MRS BECKHAM CASHES IN BY STAYING AT HOME
WORTH £240 million and with a fashion empire to run, Victoria Beckham has shown little interest in the reunion and is not taking part in the stage shows. Asked if it was a hard decision not to join the group on the tour, she said: ‘It wasn’t.’
This will surely have come as a relief, because she and Mel B have long had a tricky relationship and they fell out during the 2007 comeback tour.
Mel B has said she was under the impression that Victoria was on board for the reunion tour during a meeting held last February at Geri’s house.
In fact, Victoria attended merely to show support for former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who is a co-owner of her fashion business.
All present at that meeting signed legal documents to ‘sort out’ the question of rights to the Spice Girls names, which were ‘in a bit of a mess.’
As a result, both Victoria Beckham and Simon Fuller will profit hugely from the forthcoming tour, even though she won’t even appear during it, and he has ‘co-manager’ status with Modest Management.
So how much will Victoria get? A source suggests £2.5 million ‘plus’ — with Fuller a little less, adding: ‘That meeting was all about getting Simon Fuller to have a percentage of all Spice Girls money, and Victoria was very much in favour of that. A percentage goes to Victoria and a percentage to Simon Fuller.
‘What it means is that every time anyone buys anything to do with the Spice Girls, she gets her slice. The others are just having to suck it up.’