They may have just said Goodbye.
But the Spice Girls will be hoping to say hello to some cash after the curtain fell on their reunion tour.
I can reveal that the band’s company funds dwindled to just £86,000 before their recent concerts. Given that at their Nineties peak, the band’s firm was turning over more than £40million a year, that’s a pretty big drop.
Latest accounts show that Spice Girls Ltd had assets of £135,450 with around £50,000 of debts
yet to be paid.
So the group, minus Victoria Beckham, will hope that their 13-date tour, which ended last week, turns their fortunes around – as most of them have been hit by money worries.
In her book Brutally Honest last year, Melanie Brown – Scary Spice Mel B – claimed that she left her second marriage in 2017 with just £800 and a suitcase of clothes.
Last month it was revealed that separate firms set up by Mel B and Geri Horner to handle their earnings were struggling.
Geri’s Wonderful Productions made just £3,400, while Mel B’s Moneyspider Productions Limited gained only £13,300 in the year to August 2018.
Melanie Chisholm – Mel C – also agreed to the reunion after her firm Red Girl Records went £850,000 into debt.
But Emma Bunton’s Monsta Productions bucked the trend, with reserves doubling to just under £1m in the same year.
The girls are now understood to be lining up a series of mega-gigs in Europe, the USA and Asia – again without Victoria, who also has a stake in Spice Girls Ltd.
Her fashion firm is struggling – last year making an operating loss of £10.2m.
The Spice Girls tour came to an end last week with Adele and Emma Stone among fans at the Wembley shows – both were seen partying with the band afterwards.
