Snapshot · The Louis Theroux Podcast
Geri Halliwell's controversial praise of Margaret Thatcher was given in a Spectator magazine interview, which Melanie C said she didn't even know the publication existed at the time.
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Louis asks whether the Spice Girls ever had a proper 'moment of scandal' — and both he and Melanie land on Geri Halliwell's 1996 Spectator magazine interview, in which Geri praised Margaret Thatcher as the original Spice Girl. Melanie C didn't even know what the Spectator was at the time. She explains the difficulty: five individuals with different backgrounds and political views, capable of being tarred with each other's opinions. Her family background on Liverpool's docks made Thatcherism a deeply personal issue — 'those men worked the docks for generations, and she made that very difficult.' She frames it as one of the hardest aspects of being in a group: 'someone has an opinion and everybody thinks that's what everybody thought and felt.'
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