Victoria Beckham has finally rejoined the Spice Girls for a singalong after refusing to go on tour in 2019.
Amid the furore over her family fall-out with eldest son Brooklyn, 26, Victoria, 51, joined the group to sign Viva Forever in the dining room of her London home – 30 years after the band first got together.
Mel B, 50, was a no-show amid her bitter falling out with Geri Halliwell-Horner, 53, However, she has recently said she is keen for the band to get back together.
While the ladies sang their harmony, Victoria’s son Cruz, 20, strummed away on the guitar, while his girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, sat at the table and the family’s personal chefs watched on through glass doors from the kitchen.
Victoria has been dropping hints that she might do something with the band, uploading a clip of herself singing a live acoustic version of one of their biggest hits and reuniting with Emma Bunton on her 50th birthday, Mel C, 52, and Geri last month.
And David Beckham, 50, appears to have caught Spice Mania as he posted a love heart to his wife on the new video post.
The Spice Girls REUNITE! Victoria Beckham finally joined the band for a singalong at her home on Instagram on Thursday after refusing to go on tour in 2019… but Mel B was missing
The video comes a month after the girls reunited at Soho Farmhouse for Emma Bunton’s 50th birthday leading fans to question if there might be further announcements – Mel B was not at this event either
David Beckham, 50, appears to have caught Spice Mania as he posted a love heart to his wife on the post.
The ladies have been teasing the fact that something is in the pipeline for some time.
Mel C appeared on Good Morning America in November to promote her ninth album Sweat and was grilled if the Spice Girls would come back together.
Crossing her fingers, Mel said: ‘I remain optimistic. It’s our thirtieth anniversary next year. We toured in 2019, we did a few stadium shows in the UK and it was incredible.
‘We’re just so proud of the legacy that we have and we have fans now from new generations are just loving the Spice Girls so I would like to get back on stage with the girls.
‘We’re talking and we’re seeing what opportunities are out there. The thing that stops us is we feel so precious about it, we want to make sure it’s the right thing and agree on the right thing.’
Mel also admitted she will always pine for another Spice Girls reunion, this time with Victoria included.
She said: ‘It was the most beautiful experience as a Spice Girl. I think because so much time had passed that we were all very present and really could appreciate what this thing meant to so many people.’
‘It was such a joyous experience. We were just able to take it in for the first time and enjoy every minute. I feel emotional because I’d love to do it again.’
While the ladies sang, Victoria’s son Cruz strummed away on the guitar, while his girlfriend Jackie Apostel sat at the table for the iconic moment
Mel C was pictured next to Victoria as they shared a fruit bowl, edamame beans, herbal teas, Diet Coke and various types of waters
Geri was pictured weaing her trademark cream uniform – she was the first to leave the band back in 1998 but remains keen for them to come back together
Cruz gave his mother a hug at the end of the song as he showed his support for her amid the family fall-out
Cruz’s girlfriend Jackie was caught giggling at the table when the camera panned to her
Mel B also teased a major Spice Girls comeback – after Victoria surged to No.1 in the charts with the 2001 song Not Such An Innocent Girl, amid the fallout from her son Brooklyn’s brutal statement.
Scary Spice was seen liking a clip about the band getting back together.
The clip was a segment from the Shouldn’t Laugh But… podcast where host Laura Smyth suggested Victoria could divert attention away from the ‘PR disaster’ of her son’s statement by getting the group back together.
Fans saw Mel B’s like as a signal that there be plans for a Spice Girls reunion in the works after years of rumours.
Speaking directly to Victoria, Laura said in the podcast clip: ‘There is only one way on this earth you will ever come back from this PR disaster.
‘Three words. Spice Girls reunion. It will eclipse it all and I want you there. I don’t want four of them. I want all five.’
Mel B and Geri are said to have had an ugly falling out which has scuppered new projects.
Reports emerged in 2024 that Geri has derailed a huge TV drama deal which would have netted each of the five members £1million each.
She was also said to have pulled the plug on plans for a new Spice Girls reunion tour and a Netflix documentary for the band’s 30th anniversary at the time.
Sources had said that the ‘nightmare’ fall out between Geri and Mel B left the band unable to find a manager capable of ‘mediating’ to push projects over the line.
The feud began when Mel confessed she had a lesbian fling with Geri during the band’s nineties heyday on Piers Morgan’s chat show in 2019.
Geri denied the affair took place, with Mel accused of dreaming it up to sell copies of her tell-all memoir, Brutally Honest.
Elsewhere, the girls have been getting along well. Emma shared a throwback snap from her Spice Girls days on Sunday, after celebrating her 50th birthday with the band.
She also reuploaded a photo on Instagram which was originally posted by Mel C who joked: ‘Wish I still had that coat @tommyhilfiger, love my Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton.’
Victoria had previously maintained that she would not join the band again, insisting her fashion career was her focus and reiterating that being in the Spice Girls was just a mere four years of her life.
Mel B teased a major Spice Girls comeback last month – as Victoria surged to No.1 in the charts with Not Such An Innocent Girl amid the fallout from her son Brooklyn’s brutal statement
Victoria last performed with the band at the Olympic Opening Ceremony on August 12, 2012 after joining them for their world tour in 2007-08
Fans went wild for the band when they last reunited – and many thought it would be the last time they would take to the stage together
Discussing her decision not to join the ladies on tour in 2019, she told Vogue Germany: ‘It took me a lot of courage not to go on tour with the Spice Girls again.
‘But to be the one who says, “You know, I’m not doing it because things feel different now than they used to”.’
She added: ‘I’d rather concentrate on my family and my company. I’m 45 now and very happy to be the woman I am…’
Victoria did however confess the idea of a Vegas residency is one that appeals to her.
Speaking to Andy Cohen on Sirius XM, last October, she said: ‘“Before I was in the Spice Girls, I was so self-conscious and they made me feel that I was good enough.
‘But being on stage, I realised as fun as it is, you know, it’s not ultimately what I want to do anymore.
‘I don’t know if I could even still sing,” she quipped. “I mean, I was never that great.” It would be tempting. But could I take on a world tour? No I can’t. I have a job…
‘How good would the Spice Girls be at the Sphere? I love the idea of it.’
In her Netflix docuseries, Victoria revealed David guilted her into doing the Spice Girls reunion tour from 2007-08.
She said: ‘David was like, ‘it’s really good for the kids to see you do this. He mum-guilted me!’
But she seemed to be feeling nostalgic In November, when she posted a video of herself singing a stripped back acoustic performance of Viva Forever with Cruz.
Victoria last performed with the band during the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and before that she joined the band on their 2007-08 world tour.
Victoria left fans in awe in November when she sang a Spice Girls song with Cruz in a rare performance
Victoria has been left red-faced amid her very public family fall-out with son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola – he has said he doesn’t want to reconcile with his family
Geri left the band in 1998 in the middle of their world tour and on Mel B’s birthday.
Mel said on Loose Women in 2018 that Geri’s decision to leave had left her heartbroken and devastated her bandmates.
She said: ‘It was my birthday and I thought of all days she’s leaving on my birthday. What bothered me, not the fact that she left, of course that bothered, the fact she didn’t come to me.
‘I consider her as my best friend. Well, all of them, we’ve got really solid friendships. That bothered me more than anything, she didn’t feel like she could talk to me and just tell me what’s going on. She was just gone.’
Mel said: ‘We searched for her in the hotel and we couldn’t find her. She’d got herself on the flight and headed back to England.
Unbeknownst to the group, Geri was battling a ‘horrendous eating disorder’ with Mel explaining: ‘She just felt no way out apart from to remove herself. Even that in itself made me feel so… of course I was a little bit angry because we had to re-do the whole show.
‘She was nowhere to be found. [I thought she’d been] kidnapped or something. We were all kind of a bit frantic. Then we found out she’d got on a flight and was heading back to England. Then we went into overdrive mode to re-do the show. I was trying to call her the entire time.’
Mel said the band didn’t know the real reason for a while, saying: ‘We didn’t find that out until way after. I wouldn’t have done that, but then everybody copes with pressure and different situations differently.
‘So I do understand it but it makes me go, ‘Oh’, a little bit.’
The former X Factor judge said the pair had settled their differences in the intervening years, saying: ‘I did [mention it recently]. We’ve had those conversations over the years.
‘She does put it down to the fact she couldn’t see a way out of it and she didn’t want to be up on stage and pretending to be so happy and everything together. I do understand it on a certain level.
‘The friendship it was just horrendous for me. I had to celebrate my birthday going, [fake sobbing] ‘Where is she?’
She continued: ‘In a weird way it made us closer, we got to understand each other more.’
Mel said her and Geri didn’t speak for a while as she was ‘angry and sad’ at her departure.
She said: ‘Weeks, absolute weeks. Then we were carrying on our tour. I was angry straight away and then just really sad. We just all scrambled.
‘I think everybody dealt with it in their own way. We’re all about our sisterhood and girl power, so to think one of our girls felt that bad that she just had to remove herself was really daunting.’
Asked if she’d react differently now, Mel said: ‘No’ adding, ‘I’d still be really hurt and offended.’
Geri’s departure from the band hit headlines across the world and the group went on hiatus two years later.
The Spice Girls shot to fame in 1996 when their debut single Wannabe reached number one in 37 countries.
The girl group reached the top of the UK charts nine times and had two number one albums.
When Geri left the band, she launched a solo career and enjoyed four number one singles in the UK.
Discussing her decision not to join the ladies on tour in 2019, (pictured), Victoria told Vogue Germany: ‘It took me a lot of courage not to go on tour with the Spice Girls again’
The ladies were the most successful girl band of all time when they were formed in the 90s
Emma Bunton shared a throwback snap from her Spice Girls days on Sunday, after celebrating her 50th birthday with the band