The Spice Girls have released a video apology for ending their reunion tour earlier than anticipated.

Last Friday, it was announced that the women would end their tour in Canada at the end of this month instead of going on to play gigs in Australia, South America, South Africa and Asia as previous planned and the quintet released the video today to explain their decision “from the horse’s mouth”.

In the clip, Geri Halliwell explains that the tour has already gone on longer than anticipated - they initially planned just a one-off gig then to the end of January - and Victoria Beckham adds that it’s now time for each of the women to return to their families because, for the four mums in the group, it’s time to get their children back to school.