Spice Girls in disarray, apparently

Alison Boshoff is worried about the future of The Spice Girls. This isn't based on some whim, or a desire to fill space in the Daily Mail with finger-in-the-air speculation.

Oh, no, Alison has strong evidence there's trouble at the comeback mill. She's looked at their necks:

Just before the Spice Girls officially announced their comeback, manager Simon Fuller presented each of them with a £2,500 Roulette diamond necklace from Boodles - a gold circle, to symbolise the re-making of the group into a new and perfect whole.

They put on their necklaces at the Press conference, but quite where they have got to now, it is hard to say, as they haven't been seen since.

It is ominously appropriate that each of the 'girls' has managed to misplace these symbols of harmony, for the optimism of summer has given way to the irritating grind of rehearsals, with argument after argument - including a couple of humdingers between Mel C, Geri and Victoria.

Yes. That'll be the reason they're not wearing two and a half grands worth of diamonds while they're rehearsing dance routines - it's a silent cry for help and nothing to do with that sort of necklace hardly being day-to-day wear.