It was only fitting for Sabrina Carpenter to celebrate one of London’s most iconic girl groups during her own concert in the British capital city.
Carpenter, 25, brought her Short ’n Sweet Tour to London’s O2 Arena on Saturday, March 8, choosing Emma Bunton — aka Spice Girls’ Baby Spice — to “arrest” during her rendition of “Juno.” (At each concert, Carpenter picks a different attendee to receive a pair of handcuffs based on one of the lyrics in the song.)
Bunton, 49, rocked a Baby-approved pink T-shirt with bedazzled jeans and pretended to be shocked when Carpenter proclaimed that she wanted to fake-arrest her.
“I feel like I might meet my soulmate,” Carpenter said during the performance, per social media footage. “And she might be right here. Oh my gosh. You’re kind of, like, spicing up my life a little bit. Wow, really spicing up my life [that] my clothes are falling off. Emma, will you do the honor of being mine forever?”
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She further mused that the handcuffs perfectly “match [Bunton’s] top.”
After Carpenter handed over the fuzzy cuffs, she also met Bunton backstage.
“Please, please, please arrest me for being a fan!!! @sabrinacarpenter you were amazing,” Bunton wrote via Instagram after the show ended, setting her upload to the pop star’s “Good Graces.”
After a sold-out run of shows across the United States, Carpenter kicked off the United Kingdom and European leg earlier this month.
“Growing up, those were the kinds of shows I would want to go to. Ones where I thought I knew what I was getting, but I got something completely different,” Carpenter told Vogue in February, referring to the sexualized undertones of her performances. “Short n’ Sweet is absolutely me. There’s no, like, alter ego. But it’s definitely a more emphasized version of me. It’s interesting because I’m able to dress in this way where you would kind of expect to hear, like, a voice from the ’60s. But then, when I’m speaking to the audience, I’m just myself.”
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In addition to fake arrests during “Juno,” the number also features Carpenter hitting a different sexual position every night.
“Well, initially I thought I’d just rotate between a couple, but I have this relationship with my fans where I know they want more from me,” she told the magazine. “I don’t want to let them down. So sometimes I go: ‘Oh, you know what? F— it. It’s Thursday. Let me give them a new one.’ And then it turned into: ‘I should look up the 500 positions on the internet.’”
She added, “There’s only so many I can do by myself, with a microphone in my hand, and in two and a half seconds. So, um, bless me for Europe. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I just try to have fun in the moment. That’s where most of those ideas come from. It’s really just like: ‘I’m in Chicago. What’s Chicago gonna love?’ ”
