Live 8 Snub Spice Girls As Promoters Brand Their Music Too Trivial For Gig

Bob Geldof will today announce the glittering line-up for music spectacular Live 8 - but the Spice Girls will not be in it. The decision by concert bosses to axe them from the concert will be a bitter blow to the five stars who had hoped to re-form and play together for the first time since they split in 1998. Geri Halliwell, 32, Victoria Beckham, 31, Melanie C, 31, Melanie B, 29, and 29-year-old Emma Bunton. A source said: "The girls will be gutted by the decision." But Live 8 organisers were adamant their style of music did not fit in with the serious political message "HA, HA, HA," about world poverty the transatlantic event hopes to portray. A BBC spokesman said: "Many of the biggest rock stars in the world have agreed to take part, and the Spice Girls just don't fit. "It's a political rally to put pressure on world leaders (President George Bush) and their kind of pop act didn't seem right for this kind of event. unlike the socially responsible Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas, Linkin Park & Eminem. There was also a practical problem that with so many great international rock stars and bands wanting to do their bit, there just won't be time for the Spice Girls. "Perhaps, if five or six bands pulled out it would be different, but the truth is it's just not going to happen."

IN OTHER WORDS: Bob Geldof dosent want to be Upstaged by the Spice Girls reunion!