Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell has admitted that the Spice Girls have finished for good. When the girls announced recently that their reunion tour will finish at the end of the month, they hinted more shows would come - saying: "Who knows what will happen next?"
But now Geri admits that a reunion tour "probably won't happen ever again".
The group's Return of the Spice Girls World Tour finishes in Toronto on February 26 - without having gone to many of the countries the girls had earlier promised to visit. "I'm still absolutely blown away that we did more than one show. So right now I'm thinking this is it," Geri admitted.
"This is the last time you will ever get to see this Girl Power, the five Spices on the stage as one."
However, even while giving such a clear sign that the band is through, Geri still refuses to completely destroy fans' dreams. "What this reunion taught me is you can never say never," she told a U.S. magazine amid reports the girls could regroup for longtime-fan Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday this summer. "If you had asked me 10 years ago whether there'd ever be a Spice Girls reunion concert, I'd have gone, 'No f*cking way!'"
Geri insists the comeback was "amazing" and "an experience of a lifetime", adding: "I couldn't have asked for it to be better, actually."
She denied reports that that the reunion was terminating early because of in-fighting among the five Spices. "Actually it's gone on longer than planned, because we thought we were only going to go to the end of January, she said. "After February everybody had commitments - kids had to go back to school and that.
"So we had to leave places out that we would have loved to have gone to."
Halliwell does have her own post-Spice plan in place. In May she'll roll out the first in a new children's book series featuring a character named Ugenia Lavender, who Halliwell describes as "a rebirth of girl power".
She insists: "I love writing. It's my passion. It's something I feel was very complementary to my life as a mother, to become a writer."
Asked if she sees herself as the next JK Rowling, she laughed: "Oh, I don't think she's shaking in her boots. "But I admire her very, very much."
By Owen Williams, Feb 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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