FANS hoping for a Spice Girls reunion may be disappointed, after Wye Valley-based Mel C said it may never happen.

Geri Horner, Emma Benton and Mel B previously said they would reunite for the group’s 20th anniversary of their global smash Wannabe last year.

That didn’t happen, and after Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, firmly ruled herself out of any reunion, Sporty Spice – who has a home in Catbrook near Tintern – said last week on national TV she wasn’t interested in a four-piece reunion.

Melanie Chisholm told Davina McCall on ITV’s The Nightly Show: “It’s not really doing the band justice to go out as a four piece. Whoever’s missing, it doesn’t matter.

“I think for me Spice Girls is like a jigsaw puzzle. It’s different to other bands. Look at Take That – they’re going out as a three piece and they’re brilliant. I love the boys! But with the Spice Girls, everything about us was the individuality and what that created together.”

Sporty Spice has previously ruled herself out of a Spice Girls reunion, penning an emotionally penned letter last year.

She said: “I’d love to play huge arenas across the world, sing our brilliantly bonkers pop songs and relive our former glory.

“It is of course a very lucrative opportunity too. But we were a five-piece band. Didn’t we reach a peak with the Olympics?

“There’s a lot to be said for bowing out on a high note. For me, the absolute pinnacle of my Spice existence was being watched by a billion people around the globe belting out Spice up Your Life on top of a black cab at the 2012 London Olympics.

“Anything less than the full line-up just didn’t feel like we’d be doing justice to the band or the fans.

“I haven’t been on stage with any of the girls since London 2012. In my history of being a Spice girl, that was my favourite thing. It was so incredible!”