Victoria Adams

SPICE FACT: SHE USED TO FANCY MATT GOSS FROM BROS, BECAUSE HE REMINDED HER OF A BABY DUCK

LOVE HISTORY: EX-FIANCÉ, MARK WOODS. COREY HAIM FROM THE LOST BOYS. STUART BILTON. NOW IN LURVE WITH BRYLCREME BOY AND MANCHESTER UTD SUPERSTAR DAVID BECKHAM.

CLAIM TO FAME: DID WELL AT THEATRE SCHOOL. APPEARED IN A BIRMINGHAM SHOW CALLED BERTIE. JOINED A BAND CALLED PERSUASION

- Having an off day? Slap on some lipstick and a pair of shades!
- If you're going to kiss a boy, make sure you're wearing stay-on lipstick!
- If you haven't got it fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
- Want to break the ice but don't know how? Have a guess at his name - you never know!
- Drink what ever you like - just so long as it co-ordinates with your nail varnish!

- What is your favourite saying?   "Do it...with style!"
- How do you win an argument?   "I give a look that would kill, then I walk away!"
- How do you meet guys?   "I play it cool and pose. I'd chat him up with 'Is that a designer suit you're wearing?'"
- What about toilet Hygene?   "I crouch to avoid contact with the seat!"
- What do you do before bedtime?   "I have a full facial routine and put on my silk pyjamas!"

I'm a worrier, a bag of nervous energy. That's why I'm tired all the time. I just can't lie in bed. When we haven't got anything to do the rest of the girls will be inbed until four in the afternoon, but not me. I'm up at seven with a big list of things to do. My anxious personality won't let me relax.

"I'd like to be able to try and slow down, but there's no chance of that at the minute. Everything's just too hectic. I love what I do though, even if some people think I look miserable in photos because I don't smile much. That's not looking miserable, that's me trying not to look too cheesy. I'm just not as upfront as Geri and Mel B. People asked me why I was in the background on the 'Wannabe' video, but it just wouldn't be in my nature to be running across the screen screaming 'I'll tell you what I want' at the top of my lungs.

"The whole thing about being famous and everyone wanting to be nice to you and be your friend is a bit alien to me, because I was never popular when I was at school. I was never physically bullied, but I was definitely given a hard time mentally. I never drank, smoked or swore at the teacher, so I suppose people didn't think I was very cool. I never had loads of friends and that was quite sad, but I had to grin and bear it. The newspapers made a really big deal of my loneliness, but it was never that bad, and at least it taught me that being the most popular girl in school isn't the most important thing in the world.

"When I moved on to dancing school I was told that my legs weren't long enough, my hair wasn't right and a load of other things should be better. I was never chosen for anything, but now I have the headmistress ringing me up going 'Oh darling, you must come in to college sometime.' I think I'll go there one day and just give it to them big-time, tell all the girls that it doesn't matter if they're short or fat or whatever.

"Nowadays I'm amazed that I have photographers chasing me about. I came out of my place the other day and got in my car which was in the car park. There were all these poeple with long lenses hanging about and pointing their cameras and I thought to myself 'What are they taking pictures of the trees for?' Then I realised it was me they were shooting! My (ex)boyfriend was in a fashion show the other week and I turned up to watch him and all the photographers wanted was shots of me. I was really embarrassed for him.

"I don't know why the papers seem to want me so much. I'm supposedly the posh one, though I don't know if that's the reason why. Anyway, I'm far from posh. I don't talk posh and don't think of myself as posh. I do like designer clothes, I suppose, and at least my mum was happy when she found out that was my nickname. Do the others take the piss out of my nickname? Not when they're called Scary Spice and Baby Spice, they don't!

"I don't think of myself as someone who people look up to. I think the band as a whole is a role model, but not me as a person, because each of us has a different kind of fan and the younger fans don't seem to go for me. I try not to think too hard about other people's views. If I want to wear a tiny skirt and a bikini top then I'm doing it for me, not for any men who are watching.

"The performance side is only part of what Spice Girls is about anyway. I really enjoy working with the other girls in the studio; sitting around, chatting, vibeing off each other. I'd like to play some instruments better. I've tried to learn the piano a million times, but I've got a really short attention span. I haven't even sat and watched telly for over two years, because I don't have the patience to sit through a whole programme.

"I really enjoy my life, but I've had to re-adjust to living a different way. I have to look for different pleasures. Whenever I've been away and finally get back home it takes me at least a day and a half to get back to normal. And you know what I really enjoyed the other day? Getting in my car and going to the newsagents without being photographed. I was screaming 'Spin on this' on my way back and sticking my finger in the air. People must have thought I was mad!"