Spice Girls apologise to fans
2008-02-07 09:38
London - The Spice Girls said sorry to disappointed fans on Wednesday for cutting short their reunion tour and denied it was hit by bitter in-fighting.
They have cancelled concerts in China, South Africa,
Australia and Argentina.
The tour that reunited the British "Girl Power" group in a blaze of publicity is now to end in Toronto on February 26.
Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria blamed "family and
personal commitments" for the abrupt change of plan after
completing a series of money-spinning concerts in Britain and
the United States.
From the horse's mouth
On Wednesday they put on their official website a
one-minute "apology video" to angry fans.
Victoria, married to soccer star David Beckham, said "Our
kids need to go back to school and we always said our families
are our priorities.
Sorry we haven't got to see everybody."
Mel C said: "There has been a lot of rubbish in the media
over the last few days so we wanted you to hear it from the
horse's mouth.
We're very sorry not to be able to get to all the
places we wanted to."
In the video, the quintet pretended to fight each other
before Mel B screamed: "We hate each other? Are you kidding? We
love each other!"
The Spice Girls were one of the biggest pop acts of the
1990s, selling 35 million albums worldwide with such catchy hits
as Wannabe and Say You'll Be There.