Spice Girls: Viva Forever | Spice Up Your Life with Drag Icon Ella Vaday | 229

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Drag queen and actor Ella Vaday joins Brooke and Aricia to dish on all things Spice Girls! While competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Ella performed a girl group number in front of Emma Bunton (a.k.a. Baby Spice), and served a Sporty Spice look that was so good, Mel C. herself called Ella one of her all-time favorite Sporties. Ella’s telling us more about that competition, and the connection between the Spice Girls and drag culture. Plus, she spills her true feelings about the Viva Forever musical…it’s a spicy good time.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
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0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery, I'm Arisha Skinner Williams.
0:17.0	And I'm Brooke Sifrin.
0:18.0	And this is Even the Rich.
0:22.0	All right, Brooke, when you were a kid, do you remember ever trying to dress up as your favorite pop star?
0:28.0	Well, I think a lot of people know I famously had a TLC cover band when I was, actually I don't know, I
0:37.0	know it was in elementary school, I was of course T-Baz, but we made a video of us dressed as TLC, singing waterfalls,
0:43.9	and our plan was to send it to TLC,
0:46.1	but we never did.
0:47.2	That's honestly the worst kind of missed opportunity.
0:51.3	I know, I gotta find that video. I was gonna say say release the tape it's on a VHS somewhere yeah I mean I will say there is one pop star that I have dressed up as.
1:03.4	And it was Melby, Scary Spice.
1:07.5	I was the ripe old age of 20, so.
1:10.6	I had my wits about me.
1:11.8	There were five of us, so all five of us,
1:13.7	obviously, when it was to Spice Girls,
1:15.0	and I remember I got my leopard print dress at Ross,
1:19.9	and it was a skirt that I wore as a dress because
1:22.8	Wow, you know, fashion and stuff.
1:25.4	And I was really channeling scary.
1:27.8	Yeah.
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