Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Our Spice little earner in Vegas

Girls wannabe there for £16m summer shows

- BY HALINA WATTS Showbiz Editor halina.watts@mirror.co.uk

THE Spice Girls are planning a sixweek stint in Las Vegas that could earn them £4million each.

The concerts are expected to take place in the summer of 2021 after tour promoters AEG held talks with the group’s management, Modest, last week.

A source revealed: “The girls are very keen to tour again and there have been lots of discussion­s about a residency in Las Vegas.

“They’ve agreed they could all commit to a six-week run during the summer holidays, when the kids are off school.”

The girls have seven children between them, five of them of school age.

On Friday, Scary Spice Mel

B hinted the four – including Mel C, Geri Horner and Emma Bunton – also hope to perform at Glastonbur­y’s 50th anniversar­y next year.

Asked if they will continue touring, she insisted: “We’re going to do more and I don’t care what anyone says.”

Speaking in a radio interview Mel, 44, added: “I said seven years ago we’re going to go on tour and, you know what, it happens to be Glastonbur­y’s 50th anniversar­y next year… I think that would be a really good thing to do.

“The girls will kill me for saying it but I don’t care, I think we owe it to our fans and ourselves. I’d love that.”

She also says the group plan to tour Australia in February, as well as work on new songs. She said: “I had a conversati­on with Geri over the weekend. I know Mel C is keen, and Emma’s up for it – it’s just getting us all together.”

Celine Dion’s A New Day is the most successful Vegas residency ever, making more than £372million. Nearly three million people saw the 717 shows from 2003 to 2007.

Britney Spears banked £400,000 a show from 2013 to 2017, making her one of the highest paid stars in Sin City.

The Spice Girls declined to comment last night.

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VIVA £4MILLION Girls hope to rake it in with concert series

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