The Spice Girls have reportedly shelved plans for more future gigs and an animated movie after their sold out Spice World – 2019 Tour, with the band going their separate ways once again.
Hints had been dropped by the girls – Geri Horner, 49, Melanie Chisholm, 48, Melanie Brown, 46, and Emma Bunton, 46 – that they were set to take to the stage once again with a world tour in the near future.
But the pandemic is said to have put the brakes on the proposals, with an insider telling The Sun: ‘It was going brilliant — but Covid killed the momentum.
End of the road? The Spice Girls have reportedly shelved plans for more future gigs and an animated movie, with the band going their separate ways once again
‘Now it’s done again. There’s nothing on the agenda and they’re focusing on their own things.’
They added: ‘A few years of lockdown and everyone’s back has turned on the group in favour of other projects.
‘Geri is talking about new TV things, Emma has TV and radio work and the two Mel’s are focusing on their own stuff.
Pop juggernaut: Hints had been dropped by the girls – Geri Horner, 49, Melanie Chisholm, 48, Melanie Brown, 46, and Emma Bunton, 46 – that they were set to take to the stage once again (pictured 1996)
‘Victoria certainly isn’t going to be the one to bring it back to life — so it has fizzled out. They’re done.’
MailOnline has contacted a representative for the Spice Girls for comment.
Ginger Spice Geri and Scary Mel B were the driving force behind any future plans, with the girls keen on performing in Australia.
Reunion: The Wannabe hitmakers famously toured the UK as a four-piece in 2019, after Victoria decided not to partake (L-R, Mel B, Emma, Geri and Melanie C pictured in 2019)
They also hoped to make an animated film to include Victoria Beckham, 47, with the girls voicing Girl Power superhero characters after their hugely successful 1997 Spice World flick.
The girls played without Victoria in 2019 across 13 dates on a stadium tour to 700,000 fans, raking in an estimated £80million.
Last year they starred in an advertising campaign for mobile game Coin Master.
Superstars: They also hoped to make an animated film to include Victoria Beckham, 47, with the girls voicing Girl Power superhero characters
In November last year, Mel B, Geri and Emma met at the the swanky Mandeville Hotel in London, while Mel C called in via Zoom amid rumours they were planning a 2023 world tour.
An insider told The Sun at the time: ‘The four girls have been discussing a world tour for a while, and this — very confidential — meeting was put in the diary so they could iron out the final details.
‘The current plan is the tour will begin in Australia and go from there.
‘They are all very excited that the wheels are now in motion, and are hoping to give their fans a 2023 tour bigger and better than 2019.’
The source went on to claim that ‘superfan’ Adele would ‘definitely’ be in the audience after telling Mel B that attending their most recent show at Wembley Stadium ‘made her year’.
The Wannabe hitmakers famously toured the UK two years ago without the fashion designer after she decided not to partake – and raked in a cool £4million between them.
Posh Spice was the only member of the band not to take part.
She told Vogue Germany at the time: ‘It took me a lot of courage not to go on tour with the Spice Girls again, but to be the one who says, “You know, I’m not doing it because things feel different now than they used to.”
‘I’d rather concentrate on my family and my company.’
Fame game: The girls were hugely successful in the nineties and have had two sell out reunion tours since their first split in 2000 (pictured at the BRIT Awards in 1997)
