Scary Spice wants to get back together with the girl power group, who released their hit “Wannabe” in 1996.

Mel B still wants a Spice Girls tour despite 30th-anniversary reunion cancellation

Scary Spice wants to get back together with the girl power group, who released their hit "Wannabe" in 1996.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

EW's editorial guidelines

March 23, 2026 10:12 p.m. ET

Leave a Comment

The Spice Girls perform on 'Saturday Night Live' in 1997. Credit:

Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Mel B is always down to perform with the Spice Girls, but apparently not everyone is.

"In a perfect world, we'd already be on tour right now, touring the whole entire world," the *America's Got Talent* judge told Page Six over the weekend.

The comment from Melanie "Mel B" Brown, a.k.a. "Scary Spice," came days after her former bandmate Melanie "Mel C" Chisholm (a.k.a. "Sporty Spice") confirmed to PEOPLE that the group would not be reuniting for their 30th anniversary.

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our ******EW Dispatch newsletter******.***

The group of five, which also included Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, and Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell, debuted their first album, *Spice*, on Sept. 19, 1996. And the world promptly went spice crazy, beginning with the big hit "Wannabe."

The women won legions of fans with that song and others, such as "Say You'll Be There," "2 Become 1," and "Spice Up Your Life," as well as 1997 movie *Spice World*, and so much merchandise.

Victoria Beckham recalls comment from Mel B that upset her

Victoria Beckham and Richard E. Grant have 'Spice World' reunion ahead of film's 30th anniversary

They were phenomenally successful by the time Halliwell left the group in 1998. The other women took a hiatus in 2000, but they've come back together since then. Brown, Bunton, Chisholm, and Halliwell have toured together, while Beckham joined them at the 2012 Olympics.

"I'm always the one going, 'Yes, we're going on tour,'" Mel B. said. "I would love to go on tour. I would love to do music, but it isn't happening."

Brown added, "I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for my other four girls, if I weren't a part of that kind of girl power crazy roller coaster ride."

Mel B on March 19 in West Hollywood, Calif.

Tommaso Boddi/Getty

But she wasn't in attendance in February when the other four women assembled to sing an acoustic version of their song "Viva Forever." Beckham's son Cruz, who had planned his own tour, played the guitar for them, joking on Instagram, "I think i found my openers… you think they have potential?"

When Mel C. crushed fans with her announcement that a reunion was not in store just yet, she did offer some hope.

"We are communicating all the time," she said. "We want to do something. Who knows when, but I still feel very optimistic and I keep my fingers crossed that you will see the Spice Girls together at some point in the future."

Original Article on Source

Source: “EW Pop”