Spice Girls tour dates in doubt after Mel B’s shock disclosure
LONDON: The Spice Girls’ tour of the US and Australia is in doubt following Mel B’s shocking revelation that she and group member Geri Halliwell (now known as Geri Horner) had a oneoff sexual encounter.
Singer Mel B is refusing to apologise for her disclosure during a TV show.
Insiders suggest that the planned tour of America and Australia to follow their UK and Ireland dates is basically “axed”.
And some feel that Geri, 46, is ‘too fragile’ to go through with the 14 planned British tour dates in May and June. Rehearsals are due to start in London on Apr 4. But a source said: “Girl Power is now dead. That’s it. If they manage those UK dates then that will be the last you ever see of the Spice Girls.”
Fellow Spice Girl Mel C is among those who fear Mel B has killed off the UK tour. She was at the London Studios for the recording of the ITV show Piers Morgan’s Life Stories when Mel B told him of the fling.
A source said Mel C commented: ‘That’s it, that’s the tour over then.’ She asked producers if it was possible to edit out Mel B’s remarks, but it wasn’t.
After filming, Mel B texted Geri but sources indicate that she underplayed the revelation, meaning Geri initially felt she could shrug it off.
Geri has come close to confirming the long-rumoured encounter previously.
But sources say her attitude changed when she read the transcript and saw the footage. What has upset her so badly are the ‘nasty’, ‘envious’ and ‘snide’ remarks which Mel B has made about her perceived social climbing.