Ginger Spice Wants A Date With Clooney....

The Spice Girls are urging George Clooney to ditch his girlfriend Sarah Larsen and take single Geri Halliwell out on a date.After discovering that Ginger Spice is the heart-throb star's favourite out of the group, her attached bandmates are determined to match them up.Mel B appealed to Clooney on Thursday (24Jan08) during an appearance on U.S.TV show Good Morning America - pleading, "She is single, take her out".Victoria Beckham added, "He should invite her out for dinner. Definitely".Halliwell - who has been single since splitting with Sacha Gervaisi, the father of her daughter Bluebell - was more coy, confessing, "It's very flattering knowing I'm George Clooney's favourite Spice Girl".She may have a long wait as recent rumours suggested Clooney is smitten with former waitress Larsen, 29, and wants to move her into his Hollywood home.In other news George Clooney is rumoured to have cut short a charity trip to Africa because of illness.

The actor has been visiting the troubled Darfur region of the Sudan, his first posting as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

But sources claim he returned to the U.S. early on Tuesday (22Jan08) after becoming sick.

His spokesperson refused to confirm or deny the reports, telling the New York Daily News, "There's a lot of inaccurate information out there".

More than 200,000 people have been killed and more than two million turned into refugees by famine and war, since civil war broke out in the Sudan in 2003.

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