Emma Bunton is an English singer, songwriter, media personality, and actress. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Baby Spice.
She was born on 21 January 1976 in Finchley, Barnet, London, England, to her parents Pauline and Trevor Bunton. Her parents split up when she was 11, and she has stayed with her mother since. She has a younger brother, Paul James. She is currently 45 years old.
From being the youngest member of Spice Girls, Baby Spice, she has risen up to being a solo artist and a prominent personality as of now. Know more about her here!
Who Is Emma Bunton Married To?
Emma Bunton has finally tied the knot with her long-time partner Jade Jones in an intimate ceremony following a 15-year engagement.
The singer announced her happy news via Instagram on 13 July 2021, with a picture of the couple smiling as she captioned, “Mr and Mrs Jones!”
Jones – wearing a Gucci blazer, white trousers and brown trilby, also shared a photo from the ceremony on his own Instagram account. To mark the special occasion, Baby Spice departed from tradition, choosing a white mini dress over a full-length gown.
The dress featured a sheer, high neckline with gold buttons and sheer full-length sleeves. She completed the look with a floor-sweeping, long white train. The bride chose relatively simple accessories, donning a pair of heeled thong sandals and a floral headband for her hair.
The couple’s wedding announcement post was flooded with congratulatory messages from their close friends.
The couple first got together in 1999, and after briefly splitting up in 2002, they eventually reunited for good two years later. In January 2011, the pair announced their engagement but always insisted they were in no rush to tie the knot – so it came as a surprise when the couple donned in their wedding dress as they were photographed smiling at one another and looking cozy.
Emma Bunton Love Life With Long-time Partner Jade Jones
Emma Bunton and Jade Jones have been together since the early 90s. So we ought to know a bit about her long-time-partner-turned-husband as well.
Jade being a performer, is also an R&B singer-turned-chef. He was the lead vocalist of the 90s boy band Damage. The band split up in 2001 before going to reunite in 2014. In 2008, after the birth of their child, Jade revealed he ‘fell out of love with music and decided to train as a chef. He worked at The Lord Stanley in Camden Town and then at swanky London hotel Claridge’s.
Emma and Jade first linked in 1998 after he attended a Spice Girls show. After a year of dating, the pair broke up, and Emma went on to date English footballer Rio Ferdinand between 1999 and 2000. However, in November 2000, the two rekindled their love before splitting up for the second time two years later. The rumors circulating Emma’s decision to work with Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller on her solo career. But the rumors were denied by both of them.
The singer was briefly linked to Justin Timberlake during their time apart, but again they reconciled in 2004, and this time for good. Emma announced three years later that she was expecting her first child, with Jade as the baby’s father. Her first child, Beau Lee Jones, was born in August 2007, and they welcomed their second child, Tate Lee Jones, in May 2011.
Emma Bunton with her husband, Jade Jones and two kids (©: DailyMail)
While responding to an email back in 2010, Emma said: “I won’t talk about that either. We have lived together for 10 years and are very intimate. We share childcare rather than nannies, so we often stay together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can honestly say that we are really happy, so we don’t feel the need to formalize it [ their relationship via an engagement].”
Seven years later, after they reunited and 13 years after they first started dating, Jade proposed to Emma on her 35th birthday, on 21 January 2011. Emma confirmed the news via Twitter, posting a picture of her diamond ring with the caption: “Yahooooo I’m Engaged! Love you Jade! I’m a very happy lady!!” However, they remained engaged for quite a long-time without even a hint of getting married and any wedding plan. When asked by Zoe Ball in a Radio 2 interview whether she was getting married, Emma said: “Well, no, I’m not… no we’re not, we would love to actually, and we have talked about it."
“We try to, but we want it to be private, every time we try it’s out there. We want to do it privately on our own.” She added: “We should elope, but we can’t organize anything Jade and me, we’ve been together 21 years in this business.”
In 2019, Emma was seen getting a marriage license at Enfield’s registry office, with a plan to marry after the following 12 months. The pair were thought to have been caught in London’s Old Marylebone Town Hall, but the next year’s wedding didn’t happen.
And, now finally, after such a long-time in their relationship, the couple has exchanged vows this 2021.
Before formalizing her relationship with Jade through marriage, she dated Lee Brennan for less than a year in 1997.
The couple is already parents to two kids, and their kids seem to be in desperate need of a sibling for them. In fact, Beau recently gave his mum Emma, and his dad Jade a cheeky order to get in the bedroom, have quality time and conceive a baby. “My eldest said, ‘You need to go in there and have sex and have a child!’” Emma told Netmums’ Sweet, Snot & Tears podcast in 2021. So, we may hear some good news from her soon.
Emma Bunton Net Worth And Her Career
With all the works she has done in the music and entertainment industry, Emma Bunton has turned into international stardom earning tons of cash annually. As per CelebrityNetWorth, she has an estimated net worth of $30 million as of 2020. And it seems her cash will add up more after a certain revelation that came out following her wedding announcement.
The singer has nearly 3.4 million pounds in cash in a limited company which she has begun to close, as reported by MailOnline. She owes nearly 200 thousand pounds in tax for last year on the company named Monsta Touring Limited, but after that deduction, she will be left with the rest of the cash – some 3.2 million pounds – to spend.
As a young teenager, Bunton was named Baby Spice shortly after joining the girl group Spice Girls in 1993. She spent some whirlwind of successful stints with the Spice Girls for the rest of the decade, as they released some banging albums like Spice, Wannabe, Spiceworld, and Forever.
And after turning into her twenties, her creativity grew, and with all the fellow members of the band moving on with solo projects, Baby Spice also embarked on a solo journey of her own.
She guested on Tin Tin Out’s What I Am in 1999, but two years later, a fresh-faced Bunton returned with her debut album, A Girl Like Me. Its first single, What Took You So Long?, shot to number one on the U.K. Singles Chart during its first-three-week of releases in mid-April. Her chart success continued into 2003 with Free Me and Maybe, two singles from her second album, Free Me, which was released in early 2003, following with her third hit, I’ll Be There, in 2004. Her third album, Life in Mono released in 2006.
The Spice Girls later reunited in 2007, releasing a Greatest Hits album and setting out for a sold-out worldwide tour. They later launched a musical, Viva Forever, based on their songs and performed at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Emma launched her fourth album, My Happy Place, later in 2019, after the Spice Girls announced their second reunion tour, Spice World 2019.
Some other of her singles include Take My Breath Away, We’re Not Gonna Sleep Tonight, All I Need to Know, and such.
Besides her singing career, she has also appeared in some filmographies like EastEnders, The Bill, To Play the King, Absolutely Fabulous, Neighbours, Celebrity Juice, and Dancing on Ice, to name a few. She has also credited her name to films including Yes You Can, Zoolander, Pyaar Mein Twist, Chocolate, Smallfoot, and much more. Emma is also a radio presenter as she worked with the Heart Station’s Saturday Drivetime, Heart Breakfast, and Sunday Evenings.