Controversy
In late 2007 a fake email was posted by Perez Hilton on his site saying the Spice Girls had cancelled the Buenos Aires date, causing an official statement to be released saying that Buenos Aires and the other world tour dates were being finalized. Due to the expansion of the British and American legs of the tour, it was finally announced on 1 February 2008 that the end of the tour would take place in Toronto, on 26 February 2008, meaning the dates in South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa were cancelled. Many media outlets reported that it was due to Melanie Chisholm and Melanie Brown leaving the group, but this was denied in an official thespicegirls.com video message. The band suffered media backlash, and fan backlash, with many fans creating Facebook hate groups speculating the official announcement was "indirect" and that "the Spice Girls and their management knew the dates were cancelled even before they added 16 dates at the O2, deciding to announce it near the end of the tour to minimize controversy."
The lack of an official DVD released caused negativity. After many e-mails from fans to the management, it was officially announced that no official DVD had been recorded at all. Although each Spice Girl has a copy of the tour, Melanie Brown has confirmed on her site that the footage of the tour recorded was poor and they felt it was wrong to release a DVD for local distribution.
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