SPICE TIMES Staggering Spice Girls wealth gap revealed – from £500m fortune to star forced to live in mum’s bungalow

In November, the wealth gap between the girls once again came into the spotlight when Geri derailed a potentially lucrative TV show.

It would have been a dramatised version of the girls’ path to stardom, and they would all net the huge sum for essentially doing nothing.

PR guru Mark Borkowski said at the time: “What it all really boils down to is money and do the people involved in this kind of thing need it.

“And in [that] instance, Geri doesn’t need it. Before that, it was Victoria saying no.

“Things like this always come down to who wants it and who needs the money.”

At their peak, they were thought to have earned around £59.5million per year.

By May 1998, Geri announced she was leaving the group due to depression and differences between the group, just as they were about to embark on a North American tour.

Her departure hit a particularly sore note for Mel B, as the announcement came out on her birthday, without warning.

Mark said: “Behind the scenes, things aren’t always going to be hunky-dory.

“It’s like a family dynamic, people will argue and have that kind of sibling rivalry. Things don’t always go smoothly.”

While the other four carried on for another three years, in 2001, they went on hiatus, insisting it wasn’t a permanent end.

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