Spice Girls are getting personal in their bid to persuade Victoria Beckham to rejoin the band. 

The five-piece achieved mega-stardom in the late ‘90s but, in 2019, they returned as a four-piece when Victoria opted to sit out of their ‘Spice World’ UK Tour. 

Subsequently, Mel B, Emma Bunton, Melanie C and Geri Horner have shared their desire to return as a five-piece, and Melanie has once again opened up on the prospect. 

She tells the Zach Sang Show: “How can you be too busy to do a Spice Girls reunion?

“It is an interesting topic of conversation. Victoria didn’t want to get back on stage and we completely respect that.

“I felt the same. I was like, ‘It’s five or nothing.’ And then I just had a change of heart.”

She continues: “Victoria gave us her blessing for the last tour.

“We hope that she will be back on stage at some point. That is the dream. That is the plan.

“We do work on her. There’s lots of emotional blackmail. The shows in 2019 were so incredible.

“The reaction was great. We didn’t get out of the UK and Ireland and it’s a big old world out there. We have been lucky to do the US, but we have never done South America, Australia or South East Asia, which is insane.

“Hopefully Victoria feels as if we missed out and hopefully that will bring her back.

“Even if we do the shows, which we intend to do, we want to do more reunion shows when things are safer.

“If she decides not to join us then she is 100 per cent with us  – creatively she is there.

“Maybe she will be in the wings, but she would be dragged on.

“I think it was too difficult for her to watch and be in the audience.”

Earlier this year, the group celebrated their 25th anniversary with an expanded reissue of their debut album ‘Spice’, and Melanie insists the Spice Girls are “bigger than any one member”.

“It’s its own entity,” she says. “It is wonderful to be part of that.”