Victoria Beckham is the reason the Spice Girls have cut their world tour short. Victoria told her bandmates - Emma Bunton, Mel C, Geri Halliwell and Mel B - she was tired of performing, forcing them to scrap several concert dates, and wants to focus on her fashion career and her children.

The 33-year-old star, who has three children with her soccer star husband David, said: "I was very nervous about going back into the Spice Girls because I didn't want to send out a confused message. The reason I decided to do the tour was to show my kids that mummy was once a pop star."

Mel B took her husband to a strip club and paid for him to have a private lap dance. The Spice Girl - who has just finished the Manchester leg of the band's comeback world tour - and Stephen Belafonte paid two sexy dancers to perform for each other at Manchester's Fantasy Bar on Friday night.

An insider said: "Mel looked more than happy to be here. She was really excited when the girls started dancing around them. I think she was eyeing them up more than her husband."

Mel B shocked parents at a recent Spice Girls concert after making crude and sexual remarks on stage. Mel, nicknamed Scary Spice, joked with fellow bandmates Mel C and Emma Bunton about her sex life, despite children being in the audience at London's O2 arena.

Baby Spice Emma was celebrating her 32nd birthday on Friday and was given a birthday cake and candles on stage, before Mel B told her to "give it a blow job" - a reference to oral sex.

The Spice Girls have been offered Ł10 million to perform in Australia.

The band - who have already performed in Canada, the US, Spain, Germany and the UK - have reportedly been offered the massive deal to extend their tour Down Under.

Victoria Beckham has revealed she and the rest of the band - Emma Bunton, Mel C and Geri Halliwell - constantly go to Scary Spice Mel with their bedroom problems.

Victoria said: "If we have sex problems, we go to Mel B - she is like the doctor."

Victoria Beckham has reportedly banned a host of her celebrity enemies from attending the Spice Girls' reunion concerts.

The 33-year-old singer - who is currently in the middle of the band's 17-date residency at London's O2 arena which is part of their world tour - has compiled a list of stars who are not welcome at the venue as they have upset her in the past.