'Spice Girls' 2016 reunion rumor: Mel B wants 'things to hurry along'

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If you're waxing nostalgic about your favorite pop acts of the '90s, especially the Spice Girls, then Scary Spice has some great news for you. The 40-year-old singer had been busy appearing as a judge for the 10th season of America's Got Talent, which recently concluded, but she dropped by HuffPost Live to talk about America's Got Talent's finale, and of course, Mel B's background as a Spice Girl, the special bond she has with the four women in the group, and her hopes for a reunion of sorts.

Melanie B told HuffPost Live, "The press, still to this day, they like to pit each other against each other." She also said that some tabloids have been reporting that she and her band mates were not in good terms. In fact, OK! recently reported that Mel B called Victoria Beckham aka Posh Spice a "snob." Mel B was quick to dismiss the false rumor.

"We all love each other, we all respect each other, we all text each other and talk to each other and see each other," she told HuffPost Live. "We've had a friendship bond for 20 years. That's kind of unbreakable."

Speaking of their two decades as the iconic, ultimate girl power pop band, Mel B says that the reunion is currently in talk.  MTV reports that according to Mel B, "It's gonna be our 20th anniversary next year. There's nothing officially being said right now because we're still — we're talking. So I'm hoping things will hurry along, get this going."

Mel B also shared how the five girls first got their nicknames as Baby, Scary, Sporty, Posh and Ginger. According to the singer, "It was actually a lazy journalist that couldn’t be bothered to remember all our names, so he just gave us nicknames, and we were like, ’Oh, well, that kinda works...Let’s just go with it.'"

That journalist was Peter Loraine of the UK magazine and TV show 'Top of the Pops' back in the 1990s. He christened them with their nicknames for a Spice Girls feature that ran in July 1996, MTV reports.

Mel B added that she loved her nickname, and she loved being a Spice Girl very much. She told HuffPost Live: "I love being a Spice Girl. I love being Scary Spice. I always will be. That's something I'm really proud of. I wouldn't be able to sit here and have the life that I have if it wasn't for me being a Spice Girl so I own it."