Victoria Beckham Reveals What the Spice Girls Were Originally Named

Posh Spice sat down for a Q&A with Fern Mallis, the creator of New York Fashion Week and shared some previously unknown information!

Beckham revealed some inside details about the try-outs for the Spice Girls: “There were thousands of girls that turned up to audition for the group. There were queues around the studio. Everybody sang a pop song. I sang ‘Mein Herr’ from [the Broadway musical] Cabaret, which was really not the right thing to do, but it was very dramatic.”

When Beckham, Mel B, Emma Bunton, Mel C and Geri Halliwell ended up making the group, picking a name was next, and things could have been really different with the addition of one little “y.”

“In the beginning, we were going to be the Spicy Girls,” Beckham explained, “But then we realized there was a porn site called the Spicy Girls. That wouldn’t have been good!”