06-02-98: HALLIWELL CAREER MOVES GINGERLY -- PEOPLE magazine
Don't weep for the unemployed Geri Halliwell. The redheaded 25-year-old former "Ginger" Spice of the Spice Girls, who quit the group because of differences with her fellow singers, appears to have her work cut out for her. Reuters reports she's talking with the British Broadcasting Corporation about a possible role on a TV show, a BBC spokeswoman said Wednesday. But there was no firm information on what role Halliwell -- a former topless model and Turkish TV game show host -- might fill. "The channels are open, but there is nothing concrete," the BBC rep said. Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that one of the producers of the Broadway show "The Life," a musical about the pimps and prostitutes who inhabited New York's Times Square before its recent clean-up (wags call the show "Orgy and Bess"), is racing across the Atlantic to offer Halliwell a leading role in the soon-to-open London production.