Mel C on why she'd never be part of a Spice Girls reunion

Mel C has explained in The Love magazine why she was not behind a Spice Girls reunion, she wrote:

"Look I will be a Spice Girl until I die. But the continuous speculation on whether we will reform to celebrate 20 years of Wannabe has been particularly exhausting.

"Don't get me wrong - I totally get it. But is it a new rule that bands have to reform? Why can’t we just be remembered for our incredible achievements in the nineties. When we embarked on the [2007] reunion tour it was amazing, scary and surreal all at the same time. The five of us back together again. Like we’d stepped back in time for a global celebration of the band."

"When we reunited in 2007 the questions stopped momentarily. We had done it – the fans were happy and we were happy. But the minute that tour ended it started again.

"Truth be told, earlier this year after several face-to-face meetings with the girls I made the difficult decision not to be part of a proposed reunion with Emma, Geri and Melanie. Victoria had already bowed out understandably with the demands of her fashion label and her rather large family.

"The hardest part for me was letting people down, the girls, the fans, civilisation?!

"Unfortunately something didn’t feel quite right and I had to follow my gut."

"Things were so different in the early days of the Spice Girls. Nobody had the internet (it was all pagers and faxes) and we were written about most days in the tabloids but the only access to that was popping down to the newsagents at the crack of dawn to check out the gossip columns."

Sons of Sonix ft. Melanie C new track ‘Numb’ is available now.

Watch the lyric video for 'Numb' and Melanie C's 40th birthday concert below: