Victoria Beckham reunites with fellow Spice Girls to celebrate Emma Bunton’s 50th birthday amid Brooklyn Peltz-Beckham fallout.
As the fallout between Brooklyn Peltz-Beckham and his mother Victoria Beckham rumbles on, Posh Spice reunites with her fellow Spice Girls for a birthday celebration.
After Mel B dropped a huge Spice Girls reunion hint on social media last week, the girls (minus Scary Spice) have got together to celebrate Emma Bunton’s 50th birthday. The renewed whispers about the iconic girl group getting back together come amid a media storm surrounding Victoria Beckham’s fallout with eldest son Brooklyn Peltz-Beckham.
The dramatic and public family row came to a head on Monday (January 19) when Brooklyn made a series of allegations about Victoria and husband David Beckham in an explosive statement via Instagram. The 26-year-old alleged that his parents control narratives about his family in the press, tried to “ruin” his relationship with his wife and said Victoria “hijacked” his first dance with Nicola at their wedding, dancing “inappropriately on me” in front of their guests.
Since then there has been an enormous amount of speculation about what has actually gone on, what actually happened at Brooklyn and Nicola’s wedding and how Victoria might escape the PR disaster – including the prospect of a Spice Girls reunion to draw attention away from family matters.
Adding fuel to that particular fire, Victoria – otherwise known as Posh Spice – shared a post to her 40 million Instagram followers showing herself with Bunton, Geri Halliwell-Horner and Melanie Chisholm. The 51-year-old wrote: “Happy birthday to the most beautiful soul @emmaleebunton I love you girls so much @gerihalliwellhorner @melaniecmusic xxxxxxx.”
The chart-topping girl group gathered to celebrate after Bunton, the youngest of the band and nicknamed Baby Spice, turned 50 on Wednesday (January 21). Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B or Scary Spice, was not pictured with her bandmates but had shared a carousel of pictures on Instagram to celebrate on Bunton’s birthday.
Fans flooded Victoria’s post with excited comments, as the photo follows speculation about a possible reunion as the 30th anniversary of the Spice Girls’ hit single Wannabe approaches. David, commented on the post: “This made me happy. I can only imagine how the spice girls fans feel.”
Emma shared the post to her Instagram story and commented: “Love you all so much.”
Mel C, also known to fans as Sporty Spice, shared the same photo on Instagram to her 1.2 million followers, and wrote: “The most beautiful night celebrating our @emmaleebunton over 30 years of friendship, love you all more than ever.”
Halliwell-Horner, or Ginger Spice, shared the image to her page, tagging her bandmates with the caption: “Birthday celebration.”
The girl group shot to fame with their debut single, Wannabe, in 1996 and followed it with hits including Stop and 2 Become 1. After two years at the top of the charts, Halliwell-Horner shocked the world when she left in 1998, citing “differences between us”, and in December 2000 the rest of the group went their separate ways, announcing an indefinite hiatus.
The Spice Girls reunited in 2012 for the closing ceremony of the London Summer Olympics and in 2019 for their Spice World tour – which did not feature Posh Spice.
