Paper Monitor
10:52 UK time, Tuesday, 4 December 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
What the Spice Girls could tell Cerys Matthews about the rocky road from pop star to obliging tabloid fodder…
Still, unlike Ms Matthews, at least the girls are back doing what made them famous: "singing". So what do the papers make of the girls' comeback concert in Vancouver?
Objectivity doesn't look like the Mirror's strong suit, judging by how it by-lines its correspondent as reporting from the "triumphant comeback gig".
But where the Mirror seems to be in thrall to the girls' every move and utterance, the Sun adopts a thankfully more mischievous tone.
"They're back… and bigger than ever," runs the headline, alongside a picture of Posh in a revealing outfit… "and so are the Spice Girls".
The Mirror sticks rigidly to the party line about the girls singing live, but the Sun's man detects some "miming and auto-tuning".
It takes the Daily Star to explain all - while the girls denied they were miming, they 'fessed up to using a backing track to make sure their voices stayed in tune.
So who was the star of the show? The Star gives credit to the "all singing and dancing tiger" Mel B. The Mirror hands joint honours to Victoria and Geri.
Which may be worrying for the other Spices, if Geri were perhaps to repeat her mid-tour vanishing act of 10 years ago. Worry not girls - Paper Monitor has a suggestion for a replacement: enter Cerys, otherwise known as Welsh Spice.
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