It’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 and her bandmates – Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell (now Horner) and Victoria Adams (now Beckham) – play a major part in the Cool Britannia era and become some of the 90s’ most popular showbiz icons.
In 1998 however, the girls began making moves towards their solo careers – with Mel among those releasing her own music – before calling it quits for good in 2000.
But 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 said, ‘It’ll happen, we just need to manifest it,’ so that’s what I’ve been trying to do.”
Reminiscing on performing her solo set at Glastonbury last month – which included Spice Girls’ smash hits Spice Up Your Life and 2 Become 1 – Mel 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. I’d love to be back on that stage with the girls, it would be incredible!” she says. “And we know it’s what the fans desperately want. You can count me in, but I think others might need a bit more convincing!”
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