I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want\u2026to celebrate turning 50 with all my family and friends.<\/p>\n
Mel B – one fifth of the Spice Girls – led the pack by throwing a leopard print themed birthday bash for her nearest and dearest.<\/p>\n
The singer formerly known as Scary Spice booked Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant and bar Habbibi in her hometown of Leeds for a night of frivolity.<\/p>\n
And the birthday girl wowed in a sequin leopard print mini dress with dramatic shoulder pads as she partied with partner Rory McPhee, mum Andrea Brown, and children Angel, 18, and Phoenix, 26, for the glamorous gathering.<\/p>\n
The twice-married mum-of-two was also joined by her fellow bandmates Emma Bunton and Mel C, but Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell-Horner were no-shows.<\/p>\n
However, her absent girl power sidekicks did pay tribute by uniting to send birthday messages accompanied by throwback pictures of their heyday.<\/p>\n
On a night when everyone received the dress code memo Baby Spice Emma, 49, turned up alongside her husband Jade Jones in a leopard print mini dress.<\/p>\n
Sporty Spice Mel C donned a leopard V-neck maxi dress and trademark trainers, joining the fun with her Australian model boyfriend Chris Dingwall.<\/p>\n
Also in attendance was comedian Leigh Francis and his wife Jill Carter, who turned up with a cake.<\/p>\n
Sharing a photo of the pair from the nineties Geri, 52, wished Mel a \u201cvery wonderful year ahead\u201d, while Victoria, 51, marked her milestone by sharing a picture of the pair from a 1998 visit to Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n
Emma joked \u201cI\u2019m not far behind you!\u201d\u200b, while Mel C jokingly called her best mate a \u201cnorthern nutter\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Spice Girls were formed in 1994 and took the world by storm with a string of hits including Wannabe, 2 Become 1, and Viva Forever and even a 1997 blockbuster film, Spice World The Movie, starring the bandmates, Richard E. Grant and the late Sir Roger Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want\u2026to celebrate turning 50 with all my family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[21887,748,393,4884,1860,63988,31885,16208,29220,16,15,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-149444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-50th-birthday","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-leopard-print-party","14":"tag-mel-b","15":"tag-music-section","16":"tag-spice-girls","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-victoria-beckham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114608139447045149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}