Spice Girls Tour CANCELED

Fri, 01 February 2008 at 10:25 pm

The Spice Girls just announced that they’re cutting their world tour short!

They have dropped Australia, China, South Africa and Argentina, reportedly because of poor ticket sales.

Here’s their official statement: “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. It was announced in June that, as well as the Europe and the US, the girls planned to visit Australia, China, South Africa and Argentina. Due to the phenomenal demand for tickets in the UK and the US along with the touring logistics for such a massive production it was not possible to fit everything in. As the girls return to normal family life and the kids go back to school they are reviewing all the options, who knows what the future might bring!”

The girls said: “We’ve had such an amazing time over the last 3 months. It’s been incredible being back together and seeing our fans again. We want to thank everyone who came to see us. It was all so mad the first time round, so we’ve really been able to appreciate it properly this time. There have been so many highlights and good times that we know it will be hard to be apart after Toronto. Really sorry if we didn’t get to see you this time round. We all have other commitments in our lives now but who knows what will happen next.”

Thanks, Doobybrain!

Photos: Big Pictures/Bauer-Griffin
Posted to: Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham
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# 31

Never scared to say it @ 02/02/2008 at 8:04 am

canceled…it don’t even need to happen.first they were washed up and now since posh marries beckham and moves to America ,scary spice haves Eddie’s ******* baby …now they’re hot again.please….

# 32

indiesr @ 02/02/2008 at 8:51 am

Turth be told…the girls are getting on each others nerves, so its time to call it quits!

# 33

change america @ 02/02/2008 at 9:07 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNTXQwUlOBU

# 34

Elizabeth @ 02/02/2008 at 9:56 am

It wasn’t because of poor ticket sales - they never even put tickets on sale in those countries! I think they just have other commitments . . . we’ll find out soon enough.

# 35

Didi @ 02/02/2008 at 10:42 am

of course its ticket sales you idiots.you guys no nothing about PR. its a classic PR excuse. truth is nobody wants to see the spice girls. its only the UK and US that are f*cking idiots and actually give a sh*t whether these talentless tarts are still alive. The rest of the world is privy to their arsehole-ness.
Their excuse of ‘family commitments’ is laughable and a pathetic attempt to cloud the fact that they are washed up has beens with sh*t voices and the rest of the world doesnt wanna see their wrinky bits bouncing around on stage. if they wanted to see that they’d go to a rod steward concert.

# 36

Portmanteau @ 02/02/2008 at 10:50 am

I heard it was because they all got major anal leakage from a bag of Olean chips.

# 37

TaTiSpIcE @ 02/02/2008 at 10:52 am

**** you spice girls
I really believe in you

# 38

Dieter @ 02/02/2008 at 10:52 am

I just jerked on Vicky B´s HOT PUMPS - my jeans is creamed !!!!

# 39

TaTiSpIcE @ 02/02/2008 at 10:54 am

F*ck you spice girls
I won´t buy anything from now on

# 40

whatever @ 02/02/2008 at 11:04 am

DIDI UR AN EVIL PERSON!
**** U!

# 41

He-who-shall-not-be-named @ 02/02/2008 at 11:12 am

Some other sources are citing that both Mel’s want out, bcoz US offers have been flooding in on Mel B after her success on DWTS and she reportedly misses her husband and the Spice kids will need to go back to school eventually. Mel C thinks that taking longer on SG tour could jeopardise her solo career. What a bunch of crap. Victoria has always been running all over the globe leaving her kids behind,on Fashion commitments. Mel B has been in L.A the past couple of years without a job and a bank account drying up, does she think think she would been extended an offer in the spotlight on DWTS if wasn’t for all the hype about the SPice Girls reunion and group’s connection with Victoria Beckham? ***** think she’s all that now? The girls should be grateful that Victoria accepted to be part of it, bcoz the seats at the concerts were mostly filled with 13+ hoping to do celebrity sighting of Posh. Some of these kids do not even remember words to the Spice songs at the Montreal gig, but were just fascinated by “Posh” even if she couldn’t sing to save her life.
Maybe it is a belssing in disguise, bcoz Ithe Spice Girls didn’t meet my expectation at the Montreal gig on thurs 31/01. You could see they were less enthusiastic, and looked tired and bored with the same routines after playing over 40 shows. Even my husband remarked that Victoria Beckham wasn’t doing any effort, she was robotic.Posh was just there to enjoy her celebrity status.The show was scheduled at 7.30 p.m, the arena was till closed bcoz the crew was still setting up the stage and doing sound check. The show started 2 hrs later! The 2nd half got better when they performed individually and finished off with the greatest hits. Maybe those who came to see Posh thought it was a great show because they didn’t give a crap about the performance! Maybe the fans in Australia , S.Africa , HOng KOng are better off not spending money on concerts were the artists are not giving them their money’s worth. The Spice Girls didný even say goodbye when they finnished the last song at the Montreal gig. They just went away and we had to figure it was time to go home when the lights went off!

# 42

koko @ 02/02/2008 at 11:29 am

Simon Fuller wanted to make some quick bucks off Spice Girls too, and realised the tour logistics for Australia, Hong Kong, Argentina S.Africa etc might harm his pockets too! The Spice girls were in it for the cash including their crooked manager too! Since they all live lavish lifestyles between U.K and U.S, the currency in these countries have a lower rate of exchange against U.S $ and U.K pounds, which means they will be les rich when they cash the profit at the bank in U.S and Europe.Otherwise they would have to charge tickets at ridiculously high fees outside America and Europe., and they better not go there than having the Spice camp answer about unethical practice.

# 43

JI @ 02/02/2008 at 11:42 am

Soo much for doing it all for the fans eh?

# 44

giannis @ 02/02/2008 at 11:54 am

Why canceled?
mjgossip.blogspot.com

# 45

Dieter @ 02/02/2008 at 12:12 pm

I wanked again on Vicky B´s hot ass !!!

# 46

evemeyer @ 02/02/2008 at 12:21 pm

hmmm… maybe because they suck. Do they do anything for society besides runaround looking like snobby old ladies?

# 47

mina @ 02/02/2008 at 12:52 pm

i went to one of their concerts in LA and they were amazing! it sucks that they can’t make it to the other countries right now but i know that mel c has to keep promoting her solo album (which is very good btw). so maybe later in the year they’ll be able to make some of the concerts up

# 48

Angela antunes @ 02/02/2008 at 1:16 pm

It has absolutely nothing to do with poor ticket sales. the dates were never announced and tickets didn’t even get to go on sale.

# 49

Arc @ 02/02/2008 at 4:11 pm

The tickets for those countries NEVER were on sale, so “low ticket sales” is false. Please try to say confirmed news not just rumors or lies.

# 50

Alwayslearning @ 02/02/2008 at 4:20 pm

all good things must come to an end

# 51

Lisa @ 02/02/2008 at 5:14 pm

Just. How. Gay. Is. Mel. Sporty. Spice. C???????

# 52

lex @ 02/02/2008 at 5:32 pm

wat ever they reckon

they were never gonna come to oz.. like it was said tix never went on sale
they suck
glad i got to see becks when he came

# 53

helen @ 02/02/2008 at 5:51 pm

i hate them i don’t know why you would go an see them they are s**t i hope they stay in the usa don’t let them back to the uk o yeah and i think they are liein they new they had familys be4 i hope we see the last of this so called pop band i h8 made up their new song didnt do to well here in the uk it didnt make number 1 yeah i love pop just hate them an they are ugly give us english bad press and mel c isnt from liverpool so i wish she would stop makein out like she is and posh has had a bad boob job an david isnt in the england team anymore coz hes not that gd now ………..,

# 54

clary @ 02/02/2008 at 6:43 pm

who want to continue when they already earned millions……..and poor sales ticket……lies…….in ingland because they born there and america probably they sing in a theatre……….never in a madison square……plus when i read …..next time……..they need to change the name from spice girls…….to spice grannies……..

# 55

celebrityfanchat rap @ 02/02/2008 at 7:19 pm

thats sad

# 56

shesmaplified @ 02/02/2008 at 7:38 pm

perhaps if they announced a show in australia, or even started to sell tickets then they could predict that they ticket sales wernt going fast…

# 57

brittany @ 02/02/2008 at 8:50 pm

I bet you it’s because they’re fighting.

# 58

emma @ 02/02/2008 at 9:37 pm

you people posting “who cares” comments…
well obviously YOU do otherwise why waste your precious time stating you don’t lol
you care enough to comment
get a life

# 59

Kate @ 02/04/2008 at 1:20 am

It wasn’t because of poor ticket sales at all. Tickets weren’t even on sale yet and no renewed date had been announced. They were originally performing in sydney at the middle of January, which was pushed back and a new date was never set.

# 60

Selina @ 02/04/2008 at 6:33 am

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bring-the-spice-girls-to-australia.html

Sign this petition to try and get the Spice Girls to reconsider the cancellation of their tour down under!!

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