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Billie Eilish didn’t know the Spice Girls were a real band and we feel 1,000 years old


Billie thought Spice Girls were a made-up band (Photo: Getty Images North America)

There’s only one word to describe the 1998 classic film Spice World: iconic. But for superstar Billie Eilish, it was also a complete work of fiction.

Yes, really. Billie thought Posh, Baby, Scary, Ginger and Sporty were made-up characters created solely for the movie, rather than the global sensation that was (and still is) Spice Girls.

Speaking on Capital’s Breakfast Show, the Bad Guy singer admitted she thought Spice World was ‘a made-up movie about a group of girls who sang’.

‘I thought all the music was written for the movie,’ she told hosts Roman Kemp, Vick Hope and Sonny Jay. ‘I thought all the characters were cast for those characters.

‘I didn’t figure it out until two years ago.’

We can’t be too harsh on Billie – after all, she wasn’t even alive when Spice World came out and the group had already been broken up for one year when she was born in 2001.

And if we saw the scene where the bus jumps over the Thames without having heard of the Spice Girls, we’d probably think exactly the same.

And we feel 1,000 years old (Picture: REX/Shutterstock )

Billie first admitted her hilarious mistake when she appeared on Ellen last week. ‘I watched that movie like 40 times,’ she said. ‘I remember seeing Spice Girls and thinking, oh my god they’re re-enacting the movie.’

Luckily for the singer, she realised her error before she met Mel C, who came backstage at one of Billie’s shows in London.

Over the weekend, the Ocean Eyes singer broke a record when she became the youngest female solo act to score a Number 1 on the UK album chart. Her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, made a combined total of 48,000 sales, overtaking Joss Stone who made the previous record in 2004.

To celebrate Billie took to Twitter to thank her fans for their support, writing, ‘‘I appreciate you making WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? the #1 album in the UK so much. We worked really hard on this album. Thank you for the love!!’



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