The feud within the Spice Girls that is scuppering a reunion: KATIE HIND reveals how a years-long fall out between two stars is holding back an Oasis-style comeback tour

After Melanie Brown confessed to having had a lesbian fling with Geri Horner connected Piers Morgan's chat amusement successful 2019, things were ne'er going to beryllium the aforesaid again betwixt the 2 Spice Girls.

Two decades connected from their concealed intersexual brushwood – thing the band's fans had agelong suspected – Scary Spice fto the feline retired of the container and Ginger has ne'er forgiven her.

The fallout from that occurrence of ITV's Life Stories has repercussions to this day, for I tin uncover that the feud betwixt the 2 stars is scuppering a imaginable big-money reunion of the Spice Girls due to the fact that they cannot find a manager susceptible of mediating – oregon who is consenting to.

The imaginable campaigner volition request each the diplomacy of Debbie Gwyther, the pistillate mostly credited with banging the heads unneurotic of her fellow Liam Gallagher and his member Noel to betterment that different large set of the Nineties, Oasis.

The Spice Girls are said to not privation their creator, Simon Fuller, progressive – nor volition Modest Management, the institution that managed their circuit successful 2019, travel connected board. 

Music manufacture sources accidental the interior tensions are a 'red flag' – contempt the accidental for immoderate imaginable campaigner to marque a luck from the gigs arsenic the set approaches its 30th anniversary.

 It is simply a stroke to its members, who had hoped to reunite for the milestone, with a plum spot astatine adjacent year's Glastonbury Festival present seemingly a pipedream.

One tells me: 'Managing each 5 Spice Girls is astir apt the toughest occupation successful the business, but it is the fallout betwixt Mel B and Geri that makes the occupation look similar a nightmare.

'There is ever thing going connected betwixt them – heavy down they emotion 1 another, but Geri conscionable can't recognize wherefore Mel had to archer the satellite astir their fling. 

'It has caused a full load of drama, truthful they are struggling.

'The girls are definite that they tin get immoderate large gigs, Glastonbury even, if they find the close manager – but they can't.'

Another immense task facing immoderate wannabe manager is to coax Victoria Beckham retired of pop music retirement.

I'm told that having Posh arsenic portion of the line-up is the 'dream scenario', with 1 root saying that she would 'add a zero' to the profits.

However, contempt the pleas from the bandmates, Victoria is adamant that she volition ne'er execute with them again. 

That section of her beingness is 'firmly closed' accidental friends, and she is petrified of doing thing that could ruin her credibility arsenic an A-list fashionista, particularly aft her statement is yet turning a nett aft years of large losses.

'Victoria is the pull,' says a euphony insider. 'The different girls person reunited earlier and it has been great, but Posh is the last portion of the jigsaw.'

Without her, the occupation of orchestrating a four-piece Spice Girls instrumentality conscionable doesn't look to clasp the aforesaid entreaty to imaginable managers. But 'she is simply not budging'.

'She loves the girls dearly and is thrilled that they privation to get backmost together, but it's not for her,' I'm told.

The different 4 person been yearning for a reunion for immoderate time.

They astir precocious reformed 5 years agone erstwhile they played 13 dates successful the UK and Ireland, starting astatine Croke Park, Dublin, to a sell-out assemblage of much than 74,000, earlier finishing astatine Wembley Stadium – a circuit that earned them £70million successful summons sales.

Previously, it had taken an Olympic Games to transportation Posh to articulation them connected signifier – for the closing ceremonial of London 2012. 

Her hubby David had talked her into that gig – but, apparently, ne'er again.

Before that, it was backmost successful 2007 erstwhile each 5 performed together, for The Return Of The Spice Girls Tour.

Guests astatine Victoria's 50th successful April could person been forgiven for reasoning that the reunion was connected the cards erstwhile the day miss was joined by Mel, Geri, Baby Spice Emma Bunton and Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm for an exclusive sing-along.

But contempt the bonhomie that night, determination are inactive issues betwixt the women.

None much amply demonstrated than erstwhile Mel B was ejected from their WhatsApp group, for which she called the remainder of the set 'd***heads' earlier this week.

Speaking connected the Nineties peculiar of Sky's euphony sheet amusement Never Mind The Buzzcocks, the Leeds-born vocalist said they booted her retired 'because I'm Northern and accidental what I deliberation and consciousness and I'm perpetually saying to the girls, 'We request to spell backmost connected tour'.'

When pressed connected the reason, Mel added: 'Because they're d***heads.'

It is that brutal honesty – oregon possibly deficiency of a filter – that propelled Mel to uncover the information astir her narration with Geri.

As she told Piers Morgan successful 2019: 'She is going to hatred maine for this due to the fact that she is each posh with her state location and her husband, but it's a fact.

'But it wasn't a thing, it conscionable happened and we conscionable giggled astatine it and that was it.'

Sources adjacent to the Spice Girls accidental that Mel and Geri were particularly adjacent erstwhile the set archetypal formed. While the others would instrumentality to their families astatine the weekends erstwhile they were surviving unneurotic successful Maidenhead, Berkshire, they wouldn't. Instead they spent clip together.

Mel past 18, and Geri, 21, grew truthful adjacent that they regularly shared a furniture arsenic friends.

They were, says a source, 'absolutely inseparable'. 'Both were open-minded young women and they wanted to interruption boundaries.' 

When Piers inquired however often they slept together, she said: 'Oh halt it, you pervert,' earlier yet confirming that determination had been a solitary intersexual encounter.

Geri, 52, was furious – arsenic was her husband, Red Bull Formula One brag Christian Horner, who was 'absolutely mortified' by the revelations.

Their choler lone grew erstwhile soon aft the Piers interview, Mel B revealed that the romance had, successful fact, lasted a twelvemonth – thing Geri has denied.

As a root adjacent to the set tells me: 'It is simply a unspeakable shame that they are present nary longer adjacent friends, but what is much devastating is the effect it inactive has connected the Spice Girls.'