Victoria Beckham Reveals Spice Girls Original Name

[JamesG]

Victoria Beckham Reveals the Spice Girls' Original Name and Her Audition Song
by Antoinette Bueno
June 5, 2015


Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, is spilling some details about the origins of the beloved Spice Girls!

The 41-year-old fashion designer sat down with Fern Mallis at 92nd Street Y in New York City on Wednesday, when she happily talked about her British girl band past -- including the original name the group was supposed to be known as.

"In the beginning, we were going to be The Spicy Girls, but then we realized there was a porn site called the Spicy Girls," she dished. "That wouldn't have been good!"



Victoria also said she beat out thousands of girls who auditioned for the group by singing 'Mein Herr' from the musical Cabaret.

"Everybody sang a pop song," she recalled. "I think I sang 'Mein Herr' from Cabaret, which was really, really not the right thing to do but it got me in the group."





Apparently, their famous nicknames -- Sporty Spice, Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Scary Spice and Posh Spice -- were actually just the girls being themselves.

"Nobody put those images on us," she stressed. "We all just looked that way. I always dressed that way. Mel B was always the scary one wearing the leopard print and Emma was always the baby one wearing the pigtails and there’s those bloody awful shoes they made us -- those big platform shoes."



To this day, Victoria and her former bandmates -- Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell -- have managed to maintain their friendships.

"I'm still very close with the girls," she said. "They're all really, really great girls."

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[Marvo301]

I wonder how common it is these days for bands to have to change their names to avoid copying website names!! I bet it happens quite a bit!