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Geri Halliwell : Spice Odessy	May 29, 2005
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Someone with less steel (or more sense) might have given up years ago. But despite everything, Geri Halliwell can't stop playing the fame game. Interview by Nick Duerden He's a plucky sort, Geri Halliwell. Had she been around 65 years ago, Vera Lynn would never have gone on to become a Dame. Instead, it would have been Halliwell who invigorated the troops with her boundless effervescence and as much front as the white cliffs of Dover. A generation on, and she could have been another Babs Windsor, all Carry On sauce and cheek, an hourglass icon who, when she aged (like fine wine, like blue cheese), would see out her retirement as a national treasure and part-time landlady of the Queen Vic. But fate decreed that Geri Halliwell would not be born until 1972, and so deification, when it came, would be merely fleeting. True, she'd experience unparalleled success - back in 1997, she was surely one of the most recognisable women in the Western world - but once that bubble burst (as it did in 1998), fame for her would turn ugly. There would be much red top ridicule, and endless stories of eating disorders, self-loathing, therapy sessions and indiscreet boyfriends. By 2001, she would feel compelled, like Robbie Williams before her, to flee the UK for the anonymity of Los Angeles where, pointedly unlike Williams, she would obsess over yoga and become a shadow - or, rather, a skeleton - of her former self. And yet, here she comes now, tip-toeing back into the UK in the spring of 2005, with a third solo album, Passion, to promote. Yes, she is perhaps ever so slightly tentative about it, but nevertheless retains mostly all of her celebrated pluck. When she talks, she summons up a very determined confidence from deep within her. Everything comes out in italics. Exclamation marks abound. "You know what?" she says. "I'm not even sure the UK feels like home any more, but then nowhere does. I've recently left LA, possibly for good, and so I'm just a travelling pop gypsy these days, forever drifting from one place to another!" She tells me this in a very chic restaurant just off the King's Road in London on an overcast May morning. Sat primly at a corner table, she looks rather fetching in blue denim and pink cashmere. Her upper lip is shaped, most alluringly, like the McDonald's "M", and her blue eyes blaze. She makes up for her size - she is absolutely tiny - with expansive volume, and her voice booms out loud. It is 11.30am, and f she is half an hour late for our appointment. Her apologies are profuse and breathless. "Oh my God, I'm so, so sorry, I hate being late, I absolutely despise it, but I was stuck on a business call and I simply couldn't get off the line! It was important, and very frustrating! I wouldn't say I'm stressed - stressed would perhaps be too strong a word for it - but I do feel, well, I feel pulled in all different directions at the moment. These past four years [since the release of her last album] have been a big pain in the backside, if you want to know the truth. Manoeuvring myself within the business side of the industry has been a complete nightmare, but it's got to be done because I want to be involved with every last aspect of my career. I've... I've... well, I won't bore you with details, but let's just say it's been really time-consuming. Thankfully, the actual music itself remains a complete lifeline for me, and I love it as much as ever." She giggles, and leans in close. "When I delivered this album to my record company, let me tell you, I was so happy, so relieved, I burst into tears. Tears!" A waiter appears, and Halliwell looks up. "Yes, thank you, I'll have some sparkling water, please." She turns back to me, smiling broadly. "Anyway, hello to you. How are you? Thank you for waiting for me, I really do value your time." Geri Halliwell ceased being a Spice Girl seven long years ago now, but part of her will forever be Ginger Spice. While her former compatriots have fallen reluctantly towards obscurity (Mels B and C, Emma Bunton) or Heat magazine ubiquity (Victoria Beckham), Halliwell remains a national curiosity. Her much documented problems with her weight, to say nothing of her choice in boyfriends (Pop Idol reject Darius Danesh was rumoured to be the latest) has kept her in column inches, while her continuing work with breast cancer awareness and as a United Nations ambassador has made her an icon, of sorts, in the women's magazines. As a solo singer, meanwhile, she remains modestly successful. Her first two albums, 1999's Schizophonic and 2001's Scream If You Want To Go Faster both produced number one singles ("Look At Me", "Lift Me Up", "It's Raining Men"), and while the imminent Passion probably won't win her many new fans - it's an eminently aerobic record of hi-energy pop and hi-camp disco - the Halliwell faithful won't be disappointed. The critics, of course, will hate it. "They always do," she says evenly. "It goes with the territory, I suppose, or at least with my territory. You know, I look at my career as both a blessing and a curse. I've had the most amazing decade, and I'm truly grateful for it, but while I firmly believe in turning shit into fertiliser, being on the receiving end of so much negativity is just, well, it's exhausting, and I'm still in the process of trying to deal with it. But at the end of the day," she says, extending an index finger towards me, and tapping my knuckle with it, "I feel disappointed for negative people, don't you? It's such an unconscious, unrealised way of living." I ask her if she sometimes wonders whether it's worth the bother. Surely such relentless critical maulings shatter the confidence? "I do have black days, yes, days when I just want to disappear completely and retire to the country, but then life is so often like a rollercoaster, isn't it? Sometimes, it feels like I'm pushing a boulder up a hill, and it's difficult, of course it is, it's a strain, but do you want to know why I couldn't ever stop?" I tell her yes. "Because," she says, hands clasped to her bosom, "the creative process is so very important to me." She laughs now, somewhat self-consciously. "Yes, yes, I know that all sounds very bleurgh bleurgh - and I've no idea how you'll spell that on paper, but I'm sure you'll do your best - and, yes, it sounds very Californian of me, but I just have this overwhelming desire to express myself - like, you know, creatively. I've got too much - oh, however you want to describe it - too much energy, too much love and too much life inside of me. I need to channel it, to give it wings! And so doing this is an absolute necessity for me. "In many ways," she continues, slipping inexplicably into the third person, and gleefully mixing metaphors, "Geri Halliwell's music is raw and authentic. It's like really good food that will fill you up both emotionally and spiritually. It's for the heart and the head, feet and soul. It's three-dimensional, you know what I mean?" Um, well, sort of, I tell her. But right now, I want to focus more on the horrendous criticism she faces, almost daily. I mention a story that appeared recently on Popbitch - the scurrilous but very funny online rumour mill - that suggested Halliwell's career was, due largely to her alleged habit of firing managers and PR consultants, now effectively over. But the moment I do this - not to gloat, but to clarify its somewhat sneering accusations and to hear Geri's side of the story - she grows visibly upset. Her eyes narrow, and then she leans forward to click off my tape recorder so that we may speak off the record. She warns me not to even mention this in the article. I ask her why, and she says something about legal proceedings and about how "I don't even want to dignify it with a response." She looks quite angry. "Let's talk about something else," she says. And so we do. When she quit the Spice Girls, back in 1998 for reasons never fully revealed, Halliwell felt lost and bewildered. When the film-maker Molly Dineen suggested making a documentary about life in the wake of her departure, she promptly ignored any reservations she may have harboured and signed up. "With hindsight, it was a mistake," she admits today, "but I was very out of sorts, I was lonely and I felt starved of friendship and intellectual company, which Molly gave me because she is so totally intellectual." The documentary was fascinating stuff, but ran in stark contrast to the public's image of Ginger Spice as a bubbly force of nature whose colossal confidence and drive had helped turn the Spice Girls into superstars. Instead, the real-life Halliwell was depressed, friendless, slightly ga-ga, and a long-time sufferer from bulimia. And now that she had left the band, life was suddenly very empty indeed. While she doesn't regret doing the film, she hates the way she came across on camera and finds it far too upsetting a prospect to even consider watching it again. But then, this is a woman with an almost pathological need to share, a 32-year-old with not one, but two autobiographies to her name (the 544-page If Only, and the mercifully slimmer For the Record), and so when Channel 5 recently suggested a follow-up documentary, she readily agreed. "I know! I know!" she says now, shaking her head, "I shouldn't have done it! Even thinking about it makes me cringe!" And so why on earth did she do it? Warren Beatty memorably said of Madonna (and I'm paraphrasing here) that her life didn't really exist unless someone was there to record it. Is Halliwell similarly so addicted to fame? "No, it's not that at all," she counters, and then proceeds to make a quite ridiculous claim: "It's just that I appreciate film-makers and their art, I do, I really do. And I happen to think that exploring humanity, all humanity, is quite fascinating. Don't you?" Not necessarily, no. There's Something About Geri, screened on Five a couple of weeks ago, was nauseating stuff, and did Halliwell very few favours indeed. While, in person, she can come across as likeable and even sympathetic, the screen version of herself is a nightmare in screaming ginger: a self-obsessed, painfully vain little girl in need of constant mollycoddling, and whose every nonsensical sentiment is garnished with an infuriating "Jewknowwharramean?" The woman's need for a self-edit button is overwhelming. But despite this endless need for exposure, she is also, somewhat contrarily, uncommonly discreet in other areas of her life. She won't talk about anything private, for example, and that includes making comments on former Spice Girls or discussing her current relationship status. And even when previous boyfriends - among them, Chris Evans, Robbie Williams and the American actor Jerry O'Connell - have been unkind about her in the press (Williams called her "a demonic little girl"), Halliwell has maintained a dignified silence. Next birthday, Geri Halliwell will turn 33. She says that the ageing process no longer worries her and that, in a phrase doubtless lifted from one of the many self-help books she once obsessed over, she is in a "good place right now". She has, deep breath, inner harmony. "I'm shedding skin all the time," she says. "I'm evolving dramatically at least every six months, and now I feel I've come to a crossroads. I'm not sure what I'll do next, but whatever it is, it will be with complete focus and passion." Right now, that passion revolves primarily around music, but also charity. She continues to promote breast cancer awareness and works diligently for the UN Population Fund, telling me that she recently came back from the Philippines where she was campaigning for greater healthcare funding. A week after her visit, she points out, the government pledged more money. Elsewhere, she thinks she might just give acting a proper go. Last year, in LA, she studied the craft and was pronounced so good that her agent put her forward for a sitcom. She sailed through every audition, and got down to the last two, alongside Desperate Housewives' Teri Hatcher. "You know, in many ways, I'm just the girl next door," she says, "but I'm also proudly unconventional in the way that I choose to climb down from my own personal mountain." She screws up her face in, presumably, mock confusion. "Jewknowwarramean?" The interview comes to an end, and as I prepare to leave, we chat about books - she's an avid reader - and discuss favourite authors. She mentions Audrey Niffenegger and Alexander McCall Smith; I recommend TC Boyle and Geoff Dyer. And then she asks me how I am getting home. Tube, I tell her, and her eyes light up. "The tube! Oh, what's it like? I never take the tube," she says, looking positively wistful. I tell her not to worry herself about it. She's not missing much. Geri's new album, 'Passion', is released on 6 June Source: Independent

Spice Become One	May 26, 2005
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The Spice Girls are set for a sensational reunion at Live Aid II this summer, it is being claimed. Scary, Posh, Sporty, Ginger and Baby have secretly met up to thrash out plans to appear at the July gig in London's Hyde Park, several papers have reported. They have not performed together since 2000 - two years after Geri Halliwell walked out on them - but are expected to confirm they are back as a fivesome next week. Just last week Mel B admitted they had been talking about reforming when she appeared on GMTV. An insider told the Daily Mirror: "The girls have all signed up to do this and they're really looking forward to it. "It is not going to be officially announced until next week but all the parties have signed on the dotted lines. "It's going to be absolutely amazing. Nobody can quite believe it is happening, but the cause is so worthwhile." But the girls will not be headlining as a Who's Who of rock and pop is expected to appear at the event, called Live 8. Other stars appearing include U2, Sir Elton John, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, The Who, Eminem, The Rolling Stones and Oasis. Source: Ananova

Geri Wannabe A Bit More Private Now	May 23, 2005
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Geri is tucking into a fashionably healthy bowl of porridge, sprinkled with an even healthier dose of sunflower seeds. "It's rather unsexy, isn't it?" she ponders before crunching her way through another mouthful. No doubt plenty of people would love to know all the ins and outs of Ms Halliwell's latest diet regime. After all, her fluctuating weight has been a constant source of fascination over the past few years as we have watched her transformed from curvaceous Spice Girl to super-thin yoga fanatic - and, more recently, back again. And it's not the only thing that keeps us reading about the former Ginger Spice. From eating disorders to image changes, famous boyfriends to rumoured fall-outs with her former bandmates, she just carries on hitting the headlines seven years after leaving the Spice Girls. You could argue that she has done nothing to discourage the constant attention. Only last week, she was revealing all about her shopping and sex habits in channel Five's fly-on-the-wall documentary, Something About Geri. But while she might not have been feeling too shy when the cameras were following her round, today she is a little more coy where her private life is concerned. "I just refuse to talk about it," she says in her famously forthright manner when asked about her love life. "Every journalist in every interview always asks. I understand because we all want to know about everybody else's private life - we all love love. I just say that remains in the background. Nerves "That's part of the condition. It comes with being very famous, it does get on my nerves some days when I am premenstrual." In fact, Geri - who was splitting her time between London and LA - says constant paparazzi interest led her to sell one of her houses. "They constantly door-stepped me and they knew where I lived so I thought it's time to move on," she reveals. "Although, obviously I didn't love that house enough, anyway. There were too many stairs - I'm not letting them take all the credit for making me move. "There are bits of being famous I enjoy and bits I don't. Sometimes I find it jars with me spiritually, it just feels very consuming. And other bits are fun. My house in LA gave me a lot of anonymity and made me feel like more of a human being." Coy she may be, but she does give some clues to her romantic liaisons on her new album, Passion. Over the years, the 32-year-old multi-millionairess has been linked with the likes of Robbie Williams, Chris Evans, and Darius Danesh. So I Give Up On Love And, she says, the following lyrics to album track, So I Give Up On Love are based on her real lovers: There was Peter, he was a cheater who couldn't keep his hands to himself. There was Ritchie, well he got bitchy, so I left him there on the shelf. "It's tongue in cheek," she purrs with a mischievous laugh. "One of the best medicines in the world for me is turning garbage into fertiliser, if you know what I mean, and taking moments that made me think 'Oh for god's sake' and poking fun. "They are actually real people. But I took a big of that person and exaggerated a bit of someone else." But while Geri is not about to give names and vital statistics of her past - or present - lovers, she does appear to be looking for that special someone if her new album, which she co-wrote, is anything to go by. "There are a lot of songs on there about love," she ponders. "I only realised how much I love love when I played all the tracks together. I am such a girl, it's ridiculous. I feel like I identify with Carrie from Sex And The City. "I love old school glamour and celebrating femininity and sensuality. Although I wrote some songs when I was ill in bed - and it wasn't very glamorous at the time!" Feel The Fear Another track which gives a clue to her hidden feelings is Feel The Fear, which talks of being scared but doing something anyway. Geri is not about to give the real meaning away, but it certainly seems to be a hidden dig at the critics who wrote her off so quickly. And it could be even more timely than ever now. After cancelling her UK tour - including her date in Manchester - Geri is once again facing criticism of her solo career. But she isn't about to take it lying down. "I read this book called Feel The Fear when I left the Spice Girls," she reveals. "I think making changes is probably one of the most scary things in life and I have a desperate need to feel secure and sane until I am out the other side. That's where faith comes in. "I could even refer it back to the beginning of my career. Leaving the Spice Girls and going solo, there was an element of scepticism and people saying I wouldn't last. I just thought, I have to give myself the opportunity. "It's not about proving anybody else wrong or right - my motivation now is a personal one. I do this for my fans and my music and feeling creative. How exhausting would that be to try and please every person that had an opinion about me? I gave up doing that a long time ago!" Looks like she can cope with going solo in life, love, and her career, for now at least. Who said Girl Power was dead? Geri Halliwell's new single, Desire, is released on May 30. The LP, Passion, follows on June 6. Source: Manchester Online

'Bunny Spice' Says Mojo Is On	May 20, 2005
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Look out men there's a saucy single lady on the prowl and she says her 'mojo's on'. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, who recently split from pop star Darius, says she now feels more in touch with her sexuality, and more attractive than ever before. 'My mojo's on,' she says in an interview in today's ES Magazine. 'It's like that first glass of wine or when someone gives you a really great Valium. After a flirtation with emaciated blondeness, the 32-year-old has returned to busty Ginger Spice form and is bursting with self-confidence. 'I feel like the rabbit on the Cadbury's Caramel advert, you know, Caaaaaaadbury’s Caaaaaaaramel,’ she moans until you feel she's going to melt all over the banquette,' Geri says. 'I feel I've only just developed into a woman and I like it.'

Geri Sends Kylie Well Wishes	May 18, 2005
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Messages of love and support have begun to pour in for Kylie Minogue, who yesterday announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Among those paying tribute to the star are Geri Halliwell and Minogue's ex-boyfriend Jason Donavon, who dated the 36-year-old singer in the late 1980s after they starred in Australian soap Neighbours together. Halliwell says, "Kylie is in my thoughts. I hope this encourages all women to get regular checks." Donovan, currently starring in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on London's West End stage, adds, "My thoughts are with her and her family at this difficult time." British record producer Pete Waterman, who launched Minogue's recording career back in the 1980s alongside partners Mike Stock and Matt Aitken, says, "I am so shocked to hear this news, particularly since Mike Stock and I had a very poignant reunion with her at her recent Earl's Court gig (in London) where there were a lot of hugs and kisses. "My very best wishes go to her, and of course her family, at this difficult time." From GeriFan.Com: I'd also like to take this time to send my well wishes to Miss Minogue. Who I respect greatly as an artist and a person. I wish her a quick recovery. xx Source: Contact Music

Desire Banned From Radio	May 17, 2005
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Geri's quest for comeback success has been dealt a devastating blow - Britain's top radio stations have blacklisted her new single. The former Spice Girl is desperate to resurrect her career after several years out of the limelight, but her tune DESIRE has failed to capture the interests of BBC Radio 1 and Capital FM bosses - meaning it will go largely unheard in the build-up to its release. A Radio 1 spokesman says, "We've only got a finite amount of room on our playlists and we chose songs we think our audience are interested in. Geri's isn't one we'll be adding." Source: Contact Music

Geri News Update	May 13, 2005
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So what has Ms Halliwell been up to over the last week? In between TV promo, press interviews and finalising the stunning artwork for her eagerly awaited new album, 'Passion', Geri has also been taking some time out to relax before her busy promotional schedule goes up a gear in the weeks leading up to the release of 'Desire' and 'Passion'. Geri flew out to Madrid on Monday for David Beckham's 30th birthday and has also been enjoying a spot of horse riding. But she will be back bright and early on Monday morning's GMTV to perform 'Desire' and also take part in a live webchat after the show! Don't miss it! Source: Official Site

Geri Going Head-To-Head With Mel	May 12, 2005
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Mel B will go up against Geri Halliwell when she releases her new single. Mel releases Today on June 6 only two weeks after former Spice Girls' bandmate Geri Halliwell releases her new single, Desire, and on the same day as Geri releases her latest album Passion. Mel's album La State of Mind, is due on June 30 on the independent Amber Cafe record label. Mel, who parted from Virgin Records in 2001, has so far failed to achieve the chart success of some of her other bandmates' solo efforts. Mel has recently taken to writing songs in her kitchen for the upcoming album which was originally thought to be titled "The Kitchen Sink Diaries". Despite scoring a No. 1 in 1998 I Want You Back featuring Missy Elliott, her last single for Virgin, Lullaby, only reached number 13 in 2000 and her debut album, Hot, peaked at number 28 the same year. Last year Melanie B made her Broadway debut in the hit show Rent. Geri's new single, Desire, is due on EMI's Innocent Records label on May 23. Source: Annaova with additional reporting by GeriFan.Com

Something About Geri	May 6, 2005
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'Something About Geri' offers exclusive access to Ms Halliwell, giving viewers a unique insight into the life and times of one of the UK's most written about pop stars as she travels from Moscow to Milan to London... and all around the UK! As well as seeing the public persona, this documentary offers viewers a candid insight into the real Geri, capturing the down-to-earth girl from Watford talking about everything from her music, men and body image to sex and shopping! 'Something About Geri' be shown on Sunday May 15th 2005 on Channel 5 and on June 5th on VH1. Source: Official Site

Geri To Play PITP 2005	May 5, 2005
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Previously known as fiesty 'Ginger Spice', Geri has mellowed and matured over the years, however her cheeky streak still prevails. With provocative hits such as 'Ride It' Geri's solo career is soaring from strength to strength. For a girl from Watford, Geri Halliwell has come a very long way. With an extremly successful career in the Spice Girls, the outspoken Geri was always set to make her mark on the music world. With hits such as 'Look at Me', 'Ride It' and 'It's Raining Men' Geri has notched up some memorable chart hits and remains a firm favourite with pop lovers. Geri's returning looking fabulous with her most recent single 'Desire'. This funky track once again sees Geri power her way through the track and is sure to get crowds at Party in the Park singing along at full volume. Make sure you don't miss the bubbly Geri at PITP. Check out her official website for more information. Source: Capital FM

Ginger Nuts!	May 1, 2005
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Geri Halliwell has revealed astonishing sex secrets in a TV documentary that uncovers her bizarre and wacky life, The People can reveal. In an explicit interview that gives a startling insight into the weird world of the former Ginger Spice, she tells how she... CRAVES passionate romps with 21-year-old toyboys but... MAKES new lovers wait three months for sex then orders them to have tests for Aids. SENDS staff to sex shops to buy vibrators in bulk and has injections of sexually-stimulating vitamins. DESPISES men as "spineless disgusting dogs" but is convinced SHE would make a good bloke. YEARNS for a baby more than a No.1 hit. TREATS her two pet dogs as surrogate children - though she doesn't clean up after them. SCOFFS sausage and mash after conquering her slimming obsession. Details from the new TV documentary leaked to The People reveal the obsessions, cravings and downright peculiar views of the 32-year-old multi-millionairess. Geri, who sang her new single on ITV's CD:UK yesterday, says: "I want sex - lots of it. I really do like young guys because they match my sexual libido. I think about sex a lot since I hit 30. "Charisma is important and I go for people who are tall, good looking, with big shoulders. I don't like skinny and they have to be confident. And I like young guys, that has just happened."I am getting 21-year-olds chasing me. Since I hit 30 everything has changed. I'm sitting there with a 21-year-old thinking 'Yeah!' It's the older woman thing. "I want someone I can spoon with but I want sex - lots of it." Then strangely she says: "But I'm not promiscuous. I can't have unemotional, unattached sex - that's my problem. "I've my mother's Catholic guilt and my father's sex drive." Geri, who has had a string of failed romances and recently split from Pop Idol star Darius Danesh, lifts the lid on her intimate and odd secrets for the C5 documentary There's Something About Geri to be screened this month. Bizarrely, she allowed herself to be filmed lying on a couch at the private surgery of her doctor Wendy who helped her beat bulimia. She has regular injections of magnesium and B vitamins - which have a sexual side-effect. As the needle goes in Geri winces, but then giggles, points to her crotch and says: "It gives you a really amazing feeling down here. It gives you like, a sexual feeling." Then, as her attractive blonde doctor joins in the laughter, Geri reveals: "Wendy has met nearly all my boyfriends anyway, because I send them all to her to get tested. They all get screened. "I try not to have sex with them for three months otherwise you don't know what they are like. "In that time I say 'You have to go and have an Aids test and be tested for absolutely everything'. "Condoms are OK. But if you want to take the condom off you have to get tested. I think it's really good and men respect you if you lay down rules." Geri amazingly confesses to being a big fan of sex toys - especially the Anne Summers sex shop chain's top-selling vibrator the Rampant Rabbit. Her wacky idea of giving a friend a birthday present is sending a vibrator with a note saying "I hope this Bunny transforms your life as much as it has mine." Her personal assistant reveals she has made several trips to Anne Summers and bought "about 15 rabbits in five months". Geri laughs and says: "They are very good for relaxation. But you know what the problem is? They don't hug you afterwards." She tries to change the subject saying: "My mother doesn't know I have got one so please..." But her PA butts in: "Actually, your mum does know because I came back from shopping and she pulled three out of the bag, but just said 'I don't ask'." Geri also got a "travel sized" toy from a pal for Christmas - and bought the same for her. In another shot an elderly woman asks Geri for an autograph - and she still can't stop harping on about sex. Signing a book on marriage for the bemused OAP Geri jokes: "My theory for keeping a marriage alive is you have to have sex until you're 90." Despite her love of sex, Geri has some strange ideas about men including those she recently dated. Lying on a beautician's couch she rages: "I hate men today, I really do. They just piss me off and get on my effing nerves. "There's this guy I used to date and we split up - he was too busy with work and he wasn't giving me any attention. "I said to him 'I want someone who adores me' and he said 'I think you're fab' and I said 'Fab is not enough'. "Anyway, I just thought 'P*** off' but now I am not interested I can tell he is because of all these little texts and it infuriates me. I just think most men are disgusting." Then she loses the plot and shouts: "Men are dogs, you can't be trusted. What's so intimidating about me? So many men are spineless." Bizarrely she adds: "I would have been a great guy. I have a guy's mentality in certain things but I'm trapped in a female condition." Geri, promoting her new single Desire out on May 23 and the album Passion on June 6, admits it will probably be her last album because she wants a baby - though she's not sure who is going to provide it. She says: "If you asked me three years ago if I wanted a baby or a No.1 I'd have said the single. That's not true now. But if not I can put my feelings of love into doing things for Africa or dogs." In her weird way, Geri has turned her pooches Harry, a Shizu, and Daddy, a Pomeranian, into surrogate babies. She takes them to bed with her, kisses them and lets them lick her face - but never has a poop-scoop bag to clean up when they go walkies. Geri, who used to suffer from bulimia, is seen scoffing bangers and mash and says: "I love sausages. They are my favourite food. I am disciplined and make sure I eat properly." The star has already published two books and done a fly-on-the-wall documentary on her private life and sexual relationships. But according to a girlfriend, who has seen the documentary footage, the latest revelations are "dynamite". The woman said: "Her new advisers think some of her revelations are a bit too risque. "It would be a shame if they were left out because they really show what a complex character she is. "She has put a lot into this and been really honest." Tantrums of a tiny star with huge ego Fiery Geri will be seen throwing tantrums on the documentary. While filming she sacked a string of staff and is seen cuddling up to her SEVENTH manager - claiming that "seven is my lucky number". But now he too has parted company with Geri. The pint-sized star is seen barking orders at staff, never stopping to say Please or Thank You. She also asks an unwitting telephone receptionist who fails to recognise her voice: "Don't you know who I am?" and she throws a tantrum if her hair hasn't been styled perfectly or if someone has forgotten a music track. But her child-like vulnerability can be seen as she takes part in TV's Top Gear Celebrity Driver contest. She looked tense and pale as she donned a crash helmet to race timed laps around a racing track and admitted she was terrified. And after spinning out of control onto a grass verge she burst into tears and stormed off. She was then seen sobbing like a child and yelling: "It was so horrible. I hated it. It was so bad!" She only calmed down when her manager gushed: "Geri, you were awesome!" And after another rant about men she stopped, thought for a second and admitted: "I hate it when I get like this. It's lonely when I get this big ego - it is hideous." Source: The People