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" Blake Lively has revealed that she was thrilled to meet the Spice Girls. The Gossip Girl star was out for dinner in London when the girl group walked into the same restaurant.   She told Marie Claire magazine: &amp;quot;I was in London and I stayed in my hotel most of the time because it was raining.  &amp;quot;But on the last night I went out for dinner. After I&amp;#039;d arrived, I was told a bunch of paparazzi had showed up. I thought, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s so weird. I&amp;#039;ve been left alone most of my stay - why are they bothering me now?&amp;#039;  &amp;quot;But then someone told me it was because Victoria Beckham was in the same restaurant.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#039;OK, that makes sense&amp;#039;. She&amp;#039;s a friend of mine and I would have said hello but I decided I didn&amp;#039;t want to bother her.  &amp;quot;Until that person then told me who she was there with I was like, &amp;#039;I need to say hello!&amp;#039;  &amp;quot;So, there you have it; I got to hang out with the Spice Girls. It was my lifelong dream. That&amp;#039;s it now. I can quit.&amp;quot; Lively confessed that she was a massive fan of the &amp;#039;90s girlband and she even had her own version of Geri&amp;#039;s famous Union Jack dress. She said: &amp;quot;When I was a child I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with the Spice Girls.  &amp;quot;I had the Buffalo shoes, a custom-made Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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