Why spice girls split

Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Frustration, defiance in village to be abandoned to the sea 1 hour ago. Once the girls were selected, they spent most of practicing the songs and dance routines they had been given.

Their first single Wannabe was a breakout success, as it still is today. In fact, Spotify announced in that the song had been streamed for an equivalent of 1, years. The next two years were spent conquering the music industry.

They toured the world and became a merchandising powerhouse. But the big move that really set them apart from other groups of their time, the Spice Girls even had their own movie. At the height of their success in , Halliwell left the band. The women had been fighting constantly, and the demanding schedules were taking a toll on all of them.

However, Halliwell had reached her breaking point. It was May 26, The Spice Girls, then the biggest girl band of all time, were at the tail end of their European tour and had flown out of Helsinki to launch the midweek Lottery in the UK.

Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were set to take the stage the next evening in Oslo and the American leg of the tour was due to start in just a couple of weeks in Miami. Geri had already warned the girls a couple of months earlier, while in Milan in March, of her plans to depart the band. She sat the girls down in a dressing room when she announced her decision to leave at the end of the world tour, notably after the Spice Girls' scheduled performance at Wembley Stadium that September.

By this stage the Spice Girls' insane schedule had taken a toll and Geri's eating disorders had returned at full force. Her life, she felt, was spiralling out of control. Over the next two months, Ginger had began to slowly lose some of her colour. Her outfits less daring, her hair a shade or two lighter. Her blonde streaks removed. Less make up. Layer upon layer unravelling before the public's eye. She knew she wanted to get off the rollercoaster. She said the girls had begun to squabble and that "things were far from perfect".

Lawyers had been informed and the four remaining girls began to grow closer, Geri thought. The wheels for a departure were in motion. On the flight home to London to launch the Lottery in May, the girls were in good spirits.

The girls hugged, said "See you tomorrow" — and that was it. But then, all hell was let loose in Spice world — a snap decision that would throw the plan into disarray and would leave the girls gobsmacked. That morning, Geri had discovered a "heavyweight" breast cancer interview that she had scheduled had been cancelled despite The Sun running a front page piece headlined: "Ginger Spice secret breast cancer op".

For Geri, it was a particularly sensitive issue. She was keen to use her fame for higher purposes and felt this an ample opportunity after she had emergency surgery on a small lump in her breast at the age of Despite her negative result, she was desperate to highlight the issue and felt it was a chance to send out a positive message to check your breasts.

The answer was obvious — it was time for me to go. Forget Wembley Stadium! Ginger Spice is no more. She has left the band. After the call from the Spice Girls' lawyer, Victoria's reaction was to simply ignore it. A monkey's bum would have been more attractive. But the issue couldn't be ignored forever.