admits that she hasn't "seen the girls or spoken to them, apart from Victoria, once". She is dismissive of her dinner with Posh Spice and David Beckham, captured by the paparazzi in St Tropez, suggesting it didn't cement the fissures in their friendship. "It was a lonely time after I left," she concedes. "People didn't realise that I couldn't just go home to my friends and family because, for tax reasons, I had to remain out of Britain for three months. I was being chased by the press around the world until George Michael offered me a sanctuary." Holed up with Michael in his St Tropez and Beverly Hills homes, Halliwell finally had time to reflect. "George has been an angel to me," she says. "We have a mutual rapport, as we have both lost a parent. He has been very giving. He offered me a hand of friendship, love and support when I needed it. It's not a celebrity friendship, it's real." Far from being ballsy and brash, Halliwell is warm, soft and uncertain. Her hectic schedule keeps her traversing the globe. Having just returned from Uganda for Comic Relief, she is in New York to promote her role as a British representative for the UN's Population Fund, before hopping back to Britain to continue recording her forthcoming album. She has power - everything she says or does makes headlines - yet you sense she feels weightless. She is roaming the world, searching for something, yet what she is really trying to find is herself. She has read Deepak Chopra and M Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled, and says that she knew a few months before she became famous that "it wasn't going to hit the spot". "I had been chasing fame since I was 17, but it was as if as soon as I had a tiny mouthful I knew it wasn't going to satisfy me. The amount of money and fame you have is all relative and I appreciate the luxuries, but it doesn't matter how much you have if you're lonely, hurting or feeling insecure. Yet how dare I, the luckiest girl in the world, have the luxury to be depressed? We all get absorbed in our self-pity and I'm no exception." She is worth an estimated £13m, and is now living in a rented cottage on the biggest dairy farm in Hertfordshire while her new house is being renovated. "I totally believe in karma and I've got to give something back. I've realised that I can't just fulfil my own ego and ambition and this year I'm trying to do some good. I think I was meant to be an evangelist in girl power and it's my absolute duty to empower women." She hasn't always felt in control."Maybe only in the last few weeks," she says, as if surprised by herself. "I was always the spokeswoman and very opinionated in the Spice Girls, but it was the title given to me by the UN that gave me a real feeling of recognition." She is very different from an Audrey Hepburn, say, and not an obvious candidate for ambassadorial duties. "Professionally, I'm very forthright and outspoken. My thinking cuts through a lot of bureaucracy and red tape. I'm not embarrassed by many things; contraception and reproductive health is controversial to some people, but not to me." Despite a tendency to motor on about her causes, you can't doubt her passion. Geraldine Estelle Halliwell genuinely wants to make a difference. She says that the book Before I Say Goodbye, Ruth Picardie's diary of her battle with breast cancer, simply changed her life. It is well documented that Halliwell found a lump in her breast when she was 18, but her "wake-up call" didn't come until she read Picardie's book last year. "My accountant gave me the book and I read it overnight on a plane. I was sobbing in front of everyone - it was so tragic that it made me determined to highlight the issues of breast cancer." That, and her father's death five years ago, appear to have been her biggest catalysts for change. "My father's death put an accelerator on my life. I became almost militant about my life after a dark period of depression." Her father was a car dealer from Liverpool and she admits she was a daddy's girl. "My father believed in me. He was a complete dreamer." Her mother is Spanish and worked as a cleaner. "I never had parents who took me to extra- curricular things like tap-dancing lessons. My mother was too busy trying to pay the rent. Now I totally believe you grow through adversity. You have to share the pain of the past and move on." The paparazzi photograph with the highest price on its head would be one of Halliwell with a new man. She smiles coyly and shakes her head. "Of course I'd love companionship, a soul mate. I think people sometimes spend more time choosing a house than a partner. The reality is that I just can't go and make the mistakes I've made in the past, as it ends up in the public arena. I feel I have to tread through life lightly at the moment." Still, you sense in her an inner loneliness. For the first time she pauses when I ask what is her biggest fear. "The fundamental, primal thing - everyone wants to be accepted, we want to connect, we want to belong. I sometimes fear failure, but not in a paralysing fashion. The more afraid I am, the more I push through to persecute myself." The scariest moment will come when she releases that first solo single. "I didn't have to pursue my record deal, it came to me," she says defensively. "As I had a healthy contribution to our lyrics, I'm confident that I have a strong sense of what is good music. I will take pieces of the Spice Girls with me. I was part of it and I'd be stupid to throw it out of the window, but it's natural that I'll be more self-expressive. The songs will be radio-friendly and melodic, but they'll be intelligent." One of the myths that evolved after her departure from the Spice Girls was that Halliwell, like many of the rich, famous and disillusioned, was considering joining the Church of Scientology. "That was a total wind-up," she laughs. "The press had been following me around LA all day and I wanted to find out how stupid and lazy they sometimes are. So I went to a Scientology church, then a synagogue. They all wrote that I was pursuing a Hollywood career when I was in Los Angeles for a meeting about breast cancer." The rumour that clearly rankles is that she auditioned for Aaron Spelling's new Charlie's Angels movie, but was turned down because she was too fat. "They must have great spin doctors," she fumes. "As I hadn't met the guy and I didn't want to do anything in Charlie's Angels anyway, it was really unfair." Halliwell's current vulnerability is in contrast to Ginger Spice's robust persona. Without the buffer of the Spice Girls she seems exposed, yet her courage and drive are not to be underestimated. As we leave she touches me on the arm. "You know what I fear the most?" she says. "I always fear being misunderstood."

Mel C and All Saint Natalie Appleton have gone into head to head battle in the Christmas special of BBC Two's comedy quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. The show was recorded about 3 weeks ago but will not air until December. Mel was on a team with program regular Phill Jupitus, and Natalie
was with comedian Sean Hughes. The show is hosted by Mark Lamarr. A spokeswoman for the show would not reveal which team won the quiz but was quoted as saying "Everybody was making jokes about them fighting but they got on fine. Sporty was fantastic. She seemed to know a lot about pop and her singing in the intros' round was great."

The Spice Girls are aiming to be the first group ever to top the charts for three Christmases in a row. Their latest single, a ballad called Goodbye, premières on several breakfast shows on November 9 (UK) before being released on December 14, (Europe) and is already strongly favoured to take the coveted number one slot. Scary Spice Mel G brushed aside rumours that the song's title is a hint that the band is about to split. She said: "Although the song is called Goodbye, the chorus is actually `goodbye my friend, it's not the end'. "It's a very sentimental song which means a lot to us. It is about everything that has happened this year, with Geri leaving and then being strong."

1998 has been a hectic year for the Spice Girls, with Posh Spice Victoria announcing her engagement to Manchester United and England footballer David Beckham in January, followed by Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell's departure from the group in May. Mel G married dancer Jimmy Gulzar in September, and both she and Posh are expecting babies in the New Year. The band also embarked on their first world tour this year, and notched up their eighth British number one single with Viva Forever.

A toddler playing on a pub's floor found a silver credit card holder belonging to Victoria Adams and took it home. Posh was frantic after losing the credit card holder, given to her by David Beckham, as they had lunch in the pub's restaurant. Miles Kenyon, two - who was with dad David and mum Lola at a nearby table - spotted it and put it in his pocket. When the family got home Mr Kenyon saw him playing with the envelope-shaped container. It was inscribed: "Dear Victoria, all my love David, XXX." Mr Kenyon, 30, realised the pregnant pop star must have dropped it at the County Hotel pub in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. He said: "I phoned the restaurant, left my name and address, and said I'd bring round the case and five credit cards inside. But before I set off, Victoria rang us asking where we lived." At 11.20pm the Spice Girl, and Beckham, arrived at the family's home in Stockport. Mr Kenyon, a sales office manager, said: "They took the case and said thanks before driving off in a Range Rover." Victoria's spokeswoman said: "She was very grateful to the family and the little boy."