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The Spice Girls are reuniting for a full-scale comeback, reports Perez Hilton, but Victoria Beckham, known to fans as Posh Spice, will not be joining her former bandmates in their efforts, saying she doesn’t have the “time or desire” to resurrect the pop group.

Sources say Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Mel C. plan to be on the road in a year’s time.

Bunton is reportedly still not sold on rejoining the group, either. “Emma is being cautious, but the minute she’s with the girls, they’ll talk her ’round,” said a source close to the band.

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Mary J. Blige will sit on the American Idol judges’ panel for auditions in Atlanta, Georgia, reports Perez Hilton.

Friday, regular judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi were joined by former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who helped judge auditions in Boston.

“The judges and production team have been having a lot of fun with Victoria,” said a source for the show. “She’s had a great response so far, and has been really warm with the contestants.”

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Victoria Beckham will reportedly make a cameo appearance in the hit cartoon “Spongebob Squarepants,” joining the ranks of such past celebrity guest stars as Johnny Depp, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.

The ex-Spice Girl recorded the voice-over for a princess character in Los Angeles late last year, according to the Daily Mirror.

Beckham, who has turned her attentions from making music to heading her own fashion empire, was apparently persuaded to take part in the show by her four-year-old son, Cruz.

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Tom Cruise does not want Victoria Beckham to discuss diets with his wife Katie Holmes.

The “Mission Impossible” actor has asked the former Spice Girls star to remain quiet about diet and food, because of concerns that Holmes was getting too thin. “Tom was firm but polite. He said that, although he understood Victoria thought she was only trying to help Katie to lose weight after Suri’s birth, he didn’t want her swapping any more diet tips with Katie in future,” said a source close to Cruise.

Beckham is known for her slender figure and is doing the best she can to refrain from discussing food whenever the she is with Holmes.

“She hasn’t mentioned food and diet once around Katie since then. And when they’ve been out for meals together, she’s made a real effort not to comment on what anyone’s eating, and to try to order more food herself – even if she doesn’t touch it once it’s on her plate.”

British soccer stud and underwear model David Beckham revealed a hot new tattoo on Sunday.

Fans were puzzled as to the meaning of the ink scrawled down his left side. Beckham’s rep revealed to PageSix.com that “The tattoo is written in traditional Mandarin Chinese and is an old Chinese proverb that says: ‘Death and life have determined appointments, Riches and honors depends upon heaven.’ David got the tattoo while the L.A. Galaxy were in Hong Kong for their pre-season tour of Asia.”

Beckham and his Spice Girls wife Victoria have several tattoos, and have even been inked together.

Beckham wrote about the meaning behind his tattoos in his book, “David Beckham: Both Feet On the Ground.” “Mine are all about the people in my life, my wife and sons, who I want to have with me always,” he said. “When you see me, you see the tattoos. You see an expression of how I feel about Victoria and the boys. They’re part of me.”

Planning to buy the Spice Girls’ upcoming greatest hits album? You might want to pick up a new bra while you’re at it.

Victoria’s Secret will be selling the album exclusively when it comes out November 13.

The CD will also be available online at various sites, including the Victoria’s Secret web site and iTunes. Of the 15 tracks, 13 are old favourites and two are new songs, “Voodoo” and “Headlines (Friendship Never Ends).”

The fab five will also join the Victoria’s Secret Angels with a performance at the VS fashion show, airing December 4.

The Spice Girls reunion tour kicks off December 2 in Vancouver.

Former Spice Girl Victoria “Posh” Beckham says she’s thin because of her diet, not because of an eating disorder.

The super skinny wife of English soccer stud David Beckham insists she isn’t suffering from a disorder like many other thin Hollywood starlets are.

“I eat really healthy, I love Japanese food, lots of fish, any sort of fish, any sort of vegetable, lots of fruit, that kind of thing,” said Beckham during an appearance recently on a BBC Radio program.

“I think there’s a big difference between someone having an eating disorder and someone who is controlled about what they eat. There’s a big difference, and every now and then of course I go out and eat what I like. But I do try to be quite disciplined in the way that I eat.”

After taking heat for her thin appearance, friends have gone to People magazine to say she “eats healthily” – yet, “she doesn’t exercise at all.”

The woman formerly known as Posh Spice is plotting a major comeback with a new TV show.

After the dissolution of the Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham has seemed fairly content to let her soccer-star husband, David Beckham, take much of the celebrity spotlight. But that soon may change.

The BBC reports that former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller is working on a reality-influenced fashion show for Victoria.

“It will be more serious than a reality show but will still be entertaining because Victoria is so funny,” he said in an interview with Broadcast magazine.

The 46-year-old, who created the “Idol” talent show phenomenon, is also working on getting another ex-Spice Girl back in the spotlight. He says that Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton has approached him about a TV show.

“Emma wants to get into TV,” he said. “She went to drama school and it’s in her blood. We’re going to give her a shot.”

No word yet on when either show will hit the air.

Britain’s most popular couple, David and Victoria Beckham, will unveil their signature scents, Life Style Weekly reports.

David is set to introduce a cologne for men, while Victoria is set to introduce a perfume for women. Both scents will debut next month.

The men’s fragrance reportedly uses a blend of grapefruit zest, bergamot and cardamom, making the man “magnetic, provocative, cool, but never aloof.”

The woman’s scent is described as an opulent bouquet of white flowers opens with the pure fresh notes of bergamot and rose petals that lingers on the skin,” and that it would “reveal the essence of Victoria known only to the people closest to her.”

The scents will be released on Sept. 1 in Britain, it is unknown if they will be marketed beyond that country.

Victoria and David Beckham are introducing his and her fragrances.

The famous soccer player and his Spice Girl wife decided to do this project together and want everything to go smoothly.

This project has been top priority for Victoria that she even “would bring him home packaging and scent samples so he could choose what he liked, when he was training.”

Both scents will be called “Intimately” and will be packed in a pink and silver box for the ladies, and brown for the men.

Marketed by Coty, the scents are expected to launch September 1, with eye-catching photos of the two on the box.