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How the Spice Girls got their name with Davina McCall
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- Unlikely Friends
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- Mar 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1076
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Summary
The Best Hugger in Showbiz Has Questions This week, the gang is joined by the one and only Davina McCall — officially certified as the best hugger in showbiz — and she's come with a big question: if you could go back to university, what degree would you do? It's the question that opens the floodgates. From dream careers that never happened to the winding, chaotic roads that led everyone to where they are now — including the extraordinary story of how five girls ended up in a room together, got through an audition process like no other, and somehow became known as… the Spice Girls.