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 pinch Geri Horner connected Piers Morgan's chat show successful 2019, things were ne'er going to beryllium nan aforesaid again betwixt nan 2 Spice Girls.

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

The fallout from that section of ITV's Life Stories has repercussions to this day, for I tin uncover that nan feud betwixt nan 2 stars is scuppering a imaginable big-money reunion of nan Spice Girls because they cannot find a head tin of mediating – aliases who is consenting to.

The imaginable campaigner will request each nan diplomacy of Debbie Gwyther, nan female mostly credited pinch banging nan heads together of her fellow Liam Gallagher and his relative Noel to betterment that different awesome set of nan Nineties, Oasis.

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

Music manufacture sources opportunity nan soul tensions are a 'red flag' – contempt nan chance for immoderate imaginable campaigner to make a luck from nan gigs arsenic nan set approaches its 30th anniversary.

 It is simply a rustle to its members, who had hoped to reunite for nan milestone, pinch a plum spot astatine adjacent year's Glastonbury Festival now seemingly a pipedream.

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

'There is ever thing going connected betwixt them – heavy down they emotion 1 another, but Geri conscionable can't understand why Mel had to show nan world 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 nan correct head – but they can't.'

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

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

However, contempt nan pleas from nan bandmates, Victoria is adamant that she will ne'er execute pinch them again. 

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

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

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

'She loves nan girls dearly and is thrilled that they want 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 nan UK and Ireland, starting astatine Croke Park, Dublin, to a sell-out crowd 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 seduce Posh to subordinate them connected shape – for nan 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 nan reunion was connected nan cards erstwhile nan day woman was joined by Mel, Geri, Baby Spice Emma Bunton and Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm for an exclusive sing-along.

But contempt nan bonhomie that night, location are still issues betwixt nan women.

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

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

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

It is that sadistic honesty – aliases possibly deficiency of a select – that propelled Mel to uncover nan truth astir her narration pinch Geri.

As she told Piers Morgan successful 2019: 'She is going to dislike maine for this because she is each posh pinch 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 nan Spice Girls opportunity that Mel and Geri were particularly adjacent erstwhile nan set first formed. While nan others would return to their families astatine nan weekends erstwhile they were surviving together 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 break boundaries.' 

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

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

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

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