Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Rumours have abounded for years and each time they surface, they’re firmly quashed but it seems this time round the Spice Girls might well be breaking their promise to us and will indeed be making a comeback.
An announcement is due tomorrow, telling us exactly what they’re going to be up to, with a spokesman from Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment company saying: “Given the band’s unique history, you can be sure to expect the unexpected”.
If that’s the case, everyone has expected that one day they would get back together for a come-back tour, so with any luck, they’ll announce that they’ll never set foot in the same room as each other again.
Of course that’s just a pipe-dream and the likelihood is we will be seeing a media frenzy of tour preparations in the not too distant future.
It’s a deal that is said to be netting them £10 million each.
That’s incentive enough for anyone and quite frankly, in their shoes, it wouldn’t matter how bad people said I was, if I was offered that much money I’d take it too but I find it very hard to believe that as a band they’re worth that much these days. They had many a fan in their hey-day and shamefully I admit to being one of them … but 10 years on (I was only a fan for their first year together) I’m all to painfully aware of what an embarrassing admission that is and you couldn’t pay me enough to go and watch them – well OK, you could if the money was right, but you get my point.
Their fans of old are now all grown up and fully aware that they were actually total pants. The Spice Girls were huge and hold all sorts of records for highest-selling female band ever and the likes but ‘were’ is the operative word.
