Category: TV
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Date: 29.10.2004
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Friday
Night with Jonathan Ross, 10.35pm, Friday 29 October 2004, 91Èȱ¬ ONE
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Geri Halliwell says it's best to be curvy when
she meets Jonathan Ross in this week's edition of the 91Èȱ¬ ONE
show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
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Geri, who has regained her former voluptuous figure
after a famously skinny phase, says she's never been more comfortable
with her image.
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Of men she says: "I get more attention" -
"when you get to 30 everything just clicks".
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But it can still be difficult to meet the right man:
"I do meet guys... I like to keep it personal... I have to trust,
otherwise I live my life in a box.
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"As I've got older I've got to trust my instinct
a bit more. I'm interested in the man himself.
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"I've dated a lot... I like a real male, an alpha
male. I think we're designed to be with the perfect mate."
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About her skinny years in LA, Geri says: "I was
heavily working out, I was rigid with my eating. I tried being really
controlling.
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"Now I've eased off. It's not the most important
thing to me any more. For me it's been a journey of feeling comfortable
in my own skin."
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Geri doesn't rule out a return to the Spice Girls: "I
never say never."
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But she says she's happy with the direction her career
is taking now: "I feel proud of what we did, but everything has
its time.
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"Part of me is afraid to go back to it. No-one's
the same any more.
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"I've learned to be a solo artist, I couldn't cope
with four other people. In a band you have to conform a bit."
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Geri, the last ex-Spice Girl to be interviewed by Jonathan,
reveals she still has the same record deal: "I'm the only one who's
still got the original recording contract."
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Her new single, Ride It, is released next month.
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show EastEnders queen
and Carry On legend Barbara Windsor in her first TV interview
since her return from illness.
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She talks about her prolonged period of ill-health:
"I fought it but then the rot set in. The worst thing was the depression.
You do say please God, don't let me wake up tomorrow."
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And on EastEnders: "It's just not been right. I
had a huge storyline they had to cut. [Now] I'm not under contract [but]
when they sort themselves out, who knows?"
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And says sheÂ’s delighted with Michael Caine's recent
comments about the soap: "I phoned him and said thank you, you
can't buy that publicity."
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Jonathan is also joined by former Buffy star Sarah
Michelle Gellar whose new movie, The Grudge, opens in the UK on
5 November, and there's music from Las Vegas band The Killers.
