Spice Girls Reunion - it's on. Off. On.

Curiously, if Rav Singh is the king of gossip for the News of the World, why has tha paper's Spice Girls reunion story been farmed out to James Desborough? Is Rav not trusted with the big ones, or is he merely keeping away from the story in case it turns out to be like all those other Spice Reunion stories?

This time, it's claimed the girls are working away in a strange basement recording the song they believe will be the Christmas Number One:

Our exclusive snap shows Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton emerging from a top-secret recording session in a Brighton basement studio this week.

So, erm, that's two of them, then, perhaps having been recording. What about the others?

Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, and Scary, Mel B—who are both in Los Angeles—will fly to England to record their parts in a few weeks.

Oh. This is one of those reunions which, erm, doesn't actually involve them getting back together, then?

But what of Mel C, and her firm insistence there will be no reunion?

Mel C, 33, is thought to have been there.

Aha. So, we have two on the other side of the Atlantic, a vague "perhaps Mel C has swung by", and a photo of two women leaving a Brighton basement (not an unusual site in Brighton.)

Is that all we have to go on, then? Not even some vague, unattributed quote?

A Spice insider said: "It's phenomenal news for them, and the girls are really excited."

We're sure Cliff Richard is already fuming, as he can sense the Christmas number one in the bag already.