Emma Bunton strolls arm-in-arm with long-term partner Jade Jones in sunny London

Emma Bunton and her long-term other half Jade Jones looked as loved-up as ever as they left London’s Global studios on Tuesday.

The couple’s appearance follows Emma’s admission that she has entered the transition stage before the menopause – and faces a race against time to have another child.

The Spice Girl, 45, put on her usual cheerful display as she took Jade’s arm and left the building, heading out into the warm sunshine of Leicester Square.

Sunny spice: Emma Bunton and her long-term other half Jade Jones looked as loved-up as ever as they left London’s Global studios on Tuesday

Emma – who shares Beau, 13, and Tate, ten, with Jade – donned a bubblegum pink trouser suit, with flared detailing, over a crisp white shirt.

She added a pale pink purse to the look and wore green wedge heels.

Emma wore her golden locks falling around her features and added shades to the outfit.

Jade – who used to sing with pop group Damage – wore his usual trilby hat, round shades and a patterned navy and blue summer shirt.

Baby number three? The couple’s appearance follows Emma’s admission that she has entered the transition stage before the menopause – and faces a race against time to have another child

Pretty in pink: The Spice Girl, 45, put on her usual cheerful display as she took Jade’s arm and left the building, heading out into the warm sunshine of Leicester Square

He finished his look off with casual lounge pants and converse shoes. 

Emma told the Mail on Sunday’s You magazine over the weekend that she delayed trying to get pregnant due to the pandemic but ‘cried her eyes out’ when she discovered it might now be too late to become a mother for a third time.

Describing the symptoms of perimenopause – the body’s natural transition towards the menopause –she says: ‘I started to feel unbalanced and anxious.

‘At first I put it down to the pandemic. But then the anxiety became more regular, until it was daily.

‘I was also lethargic. Something wasn’t right. I looked up the symptoms and saw I had quite a few.

‘So I spoke to someone on Zoom who came to the same conclusion. I was perimenopausal.’

Baby Spice Emma Bunton today reveals she has entered the transition stage before the menopause – and faces a race against time to have another child

‘I thought, ‘Is this the end? It’s been a very weird time. I’m a very mumsy person – when I see my friends’ babies, I always become broody. But now I thought, ‘OK, this is it.’ ‘

She is now on a low dose of hormone replacement therapy and is undecided about having a third baby.

Describing a Spice Girls tour of the US and Canada in 2007 just weeks after Beau was born, she recalls: ‘Physically, my body wasn’t ready to be doing two-hour shows every night.

Describing a Spice Girls tour of the US and Canada in 2007 just weeks after Beau was born, she recalls: ‘Physically, my body wasn’t ready to be doing two-hour shows every night’

‘Your hips don’t move the way they should, I fell over a couple of times backstage. I cried at everything, my skin broke out in rashes.

‘I said to our physio ‘What’s going on?’ and he laughed, ‘What do you mean? You just had a baby!’ ‘

Nowadays she juggles work commitments around the school run, but credits Jade, the former lead singer of R&B band Damage, for her continued success.

‘He makes everything calm. He’s sacrificed a lot,’ she says.