The Return of the Spice Girls Tour

The seventeen-night sellout residency at London's O2 Arena was the highest-grossing engagement of the year, taking in $33.8 million and drawing an audience of 256,647, winning the 2008 Billboard Touring Award for Top Boxscore.

On 28 June 2007, the Spice Girls held a press conference at the O2 Arena in London, formally announcing their intention to reunite as a group,[5] a plan that had long been speculated on by the media.

An up-tempo jazz version of "Too Much" is performed with the group dressed in tuxedos, while doing a striptease behind neon pink-coloured, heart-shaped doors.

[10][11] "2 Become 1" is performed next while each of the girls emerged from a cocoon of oversized swan wings and danced around a set of barber's poles while singing the song.

[12] The third act begins with a video of falling money and the titles Baby, Posh, Sporty, Scary and Ginger appear on the screen with their signature themes.

Beckham is then left on stage giving a Catwalk / Runway dance to a remix of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna and "Supermodel (You Better Work)" by Ru Paul.

The girls then take off their robes to reveal glittery outfits: Mel B in gold, Halliwell in blue, Melanie C in orange, Beckham in green, and Bunton in pink.

At the end, a cannon exploded showering the stage with pieces of gold, white and black paper strips, while flags from different countries flashed across the backdrop screens.

This confirmed that the originally planned shows in Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Sydney and Tokyo, among other potential locations, were cancelled.

[18] Still, the band suffered international fan backlash, with some creating Facebook hate- and slander-groups, speculating that the official announcement was "indirect" and vague, and that the Spice Girls and their management "knew the dates were cancelled", even before they added 16 dates at London’s O2, and that they strategically decided to announce the change near the end of the tour to "minimize controversy".

However, Mel B confirmed on her website that footage of the tour was recorded but the quality was poor and they felt it was wrong to release a DVD for local distribution.

The Spice Girls performing "Spice Up Your Life" as the opening number of their Return of the Spice Girls tour, at the Air Canada Centre , in Toronto; wearing tight metallic coloured outfits designed by Roberto Cavalli .
The show ends with the slogan "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED – SPICE"
The group performing a remix of "Spice Up Your Life" at the Air Canada Centre, during the encore.