Why I really, really wanted to be a Spice Girl, by Adele (then just 9)
LIKE many nine-year-olds at the time, there was only one thing she really, really wanted – to be a Spice Girl.
Not that the excitable little Adele in this picture needed to worry. Two decades on she is, if anything, even more famous than her heroines from the 1990s.
But that hasn’t stopped the singer showing her delight at the news that the Spice Girls are to reunite for a tour.
Adele, 30, shared the childhood photograph of her squealing with delight, the walls of her bedroom plastered with posters of her favourite girl band.
Looking no different from thousands of young girls who dreamt of emulating the Spice Girls’ sassy style, she would have been about nine years old, judging by the posters.
Adele shared the picture on Instagram following Monday’s announcement of next
‘This is how I feel right now! I am ready’
summer’s reunion tour. In a caption alongside, she wrote: ‘Ha! This is how I feel right now! I am ready.’ She did not seem at all deflated that Victoria Beckham will not be joining former bandmates Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Horner and Emma Bunton for the six stadium concerts.
And she clearly enjoyed showing she is still a huge fan of the group and their Girl Power philosophy – something she also did in 2016 when she performed Wannabe on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke.
Adele has turned out to be far more successful than her idols. She is worth €160million, has won 15 Grammy awards and her 2011 album 21 has sold more than 31million copies – the Spice Girls’ 1996 debut album, Spice, has sold 23million copies.