Why Geri Halliwell won’t take part in Spice Girls’ 30th anniversary documentary
Their reunion at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party got everyone talking — Mel B even started teasing selling tickets for a Spice Girls tour, and bookies have been offering odds on them getting together for Glastonbury.
However, not only are the chances of a singing reunion as a five-piece nil — because Victoria simply hasn’t got the time or inclination — I can reveal that plans to mark their 30th anniversary with a documentary have also fallen apart.
After the Netflix Beckham documentary, made by David’s TV company, was such a success last year, the Spice Girls started to talk to the streamer about possibly making a similar all-access show about the group and their phenomenal success.
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The idea was to tie the documentary to the 30th anniversary of the group being founded in 1994.
However, although Victoria, Mel B, Mel C and Emma Bunton were all keen on the doco, after a number of meetings Geri Halliwell was still against the idea and they were not able to talk her around.
This disagreement — certainly not the first in the group — created a little bit of frost between Ginger and the other girls.
And it may have been in Mel B’s mind when she remarked about not knowing how old Geri was because she never saw her passport.
They kept their distance at the party at Oswald’s in Mayfair last weekend.
Some believe Geri wasn’t keen on the scrutiny due to the looming scandal over her husband Christian Horner, whose role at F1 team Red Bull appeared to be in peril after an employee alleged he had harassed her.
Horner was cleared in March after an inquiry, but the complainant has launched an appeal against that decision.
A source said: “It might have been awkward for Geri to get out there and talk about Girl Power in these circumstances surrounding Christian but in truth even before it all came out she wasn’t keen on revisiting those days.
“She just didn’t want to go over all the fun, wild times that they had.”
