| Posted at: 30.08.03 |
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since S Club. Here she is wiggling around in a black dress and kinky boots and getting all tangled up ined ribbon. Rachel unveils her new look in the video for debut single, Sweet Dreams My LA Ex, out on September 15.She need not worry about her split with fianc� JEREMY EDWARDS -she will get plenty of offers from the fellas after they see this video. |
| Posted at: 26.08.03 |
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WHEN S Club split, she was voted the one least likely to do much with her career. But Tina Barrett is determined to prove her critics wrong. The dark-haired beauty has landed an amazing �250,000 deal as the international face of Wrigley's chewing gum. And the deal is all the more sweet for Tina because it dwarfs the �100,000 rival band member Rachel Stevens was recently paid for becoming the face - or legs - of Pretty Polly tights. In fact she's so delighted with the endorsement she's apparently told pals that she's "got one up" on Rachel. A source close to the singer who was labelled "the plank" of the band, which split in April said: "Rachel's always competing but Tina thinks she's won as Wrigley is a lot bigger than Pretty Polly. "She's also getting paid more which is a bonus." "Her face is going to be on billboards and on adverts in Europe and America. "Thanks to the success of S Club, the band all have recognisable faces, but Tina and Rachel were always the prettiest ones, who stood out from the others. Tina was picked on this occasion and she is absolutely delighted. "She's making more money being out of the group than she ever made when she was in it and she couldn't be happier." The insider also revealed that the two sexy singers have barely been on speaking terms since the premiere of the last S Club movie Seeing Double. Our source tells us that Rachel, 25, who last week called off her engagement to Holby City actor Jeremy Edwards, was particularly peeved with Tina for nabbing the sensational Scott Henshall dress she was due to wear to the party. In a repeat of the cat fight All Saints had just weeks before their split three years ago - when they rowed over a jacket for a pop appearance - the pair argued over the barely-there gown, with Tina the winner. Our source tells us: "They've never been best friends but the competition reached fever pitch when Tina wore that red Scott Henshall dress to the premiere of Seeing Double. "Rachel was absolutely fuming as she wanted to wear it. In the end she just threw on a demure black number which was her act of defiance. "It was her way of saying you need more publicity than I do, for she always knew she was going to be the bigger star." Wrigley insiders hope Tina's glam ads won't land them in the same trouble as their last campaign did. Earlier this year the company's ad for X-cite chewing gum provoked a record 700 complaints to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in Britain. The advert shows a man puking up a scruffy mutt - a paw emerges from his mouth first, followed by the rest of the hound. He has such a bad case of "dog breath" that only a piece of gum can cure it. The ITC was flooded with complaints. The insider went on: "The only people likely to be offended by these ads are people who don't like sexy girls." |