Mel C performs Spice Girls hit 2 Become 1 despite turning down reunion plans with her former bandmates
Sporty Spice took to the stage with Years & Years front man Olly Alexander where they performed the famous hit at a charity gig
MEL C performed Spice Girls hit 2 Become 1 despite turning down the chance to reunite with her ex-bandmates.
The singer teamed up with Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander for a duet of the track that was first made famous by the girl band in the nineties.
Their surprise performance happened last night at the Union Chapel in London’s Islington where Mel took to the stage with Olly – who looked over the moon to be singing with an actual Spice Girl.
But their duet will only come as a tease to fans of the world famous girl band who hoped to see all five members reunite next year in celebration of their 20th anniversary.
Sporty Spice, who performed at the Shelter presents Years and Years unplugged event, made her feelings clear about why she will not be joining the Spice Girls reunion earlier this year with an emotionally penned letter.
She said: “I’d love to play huge arenas across the world, sing our brilliantly bonkers pop songs and relive our former glory. It is of course a very lucrative opportunity too.
“But we were a five-piece band. Didn’t we reach a peak with the Olympics?
“There’s a lot to be said for bowing out on a high note. For me, the absolute pinnacle of my Spice existence was being watched by a billion people around the globe belting out Spice up Your Life on top of a black cab at the 2012 London Olympics.
“Anything less than the full line-up just didn’t feel like we’d be doing justice to the band or the fans.”
The Sun broke the news that the Spice Girls were reuniting without Victoria Beckham or Mel C to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a Hyde Park show next summer.
Melanie continued: “Truth be told, earlier this year, after several face-to face meetings with the girls, I made the difficult decision not to be part of a proposed reunion with Emma, Geri and Melanie.
“Victoria had already bowed out, understandably with the demands of her fashion label and her rather large family.
“The hardest part for me was letting people down, the girls, the fans, civilisation?! Unfortunately something didn’t feel quite right and I had to follow my gut.”
Spice Girl fans were sent into a meltdown after Geri Horner and Emma Bunton uploaded a picture of themselves in the studio last month.
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The snap posted by Geri and then shared by Emma saw the pair wearing oversized hats as the posed next to one another, Geri captioned it: “In studio, oooooh.”
Fans immediately flooded the image with comments such as, “You tease!”, “OMG EXCITED”, and “Come on let’s be having some more music.”
Emma and Geri – who’s pregnant with her second children are reforming with Mel B to create GEM, and will out on a show next summer.
