Of course you didn't know! They've done an excellent coverup job, but as you can see...Lyle was the sixth Spice Girl!

It seemed a match made in Heaven. He was always the center of attention for the other spices - Ginger, Baby, Posh...they all loved Lyle. ...or as they lovingly referred to him as: "Furry Spice". As many things are, it was too good to be true. Girls will be girls and as Furry Spice stayed in the spotlight and was routinely quoted as the backbone of the group: "the only talent of the group" ... "alpha dog spice" ... "the only one singing...the others are just howling bitches".

It started with mild jealousy which Furry Spice tried to abate by doing all he could for the other girls - shaving Sporty's back, buying Baby her Fen Phen, flea dipping Scary - but nothing could hide the truth: Lyle was the looks, the talent and the personality.

Furry Spice tried to put up with the taunting and pranks, but one can only take so much. Ginger's campaign to have him thrown out because he technically wasn't a girl was unsuccessful, but being called "Neutered Male Spice" by the other girls day in and day out helped drive him over the edge.

He sought solace in drugs and alcohol and in doing so fell in with a bad bad crowd.

Chris Farley taught Furry Spice many ways to hide from pain, but Furry picked up other vices, too.

The womanizing and boozing finally provided a just cause for the Spice Girls to kick Lyle out of the group. Of course when it rains, it pours...not only was Lyle out of the only job he ever loved, but his partner in crime, Chris Farley, wagged his fatass tail one final time and the tabloid articles promising Bruce and Demi's split and her impending marriage to Lyle turned out to be false.

Lyle hasn't completely recovered - who could expect him to? With the opening of the movie, Spice World, everything is that much more difficult for him right now. He saw the original take - he was in it for crying out loud! Scary left a nasty message on the machine yesterday saying, "I hope you know you're not in the bloody movie anymore, Furry. And by the way, Sport and I are flipping a coin to see who gets your Spice name now! Piss off!" And to think she used to sniff his butt whenever she got the chance.