The Spice Girls comeback hasn't exactly been a top-notch success yet - there's been a failed single, an underperforming Best Of album and a Tesco advert so distressing that it's given us recurring nightmares about Posh Spice's rubbery mouth.

But all of that can be consigned to the past, because the real money-making leg of the Spice Girls comeback kicked off last night - it was the first concert of the Spice Girls' reunion world tour in Vancouver. 16,000 screaming Spice Girls fans packed into General Motors Place to see Scary Spice, Baby Spice, Sporty Spice, Posh Spice and Alarmingly Muscular Spice go through all their biggest hits, plus that new song that nobody bought. And according to early reviews, the Spice Girls comeback show is a hit, even though at one point it apparently featured The Sporty Spice Tribute To Lenny Kravitz In Association With The Sort Of Harrowing Bondage Gear That Will Make You Spend The Rest Of Your Life Shivering And Alone.

Although the Spice Girls comeback tour doesn't properly kick off for a couple more weeks, it doesn't mean that the girls can't get together and dress up like a bunch of extras from an old Dad's Army episode for cash.

And that's just as well, because last night that's exactly what they did. At the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Hollywood last night, the world got its first taste of the full Spice Girls line-up singing live for almost a decade. And, weird World War II-inspired costumes aside, it seems as if the Spice Girls went down a storm and disappointed nobody. True, much of this was accomplished by the Spice Girls not stripping down to their Victoria's Secret underwear as a climax to the show - something that at least prevented everyone dying in that tidal wave of tears and vomit that we'd been anticipating.

Yup, it’s that time of year where the charity drive begins and we are made to feel guilty about how 'lucky' we are.

Children In Need makes raising money fun and leaves you with a genuine feeling that you’re doing something good. From having a bath in baked beans or doing a sponsored bungee jump, it’s all about having a good time. And it gives your mates the chance to laugh at you. This comes in contrast to people begging for your bank details for donations in rainy shopping city centres on your lunch break. Alongside a nationwide drive to raise money, there’s also a charity single. Shane Richie, Girls Aloud and S Club 7 have all done it before. It’s usually a sweet and innocent affair with a nice cuddly song and video. But this year, they've let the Spice Girls do it. In hardly any clothes.

It’s enough to make Pudsey go blind in the other eye.