Victoria on World Pop interview

Spice up your life ... Dane meets Vic
worldpop: What did you think of each other the first time you met?
Dane:
The first time we met was to say hello at the MOBO awards. But working together, we pretty much knuckled down and got on really well. We had a lot of fun doing it and because we loved the single I think it was a lot easier for us.

worldpop: Have you discovered any annoying habits about each other along the way?
Victoria:
I'll admit mine right now - I pick my nose!
Dane: She does, and she had to admit it because I was going to say that.
Victoria: What do you do that's really annoying? He just gets a superstar tantrum every now and again.
Dane: Um, I don't have any bad habits. I don't know what my bad habits are!

worldpop: What did you get up to on your video shoot for Out Of Your Mind?
Victoria:
It was great fun. Everything around us was really great, and the director was fantastic. And I think that as much as we had a lot to prove, so did everybody around us so everybody was putting in 110%. The dancers were great and it was a good atmosphere.
Dane: It was a good team, we all had a great time. It was 17 hours a day for two days, but it was good fun.

worldpop: How did you keep yourselves going when you got tired?
Victoria: Loads of Red Bull!
Dane: I did actually, I had loads of it.
Victoria: We just wanted it to be good so we put in as much as we could, so that's what got us through. Adrenalin, ambition, and lots of coffee!
Dane: And we had our families and everyone around us.

Who do you think you are? ... tabloid rumours
worldpop: What's the weirdest rumour you've heard about yourselves recently?
Victoria:
That I'm talentless!
Dane: Apparently in the paper it said that my girlfriend actually demoed this song first, which wasn't true at all. I don't know where they got that from.
Victoria :Oh yeah, my mum told me about that yesterday. The weirdest thing I've heard recently ... oh, I've read before now that I'm really a man, which was interesting. Someone said that all the Spice Girls were really men.
Dane: She's really called Victor!

worldpop: You always have your families around you. Do you make sure that they travel around with you so that you have time to see them?
Dane:
It's pretty difficult when you're really busy to see your family or your girlfriend or whatever, so it's nice to take them with you. I think they come because they want to see it anyway. It's a nice thing for them to come down and watch shows and support us.
Victoria: We're both really close to our families so it's nice that they can come down and be with us.

Viva forever ... old friends
worldpop: Victoria, do you still see the rest of the Spice Girls a lot?
Victoria:
Yes, I saw Melanie C today, and I saw the rest of them yesterday because we were shooting the cover for the new album. So yeah, I see them quite a lot and I speak to them on the phone all the time.

worldpop: Dane, do you still see the other Another Level boys?
Dane:
I haven't seen them in a while. Mark's just got engaged so he's getting married soon but I saw him not too long ago. The other two I haven't seen for a while. I think one of them's been in America and one's doing some stuff over here but I don't know what they're up to.
Two become one ... solo albums

worldpop: How are both your solo albums going?
Dane:
Really well. We're both writing with a lot of people and doing our own writing projects, but hopefully we're going to get into the studio again and write together. It's going really well.
Victoria: I've heard his first single and it's fantastic. Really, really good.
Dane: She's working with Rodney Jerkins.
Victoria: I think both us have been doing a lot with working on the single and our own albums. We've been working hard.

worldpop: So you are planning to work together again?
Dane:
I think we'll definitely get in the studio and do some writing. And I'm sure we'll come up with some good stuff!

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