When the Spice Girls finally touched down in England to make a scheduled appearance at an event at London’s Heathrow airport for Virgin Atlantic’s new terminal on Thursday, the fab five - Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm and an injured Emma Bunton on crutches - were greeted by a suprisingly small group of supporters.

Approximately 500 Spice fans who won a competition to see the Spice Girls at a ”secret location” met up at a hotel to make their way to the airport, however only 250 showed up at the terminal to watch the girls as they attended the event with Virgin Airlines mogul, Sir Richard Branson.

The girls flew in from Los Angeles on their newly-christened ‘Spice One’ Boeing 747 jet, and sources say they angered fans who attended the event by taking to the stage for only a very brief chat – and nearly an hour after they were scheduled to do so.   

A source says:

“We’d been working on this event for eight weeks – ensuring the health and safety for the large crowds was all up to standard. We had expected at least 500 fans – that was the amount who won the chance to see the Spice Girls – but less than half came on the  day. These are supposed to be the band’s die-hard fan base – and we struggled to fill the small closed-off area at the airport. It was a bit embarrassing. You would think the Spice Girls’ homecoming would whip up more excitement…but evidently not.”

 On Monday, the Spice Girls reportedly played to a half-capacity crowd in Las Vegas, Nevada, despite previous claims that the tour was ”completely sold out”.

Victoria Beckham says there’s no truth to the recent rumors flying around that she’s pregnant with her fourth child, even though rumors persisted as she and the Spice Girls reunited for their worldwide tour earlier this month. 

Beckham insists that there’s no baby yet, but revealed that she’d love to have a daughter – someday:

“The rumours are not true. I’m not pregnant. I keep getting asked, am I pregnant? I’m not pregnant. Hopefully I will be blessed enough to have more children at some point. I would love a little girl.”

As thin as a fashion sketch, Victoria Beckham, is a vision of carefully considered perfection on the cover of January’s issue of Elle, which hits the streets on December 11th.

With impeccable makeup, glowing bob, tawny skin, French manicured acrylic nails on her fingers and white teeth that twinkle like Disney stars, she told the magazine: 

“I’m not one to stand on a red carpet and give a big, huge grin.” 

She says she prefers to keep it cool and collected, although these days it’s hard to believe that she was once a loner who had no friends and kept to herself in school:

“They were literally picking things up out of the puddles and throwing them at me. And I just stood there, on my own. No one was with me. I didn’t have any friends. People would push me around, say they were going to beat me up after school, chase me. It was miserable, my whole schooling, miserable. I tried to be friends with people, but I didn’t fit in. So I kept myself to myself.”

FAT bastard, described as “wine for the anti-snob” by Time and Newsweek, so dislikes the snooty shenanigans of self-importance in the world of wine (and elsewhere!) and identifies the most offensively officious folks of the year. Now, the company reveals the second annual FAT bastard Most Pretentious Poll, a poll of 100 lifestyle editors from newspapers coast to coast.

Among some of this years most obnoxious poseurs who made the cut:

• Donald Trump: After the war of the Rosie, the Donald’s new claim
          to fame is his elevation to first place in Fat Bastard’s most
          pretentious poll.  In fact, his pretensions seem to never end: he
          puts his name on everything from buildings and business suits to
          vodka and cologne.
• Paris Hilton:  Can this woman get no respect?  Falling from first on
          our poll, she can’t seem to convince our respondents that she’s now
          taken the high road in life.  Perhaps in 2008, we’ll see her spurn
          the spotlight in favor of some serious do-gooding.
• Tom Cruise:  About to become the subject of a tell-all book, the
          inimitable Mr. Cruise is another personality who’s incredibly
          high — on himself.  He’ll always be remembered for his
          couch-leaping craze, the value of his advice to new mothers and his
          ongoing crusade for Scientology.
• Victoria Beckham:  Her Spice Girls nickname wasn’t “Posh” for
          nothing though her musical contributions seem to have made a bigger
          impression on Victoria herself than they ever did on the music
          industry.  “Coronated” when she wed  - at least in her own mind - 
          she and her soccer sweetie sat on golden thrones as they surveyed
          the subjects at their nuptials.
• Tyra Banks:  If considering yourself to be extraordinarily talented
          is a sure sign of being pretentious, claiming you are the next Oprah
          may reach a new high. Though she’s no journalist, the Victoria
          Secret’s supermodel thinks she has all the answers. 

Visit the site to see who made the list last year – and yes – there are some repeat offenders!  This year’s full list should be available on the website soon.