Mel C and Mel B beg Victoria Beckham to rejoin Spice Girls: ‘We’re manifesting another tour’
ok.co.ukIt’s been over 25 years since Mel C and her fellow Spice Girls first wowed the world with their chart-topping debut Wannabe and legendary Girl Power mantra.The years that followed saw Melanie Chisholm "Mel C" and her bandmates – Melanie Brown "Mel B", Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham – lead the 90s pop resurgence, play a major part of the Cool Britannia era and become some of the decade’s most popular showbiz icons.
In 1998 however, the girls began making moves towards their solo careers – with Mel amongst those releasing her own music – before calling it quits for good in 2000.
And now, Mel tells us she’s been “manifesting” the day they can announce the band are officially getting back together – with Victoria included! “You’ve got to manifest these things!’ the 48-year-old laughs. “I’ve taken a leaf out of Mel B’s book – she always believed we were finally going to do it. “She’d always say when we were on tour a couple of years ago, ‘It’ll happen, we just need to manifest it’, so that’s what I’ve been trying to do.
If you believe in something hard enough, surely it’s bound to happen eventually.” Reflecting on performing at Glastonbury in June, during which she sang Spice Girls hits Spice Up Your Life and 2 Become 1 with the band Blossoms, Melanie believes now is the perfect time to reunite, teasing a potential festival headline act for 2023. “I was down in those fields in the midst of those magical festival feelings and I just thought, we need to make this happen,” she says. “I’d love to be back on that stage with the girls, it would be incredible.
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