Mel B Confirms ‘Really Good’ Spice Girls News Is Coming Soon – Billboard

Thirty years after the Spice Women fashioned, triggering a wave of Lady Energy that unfold the globe, the traditional lineup will reunite for a mission.

Although particulars stay below lock and key, founding member Mel B let the information slip out throughout her look Tuesday (Jan. 9) on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.

When requested in regards to the possibilities of a Spice Women reunion, Mel B (actual identify Melanie Brown) instructed Hoda Kotb, “I’ve been saying it eternally. However now we’re really going to be releasing some actually excellent news in about just a few weeks that entails all 5 of us.”

A reunion isn’t a cinch, she continues. “There’s 5 of us, 5 separate diaries, we’re all mother and father.”

The well-known 5 is, after all, Child (Emma Bunton), Posh (Victoria Beckham), Ginger (Geri Halliwell-Horner), Sporty (Melanie Chisholm) and Scary Spice (Mel B) – an outfit that landed No. 1s on each side of the Atlantic throughout a scorching streak within the late Nineties.

Will Spicemaniacs be happy by what’s to return? Apparently so. “100%,” enthuses Mel B. “And it’s going to be the reward that retains on giving, with out saying an excessive amount of about it. I’m going to get myself into a lot hassle.”

The Spice Women assembled in 1994, and had a worldwide phenomenon two years later with their debut single, 1996’s “Wannabe.” The catchy observe logged 4 weeks on the summit of the Billboard Scorching 100 in early 1997, and is among the group’s 9 U.Okay. No. 1 singles. “Wannabe” continues to be powering alongside, passing one billion streams on Spotify over the latest vacation interval. The Brits’ debut LP Spice spent 5 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and 15 weeks on the summit of the Official U.Okay. Albums Chart (followup Spiceworld logged three weeks at No. 1 within the U.Okay. in 1997).

It takes one thing particular to assemble the ladies. The final time all 5 carried out collectively was for the London Olympics in 2012, although the pop act hit the street for a tour in 2019, doing in order a four-piece with out Victoria Beckham.

The Spice Women did reunite in 2022 for the event of Geri’s fiftieth birthday, an occasion that doubled-up because the twenty fifth anniversary of their Spiceworld, their sophomore album. Geri had left the group in 1998 to embark on a solo profession, returning to the fold in 2007 for the Return of the Spice Women Tour.

Reunion discuss apart, Mel B used her stint on the Right this moment with Hoda & Jenna sofa to debate her return to the America’s Received Expertise judging panel, her MBE, her ebook, her forthcoming wedding ceremony and the Royal Mail’s particular assortment of Spice Women stamps. “It’s huge,” she says of the brand new stamp difficulty. “For the Royal Mail, it’s normally the Queen, and the King” on the stamps. “And now it’s the Spice Women.”

Watch the interview under.