Mel C hints at Spice Girls drama, reveals excluded members from WhatsApp groups

Melanie C has hinted at more Spice Girls drama as she revealed certain members are excluded from some WhatsApp group chats.

The Spice Girls once sang that ‘friendship never ends’, but it can clearly become strained over time.

Melanie, 51, aka Sporty Spice, has revealed Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell are excluded from some of their WhatsApp chat groups.

‘There are subgroups within the group,’ Mel C admits in an interview Down Under.

‘I definitely know there is a chat group that doesn’t contain me, but somewhere else we keep Ginger or Posh out. Like all friendship groups, we have many ways of communicating.’

Melanie, who was the only one of the four other Spice Girls to attend Mel B’s second wedding to Rory McPhee in Morocco at the weekend, also admits she regrets not holding on to her outfits from the pop group’s heyday.

Mel C’s words comes days after she attended Mel B’s ‘spiritual’ second wedding to Rory McPhee over the weekend – of which none of the other girls were present.

While Emma Bunton made the first ceremony at London’s St Paul’s cathedral last month, Geri nor Victoria were in attendance at either do – though the latter sent her apologies. 

It was thought the Spice Girls could be set for a reunion at the Moroccan celebrations, with Geri given the chance to extend an olive branch to Mel if she attended the North African ceremony, however it wasn’t meant to be.

Geri’s no show was said to be down to hers and Mel’s tempestuous relationship.

The two women went to war after Mel revealed during an interview on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories that she had an intimate relationship with Geri when the band was starting out. 

Geri was deeply upset by the bombshell revelation in 2019, for which Mel has apparently never apologised. 

In recent years, the Spice Girls have been the subject of several feud rumours, with one said fallout occurring just last year.

In December, it was reported that Netflix had given the feuding band a ‘stark ultimatum’ over a much publicised TV biopic, which could net all five members £1million each.

According to The Sun the streaming service stepped in after Geri decided to back out of her involvement in the project, after she Mel B, Mel C, Emma and Victoria were all approached. 

The publication reports that Netflix has told the band to make up otherwise, much like controversial drama The Crown, will make the show without any input from the people featured in it.

A source said: ‘Executives are keen to have all the group on board providing as much input as possible – after all they are pop royalty.

‘But Netflix are the organisation who defied the wishes of real royalty and went ahead and made The Crown, so they aren’t afraid to go it alone when they have to.

‘The project is in its very early stages so there’s plenty of time to get all five Spice Girls involved.

The month before, Geri’s husband Christian Horner was forced to deny claims he was to blame for ‘derailing’ the band’s TV project. 

It came after Ginger Spice  reportedly turned down the lucrativeTV drama deal for the nineties pop group amid rumours she and Christian have been approached to make a ‘really personal’ fly-on-the-wall TV series.

Dismissing reports of a documentary earlier this year, Christian told the PA news agency: ‘There is a lot being written about different things, but there are absolutely no plans to do a family documentary.

‘Netflix do enough, and you see enough of the behind-the-scenes on that. So where that report has come from, I have absolutely no idea.’