Emma Bunton: short biography and career, personal life

Childhood and youth

The singer was born in the winter of 1976 in the London suburb of Finchley. Despite having children - Emma and her younger brother Paul James, the Bunton couple, Trevor and Pauline, divorced when their daughter was 11 years old. The girl studied at a Roman Catholic school and then at the Sylvia Young School of Performing Arts.

Emma made her debut as a dramatic actress before starting her vocal career. Banton's early filmography is represented by soap operas, in which the girl played episodic roles. Among the series in which Emma appeared in 1992–1993 were “EastEnders,” which slowly told viewers about the life of the inhabitants of a fictional district of London, a multi-part film about the British police “A Purely English Murder,” and the political fantasy “Call the King.”

Personal life

In 1997, Emma had short affairs with British singer Lee Brennan and American film star Leonardo DiCaprio. The girl began dating her current de facto husband, vocalist Jade Jones, in 1998, but the couple separated in May 1999. Both Emma and Jade acquired new partners - the peppercorn began an affair with football player Rio Ferdinand, whom the singer was introduced to by the Beckham couple.

In November 2000, Bunton and Jones reunited, but broke up again in March 2002. In 2003, Emma had a short romantic relationship with Justin Timberlake, but in 2004, the union of Bunton and Jones arose again.

The singer came to the conclusion that Jade is the man with whom she wants to have children. Emma's dreams of a happy personal life were almost put to rest by doctors who discovered endometriosis in the woman and assumed that she was infertile. Contrary to predictions, the actress became pregnant while participating in the project “Dancing with the Stars.”

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On August 10, 2007, the Bunton-Jones couple had their first child, Bo Lee, who had a younger brother, Tate Lee, on May 6, 2011. During her second pregnancy, Emma and Jade got engaged, but the singer said for almost 20 years that she did not want to formalize the marriage.

The “ex-peppercorn” agreed to the wedding only in March 2020. Bunton and Jones applied to register their relationship in Enfield, North London. The ceremony was to take place at Old Marylebone Town Hall, where Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell were married.

Emma is the godmother of fellow Spice Girls member Geri Halliwell's daughter, Madonna, born in 2006. Charity occupies an important place in Banton's life. From 2013 to 2015, the singer took part in a UNICEF campaign to vaccinate African mothers and newborns against tetanus. In 2011, Emma launched a series of children's clothing made from natural cotton. Photos of baby models in cotton onesies and suits now often appear on Banton’s Instagram page.

Excerpt characterizing Bunton, Emma

A man in a frieze overcoat, raising his hand, shouted: “Important!” I went to fight! Guys, it’s important!.. “It’s the owner himself,” voices were heard. “Well, well,” said Prince Andrei, turning to Alpatych, “tell me everything, as I told you.” - And, without answering a word to Berg, who fell silent next to him, he touched his horse and rode into the alley. The troops continued to retreat from Smolensk. The enemy followed them. On August 10, the regiment, commanded by Prince Andrei, passed along the high road, past the avenue leading to Bald Mountains. The heat and drought lasted for more than three weeks. Every day, curly clouds walked across the sky, occasionally blocking the sun; but in the evening it cleared again, and the sun set in a brownish-red haze. Only heavy dew at night refreshed the earth. The bread that remained on the root burned and spilled out. The swamps are dry. The cattle roared from hunger, not finding food in the sun-burnt meadows. Only at night and in the forests there was still dew and there was coolness. But along the road, along the high road along which the troops marched, even at night, even through the forests, there was no such coolness. The dew was not noticeable on the sandy dust of the road, which had been pushed up more than a quarter of an arshin. As soon as dawn broke, the movement began. The convoys and artillery walked silently along the hub, and the infantry were ankle-deep in soft, stuffy, hot dust that had not cooled down overnight. One part of this sand dust was kneaded by feet and wheels, the other rose and stood as a cloud above the army, sticking into the eyes, hair, ears, nostrils and, most importantly, into the lungs of people and animals moving along this road. The higher the sun rose, the higher the cloud of dust rose, and through this thin, hot dust one could look at the sun, not covered by clouds, with a simple eye. The sun appeared as a large crimson ball. There was no wind, and people were suffocating in this still atmosphere. People walked with scarves tied around their noses and mouths. Arriving at the village, everyone rushed to the wells. They fought for water and drank it until they were dirty. Prince Andrei commanded the regiment, and the structure of the regiment, the welfare of its people, the need to receive and give orders occupied him. The fire of Smolensk and its abandonment were an era for Prince Andrei. A new feeling of bitterness against the enemy made him forget his grief. He was entirely devoted to the affairs of his regiment, he was caring for his people and officers and affectionate with them. In the regiment they called him our prince, they were proud of him and loved him. But he was kind and meek only with his regimental soldiers, with Timokhin, etc., with completely new people and in a foreign environment, with people who could not know and understand his past; but as soon as he came across one of his former ones, from the staff, he immediately bristled again; he became angry, mocking and contemptuous. Everything that connected his memory with the past repulsed him, and therefore he tried in the relations of this former world only not to be unfair and to fulfill his duty. True, everything seemed to Prince Andrei in a dark, gloomy light - especially after they left Smolensk (which, according to his concepts, could and should have been defended) on August 6, and after his father, sick, had to flee to Moscow and throw the Bald Mountains, so beloved, built and inhabited by him, for plunder; but, despite this, thanks to the regiment, Prince Andrei could think about another subject completely independent of general issues - about his regiment. On August 10, the column in which his regiment was located reached Bald Mountains. Prince Andrey received news two days ago that his father, son and sister had left for Moscow. Although Prince Andrei had nothing to do in Bald Mountains, he, with his characteristic desire to relieve his grief, decided that he should stop by Bald Mountains. He ordered a horse to be saddled and from the transition rode on horseback to his father’s village, in which he was born and spent his childhood. Driving past a pond, where dozens of women were always talking, beating rollers and rinsing their laundry, Prince Andrei noticed that there was no one on the pond, and a torn raft, half filled with water, was floating sideways in the middle of the pond. Prince Andrei drove up to the gatehouse. There was no one at the stone entrance gate, and the door was unlocked. The garden paths were already overgrown, and calves and horses were walking around the English park. Prince Andrei drove up to the greenhouse; the glass was broken, and some trees in tubs were knocked down, some withered. He called out to Taras the gardener. Nobody responded. Walking around the greenhouse to the exhibition, he saw that the wooden carved fence was all broken and the plum fruits were torn from their branches. An old man (Prince Andrei saw him at the gate as a child) sat and weaved bast shoes on a green bench. He was deaf and did not hear Prince Andrei's entrance. He was sitting on the bench on which the old prince liked to sit, and near him was hung a stick on the branches of a broken and dried magnolia. Prince Andrei drove up to the house. Several linden trees in the old garden were cut down, one piebald horse with a foal was walking in front of the house between the rose trees. The house was boarded up with shutters. One window downstairs was open. The yard boy, seeing Prince Andrei, ran into the house. Alpatych, having sent his family away, remained alone in Bald Mountains; he sat at home and read the Lives. Having learned about the arrival of Prince Andrey, he, with glasses on his nose, buttoned up, left the house, hastily approached the prince and, without saying anything, began to cry, kissing Prince Andrey on the knee. Then he turned away with his heart at his weakness and began to report to him on the state of affairs. Everything valuable and expensive was taken to Bogucharovo. Bread, up to a hundred quarters, was also exported; hay and spring, extraordinary, as Alpatych said, this year’s harvest was taken green and mowed - by the troops. The men are ruined, some also went to Bogucharovo, a small part remains.

Music and films

Since 1994, Bunton's biography has been associated with the pop group Spice Girls, whose debut song Wannabe took 1st place in airplay in 35 countries. Each girl in the team received a nickname. Due to her small height (157 cm) and the image of an innocent girl, Emma was nicknamed Baby Spice.

In 2000, the members of the Spice Girls decided to focus on solo projects, and the group disbanded. However, the group subsequently reunited several times for tours. In August 2012, the “peppercorns” performed at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.

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Emma's debut solo album, A Girl Like Me, was released in the spring of 2001. The most successful was Bunton's second collection, Free Me, the song of the same name from which reached number 5 in the British chart and number 6 in the US.

In films, the singer, as a rule, played herself. These are Emma’s roles in Ben Stiller’s comedy “Zoolander,” in which, among other stars, US President Donald Trump appeared, and “Absolutely Fabulous Film,” released in 2016.

The exception is the 2005 Bollywood films “Mysterious Disappearance” and “Love Twist.” In the second film, Bunton plays a movie star invited to a wedding, with whom the groom, played by Rishi Kapoor, falls in love. The actress really looks very seductive, as can be seen in the videos for the songs What Took You So Long? and Free Me.

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