Mel C has officially ruled herself out of the Spice Girls reunion due to take place next year (17).
The 42-year-old, along with Victoria Beckham, have both declined to take part in the Wannabe hitmakers' 20th anniversary reunion in 2017, organised by Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Melanie Brown.
Now Sporty Spice, real name Melanie Chisholm, has penned an essay for Love magazine explaining her difficult decision to bow out of the lucrative reunion.
Insisting the reunion shouldn't take place without all five members on board, Mel added she believes the band should have called it a day following their performance at the closing ceremony for the London Olympic Games in 2012.
"I’d love to play huge arenas across the world, sing our brilliantly bonkers pop songs and relive our former glory," Mel wrote. "It is of course a very lucrative opportunity too. But we were a five-piece band. Didn’t we reach a peak with the Olympics? There’s a lot to be said for bowing out on a high note.
"For me, the absolute pinnacle of my Spice existence was being watched by a billion people around the globe belting out Spice Up Your Life on top of a black cab at the 2012 London Olympics. Anything less than the full line-up just didn’t feel like we’d be doing justice to the band or the fans."
It was after numerous meetings with Emma, Geri and Mel B she made her difficult decision. "The hardest part for me was letting people down, the girls, the fans, civilisation?! Unfortunately something didn’t feel quite right and I had to follow my gut," she added.
Mel C was never there for the Spice Girls after they went solo in 2000. She basically spent 7 years saying that she would hate to reunite until the other 4 had everything set up and she joined just cuz she didn't want to be the only one not doing it.
Fast forward 2016, she still doesn't want to be involved with a Spice Girls reunion, only that now she has the Victoria excuse and that "if she doesn't do it i will not either”.
She's lame, but her voice is amazing and I'm looking forward to her new album.
Sorry but I think it's pretty how ironic it is, especially for Geri who ran away so quickly and now in the center of all this reunion tours and stuffs.
Every member of the Spice Girls is set for life. She can release more solo material at her own leisure and still be a multi-millionaire. I think she's okay.
