When they open it fireworks appear, the five girls all wish to become pop stars when they grow up, then an instrumental of " spice Up Your Life" begins as various music videos and press headlines about the Spice Girls are shown, as the video ends the Spice Girls enter the stage on five platforms and perform "Spice Up Your Life" they then perform a mashup of their 1998 hit " Stop" and "It's Like That" by Jason Nevins and Run-DMC the track that famously made "Stop" their only UK single not to reach #1 at that time. The show begins with a video introduction of five young girls playing inside a house when they find a magic box. 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. After many e-mails from fans to the management, it was officially announced that no official DVD had been recorded at all. The lack of an official DVD released caused negativity. 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." Many media outlets reported that it was due to Melanie Chisholm and Melanie Brown leaving the group, but this was denied in an official video message. 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. 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. Demand was so high that many dates quickly sold out and three new dates in London were immediately announced after the first date at The O2 Arena sold out in only 38 seconds.
On 30 September, the successful applicants for the Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Vancouver and London concerts were informed of how they could purchase their tickets, via email and text alerts, from valid ticket vendors. Initially eleven dates were announced and spanned North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America and fans were informed that they had to pre-register for tickets on the group's website. During the press conference, the group laid out their plans to embark on a world concert tour that would be seen as a celebration of the group's history and to tour as a quintet for the last time. On 28 June 2007, the Spice Girls held a press conference at The O2 in London, formally announcing their intention to reunite as a group, a plan that had long been speculated by the media.
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