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unusual facts about Wannabe


100 Marathon Club

Associate members are also known as Wannabes and are not permitted to wear the official club kit.


Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas

Plus, you'll love seeing Britney posing as a Janis Joplin wannabe in a comedy take-off of a "Making the Band" documentary.

Heart On

The song "Wannabe in L.A." is featured in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles which was released seven days before the song was released, and it can also be heard in the video games MLB 09: The Show, Colin McRae: Dirt 2, and is a playable selection in Guitar Hero 5.

Hiroki Hasegawa

His most recent film performance can be seen in Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell? as the young, passionate, and slightly deranged film-director wannabe, Don Hirata.

Kristy Cates

Playing Ruth Wallis herself along with a barrage of other characters (including a medicated Mary Poppins, and a Follies Bergere wannabe), Cates garnered positive reviews from critics.

Leprechaun: In the Hood

Wannabe Los Angeles rap artists Postmaster P. (Anthony Montgomery), Stray Bullet (Rashaan Nall) and Butch (Red Grant) accidentally free a Leprechaun that was imprisoned by record producer Mac Daddy O'Nassas (Ice-T) 20 years earlier.

Paisley Wu

She was unfavourably dubbed as a Faye Wong wannabe, though she has personally acknowledged the latter's influence in later years.

Parole Chicago

Parole Chicago was a German television series directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky, starring Christoph Waltz as Eduard "Ede" Bredo, an inept wannabe criminal in 1920s Berlin.

Reinout Oerlemans

In 2001, Oerlemans founded his own television production company, Eyeworks, with popular productions like De Bauers (real life soap about Frans Bauer and his family), So you wannabe a popstar, and Test the nation which has been exported to many countries, but was first produced in the Netherlands.

Saldaga

SG Wannabe was awarded the prestigious Daesang (the "Artist Of The Year") from the Golden Disk Awards in 2005.

Shakalaka Boom Boom

AJ is in love with the hot and sexy Ruhi (Kangna Ranaut) and hopes to tell her how he feels however a wannabe singer, Reggie (Upen Patel) appears who falls in love with Ruhi and woos her before AJ can.

Sikandar Kher

Sikander is a wannabe actor pretty much unheard of was the first to have been offered the role of Sameer in Dil Chahta Hai (2001).

Stephen Herek

Moving into the 2000s, Herek directed the 2001 movie Rock Star, a film about a rockstar wannabe and the evolution of a fictional rock group Steel Dragon mimicking that of Judas Priest, starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, as well as produced by George Clooney.

The Last Shot

He finds unsuspecting wannabe writer/director Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick), who'd do just about everything to get the chance to direct a feature.

Toby Anstis

In 2007, he was a judge on VH1's Wannabe and featured on The Killer In Me for ITV1 along with Fiona Phillips (GMTV), footballer John Barnes and political presenter Andrew Neil.

Whole Again

It is the fourth best-selling single by a girl group of all time, after "Wannabe" and "2 Become 1" by the Spice Girls, and "Never Ever" by All Saints, as well as being the best-selling girl group single of the decade.

Wo Shing Wo

In 1995 a young wannabe member of London's mainly Filipino WSW killed Philip Lawrence, a school headmaster.


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