Emma Bunton

At 48 years old, Emma Bunton has this physical status:

Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and radio and television presenter.

She is a member of the girl group the Spice Girls formed in the 1990s, and in which Bunton was nicknamed Baby Spice.

In 2013, she began as a radio presenter on the Heart Breakfast Show in London with Jamie Theakston and presenting her own show on Sunday evenings.

She left the breakfast show in 2018. Bunton's debut solo album, A Girl Like Me, was released in April 2001 by Virgin Records.

The album debuted and peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart.

It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies, ultimately becoming the 147th best-selling album in the UK for 2001.

The album spawned the UK and New Zealand number-one single "What Took You So Long?", as well as the top five singles "What I Am" and "Take My Breath Away" and the top 20 single "We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight". Bunton's second studio album, Free Me, was released in February 2004 through 19 Entertainment.

Four singles were taken from it: "Free Me", "Maybe", "I'll Be There" and "Crickets Sing for Anamaria".

The album was also released in the United States, and some of the singles impacted the US dance charts. After the release of her third studio album, Life in Mono, Bunton reunited with the Spice Girls in 2007 for an international tour and greatest hits album.

From 2003 to 2012 Bunton had a recurring role on the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous.

She performed at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony on 12 August 2012 with The Spice Girls.

This would be the last time that the band would perform as a quintet.

Since 2018, Bunton has reunited as the Spice Girls with Geri Halliwell, Melanie C and Mel B. Bunton's television appearances include being a judge on the ITV celebrity skating show Dancing on Ice (2010–2011) and entertainment series Your Face Sounds Familiar (2013).

In addition, she voices the character Muhimu in the UK version of the episode "The Mbali Fields Migration" of Disney Junior's series The Lion Guard.Bunton released her first single in 12 years, "Baby Please Don't Stop" in February 2019, in preparation for her fourth studio album My Happy Place.

Personal life

In 1997, Bunton dated British singer Lee Brennan. In the same year, she was briefly linked to American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In 1998, she began dating British singer Jade Jones, from the group Damage, but they split for the first time in May 1999. From September 1999 to September 2000, Bunton was in a relationship with the England footballer Rio Ferdinand, who was introduced by her friends David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. In November 2000, she returned to Jones, but they split for the second time in March 2002, when Bunton decided to work again with Simon Fuller; Jones was against this decision. In 2003, she was briefly linked to American singer Justin Timberlake.

In 2004 she returned to Jade Jones and the relationship stabilised. On 26 January 2007 she announced her pregnancy. Her first child, a son, was born on 10 August 2007. On 6 May 2011, her second son was born. The couple became engaged on 21 January 2011 but Bunton said that she did not want to get married in a civil or religious ceremony, stating: "We don't need a wedding to justify our relationship." Nevertheless, Bunton and Jones married on 13 July 2021.

In 1999, Bunton moved to a £1.6 million penthouse in the Mount Vernon Village, in Hampstead, London. In 2003, she had some problems with neighbours, who complained about her late-night parties. In 2006, she and Jones moved to a mansion in Barnet, London. Bunton was diagnosed with endometriosis. She is also a godmother to Geri Halliwell's daughter, Bluebell Madonna Halliwell, born in 2006. Bunton is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur football club.

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Early life and career beginnings

Bunton was born in Finchley, Barnet, London. After she was 11, her parents, Pauline, a karate instructor, and Trevor Bunton, a milkman, split. Paul James, she has a younger brother. Bunton's maternal family came from County Wexford, Ireland, as shown in a TV interview with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on This Morning in August 2016. Bunton attended Roman Catholic Primary School in Finchley, St Theresa.

She began attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She became friends with Keeley Hawes at the SYTS; they lived and travelled together for six months together.

Bunton appeared briefly in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1992 as a murderer. She appeared in The Bill, an ITV police drama, and made a brief appearance as a prostitute in BBC drama series To Play the King. Bunton also appeared in a British government information film on firefighting safety.

Music career

Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Adams responded to an advertisement in The Stage in 1994. Around 400 women who answered the call went to Dance Works studios. Halliwell, Chisholm, Adams, and Brown were among the original members of the group, as well as Michelle Stephenson, who was later promoted to Abigail Kis, which later became Bunton. The organization was uncomfortable about the absence of a job and was dissatisfied with the company's strategic direction in which Heart Management was leading them.

The group formed touring management companies in October 1994, armed with a database of demos and dance routines. In December 1994 at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush, they convinced Bob Herbert to stage a showcase performance for the group in front of industry writers, producers, and A&R men. The Herberts jumped right into establishing a binding deal for the company due to the group's high interest. Both five members postponed signing contracts until receiving legal guidance from Adams' father Anthony Adams, among others. They parted with Heart Management in March 1995 after the organization's inability to pay attention to their visions and suggestions.

19 Entertainment's Simon Fuller came to the group, and in March 1995, they signed him. Fuller performed on tour labels in London and Los Angeles during the summer of that year and then signed a contract with Virgin Records in September 1995. The group remained prolific on the west coast of the United States from this point to the summer of 1996, where they had signed a publishing contract with Windswept Pacific. The Spice Girls debuted their debut single "Wannabe" in the United Kingdom on July 8, 1996. The trial for "Wannabe" on the Box music channel appeared in the weeks leading up to the launch. "Wannabe" was a huge success on the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and later in 34 countries, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, and the United States. And now is the all-female single in the country's top-seller single. It was followed by nine more number-one singles from their albums Spice, Spiceworld, and Forever. Any member of the organisation was given a nickname by the media. Bunton was nicknamed "Baby Spice" by the author.

"Say You'll Be There", "2 Become 1," "Who Do You Think You Are" and "Mama" from Spice, and "Spice Up Your Life" and "Viva Forever" from Spice include several other hit launches. Emma on VH1 in 1999 appeared. "Hey You" Free Up Your Mind" from the film Pokémon: The First Movie, Melanie B's "Sophisticated Lady" appeared as a B-side to her single "Word Up" and appeared as a B-side. In November 1999, she released her debut solo single, a cover of What I Am in collaboration with Tin Tin Out. The Spice Girls stopped recording in 2000, after the group's comeback single, a double A-side of "Let Love Lead The Way" and the third studio album, Forever, debuted at number two in the United Kingdom, and they were concentrating on their solo careers in relation to their foreseeable future. Melanie B's album track, "Hotter," appeared on Melanie B's debut solo studio album Hot in October 2000, she also sang background for the latter's debut solo studio album Hot.

Its lead single, "What Took You So Long?

Bunton, the former Spice Girls' boss Simon Fuller's, has signed a new contract with 19 Recordings, a tribute to her second album, Free Me, on February 9, 2004. Mike Peden and Yak Bondy produced the album largely. Luis Fonsi, Cathy Dennis, Henry Binns, and others have contributed to the album. Critics adored the album's "charm and grace" who was influenced by the Motown and 1960s styles. It debuted on the UK Albums Chart, spending more than twelve weeks inside the chart and being designated gold by the British Phonographic Institute (BPI). The album had three top-five hits in the United Kingdom – "Maybe" and "I'll Be There" – as well as a top-ten single "Crickets Sing for Anamaria." Both "Free Me" and "Maybe" dance club regulars in the United States, with numbers four and six on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart respectively, respectively. Bunton appeared in the Bollywood film Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets in 2005.

Bunton, a contestant on BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, was partnered with Darren Bennett in October 2006. She made it to the semi-finals and finished in third place. Bunton released the charity single for the BBC Children in Need appeal on Friday, as well as Petula Clark's 1960s hit "Downtown." It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and Life in Mono followed her third studio album. Life in Mono, much like her previous album, played with 1960s pop music. The musical arrangement for this particular album was more reminiscent of 1960s French pop music, with some elements of British 1960s pop and Motown. Bunton's first album not to make it to the top ten in the United Kingdom was the album, which only ranked at number 65 on the charts. "All I Need to Know" was its second single, and it was scheduled for Valentine's Day on February 12, 2007. In the week before Christmas 2006, Bunton shot the video around Old Street in East London. "All I Need to Know" became Bunton's lowest-charting single, debuting on the UK Singles Chart at number 60.

The Spice Girls re-grouped and announced plans to tour as a quintet for the last time for a The Return of the Spice Girls, a slew of the Spice Girls, from which they were reported to have earned £10 million per year (approximately $20 million). The team's members expressed delight in doing their "own thing." The group decided to debut their first compilation album, a compilation of their Greatest Hits. The album was released in early November 2007, and the tour started on 2 December 2007. During the revolution The film maker Bob Smeaton produced a official film of the tour titled Spice Girls: Giving You Everything. The Spice Girls were hired to appear in Tesco advertisements, for which they were paid £1 million per person, as well as their sell-out tour.

Judy Craymer formed Viva Forever, a Spice Girls and Simon Fuller team, and began to produce Viva Forever, a Spice Girls musical. Although the girls were not on the show itself, they were to influence the show's cast and production choices in a story that utilizes their music but has no connection to their personal tale; similar to that of ABBA's music in Mamma Mia! The five Spice Girls were on hand at a press conference in London on June 26 to promote the launch of Viva Forever: The Musical. The press conference was held at the Renaissance London Hotel in St. Pancras, where the Spice Girls filmed the music video for their breakthrough hit "Wannabe" 16 years ago, to the day. On December 11, 2012, the musical premiere at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End opened. The show's last appearance on June 29th 2013 follows poor critiques from critics and "a loss of £5 million." Bunton and the Spice Girls performed a medley of "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life" at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony on August 12, 2012, reuniting as a quintet for the final time for the event.

With over 116,000 tweets per minute on Twitter, they had the most tweeted moment of the Olympics closing ceremony. Bunton partnered with Melanie C on her 2012 album "I Know Him So Well" and worked with her fellow Spice Girl Melanie C on her 2012 album, Stages. On November 11, 2012, the album was released as a single. Bunton was named the year's most popular celebrity in March 2013. Bunton and Melanie C. Clement were involved in recording England's 2014 World Cup song in March 2014. On "Greatest Day," a track performed by British band Take That, she collaborated with fellow pop stars Eliza Doolittle, Katy B. Conor Maynard, Kimberley Walsh, and Pixie Lott. Gary Barlow produced the track and recorded it at Sarm Studios in London. Backing vocals were also included on the track, including Gary Lineker, Michael Owen, Geoff Hurst, David Seaman, Peter Shilton, Glenn Hoddle, and Dion Dublin.

During an interview with This Morning, Bunton announced that she was back in the studio working on new material more than a decade after her last album, Life in Mono, which was released in June 2018. "I'm back in the studio, and I'm here for the first time," Bunton told host Phillip Schofield, "I'm having fun with some of my own music just to see." Bunton announced in November 2018 that she had signed a new contract with BMG Rights Management and was recording a new one.

In September 2018, she portrays Mama Bear in the UK version of the hit animated film Smallfoot, starring Channing Tatum, James Corden, LeBron James, and Danny DeVito. The film is a hit, grossing $83.2 million in the United States and Canada and $130.9 million in other countries, out of $130.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $214.1 million. Bunton reunited with the Spice Girls in November 2018 to announce a UK and Ireland Stadium tour, Spice World - 2019 Tour, which began in Croke Park, Dublin, and ended in London, England, on June 15, 2019.

"Baby Please Don't Stop" is her first single off the new album's catalog, and it received generally favorable feedback on February 27. On March 9, 2019, she performed "Too Many Teardrops," a promotional song. "You're All I Need to Get By," a Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell tribute. Bunton's fourth album, My Happy Place, was released on April 12, 2019. Bunton's tracklist features two original songs and eight covers of songs. The album, which featured appearances from Jones, Robbie Williams, Will Young, and Josh Kumra, sold 6,500 copies in its first week in the United Kingdom, and has risen to number 11 on the UK Album Chart. My Happy Place was her first Top 20 album in 15 years. On March 9, 2019, she performed "Too Many Teardrops," a promotional single.

Bunton released "Coming Home For Christmas," a Christmas album that also included a cover of "Santa Baby." Bunton's first solo show in over a decade at the Royal Albert Hall in London on December 6, 2019. Bunton performed well-known Christmas songs as well as duets onstage with Will Young, Matt Goss, and her fiancé Jade Jones, and it was a one-off Christmas show. Bunton has been a member of Chickenshed for many years, and she appeared onstage for a version of the Spice Girls' "Mama."

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