Spice Girl surprises megafan to celebrate something important with her
LONDON -- Emma Bunton -- one-fifth of everyone's favourite girlband the Spice Girls -- surprised a super-fan with a cake and flowers to help her celebrate her "cancerversary."
Sophie Belcher, 25, was having afternoon tea with a close friend to celebrate overcoming cancer 20 years after her first diagnosis.
Little did she know, however, that her childhood hero Emma Bunton -- a.k.a. Baby Spice -- was there to surprise her with a cake and flowers.
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Belcher -- who lives in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire -- was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was 5 years old. During her treatment she insisted on wearing her beloved Spice Girls clothes throughout her time in hospital.
"All my 5-year-old dreams have come true -- I came here under the pretence of an afternoon tea, and Baby Spice just appeared! I didn’t have a clue what was going on and meeting her was amazing," Belcher said in a statement emailed to Mashable.
"When I was going through treatment when I was 5, I loved everything that the Spice Girls were about. I used to dress as different Spice Girls each time I had treatment – it really helped at the time and meeting Emma has been such a positive celebration of my 20-year cancerversary," Belcher continued.
Emma Bunton and Sophie Belcher are supporting month-long campaign Stand Up To Cancer.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
