Spice Girls reunite for British tour, minus Victoria Beckham

Four of the five Spice Girls have announced plans to reunite for a concert tour, but Posh Spice - now better known as Victoria Beckham - will not rejoin the 1990s icons.

The British quartet released a light-hearted video of themselves discussing their comeback in a mock news programme on Monday, announcing six concerts in June in stadiums in Manchester, Coventry, Sunderland, Edinburgh, Bristol and London.

"Girls, do you think I'm too old for bunches?" asks radio host Emma Bunton, or Baby Spice, 42, in the video, before tying up her hair in the style she sported in the 1990s.

Singer-songwriter Jess Glynne, 29, said she was planning to join the "Spice World" tour along with Bunton and her bandmates Ginger Spice (Geri Horner, 46), Scary Spice (Melanie Brown, 43) and Sporty Spice (Melanie Chisholm, 44).

Beckham, 44, did not feature in the video amid reports that she has chosen to focus on her fashion business rather than joining the Spice Girls tour.

The "girl power" band members confirmed in February that they were planning to work together again on "new opportunities," almost two decades after they split up.

The Spice Girls shot to fame in 1996 with the single "Wannabe" and went on to have a series of global hits including "Who Do You Think Are," "2 Become 1" and "Viva Forever." The band even made a film, "Spice World."

They split up in 2000, reuniting for a tour of Europe and the United States in 2008 and last performing together at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

Tickets for next year's tour are scheduled to go on sale from Saturday.