The Spice Girls have announced Virgin Atlantic as the airline partner for The Return Of The Spice Girls world tour. British airline Virgin Atlantic will provide the flights for the girls, as well as the team who are responsible for making the world tour a huge success. We re sure that Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria will be making the most of the in-flight beauty therapist with some much-deserved pampering above the clouds… lucky girls!

Automattic Raises $29.5 Million
GigaOm reported earlier today that WordPress firm Automattic has raised $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding. The New York Times Co. is one of the investors in the blog software company. GigaOm says the funding will be used to hire engineers, expand product offerings and possibly add more social networking features. So what does Automattic need the money for? After all, from what I know of the business, Automattic has been bubbling around the break-even point for a while now. Matt explains that they are going to roll out newer, hosted services such as BBPress (forums), and will expand their other product offerings, such as Gravatar and the spam-protection service Akismet. The money will be spent to hire more engineers and build out a more robust infrastructure. That would be a start. Anne Zelenka made an impassioned case for using WordPress to build a social network, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some social features start to creep into WordPress.com as well. They just boosted their storage capacity to three gigabytes, which indicates that they are serious about allowing bloggers to add video and other multimedia content to their blogs. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has a post about the funding on his blog called Act Two. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

MELANIE C S BIRTHDAY TREAT
Birthday girl Melanie C got a surprise on stage at London s O2 Arena this evening when, just after they had finished singing Mama, the girls were joined on stage by the Spice dancers and asked the entire audience to sing Happy Birthday. Meanwhile, a huge chocolate cake came up through the stage floor, bearing the message Happy Birthday Melanie in icing and topped with a trademark pair of Sporty trainers. read more

MEL B FINISHES IN SECOND PLACE
Everybody at thespicegirls.com would like to congratulate Mel B for her awesome and well-deserved second place in last night s Dancing With The Stars final results show. Mel B performed a mesmerising mambo which prompted a deafening roar of applause from the audience that went on so long the judges had to wait before having their say. Judge Len Goodman grinned: I knew you were a Spice Girl and could do boogaloo dancing but you are revelation. You are an incredibly fabulous dancer. read more

MEET THE CHOIR
Nobody who has seen The Return Of The Spice Girls show at The O2 Arena in London could fail to be moved by the incredible voices of the Capital Children s Choir who accompany the girls on stage during Mama. Hear what they have to say about working with the fab five and see them get ready for the performance with their unique Spice chants.   See more Spice Video

IMPORTANT TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT
The Return Of The Spice Girls Tour Huge Global Demand For Spice Girls Exceeds Original Expectations "If you see the show and don t love every single second, check your pulse please because you might actually be dead."Daily Mirror December 2007 read more

GOOD LUCK MEL B
We are sure you ll join us in wishing our ballroom dancing Spice Girl Mel B the very best of luck in this evening s Dancing With The Stars final (8/7c on ABC). Mel B is up against entertainer Marie Osmond and IndyCar Series driver Helio Castroneves in the final show of the season. Can Mel repeat her perfect scores from last week? You ll just have to watch to find out or visit thespicegirls.com tomorrow for the scores and the judges comments.

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