Courtesy of http://winnipegsun.com/Entertainment/Music/2008/02/25/4875366.html
The Spice Girls are going to stop their reunion world tour Tuesday at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre and faster than you can say “goodbye my friend” to Sporty, Ginger, Scary, Baby and Posh, four of the five female members already are poised to relaunch their solo careers.
Posh (aka Victoria Beckham) is scheduled to appear at Holt Renfrew in Toronto Tuesday (2-3 p.m.) for a personal appearance for her previously established fashion line, dVb, and is the new model for Marc Jacobs’ spring-summer collection.
Sporty (aka Melanie Chisholm) visits MuchMusic Wednesday (5-6 p.m.) and MTV (6-7 p.m.) to promote the video for her new single, Carolyna, from her new solo album, This Time, due in stores April 8.
Scary (aka Mel B) is going to be a Dancing With The Stars correspondent for Access Hollywood for the new sixth season starting March 17 after impressively dancing her way into the final last season. She is also working on a fashion line and a solo album.
Ginger (aka Geri Halliwell) has the first in a new children’s book series due in May featuring a character named Ugenia Lavender, whom she has described as “a rebirth of Girl Power.”
It’s only Baby (aka Emma Bunton) whose solo career is looking a little shaky, post-Spice, but as the newest mother of the group, perhaps being a mum is taking priority.
The campy, glamorous Spice Girls reunion world tour, which began back on Dec. 2 in Vancouver, has gotten rave reviews for its elaborate costumes, slick choreography and fun staging, and has been a huge success in England, Spain, Germany and North America.
The biggest shock of the entire trek was their decision earlier this month to end it all in Toronto Tuesday, forgoing expected appearances in Australia, China, South Africa and Argentina — spawning rumours of both poor ticket sales in those markets and infighting.
A more recent story said that Melanie C told World Entertainment News Network she wanted to continue touring with Mel B and Bunton: “If they’d be up for it — I think it would be lovely. I enjoy singing with the girls. It would be great.”
But on their own website, the Girls said: “Sadly, the tour needs to come to an end by the end of February due to family and personal commitments for Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria.”
The news release said that due to “the phenomenal demand for tickets in the UK and the U.S., along with the touring logistics for such a massive production, it was not possible to fit everything in.”
Later, the five Spice Girls even videotaped an apology they released on their website that showed them pretending to fight each other.
Still, the decision led to the burning of Spice Girls CDs, DVDs, books and solo releases in Australia that was filmed and posted online on YouTube, along with plenty of outraged fan comments.
Halliwell already told Billboard a second Spice outing “probably won’t happen ever again.”
“This is the last time you will ever get to see this Girl Power, the five Spices on the stage as one,” said Halliwell, who shocked fans when she left the group in May 1998 during the first go-round of “Girl Power.”
However, Halliwell also told Billboard, “What this reunion taught me is you can never say never.”
Yes indeed, this being a money-making venture — at least in some parts of the world with their 17-show run in London alone rumoured to have netted them nearly $20 million each — don’t expect Tuesday is the last you will see of the Spice Girls.
Their Madison Square Garden shows were reportedly filmed for a DVD and that can only mean a live CD too, can’t it?
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2 comments:
Your blog looks nice, although I think it is kinda useless as they whole Spice Girls thing will be over tonight.
yeah, but it wont be just on the Spice Girls, it will be on about Solo careers and news individually!!
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