Mel C has said she and the other Spice Girls are keeping their fingers crossed for the return of Victoria Beckham.
The singer, real name Melanie Chisholm, was reunited with three other members of the girl group in 2019 for a tour of the UK and Ireland. However, Victoria 'Posh Spice' didn't join her former bandmates.
Chisholm told The Times the other Spice Girls – Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Geri Horner – are "keen to get back on stage" for another reunion but need to navigate "everybody’s life, work, families".
Asked about fashion designer Beckham, she said: "That would be the ultimate dream.
"The door is always open for Victoria, we would love to see her back. We keep our fingers crossed."
Whilst the jury is out on if she will rejoin for a future tour or performance, Beckham did join her former bandmates at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012. The girl group delighted crowds as they sang and danced on top of decorated black taxis.
In the late 1990s, the Spice Girls became the first band since The Beatles to claim three Christmas number ones in a row, with 2 Become 1 in 1996, Too Much in 1997 and Goodbye in 1998.
The band were horrified recently when a song hinting at expletives was released without their consent after a security breach.
The song, 'C. U. Next Tuesday', was written and recorded 27 years ago, but was uploaded on to the internet this week following a security breach. The term is slang for a four-letter expletive, which goes against everything that the band represents during their illustrious career.
A music insider told The Sun : "The Spice Girls are all at a very different place in their lives now than they were when this song was first written as a tongue-in-cheek track in the Nineties.
"It is obviously a bit embarrassing given the cringeworthy title, as they wouldn’t use the c-word in their own lives. It is a bit of a mystery how on earth it has got out but they aren’t going to dwell on it.
"The group have other projects they are looking forward to in 2023 so are focusing on them and hoping this song — which they were never particularly fond of — is forgotten."
Mel C has also shared her fury at the thought of having the song in the band's greatest hits collection. She said: "C.U. Next Tuesday was never used because it’s a pile of s***. It would be a big rip-off if Virgin put it on a greatest hits album now."
