Kim Kardashian was as soon as supplied the chance to meet one in every of her childhood desires — changing into a Spice Woman.
Recalling how she as soon as carried out as Victoria Beckham’s Posh Spice for a expertise present, Kardashian, 42, revealed that Spice Women member Melanie Chisholm (a.ok.a. Mel C) as soon as requested her to fill the fashionista’s footwear on tour.
“They requested me if I’d be her half. Mel C requested me,” Kim instructed a bunch of mates whereas attending a soccer recreation with their children in London throughout the brand new episode of The Kardashians, which began streaming on Thursday, October 19.
The chance to affix the legendary woman group is one thing Kim says her daughter North, 10, didn’t need her to her move up. “Are you able to think about? North is like, ‘Do it, mother!’” Kim added. (The fact star additionally shares children Saint, 7, Chicago, 5, and Psalm, 4, with ex-husband Kanye West.)
Kim elaborated on Mel C’s invitation in a confessional, stating, “Sporty Spice wrote a guide and he or she signed it inside and he or she despatched it to me. It stated they have been happening tour they usually wanted a Posh and would I be the Posh? I’m certain she was joking however once I was in highschool would I ever have thought that this was like a factor? I’m only a woman from highschool who loves the Spice Women and now they’re asking me?”
Mel C, 49, opened up about her expertise rising to fame as a member of the Spice Women in her September 2022 memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Woman. The guide was launched three years after she and fellow members Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown, a.ok.a. Mel B (Scary Spice) and Emma Bunton (Child Spice) reunited for a 2019 U.Okay. summer time tour.
Beckham, additionally 49, didn’t take part as a consequence of her busy schedule operating her self-titled style label. Forward of the group’s first efficiency in Could 2019, she shared a candy message for her bandmates by way of Instagram. “Good luck to the women right this moment as they begin their tour! x VB,” she captioned a pic of the group’s iconic 1997 Brit Awards efficiency.
Based mostly on the be aware Mel C wrote Kim in her guide, the singer might have hinted at a doable upcoming reunion because the group has not joined forces on stage since their 2019 tour. To not point out, the band is ready to have fun their thirtieth anniversary in 2024.
Victoria, for her half, fueled reunion rumors earlier this 12 months by way of TikTok by singing alongside to “Say You’ll Be There” throughout a karaoke evening together with her husband, David Beckham. “Warming up the vocals in Miami! Extra to come back 🤫!! 🎶🎤,” she teased within the July video.
Halliwell, 51 — who famously left the group in Could 1998 earlier than returning for the Spice Women’ 2008 tour — seemingly shut down tour hypothesis earlier this month. “I’m actually happy with that and I really like being with the women,” she instructed Leisure Tonight. “However I believe, once I have interaction with one thing, it’s like — any challenge is like kids. OK, so I wish to give it my 150 p.c, so proper now the kid that I’m focusing to get out the gate to go to high school is Rosie, Rosie Frost.” (Halliwell launched her newest kids’s guide, Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen, on October 3.)
Hulu releases new episodes of The Kardashians each Thursday.