Mel C reveals she was almost kicked out of the Spice Girls for telling Victoria Beckham to ‘f**k off’ in a row about hair at the 1996 BRITs

Mel C has revealed that a row with Victoria Beckham at the 1996 BRIT Awards nearly led to her being kicked out of the Spice Girls.

The singer, 52, was one of the members of the band alongside Victoria, Geri Halliwell, Mel B and Emma Bunton during their rise to fame in the late 1990s.

Mel has now shared that she was involved in a clash with Victoria where she told the designer to ‘f**k off,’ and she feared she was going to ‘lose everything’ after learning her bandmates were ‘disgusted’ by her comments.

Victoria has distanced herself from the Spice Girls in recent years, and she failed to join the group for their reunion tour in 2019.

Mel shared the story of the clash on The Louis Theroux Podcast, after detailing how she felt like the band would ‘police’ each other to avoid any members from going ‘off the rails.’

Louis then revealed: ‘Early on, you had an incident which you talk about at the ’96 Brit Awards. Because you were just now talking about policing each other, and there was a moment where you were policed by the band mates.

They felt, and it sounds so trivial, you’d taken your hair out, so you no longer had a ponytail, and this was before you even had released any music, but you were at the Brits, so you were under scrutiny, and your fellow band mates thought, “What are you doing? You’re f*****g with, uh, the look, the look of the band. We’ve all got certain hair that we have.”

‘And they criticised you, and you told one of them to f**k off, and then the next day they all came on very heavy, sort of telling you like that was, you were out of line, your behaviour was disgusting.’

Mel then shared: ‘I went into terror because I thought I was going to lose everything. You know, those dreams as a child, which now were a possibility, I might have f*cked it all up.

‘And I thought it was very trivial as well because, to put some more meat on the bones of that evening, it was the Brit Awards in 1996, which fall around February time. So, we hadn’t released anything. Nobody in the public knew us.

‘But in the industry, people had started talking, and we were there, signed to Virgin Records, and we were sitting on a table with Lenny Kravitz, obviously, we were these young girls so this was an amazing night for us. We had a great night.

‘We had a few champagnes. […] We were going to find our car and whatever the, the situation was where I just turned around and said to Victoria, “Oh, f**k off.”

‘Unbeknownst to me, go home, go to bed, wake up the next morning, and I was in a lot of trouble. I was living with Mel B at the time.

‘We were living in Watford, and Geri also lived in Watford, and they were both there when I got up. And yeah, they were just disgusted with my behaviour.

You know when you’ve had a night out, and you wake up in the morning, and you’ve got beer fear, right?. You think, “Oh, f*ck, I know what I did last night.”

‘I didn’t even have that. I just woke up going, “Oh, last, last night was fun,” where I had completely brushed off that situation.

‘But obviously, it had really affected people in a way I hadn’t realised. So I was in trouble, and then Simon wanted to speak to me, and I was told in no uncertain terms if anything ever happened like that again, I would be gone.

‘So that completely freaked me out, one, because I didn’t realise I’d done anything that terribly bad, and two, because my actions may have led to me losing everything I’d ever wanted, you know?’

Mel previously shared that she is still holding out hope for a Spice Girls reunion, and said she’d love to see the band headline Glastonbury Festival.

It follows rumours that the Spice Girls are set to virtually reunite on stage in the form of holographic avatars, like those seen in the ABBA Voyage show in East London.

Victoria said on SiriusXM radio this week: ‘I think it would be a great idea. The principle of it would be great. We were talking about it at dinner, but we’ll see.’

Addressing the rumours, Mel responded: ‘That would be an amazing thing for us to do, for that legacy to be able to live on, but personally, I want to see us on stage together.

I think we need to do some more live stuff, while we still can. There’s so many opportunities, we could do Glastonbury, we could to the Sphere [in Las Vegas], there’s lots of things I’d like to do and I’m working on them.’

She added of her own tour following the release of her new album: ‘I am doing a world tour, I haven’t done a world tour for over 20 years, but the impact of this record has allowed me to go international again.

‘I love performing, anyone who knows me [knows that]. It just doesn’t stop and I’m having the time of my life.

‘Once I get up there, honestly, it’s given me so much energy, it reminds me of why you do it. The people who appreciate your music, it’s the best thing.’

Melanie recently reunited with Scary Spice Mel B on stage as she promoted music from her album, with the duo performing Spice Up Your Life.