Victoria Beckham: 'The Spice Girls originally had a porn name'

Singer turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham has revealed that when she first joined the Spice Girls, the group was set to have a different name but their management soon discovered that the moniker they wanted was shared with a porn site.

Speaking during a Q&A with Fern Mallis at New York City's 92nd St. Y, Beckham explained that they were originally going to be called the Spicy Girls, but there was a naughty website with the exact same name so that idea had to be scrapped:

"There were thousands of girls that turned up to audition for the group. There were queues around the studio. Everybody sang a pop song. I sang 'Mein Herr' from [the Broadway musical] 'Cabaret', which was really not the right thing to do, but it was very dramatic. In the beginning, we were going to be The Spicy Girls, but then we realised there was a porn site called the Spicy Girls. That wouldn't have been good!"

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