Singer Melanie C has revealed that she was "relieved" to step away from the Spice Girls' 20th anniversary plans.

There has been much speculation about the girl power group's reported reunion, but Melanie C won't be a part of it because she decided she didn't want to devote her time to that project as she is needed elsewhere: 

"It was a really hard decision to make. But once it was made I felt very relieved and that proved to me that my instinct was right. There's always an ebb and flow to how much we stay in touch. We have spells of seeing each other and then not speaking for months. Family life and career takes over. I'd love to see the girls more and when we do have periods of being in each other's lives, it's lovely."

She added to the Sunday Post that the Spice Girls had so much ambition and hope when they first started out, which really paid off: "In the early days we didn't know what was going to happen but we were so ambitious and determined. After we released 'Wannabe' every single went to No 1. It was like everything we touched turned to gold."

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