Branson gives Spice Girls free Virgin flights

The SPICE GIRLS have landed another lucrative sponsorship deal ahead of their forthcoming world tour - this time with Virgin Atlantic boss SIR RICHARD BRANSON.

The British girlband will be jetting around the globe free of charge thanks to a new deal struck with the airline mogul. Well, we wouldn't be expecting them to pay for anything would we?

Branson was involved with the girl band when they signed their first record deal to Virgin Records in 1995 - and he is apparently delighted to be teaming up with them again. He also looked pretty 'delighted' to have Pamela Anderson on his back there, too - taken at the Wynn hotel in Vegas earlier this month.

He says, "Virgin signed the Spice Girls 12 years ago and I got to know them at that time. So we are absolutely delighted to be working with the Spice Girls on their reunion tour and really pleased to have the honour of taking the girls out to Los Angeles for their rehearsals, but even more importantly bringing them back to the UK for the British leg of the tour."