Meanwhile, Spice Girl Mel B, 32, made her dancing debut in the show dressed in a signature leopard print dress, and performed the cha cha cha with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

She was awarded 24 points out of 30 but has to wait until tonight to find out whether she’s made it to the second round.

"Dancing with the Spice Girls was very different. It was a lot more step, dig, step, dig," she is quoted by Metro as saying.


Jenny returns to the block - Sept 26 2007
Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony have paid an emotional visit to a school in the Bronx area of New York, a few streets from where she grew up.

"That was so ... Oh my God, what did you do to me? Look at my makeup!" said a teary singer after hundreds of schoolchildren greeted the couple with cheers, broad smiles, flowers and artwork made just for them.

Three days before they launch a musical tour to support a children’s health campaign, J-Lo and Marc, who married in 2004, said they were "overwhelmed" by the welcome at PS 36 Unionport School.

"We look at you and see ourselves," said the self-styled Jenny from the block, dressed in a 1950s-style grey dress and black hat. "This is overwhelming. I remember being in school, being on stage, and dreaming of great things."

"There’s nothing in the world, no Grammy, no Oscar, that can make me feel more warm than today," said an equally teary-eyed Marc, who recently released the soundtrack to El Cantante, a biopic of salsa legend Hector Lavoe.

J-Lo said that on the tour -- her first -- she will perform songs from her recent album Como Ama Una Mujer (How a Woman Loves).

Part of the proceeds from the 19-concert tour, which kicks off on Friday in Atlantic City, will go to schools with programmes promoting physical education and a healthy lifestyle.


J-Lo pregnant with first child? - Sept 19 2007
It’s a rumour that has been doing the rounds for a while - but now it seems friends of Jennifer Lopez have confirmed she is expecting her first child with husband Marc Anthony.

The 38-year-old singer-actress had an ultrasound on September 12 and is to give birth in the spring after visiting Beverly Hills fertility specialist Dr Robert Katz.

"The test calculated that she was about 12 weeks pregnant," a source told In Touch magazine.

The couple have reportedly been trying to get pregnant for the past two years, and eventually turned to IVF in an attempt to create a family.

Some close pals said the baby news could be a double blessing as doctors think she could be expecting twins.

The duo wed in June 2004 and Marc is Jen’s third husband. Marc, 39, already has three children from previous relationships.

They are set to go on tour in November.


J-Lo unveils ’fantasy’ fashion line - Sept 13 2007
Jennifer Lopez has unveiled her new young contemporary line of clothes at New York Fashion Week.

The actress and singer said her new range was "fantasy - classic inspiration but with a new, kind of funky spin" as she turned her JustSweet show into a fairytale.

Models pranced down a silver sparkling runway wearing colours called pixie dust, magic mint and pirate pink. The clothes were sparkling, too, ranging from a sweater dress with twinkling diagonal stripes to denim shorts teamed with a sparkling brown hoodie.

Her outfits alternated between sophisticated - featuring lots of minidresses - and casual. J-Lo incorporated her signature one-shoulder look along with bell sleeves and cropped jackets.