High-flying Jess will add Spice to her life as she

IT HAS been another great year for Jess Glynne, whose second album Always in Between followed her debut, I Cry When I Laugh, to the top of the charts.

And she ended it on a high with a sell-out arena tour. But 2019 promises to be even better. As well as two massive Scotttish gigs, she’ll be supporting her heroes, the Spice Girls, in their comeback arena tour.

She said: “I’ve been a fan of the Spice Girls since I was a little girl. Obviously if you told little me then that I’d be touring with them one day, it would have been hard to imagine.

“So yeah, it’s going to be a lot of fun, I think. I’m excited. I knew about it for a couple of weeks before it was public. It was quite mad. I had to really bite my tongue.”

As a kid, Jess copied Spice Girls dance routines but favoured no one Spice Girl more than the others.

And she insisted she wouldn’t want to take Posh’s place.

Victoria Beckham won’t join her former bandmates Geri Horner, Mel B, Mel C and Emma Bunton on the tour. And Jess insists she won’t be joining the Spices on stage.

The 29-year-old has had more No1 singles, seven, than any other British female. But stardom has been a steep learning curve for her, as she has found striking the right balance between her keeping her own life private and public fame not always easy. She said: “I think at the beginning I did struggle with the balance. But I think I’ve got quite a good way of living as I am right now. “I’m quite good at keeping myself to myself and doing what I need to do for my job and for my fans. “I’ve learnt that it’s important to have ‘Me time’, and not to say, ‘Yes’ to