Victoria Beckham Once Got Into A Fight With Another Spice Girl

Posted by Almeda Bohannan on Thursday, May 9, 2024

Victoria Beckham, also known as Posh Spice, is one of the more reserved Spice Girls. That said, you still wouldn't want to be on her bad side. Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, revealed the time that her standing in the group was in jeopardy after getting into an argument with Beckham at the 1996 Brit Awards. "We had a few drinks, and we were all probably a bit tipsy, and I told Victoria where to go," Chisolm told People in 2020. "It wasn't even in front of anyone — I think we were leaving and getting into our car. But it was a big deal at the time, and I got into lots of trouble."

Chisholm recounted the fight in a subsequent interview on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs (via The Guardian), where she revealed, "I was told if it happened again I would be out."

It's interesting to imagine a timeline where Melanie C was the first to exit the Spice Girls instead of Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), especially so early in the group's career. Given that the fight happened in 1996 before they had totally blown up, they might not have reached their future heights with one less member. The five of them were marketed so differently, each appealing to a particular demographic, and they were all important pieces of the puzzle. "We're a community in which each one of us shines individually, without making any of the others feel insecure," Halliwell said in 1996, per The Guardian. "We liberate each other." 

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