Former England footballer Beckham sparked a social media frenzy when he posted a video of the girl band singing and dancing on stage to their 1998 hit Stop, during his wife Victoria’s 50th birthday party. 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 Victoria. “I know it’s what people want, but in all honesty, I think I was the most excited of anyone,” Beckham told Variety of the on-stage birthday reunion.

“The fact that, obviously, we had all of the girls in one room. All of the girls haven’t been on a stage together for over 15 years. “So, to have them all there, to have them all up on stage, to have our youngest son playing guitar.

“The whole reason why the girls are actually up there was I didn’t want to do a traditional video of old clips and people saying, ‘Happy birthday, Victoria!’ “My idea was to recreate the Mama video, but I wanted it of just Victoria.” Beckham said that while the recreation was being shown, the couple’s youngest son Cruz was playing Mama on the guitar and all five women – Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown and Victoria – got up on the stage. “It was an amazing moment,” Beckham said, before shutting down any speculation of a Spice Girls tour reunion.

He continued: “Unfortunately, that’s not happening. “Victoria was so pleased to see the girls, and it was a massive part of her .