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Girls Aloud have got hit-making down to a science, but what about gene splicing, evolution and cleaning a horse's teeth?

TOTP: The new single's called 'Biology'...
Kimberley: Yes!
TOTP: So we're going to do some science!
Kimberley: No!

TOTP: If you had to make a man from a weird science pile, which parts of the body would you be focusing on?
Nadine: The face.
Kimberley: Well if you were making it, you'd want to focus on every part, wouldn't you, and just make your perfect man.
Nadine: I think he'd have to have a nice face. I'd spend loads of time on that.
Kimberley: Yeah, quite a lot of time getting that right.

TOTP: Throwing size out of the window for a second, what do you think is the real reason men can't have babies? Is it because they're wusses, or they couldn't cope with it?
Kimberley: Well, maybe God knew they wouldn't be able to cope with it, so they just didn't bother with having to make them go through with it. Women are a lot tougher, and they don't moan half as much as men, so they thought they'd let us have that pleasure!

TOTP: Say you're on a farm, would you rather help a cow to give birth, or help examine a horse for tooth decay?
Nadine: The horse for tooth decay!
Kimberley: No, I'd rather give birth to the cow.
Nadine: Nooo way!
Nayyyy

TOTP: Not actually give birth to a cow, just help a cow give birth!!
Kimberley: I mean, help it give birth to a calf! I can't deal with the minging dirty teeth of a horse!
Nadine: Neither are particularly pleasant jobs! Surely the vet'd do that?
Kimberley: No, you actually have to physically get all the plaque out yourself!
Nadine: Oh, de-plaque? I'd rather do neither!
Kimberley: Imagine horse breath! Urgh!

TOTP: I apologise in advance for the next question, but why is it that no matter what you eat, your vomit always contains bits of carrot?
Kimberley: Well mine doesn't actually!
Nadine: I think it's something people say is in your stomach anyway. I think the correct term might be bile.

TOTP: Darwin's Theory of Evolution centers around survival of the fittest. You're all quite fit - do you think that has helped your career on planet pop?
Kimberley: We're not that fit!
Nadine: You mean fit as in fit-looking, or fit fit?
The ascent of Girls

TOTP: Fit looking!
Nadine: Well thanks for the compliment! And I'm sure it hasn't hindered us in any way, but we had some good songs!

TOTP: Fair enough! What do you think is modern science's best invention - the internet, vaccination, or frosted ring doughnuts?
Nadine: From Krispy Kremes....
Kimberley: Vaccination. They're on a more practical level.

TOTP: What's your favourite part of the body, male or female, and why?
Kimberley: On men, I like knees. You know when they have really muscly knees? Football playing knees, I just imagine rugby playing knees to be far too big. But not necessarily on a woman!
Nadine: It depends on the individual!
Knees

TOTP: If we could do "pop splicing", where you could mix bodyparts with the other members of the band, are there any bits of the other girls that you'd like?
Nadine: I would take Kimberley's waist...
Kimberley: And I would take Nadine's legs...
Nadine: Sarah's washboard stomach...
Kimberley: Cheryl's boobs...
Nadine: Nicola's got really nice eyes...
Kimberley: Yeah she has, and hair, I'd have her hair.
Nadine: We could share her out between all five of us!

TOTP: How do you spell phelanges?
Nadine: Phelange?
Kimberley: Is it one of them "ph" words? I don't have a clue!
Nadine: F...I-L-A-N-G-I-E
TOTP: Close! It's P-H-A-L-A-N-G-E, and they're bones in your fingers and toes!
Kimberley: I'll remember that for future reference.
Fingers

TOTP: Ok, pick some good breeding genes from someone else in the pop world, to have perfect children with.
Kimberley: I'd have some of Beyonce's genes, so hopefully I'd get a few of those features, who else?
Nadine: A mixture of....
Kimberley: What about that guy you always say from Desperate Housewives?
Nadine: Oh my god, how did I forget him?! The gardener from Desperate Housewives!
Kimberley: He's just called "the gardener" in our eyes, we don't know what his name is!
Nadine: I would take ALL of his male genes! And female...Catherine Zeta-Jones. They would be cute kids.


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Interview by: Steve P
28/10/2005

 
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