July 2002

>Davina McCall and Geri Halliwell join Popstars 2

Geri Halliwell, Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh are to be the judges for the new series of Popstars. Davina McCall will front Popstars: The Rivals, which will see a girl band and a boy band battling it out for a number one chart hit. Louis, best known as Boyzone's manager, will join Pete and Geri judging thousands of hopefuls at auditions in London, Manchester and Glasgow, while Davina brings viewers behind-the-scenes action. They will then pick a shortlist of ten girls and ten boys who will live together Big Brother-style in two neighbouring houses. Viewers will then vote to evict a girl and a boy each week until they settle on the final band line-up. The show is scheduled to be broadcast on ITV1 this autumn. More details about the show are available on www.itv.com/popstars.

source: ananova

>Is Geri going to become a Popstars judge?

Here are 2 articles about it:

Geri to spice up new Popstars

Geri Halliwell is about to join the Popstars bandwagon. The former Spice Girl is to sign a £550,000 contract to become a judge in the follow-up series. The show will have a different format to the previous series and its spin-off Pop Idol. It will embark on a search for two rival bands, one of girls, the other of boys, who will fight it out to secure a Number One record. Pete Waterman, who starred in the recent Pop Idol series, which made stars of winner Will Young and runner-up Gareth Gates, will be the other judge. He and Miss Halliwell will each choose the members of their bands and launch them on the path to fame. Miss Halliwell, 29, has spent the past year in Los Angeles after disappointing sales of her second solo album, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster. She has spent the time writing a second instalment of her autobiography and contemplating her next career move. 'Geri is a perfect choice for the programme because she was a major part of the biggest and most successful girl band in the world,' said an insider. 'She is very excited about the project and the finer details of the contract are being thrashed out. 'It hasn't been decided whether she would head the girl band or the boy band, but whichever it is, she will help choose the members, and then launch them. 'Signing Geri will be such a coup for the programme because of her experience in the pop business and because of her celebrity. 'She's a real fighter so once she's chosen her band there's no doubt she will push them all the way. The bands will go head-to-head by releasing their singles on the same day so it will be very exciting.' Last night a spokesman for Miss Halliwell confirmed she had been offered the job, but said: 'Nothing has been signed yet.' Popstars - The Rivals is expected to be seen in the autumn. Programme makers LWT are confident it will be a massive ratings success. The original Popstars series, which featured judge 'Nasty' Nigel Lythgoe, was a huge success and produced the band Hear'Say. The sequel, Pop Idol, searched for a solo star and featured presenters Ant and Dec as the sympathetic hosts. It also featured a comeback by Popstars reject Darius Danesh, who made it to the final three contestants. LWT said an announcement about the new programme, including the hosts, would be made in the next two weeks.

source: Daily mail

Geri Halliwell tipped for Popstars 2

Geri Halliwell is in line to take a place on the judging panel for the next series of Popstars. The former Spice Girl is thought to have been offered £550,000 to join Pete Waterman on Popstars: The Rivals. The pair will each choose the members of their bands and launch them on the path to fame, according to reports. Auditions for the new series of the ITV show begin in August, with broadcast scheduled for this autumn. A spokeswoman for Geri confirmed to the Daily Mail she had been offered the job but said: "Nothing has been signed yet." An official statement is expected from programme makers LWT in the next two weeks.

source: ananova

>IMPORTANT NEWS!!

On the Bulletin Board of the official Geri site, a message has been sent by the EMI team! This is the message:

'Exclusive Geri news' by Press Office Exclusive on 9-Jul-02

Hello everybody thanks for being so paitent with the site...sorry there hasnt been many updates but geri and the team have been very busy...we have a lot of new exciting projects lined up for the coming year...1) The Book due for release 18th September 'Just for the Record' 2) New double-a-side single, new track 'Damage' along side 'Feels like sex' from the 'Scream...' album (Geri does read the comments put on the BB and the song seems to be very popular with you!) 3) New site...yes thats right we have now completed the new site and will launch it in September. I know there has been a lot of sites but this one is special and will be regularly updated as Geri has designed this one herselfFinally, thanks a lot to you all for staying faithful to Geri, she is still in LA at the moment trying to talk to producers ad writers and there are lots of projects on the cards...however Geri told me to tell you dont believe everyting you read in the papers!!Thanks for reading and i hope this bullitin has provided some happiness for you all...Geri's back again!!Thanks

Sarah (Team member of the EMI press office, Geri Halliwell)

Of course, these are great news but we have to be careful because nothing can assure us this message was really sent by EMI...