‘Someone wasn’t ready’: Spice Girls star Mel C reveals the REAL reason the iconic girl group didn’t tour Australia last year
Spice Girls star Melanie ‘Mel C’ Chisholm has revealed the real reason the iconic super group failed to tour Australia after reforming last year.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, the 46-year-old revealed it was a fellow band member who pulled the plug on the concerts.
‘Unfortunately, when it came to decision day [to tour Australia], someone wasn’t quite ready to continue,’ she said, without naming names.
No deal: Mel C, 46, (pictured) has revealed the REAL reason the Spice Girls didn’t tour Australia last year, during an interview with The Daily Telegraph on Saturday. Here: Stockholm, 2019
‘[But] I would have been there in a heartbeat,’ she added.
She explained the megastars know they ‘owe our Australian fans a tour’ after generating plenty of excitement with fans.
Mel C, aka Sporty Spice, will soon release new single ‘Who I Am’ which is due out later this month, which deals with her finding her identity.
![Pulling the plug: 'Unfortunately, when it came to decision day [to tour Australia], someone wasn't quite ready to continue,' Mel C said, without naming names. Here: London, 2019](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/03/06/23/25645860-8084675-image-a-15_1583535608941.jpg)
Pulling the plug: ‘Unfortunately, when it came to decision day [to tour Australia], someone wasn’t quite ready to continue,’ Mel C said, without naming names. Here: London, 2019
The Spice Girls’ reported plans to tour Australia and take on a Las Vegas residency are said to have been scrapped because of Geri Horner’s alleged feud with Mel B.
According to The Sun in October, Geri, 47, and Mel B, 44, failed to see eye-to-eye during their sold-out UK tour last year.
It lead to Geri’s refusal to hit the road, with the cancelled plans meaning losing out on an estimated earnings of £50million.
Owe you one! Mel C explained the megastars know they ‘owe our Australian fans a tour’ after generating plenty of excitement with fans. Here: London, February 2020
A source told the paper: ‘[Mel B] is a real character and has long clashed with Geri, who decided it wasn’t worth carrying on as things could really become explosive.
‘Last time they performed in the US, in 2008, there was chaos with all the arguing. It has put Geri off — as well as Melanie C and Emma [Bunton] to some degree.’
In March, Mel B made the explosive claim that she had sex with Geri during the height of the Spice Girls’ worldwide fame in the 1990s.
Clash: According to The Sun, the singers continually clashed during one of their previous tours. Pictured together in February 2013
Mel told the Loose Women panel: ‘God, it was strange. For me, the whole thing was …. I think she probably hated me for a bit, she probably still does.
‘But we all love each other. I’ve got a loud mouth so what can you do.’
The openly bisexual singer made the shock claim while filming for Piers Morgan’s Life Stories in March, cheekily telling the broadcaster Geri had ‘great boobs.’
‘It just happened and we just giggled at it and that was it,’ she said.
Explosive: In March Mel claimed that she had sex with Geri during the height of their fame (above in 1997), putting their friendship under strain