2. It Nearly Destroyed The Spice Girls. Twice.
Fiona Hanson/PA Archive/Press Association ImagesMany fans of the girl band The Spice Girls may know that their hit song Wannabe debuted on L!ve TV in 1996 when all of the lasses were poor and not famous. Then they were known by their earlier spice monikers - Cumin, Mustard, Nigella, Fenugreek and Fennel. Well earlier in 1993 a young Ginger Halliwell decided that fame was in her future and she auditioned to be on L!ve TV. Despite her best efforts Janet Street Porter didn't take a shine to her and she didn't get the part. Imagine if she had been hired then - The Spice Girls, at least as we know it, would probably not exist. How ironic that their first performance that launched their careers would be on L!ve TV the very channel that could have destroyed them before they began. But it doesn't end there - after the rejection she went back to her pals Mel B and C, Emma and Victoria and they continued to practice in their band which was then called Touch. Inexplicably Ginger tried again to audition for L!ve TV just as Touch was taking off. She landed a part in a show called The Fashion Police and even though she did very well L!ve TV still said no. So twice now L!ve TV could have changed The Spice Girls or even prevented it. What a world we would have lived in. And thus a year or so later she reappeared, with the name Touch having been thrown away and replaced with Spice, and the girls performed Wannabe on the channel and went on to international fame and bucket-loads of spice money.