Estranged Spice Girl Mel C calls fame ‘grotesque’

Mel C wasn’t always against the Spice Girls getting back together but she loathes being a celebrity.

The 42-year-old singer has refused to mark the 20th anniversary of the band’s hit single Wannabe by joining Geri Horner, Emma Bunton and Mel B on stage next year. But she’s shocked fans by admitting she was once willing to reunite the world-famous group.

In an interview with The Times newspaper, she said: “Good luck to them. I’m very grateful to whoever decided to make a big deal of Wannabe’s anniversary but it’s now become this ridiculous thing.

“We all enjoyed playing at the Olympics in 2012. OK, Victoria (Beckham) not so much. I think she found that type of attention overwhelming … The rest of us agreed to keep the door open. We said in a year or so we’d get together to see what we thought but we never got around to organising anything.”

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Mel also revealed she loathes being a “celebrity” and it begs the question, is that the real reason she opted out?

She added: “As a Spice Girl, of course I was a celebrity, but in the past five to ten years I’ve had a real problem with what celebrity entails. It has become grotesque. I genuinely can’t bear it.”

However, the star has found memories of her nineties heyday and insists she’ll be a Spice Girl until she dies.

She said previously: “Look, I will be a Spice Girl until I die. But the continuous speculation on whether we will reform to celebrate 20 years of Wannabe has been particularly exhausting. Don’t get me wrong – I totally get it. But is it a new rule that bands have to reform? Why can’t we just be remembered for our incredible achievements in the nineties?”