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Mel B kicked out of Spice Girls chat group after insisting on tour
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Mel B kicked out of Spice Girls chat group after insisting on tour

Mel B. called her Spice Girls bandmates “d——-” for not wanting a reunion.

The pop star rose to fame alongside Geri Halliwell, Melanie C, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham in the late 1990s as a member of the world’s best-selling girl group. However, Mel claimed she was kicked out of a WhatsApp group after insisting on another tour.

“Because I’m from the North and I say what I think and feel and I’m constantly telling the girls, ‘We need to get back on tour.’ Because they’re crazy,” she explained in an upcoming episode of Sky Max show “Never Mind The Buzzcocks” when asked why she was kicked out of the group. The episode will air on October 30.

The Spice Girls were formed in an open audition in 1994 and were initially known as Touch, before undergoing some lineup changes, choosing a different name and parting ways with their original management.

They achieved a record run of six consecutive number one singles and two number one albums before the shocking release of Halliwell in 1998. The remaining members released the last record in 2000 but reunited in 2007 for a world tour.

In 2012, the five members performed a medley of hits at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and were briefly seen together again at the opening of their short-lived West End musical “Viva Forever.” However, Beckham opted not to return for the band’s final run of stadium shows in 2019.

Earlier this year, the group reunited again at Beckham’s 50th birthday party, where they performed their 1998 hit “Stop.” However, Beckham explained around the same time that she wouldn’t want to reunite with her bandmates for anything other than a social occasion.

“I’m really proud of what I did with the Spice Girls, but today I want to help people to assert themselves, through fashion for example, and beauty,” she said on Radio France. “So there have been rumors. People said there would be tours or concerts, but that won’t happen. We will celebrate differently with the girls, together.